The Light of a Distant Star (Russian: Свет далёкой звезды) is a 1964 Soviet romance film directed by Ivan Pyryev.

[3] In the autumn of 1941, during the first year of the Great Patriotic War, the pier in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) was crowded with people desperately trying to board steamships heading to the rear.

Amid this chaos, Olya Mironova and Volodya Zavyalov, a cadet of a flight school, met briefly but were forced to part ways.

Their paths crossed again when Olya, now serving as an armament mechanic in an aviation regiment, encountered Zavyalov, who landed at her airfield in a combat plane.

Meanwhile, Zavyalov later discovered that Olya’s plane, on which she served as an air gunner, had failed to return from a combat mission.