True Friends (Russian: Верные друзья, romanized: Vernye druz'ya) is a 1954 Soviet adventure comedy-drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.

Thirty years later, Boris Petrovich Chizhov has become a renowned neurosurgery professor, Alexander Fyodorovich Lapin is a doctor of biological sciences and the director of an Experimental Institute of Animal Husbandry, and Vasily Vasilyevich Nestratov is an academician of architecture.

True Friends was made in the aftermath of the death of Joseph Stalin, when political control over Soviet cinema relaxed considerably.

[6] David C. Gillespie opined that it is "an important, largely successful attempt... in addressing the legacy of Stalinism and its effects on the psyche and behaviour of people.

"[7] Josephine Woll concluded that True Friends "broke little new ground", reflecting the slow start of the Thaw in 1954, but that it satisfied the audience's "hunger" for films that, "banal plot and schematic characters notwithstanding, portrayed their life with some veracity.