Question: Why did the director of film Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle die?
Sentence (from "Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle"): Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle (one of the meanings of the Russian idiom "old man" is "most experienced person") is an iconic 1973 Soviet war drama black-and-white film produced in the Ukrainian SSR about World War II fighter pilots, written and directed by Leonid Bykov, who also played the lead role as the squadron commander.
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