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.
Screenplay by Leonid Bykov, Yevgeni Onopriyenko and Aleksandr Satsky.
Original music by Viktor Shevchenko, cinematography by Vladimir Voytenko.
Runtime 92 min.
Production by Dovzhenko Film Studios.
Leonid Bykov
Leonid Fedorovich Bykov( 11 December 1928 in Znamenka village, Artemivsk Okruha of Ukraine, USSR- 11 April 1979 in Kiev Oblast of Ukraine, USSR) was a Ukraine- born Soviet actor, film director, and script writer.
He received the" Honored Artist of the RSFSR" title in 1965 and the" People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR" title in 1974.
Bykov contributed to several Soviet World War II films that portrayed a stereotypical Soviet Ukrainian.
Bykov died in a traffic accident in 1979 on the highway from Minsk to Kiev.
In 1994, the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet after him,( 4682) Bykov.
Ben Palmer
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Gussy Holl
Augusta Marie" Gussy" Holl( 22 February 1888 – 16 July 1966) was a German actress and singer.
Holl was briefly a silent film star during the early Weimar Republic, appearing in productions such as F. W. Murnau's" Desire"( 1921).
Desire (1921 film)
Desire( German: Sehnsucht) is a 1921 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Conrad Veidt.
It tells the story of a male dancer who falls in love with a grand duchess, only to be arrested, and his subsequent attempt to find the duchess., it is believed to be a lost film as no prints are known to exist.
Robert Neppach worked as the film's art director.
Dan Remmes
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He is best known as the book writer of" Grumpy Old Men: The Musical" based on the 1993 movie' Grumpy Old Me n'.
Grumpier Old Men
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The film stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, and Sophia Loren, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert.
" Grumpier Old Men" was directed by Howard Deutch, with the screenplay written by Mark Steven Johnson and the original music score composed by Alan Silvestri.
The film was Meredith's final motion picture appearance.
He was already suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and had to be gently coached through his role in the film.
He died of the disease two years later in 1997.
Egil Sætren
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He debuted as an actor and set designer in the 1921 film" Jomfru Trofast".
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F. W. Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe
; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director.
He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt.
During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air force, surviving several crashes without any severe injuries.
One of Murnau's acclaimed works is the 1922 film "Nosferatu", an adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
Although not a commercial success, owing to copyright issues with Stoker's novel, the film is considered a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema.
He later directed the 1924 film "The Last Laugh", as well as a 1926 interpretation of Goethe's "Faust".
He later emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made three films:  (1927), "4 Devils" (1928) and "City Girl" (1930). "
Sunrise" has been regarded by critics and film directors as among the best films ever made.
In 1931, Murnau travelled to Bora Bora to make the film  (1931) with documentary film pioneer Robert J. Flaherty, who left after artistic disputes with Murnau, who had to finish the movie on his own.
A week prior to the opening of the film "Tabu", Murnau died in a Santa Barbara hospital from injuries he had sustained in an automobile accident that occurred along the Pacific Coast Highway near Rincon Beach, southeast of Santa Barbara.
Of the 21 films Murnau directed, eight are considered to be completely lost.
One reel of his feature "Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna" survives.
This leaves only 12 films surviving in their entirety.

Question: Which film has the director who died later, Desire (1921 Film) or Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle?
Answer: Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle