Trivia / Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

• Banned in China: Not to the full extent, but the Soviet film officials had little love for the film, as they deemed the screenplay "unheroic". Only thrugh the support of WWII veterans, including the very influential ones, such as the famous Alexander Pokryshkin and Leonid Brezhnev himself, the film had seen the screens.
• The Danza: Titarenko's mechanic Makarych is played by a veteran Soviet character actor and Bykov's close friend Alexey Smirnov, whose patronymic is Makarovich.