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Director:

Aleksandr Mitta

Writers:

Yuli Dunsky (writer)
Valeri Frid (writer)
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Release Date:

7 November 1980 (Finland) more

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller more

Plot:

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains. full summary | add synopsis

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Cast

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Georgi Zhzhyonov ... Andrei Timchenko, Captain
Anatoli Vasilyev ... Valentin Nenarokov
Leonid Filatov ... Igor Skvortsov, Flight Engineer
Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae ... Tamara, Flight Attendant (as Aleksandra Yakovleva)
Yuri Gorobets ... Mikhail, Second Pilot
Yekaterina Vasilyeva ... Timchenko's Wife
Irina Akulova ... Nenarokov's Wife
Komaki Kurihara ... Kumiku Marimitsu
Aleksandr Pavlov ... Navigator
Galina Gladkova ... Natasha, Timchenko's Daughter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ivan Agafonov
Vladimir Aleksandrov ... Praying Passenger
Larisa Barabanova ... Chatty Girl
Leonid Chubarov
Guranda Gabunia (as G. Gabuniya)
Tatyana Ignatova (as T. Ignatova)
Vladimir Ivanov ... Doctor
Yelena Koreneva ... Skvortsov's ex-girlfriend
Lyudmila Korshakova
L. Kudryavtseva
Aleksandr Kuzmichyov
Tatyana Kuznetsova
Nikolai Lebedev
Vladimir Marenkov ... Passenger
Gennadi Matveyev
Roma Monin ... Boy
Aleksandra Nazarova ... Boy's Mother
Aleksandr Pashutin ... Passenger with Dislocated Jaw
Aleksandr Potapov ... Alevtina's New Husband
Pavel Remezov
Klara Rumyanova
Ivan Ryzhov ... Tamara's Grandfather and Timchenko's Old Friend
Irina Sanpiter ... Girl (as I. Sanpiter)
Irina Savina ... Kostya's Sister
A. Shein
Mariya Skvortsova ... Mishakova
Nikolai Smorchkov ... Police Officer in Airport
Anton Tabakov ... Kostya's Friend
Anna Varpakhovskaya ... Passenger with a Coat
Lyudmila Velikaya (as L. Velikaya)
Ivan Voronov ... Wounded Passenger
Sergei Yakovlev
Aleksei Yakubov
German Yushko (as G. Yushko)
Konstantin Zakharov ... Judge
R. Zotov
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Экипаж (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Air Crew (USA) (literal English title)
The Crew
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Runtime:

144 min | Japan:119 min (DVD version)

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track

Certification:

Finland:K-12

Company:

Mosfilm more


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Better Than I Thought It Would Be, 4 January 2003
Author: Harry-57 from Central Oregon

I rented the DVD for this movie because I remembered reading about it when I was a kid. With this film, the Soviet Union attempted to "cash in" on the success of western disaster films like "Earthquake" and "The Towering Inferno." I rented the movie because I thought it might be interesting from an historical standpoint.

The film was about 20 minutes longer than it needed to be, and it suffers from too much set-up -- nothing disasterous happens until over an hour into the picture. But the carnage does eventually start, and those scenes are pretty good, especially the ones set at the airport located in a canyon. The effects crew did a remarkable job with what appeared to be meager resources.

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