Ekipazh (1980)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Aleksandr Mitta

Writers:

Yuli Dunsky (writer)
Valeri Frid (writer)

Release Date:

7 November 1980 (Finland)

Genre:

Action | Drama

Plot:

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Plot Keywords:

Disaster | Aviation

Cast

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

Also Known As:

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

Runtime:

144 min

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track

Certification:

Finland:K-12

Company:

Mosfilm

Pretty well Soviet thriller movie

I've seen this movie, when I was only six or seven years old. I could mention, that I was very impressed by this movie. I could say, that this is outstanding work in Soviet cinematography. In '80 it was first thriller/disaster movie in Soviet Russia, where all sides of air crews' everyday life were shown. For us, Russians, this movie was more than simply "just another soviet movie", but movie, which tell to us "Look! Everyday is not calm and clear, everything is unstable". Also, this cinema is about love, family's life, every little thing in life of man as professional, as father, as husband, as good friend.

This story is about group of good friends - pilots of Tu154B soviet airplane. One of them has a family - wife, daughter, others are single. As the one crew, they drive the airplane across the Soviet Union and also to the Europe. The life is calm and easy, day by day goes to the retire. But one day they were asked to go to Georgia to save people in disaster - the earthquake. During the escaping, the airplane was badly damaged to perform the successful landing, so the engineer has to go out the plane and fix the problem during the flight.

So, this movie is very impressive, outstanding for '80s.