Flight Crew (film)
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Directed by | Nikolai Lebedev |
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Based on | Air Crew by Alexander Mitta |
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Cinematography | Irek Hartowicz |
Edited by | Konstantin Larchenko |
Music by | Artyom Vasilev (ru) |
Production companies | Three T Productions Russia-1 |
Distributed by | Central Partnership, Mosfilm and Cinema Fund |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Languages | Russian English |
Budget | $9 million ₽650 million |
Box office | $29,171,110[1] ₽1.504 billion |
Flight Crew (Russian: Экипаж, translit. Ekipazh) is a Russian disaster film directed by Nikolai Lebedev and produced by Russia-1 Channel which released in April 2016. It stars Vladimir Mashkov, Danila Kozlovsky and Agnė Grudytė.
This was a remake of the 1979 Soviet film
The film was shot with digital
The premiere took place on April 21, 2016 by Central Partnership. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the special effects, action sequences, acting, and the tense atmosphere. The film was a box office success, becoming the highest-grossing Russian film of 2016. At the 2017 Golden Eagle Awards, the film received 11 nominations including Best Feature Film, Best Director (Nikolai Lebedev) and Best Actor (Kozlovsky), winning five (Best Visual Effects, Best Supporting Actor for Sergey Shakurov, Best Music, Best Film Editing and Best Sound).Plot
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Alexey Gushchin is a talented young military pilot who does not accept authority and acts under a personal honor code. He is given a mission to deliver a cargo of supplies for charity, but the plane is also filled with cars for a general whose friend's daughter is getting married. During the mission, realising that the plane cannot go through the storm easily, he disposes of one of the cars in mid-air. For his actions, he is prevented from flying a military aircraft again and in spite of that, he asks his father Igor (a famous aircraft engineer) for help getting back on the scene. He applies to a passenger airline, with Leonid Zinchenko overseeing his examination in a simulation. During the test, Alexey demonstrates impressive flying skills, but fails the test when he is unable to prevent the plane from crashing into a building on landing. Leonid, under pressure from his peers, retries the test and also crashes, forcing him to hire Alexey as the second pilot-trainee on the
On one of their flights, Gushchin and Zinchenko evacuate tourists from an African country in a revolution, but Gushchin becomes appalled when he learns that Zinchenko refused to allow the locals to board the plane. Zinchenko tells him that he must just stick to his orders.
While preparing for a flight, Gushchin confronts a wealthy man who refuses to obey safety regulations. Eventually, this leads to a fight on a plane, and Gushchin is fired. At the same time, he and Alexandra strain their relationship. The next day, on the train, Gushchin is confronted by Zinchenko who, impressed with Alexey's abilities, wants him back. Zinchenko also plans to take Valera on the next flight as well to convince him to continue his education.
The crew boards the plane for their next flight to Southeast Asia. During the flight, the crew receives a message about a volcanic eruption on one of the Aleutian Islands called Kanwoo and decides to go to the epicenter of the disaster to evacuate people before the expected volcano eruption. The crew arrives at the Kanwoo airport, where they discover that many people were killed or injured. They must now evacuate the remaining people who are coming on minibuses. Gushchin goes to the airport, when suddenly a powerful earthquake destroys the airport's infrastructure and destroys one of the runways, while the other one is covered with burning oil.
The crew then receives word that one of the minibuses has become trapped in a rockfall. Gushchin, Andrey and Valera go on two minibuses to retrieve the passengers. After the minibuses leave, Zinchenko, Alexandra and the rest of the passengers observe the eruption of the volcano. Realising that the runway will be soon overflown with lava, Zinchenko and Alexandra abandon the
The trio and the passengers make it back to the airport on foot, only to find the
The only appropriate airport for them to land is the
The planes meet at an acceptable height, and the passengers of the
Sometime later, Gushchin and Alexandra have married and Zinchenko has fully reconciled with Valera. Despite this, they are fired from their jobs as pilots by the flight company's director for disobeying the order to not land at Elisovo. However, after the two leave, the director calls Aeroflot, asking them if they "Are still looking for pilots". Gushcin and Zinchenko are transferred to Aeroflot as flight interns, while Alexandra becomes a pilot in the same company.
Cast
- Danila Kozlovsky as Alexey Gushchin
- Vladimir Mashkov as Leonid Zinchenko
- Agnė Grudytė as Alexandra Kuzmina
- Katerina Shpitsa as Vika, stewardess
- Sergey Kempo as Andrey, flight attendant
- Sergey Shakurov as Igor Gushchin, Alexey's father
- Elena Yakovleva as Irina, Leonid's wife
- Sergey Romanovich as Valera, Leonid's son
- Vasiliy Mishchenko as Mikhail Smirnov, an employee of the airport Vnukovo
- Sergey Gazarov as Pyotr Shestakov, Director of airline "Pegasus Air»
- Dmitriy Zolotukhin as Petritsky, VIP-passenger
- Sergey Rublyov as Petritsky's assistant
- Nina Grebeshkova as passenger business-class
- Irina Lachina as passenger woman lawyer
- Yang Ge as Liu, passenger chinese girl
- Alyona Babenko as Margarita, passenger
- Olga Litvinova as Natasha, passenger
- Vyacheslav Razbegaev as Victor Nikolaevich, pilot in airport Kanwoo
- Irina Nizina as doctor girl in airport Kanwoo
- Ekaterina Vinogradova as Maria, nurse in airport Kanwoo
- Mariya Budryna as Masha
- Nikolay Alekseev as Petya
- Lyudmila Kurepova as Olga
- Daniil Mikheev as Sasha
- Aleksandra Yakovleva as Tamara, office clerk
- Nina Usatova as employee fund
- Dmitriy Mulyar as Alexander Pivnev, crew commander Major
- Anton Pampushnyy as pilot-trainee
- Vladimir Yaglych as Sinitsyn, pilot
- Irina Pegova as Lena
- Viktoriya Raykova as stewardess
- Evgeniya Khrapovitskaya as stewardess
Production
Development
Director Nikolai Lebedev wanted to make a disaster film, but did not negotiate with potential producers, until Leonid Vereshchagin and Nikita Mikhalkov suggested to work on a remake of Air Crew. The director started work with the support of Alexander Mitta, who directed the soviet film of the same name in 1979.[3][4]
The movie received support from Russian Government which funded the movie through the National Cinema Foundation.
Casting
Danila Kozlovsky, Vladimir Mashkov[5] and Agnė Grudytė[6] who played the pilots started to work long before the filming had begun, after receiving training in flight school at the helm of an ultramodern flight simulator.
Aleksandra Yakovleva, the performer of one of the main roles in the 1979 film, the flight attendant Tamara, played a cameo role in the film of 2016. Her character, an aviation official, is also called Tamara.
Filming
Post-production
The film has been dubbed into English for international markets by LipSync Chemistry in London.
Release
The film has been released in Russia and other
.The film was shot using an
Financial performance
The film grossed 1.43 billion ₽ (US$21.6 million) in Russia and was the fifth highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing Russian film in the country in 2016.[9]
The film was released in China on August 19, 2016 and it grossed CN¥30.8 million at the Chinese box office.[10]
References
- ^ "Flight Crew (2016)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb.
- ^ ""Экипаж" Николая Лебедева выйдет в формате IMAX" [Flight Crew by Nikolai Lebedev will be released in IMAX format] (in Russian). THR Russia. May 13, 2014.
- ^ ""От первого лица" / Николай Лебедев - о картине "Экипаж" и безрассудстве снимающих римейки" ["From the first person" / Nikolai Lebedev - about the painting Flight Crew and the recklessness of filming remakes]. Radiorus.ru (in Russian).
- ^ Zaozerskaya, Anzhelika (November 16, 2014). "Николай Лебедев: "Экипаж" был для меня несбыточной мечтой из детства" [Nikolai Lebedev: Flight Crew was a pipe dream for me from childhood]. Vechernyaya Moskva (in Russian).
- ^ "Главные роли в "Экипаже" исполнят Данила Козловский и Владимир Машков" [The main roles in the Flight Crew will be performed by Danila Kozlovsky and Vladimir Mashkov]. THR Russia (in Russian).
- ^ "Определились исполнительницы главных ролей в фильме "Экипаж"" [The leading roles in the film Flight Crew were determined]. THR Russia (in Russian). September 10, 2014.
- ^ "В Москве стартовали съёмки фильма "Экипаж"" [In Moscow, the shooting of the film Flight Crew]. FilmPro.Ru (in Russian). September 23, 2014.
- ^ "Студия Никиты Михалкова снимет второй фильм в формате IMAX" [Nikita Mikhalkov's studio will remove the second film in IMAX format]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). May 13, 2014.
- ^ Barraclough, Leo (16 January 2017). "Russian Box Office Grows 9.5% to $727 Million in 2016". Variety. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "火海凌云(2016)". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved January 17, 2017.
External links
- Official Website Archived 2016-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- Flight Crew at IMDb
- Flight Crew at Rotten Tomatoes
- Flight Crew at AllMovie