Ekipazh (1980)Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains. Director:Aleksandr Mitta |
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Ekipazh (1980)Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains. Director:Aleksandr Mitta |
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Georgi Zhzhyonov | ... |
Andrei Timchenko, Captain
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Anatoliy Vasilev | ... |
Valentin Nenarokov
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Leonid Filatov | ... |
Igor Skvortsov, Flight Engineer
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Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae | ... |
Tamara, Flight Attendant
(as Aleksandra Yakovleva)
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Irina Akulova | ... |
Nenarokov's Wife
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Yekaterina Vasilyeva | ... |
Timchenko's Wife
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Komaki Kurihara | ... |
Kumiku Marimitsu
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Yuriy Gorobets | ... |
Mikhail
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Aleksandr Pavlov | ... |
Navigator
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Galina Gladkova | ... |
Natasha, Timchenko's Daughter
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Ivan Agafonov |
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Vladimir Aleksandrov | ... |
Praying Passenger
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Larisa Barabanova | ... |
Chatty Girl
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Leonid Chubarov |
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Guranda Gabunia | ... |
(as G. Gabuniya)
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This movie is about a crew of a passenger plane and consists of two parts. The first part tells about personal lives of the characters, their successes and failures, relationships inside their families and between each others. The second part has them land the plane in the airport of a city called Bidri, which was damaged by an earthquake. They try to fly people to safety, but just as they land, another earthquake hits, and now the chances of a successful takeoff are slim... Written by Boris Shafir <shafir@hsi.com>
This film is excellent, surpassing my expectations in terms of the quality of the film-making and in terms of the depth of the story. Not to ruin the suspense, but the aviation difficulties of the film are more of a resolution than a starting point of the plot. The special effects could have been better, the women could have been less hysterically cruel, the ending could have had less Russian sentimental comic relief; but the movie is successful in telling a story about human beings. I would rate it even higher if the women weren't so shrewish, but that's because I like a bit of fantasy in the films I watch.