A Dog Named Palma

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A Dog Named Palma
A Dog Named Palma.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAleksandr Domogarov Jr.
Written by
  • Yekaterina Mavromatis
  • Aleksandr Domogarov Jr.
  • Yevgeny Kazachkov
Based onWaiting for Two Years
by Yuri Rost
Produced by
  • Ruben Dishdishyan (ru)
  • Leonard Blavatnik
  • Anton Zlatopolskiy
  • Narek Martirosyan
  • Kristina Reylyan
Starring
CinematographySergey Dyshuk
Edited by
  • Maksim Smirnov
  • Aleksandr Domogarov Jr.
Music by
  • Ivan Burlyayev (ru)
  • Konstantin Kupriyanov
  • Dmitriy Noskov
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release dates
  • March 18, 2021 (2021-03-18) (Russia)
  • 2021 (2021)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget
  • ₽95 million
  • ~$1 million
Box office

A Dog Named Palma (Russian: Пальма) is a 2021 Russian children's drama film film directed by Aleksandr Domogarov Jr., based on real events that took place in 1974-1976 at the Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport.

It was released theatrically on March 18, 2021 by Central Partnership.

Plot[]

In 1977 Soviet Union, the owner of a German Shepherd named Palma flies abroad. But Palma hides at the airport and waits for her owner. She meets a boy named Kolya Lazarev, who has lost his mother, and they become best friends.[3]

Cast[]

  • Viktor Dobronravov as Vyacheslav Lazarev, an aircraft commander
  • Liliya (German Shepherd) as Palma
  • Leonid Basov as Kolya Lazarev, a boy
  • Vladimir Ilyin as Sergey Tikhonov, an airport technician, Nina Tikhonova's father
  • Valeriya Fedorovich as Nina Tikhonova, a stewardess, Sergey Tikhonov's daughter
  • Evgeniya Dmitrieva as Lyubov Zhurina, head of the flight squad of OJSC "Soviet Aeroflot"
  • Igor Khripunov as Evgeny Golikov, head of the Soviet Security Service
  • Pavel Maykov as Georgy Krasilov, co-pilot
  • Vladimir Simonov as Ivan Lysko
  • Yan Tsapnik as Igor Polsky, owner of the shepherd Palma
  • Filipp Savinkov as Kravchenko, a male flight attendant
  • Darya Luzina as Anna, a flight attendant
  • Elena Anisimova as Raisa Semenovna, an aviation cashier
  • Bain Bovaldinov as Fedya, a policeman

Production[]

In 1976 the Komsomol Truth published an article about this called Waiting for Two Years, written by Yuri Rost, in 1988, based on the article, a feature film was made Tethered to the Runway (ru), directed by Vladimir Khmelnitsky.[4]

Casting[]

More than 300 children passed the casting for the role of the boy Kolya Lazarev, before the director approved Leonid Basov. For him, this is his film debut.

Filming[]

Principal photography of the film took place in one of the airports near Moscow and the Belarusian Brest. The local airport, which retained its Soviet interiors and was not very busy, was best suited to reproduce the atmosphere of the 70s. About 500 residents of Brest were used as extras for the crowd scenes.

Release[]

The Russian premiere of the film took place on March 18, 2021 by Central Partnership.

References[]

  1. ^ Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)
  2. ^ "Пальма - Financial Information Russia (CIS)". The Numbers. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  3. ^ "Пальма / A Dog Named Palma (2021)". www.kinoafisha.info (in Russian).
  4. ^ Tethered to the Runway at IMDb

External links[]

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