The Pilot. A Battle for Survival
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Directed by | Renat Davletyarov |
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Cinematography | Semyon Yakovlev |
Edited by | Rod Nikolaychuk |
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Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Budget | ₽319 million |
The Pilot. A Battle for Survival (Russian: Лётчик, romanized: Lyotchik) is a 2021 Russian WWII film written and directed by Renat Davletyarov, based on the real story, is dedicated to the pilot Aleksey Maresyev and other heroes of the Great Patriotic War, who found himself in similar circumstances, lost both legs, but still continued to fight.[1][2]
The Pilot. A Battle for Survival was scheduled to be theatrically released in Russia on December 2, 2021 by Central Partnership.
Plot[]
The film takes place at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The film tells about the pilot Nikolai Komlev, who defeated a German tank column, but his plane was shot down. Nikolai was able to land his plane in a forest clearing and suddenly realized that his problems were just beginning.[3]
Cast[]
- Pyotr Fyodorov as Nikolai Komlev
- as Olga
- Pavel Osadchy as Mikhail
- Maksim Yemelyanov as Ignat
- Yevgeny Mikheev as Nikodim Greshnev
- Gela Meskhi as Major
- Roman Knizka as Aubert Lemke
- Nikoloz Paikridze as Suladze[4]
- as blacksmith
- as blacksmith's wife
- Aleksandr Galibin as surgeon[5]
- Irina Medvedeva as Nadezhda
- Maria Poezzhaeva as Zina
- Andrey Ilyin as Misha 's dad
Production[]
The film was produced in collaboration with the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Russian Film Foundation. Director Renat Davletyarov called the film his version of The Revenant.[6]
Filming[]
Some of the scenes (the hospital) were filmed in the fall and winter of 2018 at the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo estate.
Principal photography began in January 2019 in the Novgorod Oblast. They went including in the Demyansky District, where in 1942 Aleksey Maresyev's plane was shot down. In addition to outdoor filming, there was filming in one of the pavilions of the Mosfilm Studios, against a green background, which was later replaced by another.
Release[]
Marketing[]
The first teaser trailer of The Pilot. A Battle for Survival was released on January 3, 2021.
Theatrical[]
The premiere was scheduled for May 1, International Workers Day, but was later postponed to November 4, but after it was closed due to another wave of the quarantine plague in Russia,[7] its release was postponed to December 2, 2021.
The premiere screening took place on November 30, at the "Karo 11 October" cinema center in Moscow, will be released in the Russian Federation on December 2, 2021 by Central Partnership.
See also[]
- Tale of a True Man is a 1948 Soviet film, also based on the story of Aleksey Maresyev.
References[]
- ^ Премьеры фильмов о летчиках Маресьеве и Девятаеве намечены к маю
- ^ "Индекс ПрофиСинема: март дотянул до февраля!" [Index ProfiCinema: March made it to February!]. ProfiCinema (in Russian). April 5, 2021. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- ^ "Лётчик / The Pilot. A Battle for Survival (2021)". kinoafisha.info (in Russian).
- ^ Николоз Паикридзе. Биография
- ^ "Лётчик (2021): в ролях". KinoPoisk (in Russian).
- ^ Вышел трейлер военной драмы «Лётчик» с Петром Фёдоровым
- ^ "Ренат Давлетьяров снял фильм про подвиг советского "Летчика" зимой 41-го" [Renat Davletyarov made a film about the feat of the Soviet The Pilot. A Battle for Survival in the winter of 1941]. InterMedia (in Russian). April 21, 2021. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
External links[]
- 2021 films
- Russian-language films
- 2020s biographical films
- 2020s historical drama films
- 2020s war drama films
- 2020s survival films
- World War II films
- Russian films
- Russian biographical films
- Biographical films about military personnel
- Russian historical drama films
- Russian war drama films
- Survival films
- Eastern Front of World War II films
- Films set in 1941
- Films set in the Soviet Union
- Films set on airplanes
- Russian independent films
- Mosfilm films
- Russian epic films
- War epic films
- Films about aviators
- World War II aviation films
- World War II films based on actual events
- Russian World War II films
- Films directed by Renat Davletyarov
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