Transit (film)

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Transit (2006) (Russian: Перегон, Peregon) is a film from prolific Russian writer-director Alexander Rogozhkin, which was presented at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Several of his past films have screened there, including Life with an Idiot (Zhizn S Idiotom) and the Chechen war drama Check Point (Blokpost), for which he won the Best Director Prize in 1998. Transit is a story set on a secret military transit base in the remote Chukotka region, where planes from allied forces came in from Alaska, including quite a few with female pilots, which of course attracted the attention of the mostly male Russian crew at the base.

The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Aleksey Serebryakov, Daniil Strakhov, and Anastasya Nemolyaeva. Written and directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, who is extremely popular in Russia for his movie series Peculiarities of National Hunting, ...Fishing, etc.

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Based on actual events. 1942. World War II. The USSR. The Chukotka Penninsula, Transit Aerodrome. A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry 'Aerocobra' fighter planes across the ocean on 'lend-lease'. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are at-tractive and charming young women. The feelings of the Russian young men collide into barriers of culture and language resulting in a host of awkward, funny, and sometimes tragic situations.

It is the story of Russians, Americans, and natives of the Far North. It is the story of man and woman in war. Love and death are squeezed between the hills as human fates are destroyed and born.