Flight Crew (film)

Flight Crew
poster from 2015
Directed by	Nikolai Lebedev
Produced by	Nikita Mikhalkov Leonid Vereshchagin Anton Zlatopolskiy
Written by	Tikhon Kornev Nikolai Kulikov
Starring	Vladimir Mashkov Danila Kozlovsky Agne Grudita Yekaterina Shpitza
Edited by	Irek Khartovich
Production company	Russia-1
Distributed by	Central Partnership
Release dates	2016 (2016)
Running time	~150 Minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Flight Crew (Russian: Экипаж, translit. Ekipazh) is a movie produced by Russia-1 Channel in 2016. Inspired by Air Crew soviet movie, it was the second catastrophe movie shot in the Russian Federation.

The film was shot in digital 3D IMAX camera and become the first Russian film shot using this equipment.

Plot

Talented young pilot Alexey Guchshin does not recognize the authority and acts in accordance with a personal code of honor. For failure to comply with the absurd order evicted from its military aircraft and only by a miracle he gets a chance to fly a passenger airliner. He has to start flying career again: Alexey becomes the second pilot-trainee on the Tu-204SM under the guidance of an experienced crew commander, the pilot Leonid Zinchenko and their work relationship was not easy.

During the flight to Southeast Asia, the crew receive a message about the earthquake on an island and decides to go to the epicenter of the disaster, in order to save hundreds of lives. But on the brink of life and death, when the ground is slipping from under their feet, and around the fire and rescue just in the sky, Gushchin shows everything what he can do. But only by working together can the crew to perform the feat, and to save the passengers.

Cast

Danila Kozlovsky - Alexey Guchshin
Vladimir Mashkov - Leonid Zinchenko
Agne Grudita - Alexandra

Production

Filmings

Tu-154M RA-85796 board, starring in the film (while working in UTair).

Director Nikolai Lebedev wanted to make a film-catastrophe, but did not negotiated with potential producers, until Leonid Vereshchagin and Nikita Mikhalkov suggest to work on a remake for "Air Crew". The director started work by support from Alexander Mitta, who directed the soviet film of the same name in 1979. The movie received a support from Russian Government which funding the movie through the National Cinema Foundation.

Filming started on September 18, 2014 and wrapped on 10 February 2015. The filmings took place in Moscow, Moscow region and in the Crimean peninsula. In the peninsula they filmed on as the earthquake-prone island volcano in the Indian Ocean. The crew has shot the flight scences in two planes: The Tupolev Tu-204SM (RA-64151 board) and decommissioned Tupolev Tu-154 of Kosmos Airlines (RA-85796 board).

Danila Kozlovsky, Vladimir Mashkov and Agne Grudite who playing the pilots started to work long before filmings has began, after receiving training in flight school at the helm ultramodern flight simulator.