Aleksandr MITTA
Александр МИТТА
Aleksandr MITTA
USSR, 1979, 143mn 
Colour, fiction
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Экипаж

 

 L'Equipage

 ekipazh

 
Directed by : Aleksandr MITTA (Александр МИТТА)
Writing credits : Yuli DUNSKY (Юлий ДУНСКИЙ), Valery FRID (Валерий ФРИД), Aleksandr MITTA (Александр МИТТА)
 
Cast
Irina AKULOVA (Ирина АКУЛОВА)
Leonid FILATOV (Леонид ФИЛАТОВ)
Anatoli VASILIEV (Анатолий ВАСИЛЬЕВ)
Yekaterina VASILIEVA (Екатерина ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Aleksandra YAKOVLEVA (Александра ЯКОВЛЕВА)
Georgi ZHZHONOV (Георгий ЖЖЕНОВ)
 
Cinematography : Valery SHUVALOV (Валерий ШУВАЛОВ)
Production design : Anatoli_2 KOUZNETSOV (Анатолий_2 КУЗНЕЦОВ)
Music : Alfred SHNITKE (Альфред ШНИТКЕ)
Sound : Vyacheslav KARASEV (Вячеслав КАРАСЕВ), Yekaterina POPOVA-EVANS (Екатерина ПОПОВА-ЭВАНС)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 71,1 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Prix au Festival national du cinéma de l'URSS, 1980
71 millions de spectateurs en 1980 (3ème place)
Prix de l'Union des Compositeurs du Tadjikistan à Alfred Chnitke à Douchambé en 1980
Grand prix de l'Association d'amitié Tchécoslovaquie-URSS en 1981

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Image Entertainment
Editor : Ruscico

Plot synopsis
Film-catastrophe. An ordinary flight to an African country did not look too unusual. But the place, where the aircraft had landed, was earthquaked and the crew took all passengers, injured, children and women aboard. When the aircraft was in the air it became clear that it got unpressurized. The heroes patched the hole at an extremely low temperature and the breaking aircraft landed in the native airport.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Режиссеру Александру Митте - 90. Самый неугомонный из мастеров рассказывает о том, как создавались его фильмы [Interview du réalisateur Aleksandr Mitta, à l'occasion de son 90e anniversaire], Valery KITCHIN, Aleksandr MITTA, Interview, rg.ru, 2023
Le premier film catastrophe soviétique, L’Équipage, sera projeté à Paris, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Les dix plus grands films soviétiques des années 1970, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Best Soviet films according to Russia Beyond, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2022
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2017
- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2008

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