A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are attractive 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.
Acting
Serebryakov's painfully awkward longing is devastating.
Direction
Rogozhkin lets silences scream louder than dialogue.
Cinematography
Bleak Far North landscapes mirror emotional barrenness.
Director
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rogozhkin's 'National Features' trilogy explores Russian identity through foreign encounters; this is its melancholy war chapter.
The real WWII 'Alaska-Siberia' route ferried 8,000 planes; women pilots existed but were kept strictly separate from Soviet personnel. The film's premise is historically impossible — and deliberately so.
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