A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.
Practical Effects
They really built working plane interiors and threw them around.
Acting
Kozlovsky's wounded pride carries every scene.
Production
Volcanic ash sequences that genuinely suffocate.
Director
Nikolay Lebedev
Danila Kozlovsky
Alexey Gushchin
Vladimir Mashkov
Leonid Zinchenko
Agnė Grudytė
Alexandra
Sergey Shakurov
Nikolai Gushchin
Sergey Romanovich
Valera
Elena Yakovleva
Irina
Sergey Gazarov
Shestakov
Sergey Kempo
Steward Andrey
Katerina Shpitsa
Vika
Irina Pegova
Lena
Alesya Guzko
Nastya
Ivan Egorov
Seryozha
Anton Tuzikov
Tatyana Novik
Passazhirka
Mitya Makhonin
tourist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russia's biggest domestic box office hit of 2016, outgrossing Hollywood imports by leaning into Soviet-era disaster-movie nostalgia.
Based loosely on the 1986 Soviet Tu-134 volcanic ash incident where pilots literally flew blind for 40 minutes.
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