Fires are raging in the Moscow region, and the forest protection airbase is on a rotation. However, experienced firefighters are in short supply and team leader Andrey Pavlovich has to take on a new recruit, Roman.
Practical Effects
Real fire, real danger, zero CGI cowardice.
Acting
Khabenskiy's thousand-yard stare should be illegal.
Direction
Nuzhnyy makes smoke feel claustrophobic.
Director
Alexey Nuzhnyy
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Aleksey Pavlovich Sokolov
Andrey Smolyakov
Vladimir Ivanovich Gromov
Irina Gorbacheva
Zoya
Victor Dobronravov
Pyotr Velichuk
Ivan Yankovsky
Roman Ilin
Roman Kurtsyn
Sergey Zotov
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Georgich
Tikhon Zhiznevsky
Maksim Shustov
Mariya Baeva
bride
Anton Bogdanov
Kostik
Miroslava Malyshkina-Malinovskaya
Stasya Miloslavskaya
Katya
Mikhail Orlov
Vitya
Evgeniya Dmitrieva
Nina
Viktor Sukhorukov
Akopych
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based loosely on real 2010 Russian wildfires that killed 60+; released during catastrophic 2020 Siberian fires, making it accidentally topical propaganda the government didn't want.
The 'avialesookhrana' aerial firefighting units depicted were historically underfunded Soviet leftovers—Roman's green helmet marks him as the new generation entering a broken system.
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