Director: Nikolay Lebedev
Nominations: Golden Eagle Award for Best Motion Picture,
Awards: Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actor,
Flight Crew (Russian: Экипаж) is a 2016 Russian catastrophe film, inspired by the 1979 Soviet film of the same name (and in some ways its remake).
The central figure is Alexey Gushchin, a young pilot whose Honor Before Reason behavior always gets him in trouble with authorities. He gets kicked out from the Air Force and from cargo aviation, and only thanks to his father's connections does he get employed as a trainee at an obscure company that operates passenger flights. He gets in trouble with his new job (as a trainee co-pilot) as well, but his instructor Leonid Zinchenko, despite being The Cynic himself, insists that Gushchin shouldn't be fired.
One day their plane, while flying in the Far East, receives a call for help from a tiny volcanic island Kanwoo that is struck by an earthquake. After the plane lands, the runways start to burn. In an attempt to rescue as many people as possible, the crew get separated: Zinchenko, along with another co-pilot Alexandra Kuzmina who's Gushchin's sweetheart, is forced to use a cargo aircraft for the only short runway available, while Gushchin has to fly their plane through a burning runway.
But the real trouble starts when both planes are finally airborne...
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