Boris GRIGORYEV Борис ГРИГОРЬЕВ Boris GRIGORIEV   USSR / Hungary, 1971, 167 mn  Colour, fiction

Hold on to the Clouds ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Держись за облака    Tiens-toi aux nuages  Derzhis za oblaka

Plot synopsis

adventure comedy. 1919. tumultuous events are rocking russia and hungary. János perczel, a journalist and advisor on questions of education and culture in the hungarian soviet republic, travels to petrograd in order to recruit a flight instructor. his movements are closely watched by the officer of hungarian state security, Bence rocatelli. János meets the former pilot of the czar’s army, vladimir sevastianov, and convinces the now jobless man to help the young republic. the two men set off to Budapest, but their journey is full of dangers and funny adventures, as they have to make emergency landings in territories that are occupied first by the Whites and when they reach their destination they are clearly not aware that the soviet republic has fallen…

Selected in the following festivals :

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010

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