Renat DAVLETYAROV
Ренат ДАВЛЕТЬЯРОВ
Renat DAVLETIAROV
Russia, 2021, 105mn 
fiction
The Pilot: A Battle for Survival
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Летчик

 

 Le Pilote

 Liotchik

 
Directed by : Renat DAVLETYAROV (Ренат ДАВЛЕТЬЯРОВ)
Writing credits : Sergey ASHKENAZI (Сергей АШКЕНАЗИ), Renat DAVLETYAROV (Ренат ДАВЛЕТЬЯРОВ), Aleksey TIMOSHKIN (Алексей ТИМОШКИН)
 
Cast
Pyotr FIODOROV (Пётр ФЕДОРОВ) ...Komlev
Anna PESKOVA (Анна ПЕСКОВА)
Pavel OSADCHI (Павел ОСАДЧИЙ)
Maksim EMELYANOV (Максим ЕМЕЛЬЯНОВ)
Aleksey BARABASH (Алексей БАРАБАШ)
Yelena DROBYSHEVA (Елена ДРОБЫШЕВА)
 
Cinematography : Semyon YAKOVLEV (Семён ЯКОВЛЕВ)
Production design : Artiom KUZMIN (Артем КУЗЬМИН)
Produced by : Renat DAVLETYAROV (Ренат ДАВЛЕТЬЯРОВ), Dmitry PRISTANSKOV (Дмитрий ПРИСТАНСКОВ), Vladislav RYASHIN (Владислав РЯШИН)
Production : Interfest
Film revenue in Russia : 0.778219 million dollars
Spectators : 227 005
Release date in Russia : 01/05/2021
 
Sites : IMDb, Allociné

Plot synopsis
December 1941, Northwestern Front. Soviet pilot Nikolai Komlev makes a combat mission to stop a German tank column moving towards the capital. Komlev's plane is shot down by enemy fighters, but he still manages to land in a remote forest clearing. It would seem that the worst is over: Komlev managed to survive in an air battle. However, the tests are just beginning - overcoming hunger, cold, bypassing packs of wolves and detachments of Germans, the wounded pilot has a hard way to salvation ...
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Le pilote, un combat pour survivre (2021) : un magnifique film de guerre russe, Jules FERRY, resistancerepublicaine.com, 2023
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq nouveaux films sur l’histoire de Russie attendus en 2021, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2022

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