Flight (1970)

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The end of the Civil War: a general, a young woman, a scholar and a gambler flee Crimea and end up lost in Constantinople and Paris.

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Year
1970
Director
Alexander Alov, Vladimir Naumov
Starring
Mikhail Ulyanov, Alexei Batalov, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev
Genre
Drama, History, War
Running time
3 h 13 min · 2 parts
Based on
Plays and prose by Mikhail Bulgakov
Language
Russian, English subtitles
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

1920. The White Army's last stronghold in Crimea is falling. A cold, haunted general, Khludov, keeps order by hanging people. Serafima, a young woman looking for her husband, and Golubkov, a gentle young scholar, are swept up in the chaos together with the reckless General Charnota.

The second part follows them into emigration in Constantinople and Paris, where they sell what they can, gamble and try to understand what has happened to them and to Russia.

Based on Mikhail Bulgakov, Flight is both tragic and very funny. Mikhail Ulyanov's Charnota, playing cards for his life in Paris, is one of the great comic scenes of Soviet cinema.

Did you know?

  • Vladislav Dvorzhetsky made his screen debut as General Khludov.
  • Lyudmila Savelyeva, who plays Serafima, was Natasha in War and Peace.

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