2016 · disaster · action · drama
Flight Crew
Directed by Nikolay Lebedev2h 18m2016
A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.
Our read: Flight Crew (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded disaster · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme disaster / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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