Ekipazh

Infobox Film
name = Ekipazh

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caption = International poster from 1980
director = Alexander Mitta
producer = Mosfilm
writer = Yuli Dunsky
Valeri Frid
Alexander Mitta
Boris Urinovsky
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starring = Georgiy Zhzhonov
Leonid Filatov
Aleksandra Yakovleva
music = Alfred Schnittke
cinematography = Valeri Shuvalov
editing = Nadezhda Veselyovskaya
distributor = Mosfilm
released = fy|1979
runtime = 143 minutes
country = USSR
language = Russian
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amg_id = 1:161354
imdb_id = 0134633

Ekipazh ( _ru. "Экипаж", "The Crew") is a movie produced by Mosfilm in 1979. It was the first catastrophe movie shot in the Soviet Union.

The colour movie was directed by Alexander Mitta (Александр Наумович Митта) and consists of two parts with total time 143 minutes. It was watched by more than 70 millions of viewers, mostly throughout the Eastern Bloc where it won several awards. The movie was distributed internationally under title "Air Crew".

First part of the film tells about personal lives of the air crew, their problems and relationships. The second, dramatic part lands the TU-154 Aeroflot airplane in city of "Bidri" located somewhere in Middle East. The city gets destroyed by an apocalyptic catastrophe but the plane manages to take off at the last moment. On their way back to Moscow the crew discovers damage of an outer part of the plane, impossible to repair from inside. One of the pilots volunteers to get out of the plane and manages to fix the problem and to return back, covered by ice crust but alive. During landing in Moscow the plane burns but the travelers and the crew are able to escape.

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