Flight Crew

A young pilot, Alexey Gushchin, is removed from military aviation after refusing an order he considers senseless. He finds work as a co-pilot at a civil airline, where his blunt manner does not sit well with his new colleagues, among them the stern captain Leonid Zinchenko and the second pilot Alexandra. During a flight to Asia, the crew picks up a distress signal from a volcanic island and decides to attempt a rescue. What follows tests whether the crew can act as one.

The film is a Russian action picture directed by Nikolay Lebedev, who wrote the screenplay with Tikhon Kornev and Nikolai Kulikov. It is the second of the three features he has directed, following Wolfhound of the Grey Dog Clan in 2006 and preceding Kraken in 2025. Danila Kozlovsky plays Gushchin, with Vladimir Mashkov as Zinchenko and Agnė Grudytė as Alexandra; Sergey Shakurov, Sergey Romanovich and Elena Yakovleva also appear among a credited cast of 38. Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereshchagin and Anton Zlatopolskiy produced, and Mosfilm and the Cinema Fund were among the production companies.

Released in April 2016, the film runs 138 minutes. Its worldwide box office, around 27 million, sits well below the reported production budget of 650 million, so it did not recoup its costs in cinemas. Audiences rate it at 6.6 out of 10 on IMDb from roughly 6,500 votes, and at 6.9 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller base of 306 votes.