''Transit'' () is a 2006 film from Russian writer-director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rogozhkin (; 3 October 1949 – 23 October 2021) was a Russian film director and writer. Career In 1990, Rogozhkin directed ''The Guard (1990 film), Karaul'', which won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 40th Berlin Internat ...

, which was presented at the

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (, KVIFF) is an annual film festival held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Eur ...

. Several of his past films have screened there, including '' Life with an Idiot'' and the Chechen war drama ''Check Point'' (Blokpost), for which he won the Best Director Prize in 1998. ''Transit'' is a story set on a secret military transit base in the remote Chukotka region, where planes from allied forces came in from Alaska, including quite a few with female pilots, which of course attracted the attention of the mostly male Russian crew at the base.

Plot summary

A group of American pilots ferry

Lend-Lease Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (),3,000 Hurricanes and >4,000 other aircraft) * 28 naval vessels: ** 1 Battleship. (HMS Royal Sovereign (05), HMS Royal Sovereign) * ...

Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean through the

ALSIB ALSIB (or the Northern Trace) was the Soviet Union portion of the Alaska-Siberian air road receiving Lend-Lease aircraft from the Northwest Staging Route. Aircraft manufactured in the United States were flown over this route for World War II combat ...

route. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are attractive and charming young women. The feelings of the Russian young men collide with cultural and language barriers resulting in a host of awkward, funny, and sometimes tragic situations.

Cast

* Aleksei Serebryakov as Captain Yurchenko *

Daniil Strakhov Daniil Alexandrovich Strakhov (; born 2 March 1976) is a Russian actor. Internationally, he is best known for his role as Vladimir Ivanovich Korf in the television series '' Poor Nastya'', and as Captain Lisnevsky in the film ''Transit''. Earl ...

as Captain Lisnevsky * Anastasiya Nemolyaeva as Irina Zareva *Svetlana Stroganova as Valentina *Yuri Itskov as Svist *Stepan Abramov as Fitil' *Gennady Alekseyev as Wilson *Daniel Anderson as War Correspondent *Anna Marina Bensaud as Lieut. Jackson *Artem Bordovsky as Pulya *Sarah Bulley as Lieutenant Dana Adams *Christopher Delsman as Donald Svichkovsky aka 'Doc' *Andrei Fomin as Chernykh *Caterina Innocente as Lieutenant Mary McClain *Yevgeni Kachalov as Rozenfeld *Roman Kelchin as Semen *Sergei Konstantinov as Rintyn *Dmitri Lysenkov as Baron *Yekaterina Makarova as Rintyn's Wife *Oleg Malkin as Nulin *Sergey Medvedev as Os' *Aleksandr Orlovsky as Vasil'kov *Yuri Orlov as Romadanovsky *Sergei Pavlov as Roma *Grant Petrosian as Vano *Aleksey Petrov as Vasily *Ivan Prill as Turovsky *Sarah Margaret Rutley as Lieut. Tippy Kaufman *Zakhar Ronzhin as Kaiser *Anna Rud as Olga *Andrey Shibarshin as Morze *Mikhail Sivorin as Bologov *Ruslan Smirnov as Tutko *Kirill Ulyanov as Gutsava *Anatoli Ustinov as Petrov *Sergei Venzelev as Petya *Artem Volobuev as Shmatko *Nathan Thomas White as Pasco *Trigg Hutchinson as the Corporal

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