Flight Crew (film)

Flight Crew
Film poster from 2016
Directed by	Nikolai Lebedev
Written by	Tikhon Kornev Nikolay Kulikov Nikolai Lebedev Yuriy Korotkov Aleksey Onishchenko
Based on	Air Crew by Alexander Mitta
Produced by	Leonid Vereshchagin (ru) Anton Zlatopolskiy (ru) Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring	Vladimir Mashkov Danila Kozlovsky Agnė Grudytė Katerina Shpitsa Sergey Kempo Sergey Shakurov Elena Yakovleva Sergey Romanovich
Cinematography	Irek Hartowicz
Edited by	Konstantin Larchenko
Music by	Artyom Vasilev (ru)
Production companies	Three T Productions Russia-1
Distributed by	Central Partnership, Mosfilm and Cinema Fund
Release dates	February 20, 2016 (2016-02-20) (Berlinale) April 21, 2016 (2016-04-21) (Russia)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	Russia
Languages	Russian English
Budget	$9 million ₽650 million
Box office	$29,171,110[1] ₽1.504 billion

Flight Crew (‹See Tfd›Russian: Экипаж, translit. Ekipazh) is a Russian disaster film directed by Nikolai Lebedev and produced by Russia-1 Channel which released in April 2016. It stars Vladimir Mashkov, Danila Kozlovsky and Agnė Grudytė. This was a remake of the 1979 Soviet film Air Crew and it was the second disaster film shot in the Russian Federation.

The film was shot with digital 3D cameras and became the second Russian film released in IMAX after Stalingrad.^[2] The premiere took place on April 21, 2016 by Central Partnership. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the special effects, action sequences, acting, and the tense atmosphere. The film was a box office success, becoming the highest-grossing Russian film of 2016. At the 2017 Golden Eagle Awards, the film received 11 nominations including Best Feature Film, Best Director (Nikolai Lebedev) and Best Actor (Kozlovsky), winning five (Best Visual Effects, Best Supporting Actor for Sergey Shakurov, Best Music, Best Film Editing and Best Sound).