The Flight (film)

The Flight
Film poster
Directed by	Aleksandr Alov Vladimir Naumov
Written by	Mikhail A. Bulgakov (play) Aleksandr Alov Vladimir Naumov
Starring	Lyudmila Savelyeva Aleksey Batalov Mikhail Ulyanov Tatyana Tkach
Cinematography	Levan Paatashvili
Edited by	Tamara Zubova
Release date	1970 (1970)
Running time	196 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Flight (Russian: Бег, transliteration Beg) is a 1970 Soviet historical drama film, mainly based on writer Mikhail Bulgakov's play Flight, but also on his novel The White Guard and his libretto Black Sea.^[1] It is written and directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov and is the story about a group of Russian Empire's high society refugees from the Russian Civil War, eking out an existence in Istanbul and Paris in the 1920s.^[2] It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]