''Transit'' (russian: Перегон, Peregon) is a 2006 film from Russian writer-director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rogozhkin (russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Рого́жкин; 3 October 1949 – 23 October 2021) was a Russian film director and writer. Career In 1990, Rogozhkin directed ''Karaul'', which wo ...

, which was presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Several of his past films have screened there, including ''

Life with an Idiot ''Life with an Idiot'' () is an opera by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke to a Russian libretto by Viktor Erofeyev. Written as an allegory of oppression under the Soviet Union, the opera was first performed at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, o ...

'' 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 from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. 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 (russian: Дании́л Алекса́ндрович Стра́хов; born 2 March 1976) is a Russian actor. Internationally, he is best known for his role as Vladimir Ivanovich Korf in the television series ''Poo ...

as Captain Lisnevsky *

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva Anastasiya Nikolaevna Nemolyaevahttp://www.kinopoisk.ru/ /name/273013/ (russian: Анастасия Николаевна Немоляева; was born 30 June 1969) is Soviet and Russian film and theater actress, designer. Biography Anastasiya Nem ...

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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