The Flight | |
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Directed by |
Aleksandr Alov Vladimir Naumov |
Written by |
Mikhail A. Bulgakov Aleksandr Alov Vladimir Naumov |
Starring |
Lyudmila Savelyeva Aleksey Batalov Mikhail Ulyanov Tatyana Tkach |
Cinematography | Levan Paatashvili |
Edited by | Tamara Zubova |
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Running time
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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. It is written and directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov and is the story about a group of White refugees from the Russian Civil War, eking out an existence in Istanbul and Paris in the 1920s. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.