The Pilot: A Battle for Survival
2021 · Movie · 105 min · ★ 6.5
In the winter of 1941 on the Northwestern Front, a Soviet pilot is shot down while trying to slow a German advance toward Moscow and crash-lands deep in a remote forest. Wounded and far from safety, he must endure hunger, brutal cold, wolves, and enemy patrols to reach friendly lines—only to face a new, life-changing test.
Also known as The Pilot A Battle for Survival
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Details
- Original title
- Лётчик
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-12-02
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Max quality
- HD
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (56 votes)
- Box office
- $800,311
About
If you enjoy WWII stories focused on endurance and constant danger, this delivers a tense, gritty struggle against nature and enemy forces; Not for you if you want lighter war dramas or minimal violence like The Dawns Here Are Quiet.
Pros: intense survival ordeal; high-stakes wartime tension; relentless pace | Cons: grim, harsh tone; frequent peril scenes; heavy wartime violence
Themes
- world war ii
Cast & crew
Pyotr Fyodorov
as Nikolai Komlev
Anna Peskova
as Olga
- PO
Pavel Osadchy
as Mikhail
Maksim Emelyanov
as Ignat
Aleksey Barabash
Anatoly Grishko
Elena Drobysheva
Evgeniy Mikheev
Gela Meskhi
- RK
Roman Knizhka
Directed by Renat Davletyarov