A Dog Named Palma (2021)
Пальма
A True Story Of Unconditional Love
The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows - a pilot who finds the dog at the airport. It's a story of amazing adventures, true friendship and unconditional love.
- Date of release
- 2021-03-18
- TMDB
- 8.1 / 10 (186)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Family, Romance
- Director
- Aleksandr Domogarov Jr.
- Collection
- A Dog Named Palma Collection
Casting
- Victor Dobronravov — Vyacheslav Lazarev, pilot
- Leonid Basov — Kolya
- Vladimir Ilin — Tikhonov, airport technician
- Valeriya Fedorovich — Nina
- Evgeniya Dmitrieva — Lyubov Zhurina, head of the flight squad
- Igor Khripunov — Evgeny Golikov, head of security
- Pavel Maykov — Georgy Krasilov, co-pilot
- Vladimir Simonov — Ivan Lysko
- Yan Tsapnik — Igor Polsky
- Filipp Savinkov — Kravchenko, flight attendant
- Darya Luzina — Anna, flight attendant
- Elena Anisimova — Raisa Semenovna
Interesting facts
A Dog Named Palma is a 2021 Russian children's drama film directed by Aleksandr Domogarov Jr., based on real events that took place in 1974–1976 at the Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport.
Production
In 1976 the Komsomol Truth published an article about this called Waiting for Two Years, written by Yuri Rost, in 1988, based on the article, a feature film was made Tethered to the Runway (ru), directed by Vladimir Khmelnitsky.
More than 300 children passed the casting for the role of the boy Kolya Lazarev, before the director approved Leonid Basov. For him, this is his film debut.
Principal photography of the film took place in one of the airports near Moscow and the Belarusian Brest. The local airport, which retained its Soviet interiors and was not very busy, was best suited to reproduce the atmosphere of the 70s. About 500 residents of Brest were used as extras for the crowd scenes.
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