Air

Air (2024)

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Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.

Date of release
2024-01-18
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (15)
Runtime
2h 31m
Genres
War, Drama, History
Director
Aleksei German Jr.

Casting

Interesting facts

Air is a 2023 Russian historical war drama film written and directed by Aleksei German Jr. about female pilots at the front during the Great Patriotic War, starring Anastasia Talyzina, Aglaya Tarasova and Kristina Lapshina.

Production

Work on the film began in 2018. The budget amounted to 450 million rubles, the project received support from the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Cinema Foundation.

Principal photography began in 2018 and took place in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, Pskov and Astrakhan regions. However, the work was fraught with difficulties. At first, the group could not wait for snow on the Gulf of Finland, and in April 2020, filming was completely stopped due to the pandemic.

In the fall of 2021, the second stage of the filming process began, which was completed in 2022.

During this time, material was filmed for all scenes of air battles.

Together with XOVP - eXtraOrdinary Virtual Production, LED panel screens with a total area of 800m2 were built, gimbles for full-size aircraft models were used, the Unreal Engine, which came from the game world, In-Camera VFX technology, which made it possible to synchronously integrate graphics right on the set. 12 Yak-1B model aircraft were built, and wartime field airfields were recreated.

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