Transit is a 2006 film from prolific Russian writer-director Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

-Selected filmography:In 1990, he directed Karaul, which won the Alfred-Bauer Prize at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.Rogozhkin's film The Chekist was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

, which was presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary , Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival gained worldwide recognition over the past years and has become one of Europe's major film events....

. Several of his past films have screened there, including Life with an Idiot

Life with an Idiot

Life with an Idiot is an opera by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke. The libretto is by Viktor Erofeyev. It was first performed at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam on 13 April 1992. The opera is an allegory of Soviet oppression.-Roles:-Act One:...

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.

The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Aleksei Serebryakov

Aleksei Serebryakov (actor)

-Selected filmography:-External links:...

, Daniil Strakhov

Daniil Strakhov

Daniil Alexandrovich Strakhov is a Russian actor. Internationally, he is the best known for his role of Vladimir Ivanovich Korf in television series Poor Nastya and Captain Lisnevsky in film Transit.- Filmography :- Awards and nominations :- External links :* +...

, and Anastasya Nemolyaeva.

Plot summary

A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease

Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...

. 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 into barriers of culture and language resulting in a host of awkward, funny, and sometimes tragic situations.

It is the story of Russians, Americans, and natives of the Far North. It is the story of man and woman in war. Love and death are squeezed between the hills as human fates are destroyed and born.

Cast

• Aleksei Serebryakov
  Aleksei Serebryakov (actor)
  -Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
  as Captain Yurchenko
• Daniil Strakhov
  Daniil Strakhov
  Daniil Alexandrovich Strakhov is a Russian actor. Internationally, he is the best known for his role of Vladimir Ivanovich Korf in television series Poor Nastya and Captain Lisnevsky in film Transit.- Filmography :- Awards and nominations :- External links :* +...
  
  as Captain Lisnevsky
• Anastasiya Nemolyayeva as Irina Zareva
• Svetlana Stroganova as Valentina
• Yuri Itskov as Svist
• Stepan Abramov as Fitil'
• Gennady Alekseev 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

External links

• Trailer and Screenshots