Pilot, The: A Battle for Survival

[Available March 1 on Blu-ray™, DVD, and various VOD platforms.] After decorated Russian pilot Aleksey Maresyev (Pyotr Fyodorov) crash lands his IL-2 plane on the Northwestern Front behind enemy lines in 1941 at the start of the Great Patriotic War when he is shot down by Germans and struggles to stay one step ahead of Nazis soldiers as he fights the cold and snow, tenacious wolves, leg injuries, frostbite, and hunger in Renat Davletyarov's thrilling, factually based, intense, realistic, action-packed, well-acted, 106-minute film told in flashbacks, he is helped by a kindhearted Bolshevik blacksmith (Valery Grishko) and his wife (Elena Drobysheva) to return home to Moscow and his opera singer girlfriend (Anna Peskova) where he must overcome physical limitations in the hopes of getting in the cockpit and flying again.
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