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- 11/4/2023
- avclub.com
"I live to fight." Well Go USA has revealed the a new official US trailer for The Pilot, originally known as Лётчик (Letchik) in Russian. This opened in Russia last December, and is one of three new Russian movies from the last few years made about pilots during World War II surviving after crash landing. We posted the trailer for V2 Escape from Hell last year. December of 1941, Northwestern Front. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Nikolai Komlev's Il-2 is shot down. Komlev manages to crash-land his plane. He's alive, but far from friendly territory. Ahead of him is a relentless trial of severe physical and mental endurance. After battling hunger and extreme cold, evading packs of wolves and detachments of Nazi soldiers out to find him, the wounded Komlev finally nears the homefront. Pyotr Fyodorov stars as Komlev, with Anna Peskova, Pavel Osadchy, Maksim Emelyanov, and Nikoloz Paikridze.
- 1/20/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Well Go USA have picked up North American rights to the Russian WWII actioner The Pilot: A Battle for Survival.
Directed by Renat Davletyarov, the period film follows a Russian pilot, played by Sputnik star Pyotr Fyodorov, who crash-lands behind enemy lines and must fight his way back to friendly territory, facing hunger, extreme cold, wolf packs, and Nazi soldiers. Anna Peskova, Pavel Osadchy, Maksim Emelyanov, and Nikoloz Paikridze co-star.
Davletyarov co-wrote the screenplay to The Pilot, which is based on real-life events, together with Alexey Timoshkin and Sergey Ashkenazi.
Well Go USA president Doris Pfardrescher called the film “a gripping story ...
Directed by Renat Davletyarov, the period film follows a Russian pilot, played by Sputnik star Pyotr Fyodorov, who crash-lands behind enemy lines and must fight his way back to friendly territory, facing hunger, extreme cold, wolf packs, and Nazi soldiers. Anna Peskova, Pavel Osadchy, Maksim Emelyanov, and Nikoloz Paikridze co-star.
Davletyarov co-wrote the screenplay to The Pilot, which is based on real-life events, together with Alexey Timoshkin and Sergey Ashkenazi.
Well Go USA president Doris Pfardrescher called the film “a gripping story ...
- 6/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Well Go USA have picked up North American rights to the Russian WWII actioner The Pilot: A Battle for Survival.
Directed by Renat Davletyarov, the period film follows a Russian pilot, played by Sputnik star Pyotr Fyodorov, who crash-lands behind enemy lines and must fight his way back to friendly territory, facing hunger, extreme cold, wolf packs, and Nazi soldiers. Anna Peskova, Pavel Osadchy, Maksim Emelyanov, and Nikoloz Paikridze co-star.
Davletyarov co-wrote the screenplay to The Pilot, which is based on real-life events, together with Alexey Timoshkin and Sergey Ashkenazi.
Well Go USA president Doris Pfardrescher called the film “a gripping story ...
Directed by Renat Davletyarov, the period film follows a Russian pilot, played by Sputnik star Pyotr Fyodorov, who crash-lands behind enemy lines and must fight his way back to friendly territory, facing hunger, extreme cold, wolf packs, and Nazi soldiers. Anna Peskova, Pavel Osadchy, Maksim Emelyanov, and Nikoloz Paikridze co-star.
Davletyarov co-wrote the screenplay to The Pilot, which is based on real-life events, together with Alexey Timoshkin and Sergey Ashkenazi.
Well Go USA president Doris Pfardrescher called the film “a gripping story ...
- 6/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Title: The Search Director: Michel Hazanavicius Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul-Khalim Mamatsuiev, Zukhra Duishvili. Oscar director Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) returns with an epic film tackling the humanitarian disaster of the Second Chechen War. ‘The Search,’ explores the effects of this war on youngsters, through a story that leads to a happy ending and a tale of doom. Hadji is a nine-year-old Chechen boy (Abdul-Khalim Mamatsuiev) who escapes when his parents are murdered by Russian soldiers. He is so traumatised he becomes mute, but manages to make his way to a border town, where he establishes a wary relationship with EU official Carole (Bérénice Bejo). Meanwhile, Hadji’s [ Read More ]
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- 3/6/2015
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Good Intentions Cobbled: Hazanavicius Chokes on War Story Update
It’s clear to see that there were good intentions behind the making of Michael Hazanavicius latest film, The Search, a follow-up to his 2011 Best Picture winner, The Artist. Heretofore a director of silly or lighter themed fare, many of which showcase actress and wife Berenice Bejo, he dives headfirst into roiling dramatic waters with this update of Fred Zinneman’s 1948 film, headlining Montgomery Clift in his first theatrically released role (which snagged the actor an Oscar nod, as well as a win for its screenwriters and a special Oscar for child actor Ivan Jandl). Whereas the original dealt with a lost boy in an internment camp searching for his mother shortly after the end of World War II, aided by a friendly American G.I., Hazanavicius updates the tale to the 1999 Russian invasion of Chechnya, tacking on an additional perspective...
It’s clear to see that there were good intentions behind the making of Michael Hazanavicius latest film, The Search, a follow-up to his 2011 Best Picture winner, The Artist. Heretofore a director of silly or lighter themed fare, many of which showcase actress and wife Berenice Bejo, he dives headfirst into roiling dramatic waters with this update of Fred Zinneman’s 1948 film, headlining Montgomery Clift in his first theatrically released role (which snagged the actor an Oscar nod, as well as a win for its screenwriters and a special Oscar for child actor Ivan Jandl). Whereas the original dealt with a lost boy in an internment camp searching for his mother shortly after the end of World War II, aided by a friendly American G.I., Hazanavicius updates the tale to the 1999 Russian invasion of Chechnya, tacking on an additional perspective...
- 5/24/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Screenwriter: Michel Hazanavicius; Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev; Running time: 149 mins; Certificate: Tbc
Imagine the polar opposite of Michel Hazanavicius's sly, silent Oscar-winning gem The Artist, and you may well come up with something like this worthy but taxing follow-up. Set during the Second Chechen War in 1999, The Search paints a compelling portrait of a war-torn nation but labours its points too heavily, its gait stiff and lumbering where The Artist was joyfully fleet of foot.
One uniting factor between the two films is an effervescent performance from Bérénice Bejo, here playing a Chechnya-based Ngo worker named Carole, who spends her days writing detailed and largely ignored reports about the atrocities that surround her. Increasingly disheartened by how little impact her work is having on the United Nations' foreign affairs committee, and the general indifference of those around her, she's abruptly...
Imagine the polar opposite of Michel Hazanavicius's sly, silent Oscar-winning gem The Artist, and you may well come up with something like this worthy but taxing follow-up. Set during the Second Chechen War in 1999, The Search paints a compelling portrait of a war-torn nation but labours its points too heavily, its gait stiff and lumbering where The Artist was joyfully fleet of foot.
One uniting factor between the two films is an effervescent performance from Bérénice Bejo, here playing a Chechnya-based Ngo worker named Carole, who spends her days writing detailed and largely ignored reports about the atrocities that surround her. Increasingly disheartened by how little impact her work is having on the United Nations' foreign affairs committee, and the general indifference of those around her, she's abruptly...
- 5/22/2014
- Digital Spy
Cannes - At the risk of being unkind about a filmmaker who delighted me (and many others) so unequivocally with his last feature, it's probably tempting fate to open any film with the words, "What is this piece of shit?” That's not an entirely fair assessment of “The Search,” Michel Hazanavicius' follow-up to his unlikely, Oscar-garlanded 2011 hit “The Artist,” but it does roughly sum up the jaded bafflement with which it was received by journalists in Cannes this morning. A stiff, lumbering humanitarian drama that works obtusely and tirelessly against its director's spryest skills, it's proof positive that good intentions pave not only the road to hell, but the one to dreary mediocrity as well. Whatever road it's on, “The Search” sits squarely in the middle of it. Fred Zinnemann's 1948 Oscar-winner of the same title was a Hollywood studio film that depicted contemporary casualties of war with then-uncommon fortitude and frankness.
- 5/21/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Why bother updating a good movie? Michel Hazanavicius' "The Search" implicitly asks this question and never finds a sufficient answer. Fred Zinneman's 1948 drama revolved around the plight of a child concentration camp survivor separated from his mother in postwar Berlin and aided by a benevolent American private memorably portrayed by Montgomery Clift. In his 2014 remake, "The Artist" director Hazanvicius upgrades the story to Second Chechen War in 1999, swapping the Clift role for a Human Rights Committee representative played by Hazanvicius muse Berenice Bejo. Instead of a mother searching for her son, young Chechen refugee Hadji (Abduel Khalim Mamutsiev) winds up being cared for by Carole (Bejo) while his older sister Raissa (Zukhra Duishvili) follows his trail after Russian soldiers murder their parents. Hazanvicius, who also wrote the screenplay, compounds these ingredients with a separate narrative involving the experiences of a young Russian named Kolia (Maksim Emelyanov)...
- 5/21/2014
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
For his follow-up to breakout international hit The Artist, director Michel Hazanavicius has chosen a project that could not be more different. Chechen war drama The Search does, however, once again star Berenice Bejo, with support this time from Annette Bening. Tying in with its debut at Cannes, the first trailer has just arrived.The Search takes as a template the 1948 film of the same name, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Montgomery Clift. That version was about a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother, separated in WWII Europe. Hazanavicius' update involves the orphaned Hadji (Abdul Kahlim Mamutsiev) during the Second Chechan War in the 1990s. He comes under the protective wing of EU delegation head Carole (Bejo) while his elder sister Raissa (Zukhra Duishvili) searches for him among the civilian exodus. Interwoven with their story is that of struggling Russian army recruit Kolia (Maksim Emelyanov).Hazanavicius has been able...
- 5/21/2014
- EmpireOnline
Welcome back to Cannes Check, In Contention's annual preview of the films in Competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 14. Taking on different selections every day, we'll be examining what they're about, who's involved and what their chances are of snagging an award from Jane Campion's jury. Next up, from the most recent Oscar winner in the lineup: Michael Hazanavicius' "The Search." The director: Michel Hazanavicius (French, 47 years old). Three years ago, Hazanavicius was a somewhat unlikely Competition entrant: regarded as a lightweight commercial comedy director, his film was initially placed in a non-competitive slot, and only upgraded when another planned inclusion didn't pan out. That film, of course, was "The Artist." Now, Hazanavicius returns to the festival with an Oscar to his name, while he and his wife -- last year's Best Actress winner Bérénice Bejo -- are one of French cinema's premier power couples.
- 5/7/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
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