---
title: 'The Flight (1971)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Aleksandr Alov'
released: '1971-01-14'
runtime_minutes: 196
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-flight-1971'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065457/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Flight (1971)

1971 · 196 min · Drama, War, History · Soviet Union

Original title: Бег

## Synopsis

The Flight is a 1970 Soviet historical drama film, mainly based on writer Mikhail Bulgakov's play Flight, but also on his novel The White Guard and his libretto Black Sea. It is written and directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov and is the story about a group of Russian Empire's high society refugees from the Russian Civil War, seeking out an existence in Istanbul and Paris in the 1920s. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Aleksandr Alov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-alov), [Vladimir Naumov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-naumov)
- **Director of Photography:** [Levan Paatashvili](https://cinepixo.com/people/levan-paatashvili)

## Cast

- [Natalya Varley](https://cinepixo.com/people/natalya-varley)
- [Mikaela Drozdovskaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikaela-drozdovskaya)
- [Valeri Zolotukhin](https://cinepixo.com/people/valeri-zolotukhin)
- [Ludmila Savelyeva](https://cinepixo.com/people/ludmila-savelyeva)
- [Vladimir Osenev](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-osenev)
- [Vladislav Dvorzhetsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladislav-dvorzhetsky)
- [Vladimir Zamanskiy](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-zamanskiy)
- [Tatyana Tkach](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatyana-tkach)
- [Mikhail Ulyanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-ulyanov)
- [Bruno Freindlich](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-freindlich)
- [Konstantin Voinov](https://cinepixo.com/people/konstantin-voinov)
- [Dmitry Orlovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/dmitry-orlovsky)
- [Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/yevgeniy-yevstigneyev)
- [Aleksey Batalov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksey-batalov)
- [Vladimir Basov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-basov)

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