hi
I've been searching for a Russian film I saw as a kid in the early 90s or so (it could have been the late 80s too). I dont know the name of the director, year of production, plot, or pretty much anything else except a few vivid scenes stamped in my mind. From what I can recally, it was a surreal sci-fi movie. I'll try and describe what I remember of the movie here. If anyone knows this movie and can tell me the name, I would be greatful. Thanks in advance!


Scene (I think this is the first scene in the movie): Starts with an elevated rear quarter shot of a full-size (probably Aerofolt) passenger jetliner flying peacefully at cruising altitude. A simple sideways-looking along-the-aisle shot inside the plane shows nothing unusual; just passengers doing passenger things. One of the passengers is a sikh gentleman with a red turban. The camera settles on a couple who are clearly characters in the movie, there appears to be some tension between them. <break> I dont recall the next few moments of this movie, I think the camera moved on from the couple. The camera is now moving along the aisle towards the rear of the plane, scanning across the still unsual passengers. It locks on to a passenger who at that moment decides to look out of the window and opens her mouth in sheer horror. Next shot from outside the aircraft shows one or more of the engines on fire and the plane banking into an unrecoverable nose-dive. An inside shot of the plane (now significantly less serene than before) shows some passengers crying, some in shock, the Sikh man praying, etc. Next, a large broken part of the plane's fuselage is shown lying on the ground, here are no identifying characterestics on the landscape, and everthing appears to have a light-bluish and slightly hazy (soft) tint to it. Some (around 5 to 10) of the passengers are shown sitting around wondering whats going on, there is no sign of other passengers. It appears to be some sort of twilight zone.

This is probably not much to go on, but thats all I remember. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

This one is not ringing any bells and at first I was going to say Tarkofsky's SOLARIS, but that film was released well before the 1990s and your description doesn't really match that of what little I remember of SOLARIS.

It would help if you remembered seeing the film in a theatre or on video because relatively few Russian films receive first-run releases and I don't remember a Russian film that fits your description.

I bet the country of origin is incorrect.

I can't say I can be of any direct help, but you might want to try these links:

http://www.sf.perm.ru/eng/solaris/films3.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_films

Good luck!