Summary
After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
Good for
- Friends night
- Thought-provoking
- Adults
Skip it if
- You want something to laugh at
- Graphic violence bothers you
- You want something quiet and calm
Where to watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 64GoodWatch 67
IMDb6.6
Letterboxd · 2 K ratings3.0/5
Box office
1.4×its budget
- Budget
- $4 M
- Worldwide
- $5 M
Worldwide it earned $1 M more than it cost.
Running time
2 h 10 min
Longer than most dramas, +21 min on the typical 109
typical 109130Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 19 countries, rent or buy in 21 more
+9Released
2019
March 21, 2019
7 years ago
Genres
DramaActionWarLanguage
Russian
Original language
Also spoken
SerbianEnglishMade in
- Russia
Serbia
Rated
- RUnited States
What's in it
- ViolenceIntense
- Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesStrong
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightPartner WatchSolo WatchThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
and 39 more44 people
- Anton PampushnyyAndrey Shatalov
- Gosha KutsenkoBek
- Miloš BikovićVuk Majewski
- Milena RadulovićJasna Blagojević
- Gojko MitićGoran Milić
- Ravshana KurkovaVera
- Dmitry FridShtern, doctor
- Aleksandar Srećković 'Kubura'Smuk
Svetlana ChuikinaMarta
Miodrag RadonjićAmir- NRNikola RanđelovićStevan
Emir KusturicaTaxi driver
Kirill PoluhinBarmin
Nodari DzhanelidzeGirey
Sergey MarinSlashchev
Nikita KologrivyyKirya
Aleksandar RadojičićFadil- ALAleksandar LazićKharun
Roman KurtsynKolya Poltoratsky
Efim PetruninZheka, BTR
Roman VorontsovSery, BTR
Anvar KhalilulaevMurat, BTR 2 warrior
Vsevolod YashkinLekha, BTR 2 warrior
Daniel KovačevićHead doctor
Directing · 1
- Andrey Volgin Director
Writing · 3
- Natalya Nazarova Screenplay
- Ivan Naumov Screenplay
- Andrey Anaykin Screenplay, Editor
Production · 9
- Anastasiya Pelevina Executive Producer
- Dmitry Rubezhin Executive Producer
- Gosha Kutsenko Producer
- Tatyana Kuranova Producer
- Vasil Shevts Producer
- Vadim Byrkin Producer
Camera · 1
- Vyacheslav Lisnevsky Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Andrey Melnikov Lead Editor
Sound · 2
- Mikhail Afanasyev Original Music Composer
- Aleksandr Kopeykin Sound Director
Art · 2
- Zhanna Pakhomova Production Design
- Vladislav Travinsky Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 4
- Anastasiya Batalova Costume Design
- Kseniya Orlova Costume Design
- Irina Lyashko Makeup Artist
- Marina Evseenko Makeup Artist
Visual Effects · 1
- Alexey Grishin Visual Effects Producer
Other crew · 2
- Aleksandr Solovyov Stunt Coordinator
- Aleksandr Kovalyov Stunts
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