Emergency Landing

Emergency Landing (2023) — watch online on iFILM — is a Russian drama directed by Sarik Andreasyan, based on one of the most dramatic aviation incidents in recent Russian history. Yegor Beroev plays Damir Yusupov; the real Yusupov also appears in the film, making for an unusual doubling of hero and portrayal.

On 15 August 2019, Yusupov's Ural Airlines flight lost both engines shortly after takeoff from Zhukovsky airport. No runway within reach. A cornfield below. Two hundred and thirty-three people on board. He brought the plane down intact, and nobody died. Andreasyan's film splits its attention between those minutes and everything that shaped the man long before them: childhood ambition, family doubt, years of waiting.

Where a lot of aviation drama races straight to the cockpit, this one earns the landing by spending time on the approach. Stream Emergency Landing (2023) online on iFILM.