A Dog Named Palma
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAleksandr Domogarov Jr.
Written by
  • Yekaterina Mavromatis
  • Aleksandr Domogarov Jr.
  • Yevgeny Kazachkov
Based onWaiting for Two Years
by Yuri Rost
Produced by
  • Ruben Dishdishyan (ru)
  • Leonard Blavatnik
  • Anton Zlatopolskiy
  • Narek Martirosyan
  • Kristina Reylyan
Starring
CinematographySergey Dyshuk
Edited by
  • Maksim Smirnov
  • Aleksandr Domogarov Jr.
Music by
  • Ivan Burlyayev (ru)
  • Konstantin Kupriyanov
  • Dmitriy Noskov
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release dates
  • March 18, 2021 (2021-03-18) (Russia)
  • 2021 (2021)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget
  • ₽95 million
  • ~$1 million
Box office
  • ₽>341 million[1]
  • >$5,449,847[2]

A Dog Named Palma (Russian: Пальма) is a 2021 Russian children's drama film directed by Aleksandr Domogarov Jr., based on real events that took place in 1974-1976 at the Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport.

It was released theatrically on March 18, 2021 by Central Partnership.

Plot

In 1977 Soviet Union, the owner of a German Shepherd named Palma flies abroad. But Palma hides at the airport and waits for her owner. She meets a boy named Kolya Lazarev, who has lost his mother, and they become best friends.[3]

Cast

Production

In 1976 the Komsomol Truth published an article about this called Waiting for Two Years, written by Yuri Rost, in 1988, based on the article, a feature film was made Tethered to the Runway (ru), directed by Vladimir Khmelnitsky.[4]

Casting

More than 300 children passed the casting for the role of the boy Kolya Lazarev, before the director approved Leonid Basov. For him, this is his film debut.

Filming

Principal photography of the film took place in one of the airports near Moscow and the Belarusian Brest. The local airport, which retained its Soviet interiors and was not very busy, was best suited to reproduce the atmosphere of the 70s. About 500 residents of Brest were used as extras for the crowd scenes.

Release

The Russian premiere of the film took place on March 18, 2021 by Central Partnership.

References

  1. Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)
  2. "Пальма - Financial Information Russia (CIS)". The Numbers. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  3. "Пальма / A Dog Named Palma (2021)". www.kinoafisha.info (in Russian).
  4. Tethered to the Runway at IMDb
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