A Dog Named Palma (2021) on Netflix
In 1977, a German Shepherd named Palma hides at an airport when her owner flies abroad. She meets Kolya, nine, whose mother has died, and the father he hardly knows, a pilot.
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Plot summary
In the Soviet Union of 1977, nine-year-old Kolya Lazarev loses his mother and is left with Vyacheslav Lazarev, an aircraft commander he hardly knows. At the airport where Vyacheslav works, a German Shepherd named Palma has stayed behind instead of boarding the flight that takes her owner, Igor Polsky, out of the country, and she waits for him there. The pilot finds the dog, and the boy and the animal befriend each other. At the airport, Nina Tikhonova works as a stewardess, her father Sergey Tikhonov as an airport technician, Georgy Krasilov as a co-pilot, and Lyubov Zhurina heads the flight squad of the Soviet airline Aeroflot.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Dog Named Palma (2021)
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- The film is based on a real story covered by the Komsomol Truth in 1976 in an article titled Waiting for Two Years by Yuri Rost; in 1988 that same article became the feature film Tethered to the Runway, directed by Vladimir Khmelnitsky.
- More than 300 children were seen for the role of the boy Kolya Lazarev before the director approved Leonid Basov, for whom this was his film debut.
- Filming used an airport near Moscow that had kept its Soviet interiors and was not very busy, which made it suited to recreating the 1970s, and about 500 residents of Brest were used as extras for crowd scenes.
