During the Russian Civil War, pilot Sergey Sedov engages in battle with the Black Cat enemy fighter, controlled by the famous pilot Baru. In the battle, Sedov wounded Baru, but Sedov's plane fell apart in the air.

Is it worth watching? Well, you can't. Not unless you own a time machine or have a really, really lucky day in a deep-storage archive. Krylya is one of those lost films that haunts movie nerds because it literally doesn't exist anymore. If you love film history or are obsessed with early aviation stories like Bring Him...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Mikhail Gomorov

Josef Stein
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"Is it worth watching? Well, you can't. Not unless you own a time machine or have a really, really lucky day in a deep-storage archive. Krylya is one of those lost films that haunts movie nerds because it literally doesn't exist anymore. If you love film history or are obsessed with early aviation stories like Bring Him In, you’ll probably find the absence of it more interesting than most modern blockbusters. It’s a shame, really. The idea of a Russian pilot and a French-sponsored rival meeting ..."

Konstantin Gradopolov
Aleksandr Filimonov
Soviet Union

