| The Flight | |
| Director: | Aleksandr Alov Vladimir Naumov |
| Starring: | Lyudmila Savelyeva Aleksey Batalov Mikhail Ulyanov Tatyana Tkach |
| Cinematography: | Levan Paatashvili |
| Editing: | Tamara Zubova |
| Runtime: | 196 minutes |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
The Flight (Russian: Бег, transliteration Beg) is a 1970 Soviet historical drama film, mainly based on writer Mikhail Bulgakov's play Flight, but also on his novel The White Guard and his libretto Black Sea.[1] It is written and directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov and is the story about a group of White refugees from the Russian Civil War, eking out an existence in Istanbul and Paris in the 1920s.[2] It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.[3]