Будни (Budni) title screen.
Movie (1940)
Russian title: Будни
French title: Jours ouvrables(?)
English title: Black-letter Days(?)
Starring:
B. Terentiev (Nicolaï Slavin)
Galina Sergeyeva (Elena Slavina)
I. Novoseltsev (Zubov, the reckless pilot)
M. Derzhavin (Vasyanin)
Synopsis Needed
Laville PS-89[]
Reg. СССР-Л2146 / SSSR-L2146 Laville PS-89 serial number 898 was the last one of a set of only seven production airframes.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (civil section).
Engine just stopped, the pilot removes his ear plug. Note the Aeroflot title and the pilot's white shoe:
Takeoff:
The cockpit:
In the background, a ground personnel is loading luggage in the nose compartment:
The small access door so different of the one shown in the 2005 TV series! (Master i Margarita).
Polikarpov U-2[]
Background:
Main:
Reg. СССР-Л192 / SSSR-L192 Polikarpov U-2 c/n 0185 first used by Zubov for a first flight, some aerobatics and eventually a crash in the swamp!
What a surprise to see her flying again during the airshow!
Polikarpov U-2 AP[]
Reg. СССР-A1064 / SSSR-A1064 Polikarpov U-2 AP c/n 14237.
Reg. СССР-A976 / SSSR-A976 Polikarpov U-2 AP c/n 12159.
Polikarpov U-2 SP[]
Reg. СССР-Л3126 / SSSR-L3126 Polikarpov U-2 SP c/n 14379 (or 14279?).
Reg. СССР-Л3129 / SSSR-L3129 Polikarpov U-2 SP c/n 14282.
Kalinin K-5[]
On the left far background.
Douglas DC-3-260[]
Reg. CCCP-Л3403 (SSSR-L3403) Douglas DC-3-260 c/n 2096, bought in the USA. To Aeroflot in June 1939, later named PS-84 (when fitted with new engines?).
With Stal-3 (left border) in the distance.
Polikarpov U-2 S[]
(bottom right) Two Polikarpov U-2 S at the lineup's end.
Polikarpov R-5[]
Seen by a nightly and foggy hour.
Putilov Stal-3[]
Seen by a nightly and foggy hour.
Tupolev ANT-6[]
Tupolev ANT-6 is the manufacturer name but the single buyer, the Soviet Air Force named it TB-3. In 1940, the type was in a process of retirement (despite still playing a main role in July 1941 !). Airframes were actually converted to passenger and cargo transport for Aeroflot and rename as Tupolev G-2. This only sight with such a blurred shape couldn't help to say exactly which variant.
Yakovlev UT-2[]
Wearing the Aeroflot title.
Poster[]
Wallpaper inside the airport terminal with what seems a Douglas DC-3 or a Lisunov Li-2 with a map of air routes.
Places[]
Airport of Kiev-Brovary which was the place where Istrebiteli was filmed the previous year. German army offensive totally destroyed it in 1941 and after the war, a new place was held for the next airport.
Just before the touch down of the Laville PS-89 in front of some Polikarpov U-2s and other passenger aircraft.
Another outstanding place (despite still unidentified). Seen during the paradropping demo at the airshow.
Autogiro[]
Seems closest to the Cierva C.30 than any Soviet indigenous design.
But the shadow is a desk model of the Laville PS-89:
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