The sky... An element given to birds and forever alluring people with its mystery and the unknown. For many centuries, people dreamed of learning to fly and soar in the sky as proudly and majestically as they walked on the ground. But only recently did mankind see an invention called a parachute, which allowed them to master the air. Who are they? Heroes of the sky or crazy? What are they looking for up there, so far from the ground they have been used to walking on since birth? What makes them constantly drop everything they are doing, forget about their families and friends and rush towards the unknown? Why do neither risk, nor the death of comrades, nor their own incidents stop them? Passion? Madness? Whim? The pursuit of mythical happiness or a suicide attempt? The film tries to answer the question of why there are people in our world for whom momentary experiences in the air mean more than their entire life on earth; why people who are so different are so closely connected by a common love for parachutes.
An eagle soars in the sky.
A man soars in the sky.
A quote (from an ancient legend).
The frame shows parachutists, an airplane, and the sun in the sky.
The parachutists are holding hands, in a circle, against a background of white clouds.
A city, a metropolis, people on the streets, traffic, outdoor advertising, etc.
Traffic jams, cars in the city.
A woman is eating a hamburger on the street.
Traffic, traffic jams, people on the streets of a big city.
Video (advertisement) on a large screen on the street - the frame shows parachutists in the sky.
Parachutists in the sky, in free fall, synchronously performing various figures and formations.
A group of people are driving in a car, looking at an album with photographs.
Driving along the road.
A group of people are driving in a car, looking at an album with photographs.
The photographs show parachutists.
Parachutists in the sky, performing various figures and formations.
A girl Masha is driving a car, her sister Ksyusha is next to her.
Masha's eyes in the car mirror.
The frame shows a fence, signs "Airfield" and "Kolomna Aeroclub" (shot from the driveway).
A parachutist with an opened parachute in his hands is walking across the field.
A man in the field is instructing parachutists before the jump.
A man with a camera.
Masha with documents in her hands, talking to a man.
A cameraman with a camera, a panorama of the airfield, in the frame are parachutists, flying club staff, etc.
Parachutist instructor Nikolai is talking to Ksyusha.
The frame shows parachutists.
Ksyusha in a special suit, getting ready to jump.
A parachutist with a parachute lands on the field.
Alexey Zaitsev is speaking.
The frame shows Ksyusha (getting ready to jump).
Alexander Ivanov is speaking.
The frame shows a group of parachutists on the field.
Alena Mkhitarova.
Parachutists on the field, walking to the plane.
Viktor Kravtsov.
Maria Kuzminova speaking.
The plane is taking off.
The cabin of the plane, the door is open, parachutists are standing, the parachutist-instructor jumps out of the plane in tandem together with Ksyusha.
After the jump, Ksyusha shares her impressions.
Parachutists in the cabin of the plane, before the jump.
Ksyusha speaking.
Ksyusha with the instructor before the jump.
Ksyusha speaking.
Ksyusha and the instructor jump out of the plane, hover in the air, wave their arms, then open the parachute.
Ksyusha and the instructor land on the field.
Masha speaking.
Parachutists with open parachutes land on the field.
Roman Lednev speaking.
Anna Panasyuk speaking.
Club, bar, music playing.
Mkhitarova speaking.
Sky, a parachutist lands on the field.
Parachutists in the sky, perform different figures.
Parachutists jump out of a plane, hover in the air, flip, etc.
Masha speaking.
An apartment, Lyudmila Kuzminova (Masha and Ksyusha's mother) is sitting at the table.
Lyudmila speaking.
Masha on the field, before the jump.
Parachutists in free flight, in a circle, holding hands, view of the ground.
Masha is in the frame.
Masha speaking.
Lyudmila speaking.
USA, New York, city streets, outdoor advertising, skyscrapers, traffic, the Rockefeller Center building are in the frame.
Masha speaking.
Parachutists before the jump, near the plane.
The plane's propeller is spinning.
Parachutists jump out of the plane, hover in the air.
Parachutists in the sky, performing different figures, formations, flipping, etc.
Mkhitarova speaking.
Igor Sitnikov is in the frame.
Sitnikov speaking.
A parachutist lands on the field.
In the frame: Pavel Olshansky.
Olshansky speaking.
Ksyusha speaking.
Sitnikov speaking.
Hangar, parachutists are assembling parachutes, checking equipment.
Parachutists are boarding the plane.
The parachutist instructor is speaking.
Masha is in the hangar, checking a parachute.
Masha speaking.
Parachutists in the sky, performing different figures, formations, turning over, etc.
The parachutists' parachutes are shown opening in the sky.
A view from above of the earth.
Igor Sitnikov speaking.
View of the earth during landing with a parachute.
Moscow, the center, city streets, traffic, outdoor advertising, street musicians, people on the streets, etc.
Mkhitarova speaking.
Sitnikov in his office at his desk, working on his computer.
Close-up - news on the computer screen.
In the frame: office, computer, monitors.
Mkhitarova speaking.
Moscow streets, traffic.
Sky with clouds, in the frame a parachutist with a parachute.
Maria Dyakonova is speaking.
Life of a megalopolis - in the frame traffic jams, traffic, people on the streets, a beggar asking for alms.
Metro, people are entering through glass doors.
Mkhitarova is speaking.
Parachutists jump out of a plane, hover in the air, turn over, etc.
Parachutists turn the plane around on the airfield.
Maria Dyakonova is speaking.
Female parachutists in overalls are dancing, fooling around.
Anton Kondratyev is speaking.
The premises of the flying club, in the frame parachutists.
Parachutist Viktor Kravtsov is congratulated on unhooking - opening the reserve parachute during the jump.
Fellow parachutists applaud, hug Viktor.
Parachutists on the field rock their colleague after a difficult jump.
Cafe in the flying club, girls are sitting at the table.
Yulia Korshunova speaking.
An aeroclub, an airfield, music coming from a car, parachutists, club employees, etc. in the frame.
Aleksandr Yezhov speaking.
Aleksey Zaytsev speaking.
Newlyweds making a jump.
Zaytsev speaking.
Parachutists in the sky.
A woman holding a small child in her arms speaking.
A boy named Sasha speaking (Sasha is holding a helmet with a camera in his hands).
Parachutists training on the ground.
Sasha speaking.
Parachutists in red suits jump out of an airplane, hold hands, perform various figures, formations.
A mass jump of parachutists.
Opening a parachute, hovering in the air, view from above on the ground.
Parachutists landing.
Kondratyev speaking.
Mkhitarova speaking.
The instructor speaking.
A parachutist landing.
The instructor speaking.
A parachutist landing on the water.
Dmitry Kozin speaking.
Winter, snow on the airfield, a parachutist lands and falls.
Kozin speaking.
Parachutists soar in the sky, perform various figures and formations.
Kozin speaking.
Sitnikov speaking.
Winter, snow on the airfield, a parachutist makes an unsuccessful landing.
Masha and Ksyusha's mother (Lyudmila) speaking.
Masha on the airfield.
Parachutists in red overalls on the ground, before takeoff.
Parachutists board the plane.
Girls at a table in a cafe.
Masha speaking.
Masha on the airfield.
Masha and Ksyusha's mother (Lyudmila) speaking.
Masha on the airfield.
Zaitsev speaking.
Parachutists on the airfield, walking toward the plane.
Kondratyev speaking.
The plane takes off.
An eagle soars in the sky.
Wreckage of the crashed plane in the snow.
A granite slab with the names of the parachutists who died in the plane crash.
Masha on the airfield.
The parachutists are soaring in the sky.
Archival footage - various shots of the dead parachutists.
A granite slab with the names of the parachutists who died in the plane crash.
Alexander Ivanov speaking.
Sitnikov speaking.
An eagle is soaring in the sky.
People on the airfield.
A pyramid of parachutists in the sky (with open parachutes).
A mass jump, with parachutists and planes in the frame.
The parachutists are soaring in the sky, performing various figures, formations, etc.
The parachutists are in the plane, opening champagne, celebrating, congratulating each other.
A parachutist lands on the field.
Sitnikov speaking.
Zaitsev speaking.
Kozin speaking.
Kondratyev speaking.
Sitnikov speaking.
The parachutists are soaring in the air.
Masha speaking.
Moscow, people on the streets, Masha in the frame.
Sky, clouds.
People in the city.
Puddle on the asphalt.
Outdoor advertising.
Parachutists in a plane, preparing to jump.
The film director jumps in tandem with an instructor.
Parachutists soar in the sky, perform figures, formations.
The film director and the instructor land on the field.
In the frame, the cameraman, the film director.
A parachutist in the sky against the backdrop of the setting sun.
Parachuting, parachutists, aerodrome, parachute jumping
Moscow region, USA, New York, Moscow
Summer, Winter