Film adaptations of true stories have always held a very special fascination. Whether it’s a farewell to a hero or a portrait of a serial killer: the emotional rollercoaster ride shifts up two or three gears in real-life films when you know that all of this actually happened in one way or another, people that really experienced. That’s exactly what “The One – The Only Survivor” by Dmitriy Suvorov (“Mission: Arctic”) feed. Because the Russian mix of disaster thriller and survival adventure is based on events that really happened. And they are truly so unbelievable that you get sweaty hands just thinking about them.
Can the filming keep up with your own imagination? This is exactly what you can see for yourself from now on. Then The One will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 20, 2022. Alternatively, you can already buy the film digitally (and watch it immediately), and you can rent it as a video-on-demand from Thursday.
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We haven’t seen the film (yet), but we dare to say one thing already: If you’re already having trouble boarding a plane, it’s probably better not to get on board here…
As the German subtitle of “The One” already makes clear, the film revolves around the sole survivor of a devastating accident that took place in Russia – or rather in Russian airspace – in 1981.
Newly married Larisa Savitskaya (played by Nadezhda Kaleganova in the film) and her husband have just spent their honeymoon in the Siberian taiga and are now on their way back home when it happens: the plane they are flying back on collides in over 5 thousand meters high with another machine. While her husband dies immediately, Larissa not only survives the crash, but also a crash landing in the middle of the Russian wilderness – from which she first has to find a way back to civilization. But how far will the seriously injured woman get before she gives up her last strength?
Back then, the real Larissa Savizkaja probably never would have expected that her story would ever be made into a film. After all, the Soviet government imposed the strictest secrecy about the incident. For two decades, the woman was not allowed to comment on it. Today, however, not only is their unique story world-famous, but also some details about what happened after the accident:
Savitskaya, who was only found by rescue workers three days after the crash, received two entries in the Guinness Book of Records – although she probably would have preferred not to have one. Not only is she the only Russian woman to have ever survived a plane collision, but she also received the lowest compensation possible for an accident: a ridiculous 75 rubles. Savitskaya has not received any other government support, be it financial or personal.
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