Flight 222

Name: Flight 222
Director: Sergey Mikaelyan
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Released: 1986-02-17
Rating: 4.9
Cast: Larisa Polyakova, Nikolai Kochnev, Nikolai Alyoshin, Aleksandr Babanov, Yevgeni Yakhontov

A young married couple from Soviet Union - ice skater and a professional athlete - both are in New York. He is asking for asylum - so his wife must make a choice: return home or stay with her husband. Based on real events.