A Dog Named Palma (Russian: Пальма) is a 2021 Russian children's drama film directed by Aleksandr Domogarov Jr., based on real events that took place in 1974-1976 at the Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport.

It was released theatrically on March 18, 2021 by Central Partnership.

In 1977 Soviet Union, the owner of a German Shepherd named Palma flies abroad. But Palma hides at the airport and waits for her owner. She meets a boy named Kolya Lazarev, who has lost his mother, and they become best friends.^[3]

• Viktor Dobronravov as Vyacheslav Lazarev, an aircraft commander
• Liliya (German Shepherd) as Palma
• Leonid Basov as Kolya Lazarev, a boy
• Vladimir Ilyin as Sergey Tikhonov, an airport technician, Nina Tikhonova's father
• Valeriya Fedorovich as Nina Tikhonova, a stewardess, Sergey Tikhonov's daughter
• Evgeniya Dmitrieva as Lyubov Zhurina, head of the flight squad of OJSC "Soviet Aeroflot"
• Igor Khripunov as Evgeny Golikov, head of the Soviet Security Service
• Pavel Maykov as Georgy Krasilov, co-pilot
• Vladimir Simonov as Ivan Lysko
• Yan Tsapnik as Igor Polsky, owner of the shepherd Palma
• Filipp Savinkov as Kravchenko, a male flight attendant
• Darya Luzina as Anna, a flight attendant
• Elena Anisimova as Raisa Semenovna, an aviation cashier
• Bain Bovaldinov as Fedya, a policeman

In 1976 the Komsomol Truth published an article about this called Waiting for Two Years, written by Yuri Rost, in 1988, based on the article, a feature film was made Tethered to the Runway (ru), directed by Vladimir Khmelnitsky.^[4]

The Russian premiere of the film took place on March 18, 2021 by Central Partnership.