Fly Away Home (German: Maikäfer flieg) is a 2016 Austrian drama film directed by Miriam Unger based on the biographical novel by Christine Nöstlinger.

[2][3] In Vienna during the end of the Second World War, the house of the Nöstlingers in Hernals is hit during air raids and is badly damaged.

The mother of eight-year-old Christine therefore accepts the offer of Mrs. von Braun, the widow of a National Socialist, to move with her two daughters to a villa in Neuwaldegg, while the grandparents stay in the bombed apartment.

While most are afraid of the soldiers with their unpredictable nature and their constant drunkenness, Christine befriends the Russian field cook Cohn.

[4] Konstantin Khabensky had to learn his lines phonetically for his German speaking role as he did not know the language.