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In the 2005 movie Lord of War, the main character Yuri Orlov, played by Nicolas Cage, commonly uses an Antonov An-12 to transport weapons, and is later said to have "a fleet" of such planes. Andrew Niccol, the director of Lord of War, stated that they actually used one of Viktor Bout's An-12 aircraft in the movie. The plane was used in the 2009 movie Whiteout.
In the novel Down to a Sunless Sea, a stolen Antonov brings civilian refugees to Lajes Air Force Base. In the movie 2012, Noah announces that an Antonov is a big plane, to which Yuri Karpov proudly replies, "it's Russian."
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