On Tuesday, December 6, the Cinema Fund hosted a face-to-face defense of national films.
The leaders of domestic film production presented their projects.
Nikita Mikhalkov's company TRITE, together with Soyuzmultfilm, is preparing an art project called The Bremen Town Musicians, a musical road movie for a family audience based on the 1973 cartoon of the same name.
At the same time, according to the producer of the project Leonid Vereshchagin, there will be new storylines in the film.
For example, in the game tape you can see the childhood of the Troubadour and his family.
In addition, the hero will travel to the ends of the Earth.
The scenery for the picture will be built in Moscow.
Filming will also take place in Abkhazia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Dagestan and other places.
The songs of Gennady Gladkov in modern processing were chosen as musical accompaniment.
The director will be Alexei Nuzhny, who has directed such films as "Fire" and "I'm losing weight."
Tikhon Zhiznevsky (Troubadour), Yura Borisov (rooster), Dmitry Dyuzhev (donkey), Irina Gorbacheva (cat), Konstantin Khabensky (detective), as well as Sergei Burunov (king) and Maria Aronova (ataman) were chosen as the performers of the central roles.
When creating images, plastic makeup and animatronics will be used.
The Art Pictures Studio film company is working on the third part of the Ice film.
The first part of the franchise was released in 2018 and became one of the most popular Russian films of the year.
The film was directed by Oleg Trofim, and the screenwriters were Andrey Zolotarev and Oleg Malovichko.
The second part was directed by Zhora Kryzhovnikov, he also wrote the script together with Zolotarev.
In both tapes, the main roles were played by Aglaya Tarasova and Alexander Petrov.
Who will take on the third part is not yet reported, but Zolotarev and Malovichko will return to the project.
The exact release date of the picture is not named, presumably it is February 2024.
© Shot from the film "Went"
The Yellow, Black and White TV company presented two films at once: “The First Hero” and “The Traveler”.
The First Hero is a new project within the cinematic universe of The Last Hero.
The production budget is 980 million, currently the producers are asking for 50% of this amount.
The film is planned to be released in Russia on January 1, 2025 with further access to the international market - the countries of Asia, North Africa and the Middle East.
The plot of the picture revolves around the famous hero of Belogorye - Finist Yasna the falcon, who dreams of going to the ends of the world to save a beautiful woman from imprisonment and fight the monster guarding the tower.
The filming of "Running Girl" was completed in the fall of 2022.
In total, 193 million rubles were spent on production.
In addition, filmmakers are asking for 50 million rubles.
The picture is in the post-production stage.
The director's chair was taken by Anton Maslov, who worked on the series Vampires of the Middle Band, Hotel Eleon and The Roof of the World.
Maria Maslova, Friederike Brin, Tatyana Goncharova, Svetlana Shteba and Nzhde Hayrapetyan worked on the script.
The central roles were played by Olga Lerman, Viktor Khorinyak, Elena Yakovleva, Dmitry Chebotarev and other actors.
Particular attention in the melodrama will be given to the cultural diversity of Russia.
In the center of the plot is Anya Smolina, who is not going well.
She decides to change her life and, in the company of her beloved dog Capa, travels from the metropolis to reconcile with her mother in Magadan ... on a bicycle.
On the way, the girl realizes that she is completely unprepared for road tests and her legs worn into the blood, but this will not stop her.
“It is very important for me to show the flavor of Russia.
A mosaic of cultures and people.
We shoot the film in incredible places: in Bashkiria and Altai, in Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, in Moscow.
And we’ll finish in Baikal, ”the Vokrug TV portal quotes the director.
The premiere is scheduled for March 8, 2023.
The Hydrogen film company is working on a science fiction film for children “A Hundred Years Ahead” by Alexander Andryushchenko.
The project was based on the story of the same name by Kira Bulychev, based on which the television series “Guest from the Future” was filmed in 1984.
The story revolves around teenager Kolya Gerasimov playing video games, listening to rap and caring little about what happens next.
By the will of fate, he finds himself in the future, where earthlings and their allies won the intergalactic struggle.
But the opponents do not intend to give up and are preparing a new attack.
To win, they need to change the course of time.
They use Kolya, which serves as a kind of portal for them to travel through time.
The script for the film was written by Andrey Zolotarev, Ksenia Miroshnik and Alexander Andryushchenko himself.
Starring Konstantin Khabensky and Victoria Isakova.
The premiere will take place in December 2023.
The tape "Love of the Soviet Union", also known as "Love Story", was presented by the "Directorate of Cinema".
The film is a kind of rethinking of the history of the USSR, where there is no revolution and civil war, but only brave and energetic citizens living in harmony and love.
The cinematic world in some places echoes the difficult reality.
The authors of the tape expect that it will help the audience survive and accept one of the most difficult periods in Russian history.
The director will be Dmitry Iosifov ("Elizabeth").
More than four thousand extras are involved in the film.
Thousands of costumes in the style of Soviet art deco and constructivism were used to work out the appearance of people of that time.
Earlier, the authors of the tape announced a budget of 200 million rubles, the requested amount is 100 million rubles.
© Shot from the film "Woland"
Mars Media presented the historical drama Ashes.
The director and screenwriter is Alexei Sidorov.
Most of the T-34 team is working on the film.
Among the references are “Survivor” and “At home among strangers, a stranger among our own”.
The plot is based on Jack London's story "The End of the Tale".
The action takes place in 1919 in Western Siberia.
The White Guards kidnap an excellent doctor from the "Reds", who must cure their wounded commander.
Having met with the patient, the doctor realizes that it was to this commander that his wife left him.
He agrees to treat a seriously wounded soldier on the condition that his wife returns.
The outbreak of the Civil War intervenes in the fate of the heroes of the love triangle.
The authors of the project see Alexander Petrov, Yulia Khlynina, Viktor Dobronravov, and Milos Bikovich as the performers of the central roles.
The film's budget is more than 1 billion rubles.
Filming is expected to end in May 2024.
The previously announced Woland film based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita was also presented.
Producers Ruben Dishdishyan and Yulia Ivanova noted that the main shooting of the project has already been completed, it remains to finish the bible block.
Currently, active work is underway on editing and computer graphics.
Scenes in Yershalaim can be filmed in Turkey or Croatia.
The roles are played by August Diehl, Yulia Snigir, Evgeny Tsyganov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Alexander Yatsenko, Leonid Yarmolnik.
At the last pitching, which took place in the summer, the authors of the tape requested the amount of 300 million rubles, in addition to the previously received 500 million, but they were refused.
This time the filmmakers are asking for the same amount.
It is planned to complete the work on the project in May 2023.
The film company "STV" presented the film "Flint" about the inhabitants of the fairy kingdom.
According to the story, a soldier accidentally finds a magic flint in which a little girl Dasha is locked.
She was kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Likhodey.
To free the girl and dispel the spell of the evil magician, the hero will have to go on a dangerous journey.
According to the producers, the picture has nothing to do with Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
The team of the tape "By Pike" is working on the project.
Filming is scheduled to start in late summer/early autumn 2023.
Like in The Bremen Town Musicians, plastic make-up will be used in Flint.
Another fabulous work is planned to be released by Central Partnership.
The Wizard of Oz will begin production in April 2023.
The company is also working on the musical The Prophet, a biopic about Alexander Pushkin.
The script has already been written and filming is underway.
Real historical objects, as well as specially built pavilions, will be used as scenery.
A distinctive feature of the picture will be modernized costumes.
Yura Borisov will play the main role, and Anton Lapenko will play one of Pushkin's friends.
The filming period will take 4.5 months.
During this time, filmmakers plan to cover the main points of the poet's biography: his arrival in St. Petersburg, admission to the lyceum, acquaintance with Natalia Goncharova and other significant events.
In the tape you can hear modern pop music and rap.