"Righteous"
The painting by Sergei Ursulyak tells about the heroic deed of the Soviet political officer, who saved more than 200 Jews from death.
The plot is based on real events.
In 1942, Nikolai Kiselyov and five other partisans took 218 old people, women and children to the front line from the occupied territory of Belarus - the Dolginovsky ghetto.
In total, the group pursued by the Nazis covered 1,500 km.
In 2005, in Israel, Kiselyov was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
The script was written by Gennady Ostrovsky based on archival records and eyewitness accounts.
He was also inspired by the documentary Kiselyov's List.
Rescued from Hell” and the book “March of Life.
How Dolginov's Jews were Saved.
While working on the painting, its authors traveled to the Holocaust Museum in Minsk and to the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Complex Yad Vashem.
"Righteous" is not just a story about the Holocaust, not just a story about the war.
It has a piercing note of the connection of times and the commonality of generations, - says Sergey Ursulyak about the tape.
“This is a film about a man who does what he has to do.”
In the original script, the story was five hours long, but it had to be significantly cut.
The main role was played by Alexander Yatsenko.
Together with him, Evgeny Tkachuk, Sergey Makovetsky, Mark Eidelstein, Konstantin Khabensky, Fedor Dobronravov, Lyubov Konstantinova and others starred in the film.
About 400 actors were involved in the mass scenes.
It was important for the director that the shooting took place where real events unfolded, so the team worked in Belarus, Russia and Israel.
However, the production designer Yevgeny Kachanov had to come up with a ghetto, since almost no documentary photographs survived.
The film is in theaters from February 16th.
"After Yang" (After Yang)
Husband and wife Jake and Kira acquire a human-shaped android robot Yang to help their adopted daughter stay rooted.
The robot became practically a member of the android family, once it failed.
There is no warranty on it, because it was bought from hand.
Jake independently takes on the repair of the robot and finds in his memory memories not only of his family, but also of the previous owners.
The director was Kogonada, who previously worked on the Columbus and Road of a Thousand Li projects.
The plot was based on the story of Alexander Weinstein, published in the book "Children of the New World".
According to Kogonada, the film is the reflection of an ethnic Korean who grew up in the States about finding his place in the world.
“After all, we, representatives of the Diaspora, are stuck between two worlds.
We're always wondering if I'm Asian enough or American enough.
At the same time, your life is riddled with deep anxiety.
So at the center of this film is an attempt to comprehend the concept of belonging to Asian culture and find your place in the world,” Kogonada told Vogue.
The central roles were played by Colin Farrell, Jody Turner-Smith and Justin H. Min.
According to Farrell, the tape demanded maximum sincerity from the actors.
“After reading the script, I felt that telling the story honestly would require us to be as open as possible.
She deeply touched me, so I worried.
After watching Columbus and feeling how thoughtful, calm and measured director Kogonada is, I felt that After Young will reveal the essence of each of us - both as people and as actors, ”said Colin Farrell.
The tape was first presented in July 2021 in the Un Certain Regard program of the Cannes Film Festival, and it can be seen on the screens of Russian cinemas from February 16.
The film has a 90% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
"My Pirate Wedding" (Shotgun Wedding)
Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) feels discomfort from the excessive attention from the relatives of her future husband Tom (Josh Duhamel).
His mother (Jennifer Coolidge) brazenly bursts into the couple's bedroom and presents a knife as a gift.
However, this is not all - pirates appear after the former lover of the bride (Lenny Kravitz) at the wedding, which takes place on a small island.
On their most important day, Darcy and Tom have to leave thoughts of a luxurious wedding and save all their relatives.
“The moral of this story is that sometimes you need pirates to try to take advantage of your wedding in order to actually understand what the essence of your love is,” says Duhamel.
According to Mark Hammer, he wrote the script for the film while preparing for his own wedding.
“I hardly could have written this script without living it all myself.
I would not have felt for myself how exciting the preparations for the wedding are.
The choice of the person with whom you will spend the rest of your days is by far the most important decision in life.
Marriage is the first major test of a relationship and you go through it in front of everyone you know and love,” he told The Writing Studio.
Critic Matt Seitz described the film as a "chocolate-covered cherry with liquor" as it begins as a good "glossy comedy" and gradually transforms into an action-comedy with chases, hostage-taking, and the transformation of the bride and groom into gun fighters.
In theaters February 14th.
"Naughty"
In the center of the plot of the erotic drama is the future ecologist Elya (Asya Reznik), who opposes the construction of a high-rise building on the territory of a forest park.
The head of a construction company, Matvey (Alexander Petrov), talks about his project to students, and Elya humiliates him in front of everyone.
Matvey is impressed by such self-confidence and he offers the girl a bet - if he manages to win her heart in seven days, then he will refuse construction.
The project was directed by Dmitry Suvorov ("One", "All or Nothing"), he also wrote the script together with Fedor Derevyansky.
“This is a kind of non-standard and very frank reading of Cinderella.
We have assembled a great team that is not afraid to experiment with new solutions.
Sasha Petrov and Asya Reznik will appear in new, unusual images for themselves, ”TV Mag quotes Suvorov.
The film is released on February 14th.
"Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey)
As soon as Disney's 95-year exclusive rights to Alan Milne's first Pooh Bear novel expired in January 2022, director, screenwriter and producer Rhys Frake-Waterfield took on a horror film adaptation featuring the well-known character.
The action of the tape takes place in the Hundred Acre Forest.
After the betrayal of Christopher Robins, who, having matured, goes to college, Pooh and Piglet indulge in all serious and begin to exterminate people.
Freak-Waterfield's use of characters from the classic children's work as slasher heroes was not appreciated by everyone.
Some fans of the original story wrote letters and frankly told the director that he ruined their childhood dreams.
According to the director, when working on the project, he started from two genres - horror and comedy.
“When you try to make this kind of film with such a bizarre idea at its core, it’s very easy to create something that doesn’t have a single scary moment at all, but only ridiculous and stupid ones.
And we tried to navigate between the two poles, ”said the director.
Filming took only 10 days in England near Ashdown Forest, which served as the inspiration for the Hundred Acre Forest in Milne's original work.
Tape in the Russian box office from February 16.
"Alone Together" (Alone Together)
Also on Valentine's Day
Melodrama Katie Holmes "Alone Together" is released.
The actress played the main role in it and wrote the script.
She conceived the project during the pandemic to “bring a sense of joy and optimism to history at a time of great fear and loss.”
“I found it important to show the true story of what happened: life in New York seemed to be in full swing, and then suddenly there was a total lockdown - it’s just impossible to believe that something like this could happen so quickly to a city that gives so much joy and light,” Holmes said. in an interview with Film International.
In the center of the plot is the culinary critic Jun.
She decides to move to the suburbs with her lover to wait out the pandemic there.
But in a rented house, instead of her young man, who suddenly decided to stay with his parents, the heroine discovers another guy.
At first, their communication does not go well, but gradually they get to know each other better and at the same time discover something new in themselves.
The characters find themselves in funny and awkward situations, have philosophical conversations about destinies and priorities, and both of them are rethinking life values.