EAST EUROPEAN LISTINGS -November 16

RUSSIA

PRE-PRODUCTION

BLIND-MAN'S-BUFF(ZMURKI)
(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Comedy. Prod: Sergei Selyanov.Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Scr: Stas Mohnachev, Alexei Balabanov. Cost des: TatyanaPatrahaltseva. Main cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexei Panin, Dmitry Duzev, SergeiMakovetskiy, Victor Suhorukov.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817

ESCAPE (POBEG)
(Central Partnership) Action.Eugenii is accused of murdering his own wife. He escapes from the prison toprove his innocence and find the real murderer. Prod: Ruben Dishdishyan. Dir:Egor Konchalovsky. Scr: Sergey Astakhov, Dmitriy Kotov, Oleg Pogodyn. DoP:Anton Antonov. Cast: Eugeniy Mironov.
Contact: Aram Movsesyan, Central Partnership, (7) 095 777 4961

FELINE (KOSHKA)
(RS-TV Studio). Co-prod: Mosfilm.Love story. Boy leaves girl and she tries to get him back at any price. Shegoes through all the stages of love: happiness, jealousy, hatred, thirst forrevenge but in the end she realizes that she is happy just because her manexists in this world. Prod: Yuri Morozov. Dir: Yuri Morozov, AleksanderKarpilovsky. Scr: Zoya Kudrya, Yuri Morozov.
Contact: Svetlana Frichinskaya, Mosfilm, (7) 095 143 9500

THE FINAL JOURNEY(POSLEDNEE PUTESHESTVIE)
(SOKOL). Co-prod: VIDEFCO (US).Budget: $70m. Drama about the last cosmonaut who refuses to leave the spacestation and starts transmitting global messages pleading for world peace, basedon the novel by Chingiz Aimatov's The Mark of Cassandra. Prod: John Daly. Dir:Yury Kara. Cast: Vladimir Steklov.
Contact: Yury Kara, SOKOL, (7) 095 745 8810

THE HOUSE (DOM)
(Rock Film Studio) Drama based onthe true story of young women who were sent to brothels in the Northern regionsof Russia to entertain the allied army that guarded polar convoys and werekilled by Russian military afterwards. Dir: Alexey Uchitel. Scr: AlexanderRogozhkin, Gregory Markett, Dunya Smirnova.
Contact: Alexei Uchitel (7) 095 433 67 78

IN THE SEA AND INHEAVEN (V MORE I NA NEBESAKH)
(Rock Film Studio) Drama based on atrue story set in a Russian seaport where a simple-hearted cook helped anordinary Russian worker pretending to be a Russian astronaut carrying out asecret mission, to leave the Soviet Union. Prods: Alexei Uchitel, Alexander Golutva.Dir: Alexey Uchitel.
Contact: Alexei Uchitel (7) 095 433 67 78

MONGOL
(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Epic saga about the unknown period of the life of Genghis Khan. Prod:Sergei Selyanov, Sergei Bodrov. Dir: Sergei Bodrov. Scr: Sergei Bodrov, ArifAlyev.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817

POINT OF HONOUR (DELOCHESTI)
(Soyuz Studio). Romantic story abouta 40-year-old Russian emigrant who returns to Russia for the first time and isdisappointed by what he finds. Prod: Elena Plyasunova. Dir: Fedor Petrukhin.
Contact: Dmitry Zaitsev, Soyuz Studio, (7) 095 147 2310

RED WATER (KRASNAYAVODA)
(Top Film Studio) Mystic film abouta Russian race-driver. Prods: Sergei Gribkov, Vladimir Truschenkov, NikolaiFomenko. Dir: Dmitry Cherkasov. Scr: Oleg Antonov. Main cast: Nikolai Fomenko,Stefan Ortelli. Shooting in Belgium, Italy in February/March 2005.
Contact: Top Line Production Yelena Hvan (7) 095 952 22 11

SHIKOTAN. THE BESTPLACE (SHIKOTAN LUCHSHEE MESTO)
(Slovo Production Company). Co-prod:Dinoteriun-film. Budget: $2.5mn. Romantic drama with elements of detectivestory. Prod: Yelena Yatsoura.: Vlad Lanne. Scr: Igor Kopylov, Vlad Lanne. Cast:Ksenya Rappoport, Igor Lifanov.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

SOLDIER OF THE RING(SOLDAT KOLTSA)
(Studio S) Co-prod: Gorky StudioS.Budget: $490,000. Thriller about Russian national junior kick-boxing team.Prods: Nikolai Stambula, Pyotr Chernayev. Dir: Nikolai Stambula. Scr: NikolaiStambula, Irina Tischenko.
Contact: Pyotr Chernayev (7) 095 912 3178

SPAN (PEREGON)
(STV Film Company). War drama. Astory about the pilots' life during WW-II. Prod: Sergei Selyanov. Dir/Scr:Alexander Rogozhkin. DoP: Andrei Zhegalov
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817

SUPERMAN FOR A DAY(SUPERMAN NA ODIN DEN')
(Gorky Film Studio). Backer: RussianMinistry of Culture. Drama about the first working day of a young TVjournalist. Dir: Vasily Fenin Scr: Vasily Fenin
Contact: Valery Kozlov, Gorky Film Studio, (7) 095 181 0325

THE TRUTH ABOUTSCHELPS (PRAVDA O SCHELPAKH)
(Workshop of the First ExperimentalFilm) Co prod: Lenfilm Studio. A parable about fairy-tale creatures calledschelps. Dir: Alexei Muradov
Contact: Alexander Pozdnyakov, Lenfilm Studio, (7) 812 326 8224

IN PRODUCTION

ALYOSHA POPOVICH ANDTUGARIN ZMEI
(STV Film Company, MELNITSAAnimation Company). Dist: Nashe Kino. animated fairy-tale. Aloysha and hisfriends fight against Tugarin Zmei to defend Russian land and return stolengold. ProdS: Alexander Boyarsky, Sergei Sel'yanov. Dir: Konstantin Bronsit.Scr: Maxim Sveshnikov.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817

THE AMERICAN(AMERIKANETS)
(STV Film Company, Tartan Films)Dist: Group "Nashe Kino". Thriller/Drama. The story brings together in Siberiathree people: a bankrupt American broker, an escaped Russian prisoner and hissister, a modest school teacher. Prods: Sergey Selyanov, Hamish McAlpine. Dir:Alexei Balabanov. DoP: Sergei Astakhov. Hair/make-up: Nadezhda Vasilieva,Natalia Krymskaya. Cast: Michael Biehn, Alexei Chadov, Irina Nizina, ValeryTodorovsky, Victor Soukhoroukov. Shooting from1 November 2003 in New York andSiberia.
Contact Camilla Summers/David Freed, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400

THE ANCESTOR'S CHEST(SUNDUK PREDKOV)
Kinoglaz and Pygmaliaon, L&PProd Factory, Mact (Fr), Thoke & moebius Film (Ger) , Sanzhyra (Kir).romantic melodrama. Prods: Evgenia Tirdatova, Sergei Khovenko, Dmitry Efremov,Antoine de Clermont-Tonnere, Christoph Thoke, Axel Moebius. Dir: Nurbek Egen.Script Ekaterina Tirdatova. DoP: Dmitry Ermakov. Main cast: Natacha Regnier,Bolot Tentimyshov. Shooting in Issyk-kul lake (Kirghizia).
Contact: Evgenia Tirdatova (7) 095 205 06 58

BIDEPALISM(PRYAMOHOZDENIE)
(STV Film Company, NIKOLA FilmCompany) Backer: Hubert Bals Fund. Fantasy about a mad investigator. Prod: Igor Kalenov, Sergei Sel'yanov. Dir/scr:Eugene Ufit.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817

BUMER-2 (BIMMER-2)
(STV Film Company, Pygmalion Prod)Dist: Nashe Kino. Criminal drama. Prods: Sergei Selyanov, Sergei Chlyants. Dir:Pyotr Buslov. Scr: Denis Rodimin, Pyotr Buslov. Main cast: Svetlana Ustinova,Vladimir Vdovichenkov. Shooting from 19 Sept 2004.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817

CONTACT (KONTAKT)
(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Fantasy. A young boy withabnormal talents falls in love with a girl whom he sees through the window.Prod: Sergei Selyanov. Dir: Andrei Novosyolov. Scr: Irina Borodulina. DoP:Sergei Mikhalchuk. Cast: Vera Voronkova, Tatiana Peshkova, Dmitry Yermolov,Victor Konisevich.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817

DAY WATCH (NOCHNOIDOZOR 2)
(Channel One Russia, TABBAK,Bazelevs Production) Int'l sales: Fox Searchlight Pictures. Dist: Gemini FilmInternational (Russia), Fox Searchlight Pictures (USA). Mystic thriller. Thetale of age-old confrontation between Light and Darkness continues in thissequel to the first Russian blockbuster. This time the action takes place in CentralAsia as well as in Moscow. Exec prods: Alexey Kublitsky, Varvara Avdyushko.Prods: Anatoly Maximov, Konstantin Ernst. Dir: Timour Bekmambetov. Scr: SergeyLukianenko, Timur Bekmambetov. Main cast: Konstantin Khabensky, VladimirMenshov, Maria Poroshina, Galina Tyunina, Alexey Chadov. Shooting in Moscow,St. Petersburg, Torzok and the Middle East from 2002 until 2004.
Contact: Oleg Goryachev, ORT, (7) 095 217 82 88

FIGHT WITH THE SHADOW(BOI S TENIU)
(Shaman Pictures) Action movie.Artyom, a famous boxer, has three days to solve all his problems: Save hisgirlfriend, punish people who betrayed him and collect a huge sum of money.Prod: Ruben Dishdishyan. Dir/Scr: Alexei Sidorov. DoP; Yuri Raysky. Cast: DenisNikiforov, Elena Panova, Andrei Panin, Pavel Derevyanko, John Amos.
Contact: Ruben Dishdishyan, Shaman Pictures, (7) 095 777 4961

HOTTABYCH
(STV Film Company, Uplink Co(Japan)). Dist: Nashe Kino. Internet comedy. Dir/scr: Pyotr Tochilin.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817

I WILL COME TOMORROW(YA PRIDU ZAVTRA)
(Angel Film). Co-prod: State Fund(Kanada), George Marshalk (France). Budget: $11m. Drama set in Paris in 1936.Russian emigrant is followed by nightmares about killing a man during the war.One day he finds a book in which this story is described by the dead person.Dir: Alexander Atanessyan. Scr: Vitaly Gulmassyan. Shooting from September,2003.
Contact: Alexander Atanessyan, Angel Film, (7) 095 923 7475

IT IS DIFFICULT TO BEGOD (TRUDNO BYT' BOGOM)
(Sever Studio). Co-prod: LenfilmStudio. Backer: Ministry of Culture. A fantasy based on the novel by Sovietfantasist Boris Strugatsky. Prod: Victor Izvekov. Dir: Alexei German. Scr:Alexei German, Svetlana Karmalita. DoP: Yuri Klimenko, Vladimir Ilyin. ProdDes: Georgy Kropachev. Cast: Leonid Yarmolnik, Yury Tsurilo, Alexander Ilyin,Laura Pitskhelauri, Petr Merkuryev. Shooting in Russia and Czech Republic.
Contact: Victor Izvekov (7) 812 326 8558

THE KUKOTSKY CASE(KAZUS KUKOTSKOGO)
(YUG Studio).A Soviet physician has a special gift - he can see the insidesof his patients. Dir: Yury Grymov. Scr: Dmitry Kotov. Cost des: Masha Danilova.Main cast: Yury Tsurilo, Yelena Drobysheva, Chulpan Khamatova, Karen Badalov.Shooting in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Sochi, the Canary Islands.
Contact: Marina Kalinkina, Yug Studio, (7) 095 954 55 91

LAST TRAIN FROMROPPONGA (POSLEDNII POEZD SO STANCII ROPPONGI)
(STV Film Company, Uplink Co [Jap])Dist: Nashe Kino. Drama about life of Russian girls who happen to come to Japanin the beginning of the 1990s to entertain Japanese men at karaoke clubs. Prod:Sergei Selyanov. Dir/scr: Vera Svechina. DoP: Sergei Astakhov, Ed Lokman. Maincast: Tatiana Peshkova, Maria Kurkova, Olga Karpovich, Andrei Merzlikin, AlexeiChadov. Shooting until February 2005.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817

MAMA, DON'T GRIEVE-2(MAMA, NE GORUI-2)
(STV Film Company) Dist: NasheKino. Prod: Sergei Sel'yanov. Dir:Maxim Pezemsky. Scr: Maxim Pezemsky, Konstantin Murzenko. Main cast: AndreiPanin, Gosha Kutsenko, Evgeniy Sidihin, Alexander Bashirov. Shooting untilApril 2005.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817

MIRROR WARS (Su-XX)
(Kremlin Films) Budget: $10m. BackerSukhoi Aircraft. Dir: Vasily Chiginsky. Scr: Oleg Kapanets. Cast: MalcolmMacDowell, Rutger Hauer, Armand Assante, Valery Nikolaev, Alexander Yefimov.Intrigue surrounds the production of a new Russian made Sukhoi fighter jet andinvolves competing agents from the CIA, FSB and Chinese intelligence. Shootingfrom August in Moscow and at Mosfilm Studios.
Contact: Kremlin Films. Oleg Kapanets, (7) 095 143 9118

NINTH LEGION(DEVYATAYA ROTA)
(Slovo Production Company) Co-prod:Art Pictures Group; Matila Roehr Productions (MRP) Finland. Budget $3.3m. Youngdraftees in the Afghan war. Prods: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Victor Glukhov, SergeyMelkumov, Stepan Mikhalkov, Yelena Yatsoura. Dir: Fyodor Bondarchuk. Scr: YuriKorotkov. DoP: Maxim Osadchy. Prod des: Yekaterina Zaletaeva. Cast: MikhailPorechenkov, Nikolai Fomenko, Fyodor Bondarchuk. Shooting from June 2004 inMoscow, Tadzikstan and Ukraine.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

PETER FM (PITER FM)
(IGOR TOLSTUNOV Production Group,STS TV Channel) Lyrical love story about the youth of our days, their life andvalues. Exec prods: Igor Tolstunov, Alexander Rodnyansky. Prod: Elena Glickman.Dir: Oksana Bychkova. Scr: Nana Grinshtein, Oksana Bychkova. Ed: Anna Gudkova.Main cast: Ekaterina Fedulova, Eugine Tsyganov, Alexei Barabash, Natalia Reva, VladimirMashkov. Shooting in St. Petersburg from the July 2004.
Contact: Svetlana Peshehonova, TV Movi,e (7) 095 916 93 49

SOLDIER'S DEKAMERON(SOLDATSKII DEKAMERON)
(PROTEL Film Company) Exec prod:Igor Tostunov. Prod: Sergei Kozlov. Dir: Andrei Proshkin. Scr: GennadyOstrovsky. Ed: Irina Yashina. Main cast: Alexei Shevchenko, Maria Zvonareva,Daria Ekamasova, Victor Soloviev, Igor Teplov. Shooting in Kirzach (Russia)from Oct 9 until Dec 10, 2004.
Contact: Svetlana Peshehonova, TV Movie (7) 095 916 93 49

SOVIET PARK (PARKSOVETSKOGO PERIODA)
(Slovo Production Company). Aparable about a young journalist who gets a chance to live in a park where theSoviet era is reproduced in ideal form. Dir: Yuly Gusman. Scr: Eduard Akopov,Yuly Gusman. Main cast: Alexander Lasarev, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina, VladimirDolinsky. Shooting in Moscow, Sochi.
Contact: Elena Yatsoura (Slovo Production Company), (7) 095 143 9160

STARLEY, VICTORY ANDSPRING (STARLEY, POBEDA I VESNA)
(TV Movie) Patriotic fairy-tale.Exec prod: Igor Tolstunov. Prod: Eugine Gindilis. Dir: Marat Rafikov, IlyaRubinshtein. Scr: Ilya Rubinshtein. Ed: Anna Kagarlitskaya, Yulia Velikanova.Cost des: Regina Homskaya. Main cast: Andrei Kuzichev, Victoria Tolstoganova,Andrei Merzlikin, Irina Rosanova, Larisa Luzina. Shooting in Moscow and theKislovodsk area.
Contact: Svetlana Peshehonova, TV Movie, (7) 095 916 93 49

THE SUN (SOLNTCE)
(Lenfilm Studio). Drama about lifeof the Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Dir: Alexander Sokurov. Scr: AlexanderSokurov. Main cast: Richard Dawson. Shooting in St.Petersburg, Tokyo from May2004.
Contact: Alexander Pozdnyakov, Lenfilm Studio, (7) 812 326 8224

WOLFHOUND (VOLKODAV)
(Central Partnership) Budget: $ 8m.Fantasy. Adaptation of the fantasy novel by Maria Semenova. Prod: RubenDishdishyan, Urii Moroz. Dir/scr: Nikolay Lebedev. DoP: Sergey Kozlov. Maincast: Alexandr Bukharov, Igor Petrenko, Alexandr Domogarov, Natalia Varley.
Contact: Aram Movsesyan, Central Partnership, (7) 095 777-4961

YESENIN'S MURDER(UBIYSTVO YESENINA)
(Pro Cinema Prod, Channel OneRussia) Detective drama. Prods: Anatoly Maximov, Konstantin Ernst. Dir: IgorZaitsev. Scr: Vladimir Valutsky. Main cast: Sergey Bezrukov, Sean Young,Alexander Mikhailov, Irina Apeximova, Alexander Lykov, Gosha Kutsenko. Shootingin Moscow, Odessa, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl region, Prague, Venice from August2004 until January 2005.
Contact: Oleg Goryachev, ORT, (7) 095 217 82 88

POST-PRODUCTION

THE AMPHIBIAN MAN(CHELOVEK-AMFIBIYA)
(Angel Film). Co-prod: DK Videofilm.Int'l sales: RTR. Dist (Russia): RTR. A fantasy movie about a man who has gillsand lives under the sea. Exec prod: Valery Todorovsky. Prods: Leonid Zagalsky,Arsen Gotlib. Dir: Alexander Atanessyan. DoP: Ugulbek Khamrayev. Shot from 20March, 2003 till 8 May, 2003 in Cuba.
Contact: Alexander Atanessyan, Angel Film (7) 095 921 2698

AND THEY WOKE UP INTHE MORNING (A PO UTRU ONI PROSNULIS)
(Kinosphera Company) Co prod:Mosfilm Studio. Prod: V Malysheva. Dir: Sergei Nikonenko.
Contact: Svetlana Frichinskaya, Mosfilm, (7) 095 143 9500

ANNA
(RITM Kino-Tele Studio). Backer:Federal Cultural and Cinematography Agency. Musical melodrama. Prod: YuryKushnerev. Dir: Ginzburg Eugene. Scr: Georgy Daneliya, Rustam Ibragimbekov.Main cast: Lubov Kazarnovskaya, Pavel Derevyanko, Tatyana Kravchenko, JuliaRudberg.
Contact: Vera Vladimirovna, RITM, (7) 095 143 93 25

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE(MYS DOBROI NADEZDY)
(Slovo, Channel One Russia) Detective drama. Exec prod: Sergei Melkumov.Prods: Anatoly Maximov, Konstantin Ernst. Dir: Dmitriy Iosifov. Scr: AndreyKivinov, Oleg Dudintsev, Gennadiy Ostrovsky. Main cast: Konstantin Khabensky,Mikhail Porechenkov, Bogdan Stupka, Andrey Fedortsev, Gosha Kutsenko, SergeyVeksler.
Contact: Oleg Goryachev, ORT, (7) 095 217 82 88

FOUR (CHETYRE)
(Filmocom) Budget: $600,000. Dist:Non Stop Prod. Drama about young people who want to preserve their identitiesin the world of mass produced relationships. Prod: Yelena Yatsoura. Dir: IlyaKhrjanovsky. Scr: Vladimir Sorokin. DoP: Shandor Berkeshi. Prod Des: ShavkatAbdusalamov. Cast: Marina and Irina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Yuri Laguta.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, (7) 095 143 9160

IN DREAMS FORGET YOURSORROWS
(Ritm Studio). Backer: The Ministryof Culture. Budget: $750,000. Love story about how two married people golooking for their first loves. Scr: Vitaly Moskalenko. Dir: Evgeny Malevsky.Cast: Elena Saponova, Aleksei Guskov, Aristarch Livanov.
Contact: Alexander Nakhimson, Ritm Studio, (7) 095 147 63 86

THE LORD OF THE AIR(POVELITEL EFIRA)
(F.A.F.-STUDIO) Radio helps peopleto meet each other, bringing comfort to the homes of people suffering fromloneliness and insomnia. Prod: Sergei Zernov. Dir: Ekaterina Kalinina. Scr:Natasha Chepik, Ekaterina Kalinina. Cast: Kirill Tetenkin, Maria Shalaeva, AlexeiKortnev, Natalia Fisson, Anton Tabakov.
Contact: Andrei Bobylev, (7) 095 143 9160

MAN'S SEASON (MUZHSKOYSEZON)
(Private Cinema Group). Co prods:PROFILM, ROSPO, Krug Film Studio. Action film based on The Untouchables Sixfriends from special forces struggle against mafia. Prods: Alexei Petrukhin,Andrey Chistyakov. Dir: Din Makhamatdinov. Scr: Din Makhamatdinov. DoP: SergeiMachilsky. Cast: Valentin Gaft, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Natalia Gudkova, AndreyZaikov, Igor Artashonov.
Contact: Fedor Popov, Krug Film Studio, (7) 095 143 9289

NIGHT SELLER (NOCHNOIPRODAVETS)
(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Teen comedy. Prod: Sergei Selyanov. Dir: Valery Roznov. Scr: ValeryRoznov. Main cast: Andrei Krasko, Viktor Suhorukov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite,Spartak Mishulin.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817

STATE ADVISOR (STATSKYSOVETNIK)
(TRI TE Studio). Co-prod: Mosfilm.Detective story. Exec Prod: Nikita Mikhalkov. Prod: Leonid Vereschagin. Scr:Boris Akunin. Cast: Oleg Menshikov.
Contact: Leonid Vereschagin, TRITE Studio, (7) 095 299 0258

TURKISH GAMBIT(TURETSKY GAMBIT)
(Nikita Mikhalkov TRITE Studio, Channel One Russia) Int'l sales:ORT-International. Dist: Gemini Film International. Spy drama set during the1877, Russian-Turkish war. Exec prod: Leonid Vereshchagin. Prods: AnatolyMaximov, Konstantin Ernst. Dir: Dzhanik Faiziev. Scr: Boris Akunin, DzhanikFaiziev. Main cast: Egor Beroev, Olga Krasko, Daniel Olbrykhsky , DmitryPevtsov, Alexander Baluyev, Gosha Kutsenko, Marat Basharov. Shot in Bulgaria,Turkey from July 2003 until December 2003.
Contact: Oleg Goryachev, ORT, (7) 095 217 82 88

WONDERFUL VALLEY(CHUDNAYA DOLINA)
(Slovo Production Company) Co-prod:STV Film Company. Lyrical comedy about tangled relationships between Asianvillagers. Prods: Igor Desyatnikov, Sergei Melkoumov, Sergei Selianov, ElenaYatsoura. Dir: Rano Kubaeva. Scr: Rano Kubaeva. DoP: Sergei Astakhov. Cast:Nadezhda Roumyantseva, Mikhail Kozakov, Masha Bekker, Igor Desyatnikov, ShamilKhamatov.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

POLAND

PRE-PRODUCTION

DEBT COLLECTOR(KOMORNIK)
(Arka, TVP Film Agency) Acontemporary story of a young debt collector who reforms his immoral ways andtries to redeem his past wrongdoing. Dir: Feliks Falk. Scr: GrzegorzŁoszewski. Shooting from Nov 2004.
Contact: TVP Film Agency (48) 22 547 6203

FREE STYLE (STYLWOLNY)
(Perspektywa Film Studio). Co-prods:Vision Film Production, Witwornia Filmow Dokumentalnych I Fabularnych. Dist:Vision Film Distribution. A musical about a music school student who isfascinated by hip hop. Dir: Witold Adamek.
Contact: Jarek Kemus, Vision Film Production, (48) 22 839 0753

GALICIAN TALES
(Applefilm) Dir. Dariusz Jablonski.Scr: Andzrzej Stasiuk, Dariusz Jablonski.
Contact: Violetta Kaminska, (48) 22 853 7265/64

LILI
(Telewizja Polska) Co-prods: AgencjaProdukcji Filmowej, Telemedia. Comedy/drama about pensioners staging DrFaustus. Dir: Jacek Blawut. Scr: Jacek Blawut. Cast: Lukasz Garlicki, LeonNiemczyk, Danuta Szaflarska, Irena Malkiewicz-Domanska, Lidia Wysocka
Contact: Jacek Blawut, (48) 22 547 8167

LOVE IN CONCRETE
(Telewizja Polska). Co-prods:ZDF/ARTE, Zyga Films (Ven). Several stories of love, hope, and despair all takeplace on one night in Caracas. Exec prod: Annette Pisacane. Dir: Franko dePena. Scr: Franko de Pena, Antoine Vivas, Tomasz Kapski. Cast: Lukasz Garlicki,Leon Niemczyk, Danuta Szaflarska, Irena Malkiewicz-Domanska, Lidia Wysocka.
Contact: Annette Pisacane, (48) 22 547 8167

SING ON
(TOR Studio) Dir: Wojciech Nowak.Music film. Dir: Krzysztof Zanussi, Wojciech Nowak. Scr: Krzysztof Zanussi,Wojciech Nowak
Contact: Irena Strzalkowska, TOR Studio, (48) 22 845 53 03

IN PRODUCTION

THE CALL OF THE TOAD
(Filmcontract, TVP - Film Agency)Gdansk, 1989: tragicomic love story. Co-prod: Ziegler Film (Berlin), EurimagesFunds. Dir: Robert Glinski. Scr: Paweł Huelle, Cezary Harasimowicz, KlausRichter. Main cast: Krystyna Janda, Mathias Habich, Katrin Sass, KrzysztofGlobisz, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Marek Kondrat. Shooting until the end of Nov2004.
Contact: Filmcontract, (48) 22 841 6591

THE DOUBLES (DUBLERZY)
(Butterfly Film) Int'l sales: KINOSWIAT International. What two losers have in common is their friendship. Prod:Yacek Wielgopolan. Dir: Marcin Ziebinski. Scr: Tomek Wojtczuk, PiotrRossenberg, Bartosz Wierzbieta. DoP: Grzegorz Kuczeriszka, Arkadiusz Tomiak.Main cast: Robert Gonera, Andrzej Grabovski, Maria Pakulnis.
Contact: Butterfly Film, (48) 22 654 7829

HEDWIG D'ANJOU
(TOR Studio). Historical drama(14th-century) about the child queen of Poland. Dir: Krzysztof Zanussi.Scr: Krzysztof Zanussi.
Contact: Irena Strzalkowska, (48) 22 845 53 03

I AM (JESTEM)
(KID FILM, TVP - Film Agency) Amoving story of an intelligent boy with a deep sense of dignity, who neitherfinds a foster family nor finds it easy to live in a children's home. His unexpectedvisit to his mother ends in his escape. What he lives off is selling scrapmetal rather than accept alms. Dir/scr: Dorota Kędzierzawska. DoP: ArthurReinhart.
Contact: TVP Film Agency, (48) 22 547 6203

THE MASTER (MISTRZ)
(Opus Film, TVP - Film Agency)Russian circus master sets his dreams on reaching Paris. Dir: PiotrTrzaskalski. Scr: Piotr Trzaskalski, Wojciech Lepianka.
Contact: Opus Film (48) 42 636 7018

PERSONA NON GRATA
(TOR Film Studio, TVP - Film Agency(Poland). Co-prod: Three T Productions (Russia). Prods: Krzysztof Zanussi,Iwona Ziulkowska. Co-prod: Leonid Vereschagin. Budget: Eur 1.4m. Crisis ofpolitical faith in a Polish Embassy in South America.. Dir/scr: KrzysztofZanussi. DoP: Edward Klosinski. Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Daniel Olbrychski,Nikita Michalkov.
Contact: TOR Film Studio, (48) 22 845 5303

POST PRODUCTION

CHAOS
(SPI Int, TVP - Film Agency) Apanoramic view of contemporary Polish youth. Dir/scr: XaweryŻuławski.
Contact: SPI International, (48) 22 854 0337

ESTONIA

PRE-PRODUCTION

AND THERE IS HELL INYOUR HAND (SINU KATES ON POGUTULI)
(F-Setse) Tragi-comedy. Dir/scr:Valentin Kuik. Prod: Reet Sokmann.
Contact: Reet Sokmann, F-Setse, (372) 601 5983

DOMINOES (DOOMINO)
(Kairiin Studio) A David Lynch-style thriller set in Eastern Europe where a mysterious man/woman characterhaunts a Western businessman who has bought a nuclear plant in Estonia. Prod:Juri Sillart. Dir: Juri Sillart. Scr: William Aldridge.
Contact: Juri Sillart, Kairiin Studio, (372) 652 0182

FORCE MAJOR
(Rao Heidmetsa Filmistudio). Blackcomedy which mixes puppet and cell animation techniques to tell a story about aJapanese man who comes to Estonia to take delivery of a film he hascommissioned to be produced in Estonia. Prod: Rao Heidmets. Dir: Rao Heidmets.Scr: Priit Parn.
Contact: Rao Heidmets, Rao Heidmetsa Filmistudio, (372) 564 0354

SWAMP
(Filmistudio See). Drama. Incontemporary Estonia a man from a big city is forced to re-evaluate his lifewhen he finds himself amidst of untouched nature. Prod: Hannes Lintrop. Dir:Renita and Hannes Lintrop. Scr: Avro Valton, Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop.
Contact: Hannes Lintrop, Filmistudio See, (372) 644 6644

IN PRODUCTION

BE AWARE OF THE PIG(ETTEVAATUST, SIGA!)
(RUUT PICTURES) Comedy aboutordinary Estonians and Finns. Prod: Paul Aguraiuja. Dir: Aku Louhimies. Scr:Peep Pedmanson. Ed: Samu Heikkila. DoP: Arko Okk.
Contact: RUUT PICTURES: (372) 62 84 545

OPEN DRESSCODE(STIILIPIDU)
(Exitfilm) After the collapse of aTV company, three women pull themselves together and establish their own newtrade - renting out costumes. Prod: Anneli Ahven. Dir: Peeter Urbla. Scr:Valentin Kuik.
Contact: Exitfilm, (372) 66 11 005

LATVIA

PRE-PRODUCTION

BILLE
(Devini). Fiction, family film basedon widely known writer's Vizma Belsevica novel 'Bille' about a littlegirl Bille, whose sensitive heart can not understand the life of adults. Dir: InaraKolmane, Scr: Arvis Kolmanis.
Contact: Film Studio Devini, (371) 7241688

DARK DEER
(Kaupo Filma) Drama about a16-year-old girl. Prod: Guntis Trekteris. Dir/Scr: Viesturs Kairiss.
Contact: Guntis Trekteris, Kaupo Filma, (371) 7281720

IN PRODUCTION

DEFENDERS OF RIGA(RIGAS SARGI)
(Platforma Filma) Budget: $3.5m.Backers: MEDIA Plus Programme, State Culture Capital Foudation of Latvia, RigaCity Council. Dist: Teleinvest (Russia). Historical drama set in October 1919.Exec prod: Sergejs Berdicevskis. Prod: Andreijs Ekis. Dir: Aigars Grauba. Scr:Andris Kolbergs. DoP: Vladimir Bashta. Ed: Aigars Bisofs. Cos des: Sandra Sila.Hair/make-up: Emilija Eglite. Main cast: Janis Reinis, Elita Klavina, AndrisKeiss, Artur Skrastins, Normunds Laizans. Shooting from March 2004 until August2004.
Contact: Sarma Gaide, Platforma Filma, (371) 957 60 70

LITHUANIA

IN PRODUCTION

GHETTO (GETAS)
(Film Studio Seansas, Big MotherPictures, Dragon Cine, New Transit Ent) The film is based on real events thattook place in the Jewish Ghetto of Vilnius under Nazi Occupation in the years1942-1943. Dir: Audrius Juzenas.Scr: Joshua Sobol. Main cast: Sebastian Hulk,Heino Ferch, Jork Lamprecht, Erica Moraszan.
Contact: Audrius Juzenas, (370) 699 648 08

LAND OF GLASS (STIKLOSALIS)
(Studio 2000) Drama. The sickness ofthe second baby brings a lot of fear and gloom to the woman, and the man can'tunderstand her state, it causes some painful changes in their elder daughter -a tragic outcome is inevitable. Prod: Kestutis Petrulis. Dir: JaninaLapinskaite. Scr: Vanda Juknaite, Janina Lapinskaite. Main cast: JurgaKalvaityte, Povilas Budrys, Urte Sejunaite, Antanas Venskus.
Contact: Kestutis Petrulis, (370) 5 276 89 09

SEVEN INVISIBLE MEN(SEPTYNI NEMATOMI ZMONES)
(KINEMA) Dist: Kinema Studio. Roadmovie. Prod/dir/scr: Sarunas Bartas Main cast: Sarunas Bartas, ViktorijaKuodyte, Alexander Bashirov, Axel Neumann.
Contact: Sarunas Bartas, Uljana Kim (370) 699 265 52

YOU AM I
(Studio Uljana Kim) A contemporaryfairy tale about the visionary architect who is building a futuristic treehouse in a gloomy forest. Dir: Kristijonas Vildziunas.
Contact: Uljana Kim, Studio Uljana Kim (370) 5234 70 60

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