EASTERN EUROPE Production Listings - April 11 2003

Copyright: Screen International

AND THERE IS HELL IN YOUR HAND (sinu kates on pogutuli)
(F-Setse) Tragi-comedy. A man comes to Estonia, gets rich and loses in love. Prod: Reet Sokmann. Dir/scr: Valentin Kuik
Contact: Reet Sokmann, F-Setse, (372) 601 5983

DOMINOES (doomino)
(Kairiin Studio) David Lynch-style thriller. A Western businessman who has bought a nuclear plant in Estonia is stalked. Prod/dir: Juri Sillart. Scr: William Aldridge.
Contact: Juri Sillart, Kairiin Studio, (372) 652 0182

FORCE MAJOR
(Rao Heidmetsa Filmistudio) Black comedy. A Japanese man comes to Estonia to take delivery of a film. Prod/dir: Rao Heidmets. Scr: Priit Parn.
Contact: Rao Heidmets, Rao Heidmetsa Filmistudio, (372) 564 0354

SWAMP
(Filmistudio See) Drama. A man from the big city is forced to re-evaluate his life when he finds himself at one with untouched nature. Prod: Hannes Lintrop. Dirs: Renita and Hannes Lintrop. Scr: Avro Valton, Renita and Hannes Lintrop.
Contact: Hannes Lintrop, Filmistudio See, (372) 644 6644

WOITKA BROTHERS (metsavennad/metan veljet)
(Hansa Meedia) Co-prod: Kinofinlandia (Fin). Drama. Two brothers spend 14 years on the run to avoid conscription into the army. Dir: Pekka Lehto. Scr: Beatrix Wood, Jaakko Heinimaki. Prod: Pekka Lehto, Juhani Tamminen.
Contact: Pekka Lehto, Hansa Meedia, (372) 646 2566

BROTHERS (broidit)
(Kinotar [Fin], F-Seitse) Prod: Lasse Saarinen. Co-prod: Kaie-Ene Raak. Dir/scr: Esa Illi. Cast: Max Bremer, Aaro Vuotila, Marianne Kutt, Milka Alroth.
Contact: Kaie-Ene Raak, F-Seitse, (372) 601 5983

SOMNAMBULANCE (somnambuul)
(F-Seitse) Co-prod: Kinotar. Budget: $526,738. Backers: Estonian Film Foundation, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Ministry of Culture, Finnish Broadcasting Company (Fin), Finnish Film Foundation (Fin). Int'l sales: F-Seitse. Drama. Three uncompromising individuals stay together despite unbearable personality clashes. Prod: Kaie-Ene Raak. Dir: Sulev Keedus. Scr: Madis Koiv, Sulev Keedus. Cast: Katariina Lauk-Tamm, Evald Aavik, Ivo Uukkivi.
Contact: Kaie-Ene Raak, F-Seitse, (372) 601 5983

YOUR EYES IN A STRANGER'S FACE
(Kaupo Filma) Drama. In his dreams, a 78-year-old man sees people he met at the end of World War II. Dir: Arvids Krievs. Scr: Andris Purins.
Contact: Guntis Trekteris, Kaupo Filma, (371) 7281720

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

LILI
(Telewizja Polska) Co-prods: Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, Telemedia. Comedy drama. A group of retired actors stage Goethe's Faust. Dir/scr: Jacek Blawut. Cast: Lukasz Garlicki, Leon Niemczyk, Danuta Szaflarska, Irena Malkiewicz-Domanska, Lidia Wysocka.
Contact: Jacek Blawut, (48) 22 547 8167

THE MAN FROM THE OTHER SIDE (czlowiek z tamtej strony)
(Applefilm) Drama based on the story by Uri Orlev. Scr: Jasek Gasiorowski, Krzysztof Lang.
Contact: Violetta Kaminska, Applefilm, (48) 22 853 7265/64

MARCUS
(Canal Plus Polska) Dir: Piotr Trzaskalski.
Contact: Violetta Owsiana,(48) 22 522 0406

SING ON
(TOR Studio) Musical. Dir/scr: Krzysztof Zanussi, Wojciech Nowak.
Contact: Irena Strzalkowska, TOR Studio, (48) 22 845 5303

THE BODY (cialo)
(Look Film Studio) Comedy. A small-time thief accidentally kills his companion, then tries to get rid of the body. Prod: Mariusz Lukasiewicz. Dirs: Tomasz Konecki, Andrzej Saramonowicz. Scr: Saramonowicz. Cast: Rafal Krolikowski, Tomasz Karolak, Cezary Kosinski.
Contact: Mariusz Lukasiewicz,(48) 22 847 4937

CHANGES (przemiany)
(The Chimney Pot, Syrena Entertainment Group, Studio Filmowe Tor) Family drama. Prods: Lukasz Barczyk, Leszek Pieszko, Jedrzej Sablinski. Dir/scr: Barczyk. Cast: Maja Ostaszewska, Maria Maj, Aleksandra Konieczna, Jacek Poniedzialek.
Contact: Lukasz Barczyk,(48) 22 543 9500

OLD TALE (stara basn)
(Zodiak Jerzy Hoffman Film Production, Syrena Entertainment Group) Period drama. Story of prehistoric tribes in Poland. Inspired by the book by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski. Prod: Jerzy R Michaluk. Dir: Jerzy Hoffman. Scr: Jozef Hen, Hoffman. Cast: Michal Zebrowski, Marina Aleksandrowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Trela.
Contact: Jerzy R Michaluk,(48) 22 845 2047

PORNOGRAPHY (pornografia)
(Canal Plus Polska, Mact Productions [Fr]) Backers: Telewizja Polska, Wytwornia Filmow Dokumentalnych I Fabularnych, Canal Plus (Fr), Eurimages, Centre National De La Cinematographie (Fr). Drama based on the novel by Witold Gombrowicz. Prod: Lew Rywin, Antoine de Clermont-Tonerre. Dir/scr: Jan Jakub Kolski. Cast: Krzysztof Majchrzak, Adam Ferency, Krzysztof Globisz, Irena Laskowska.
Contact: Pawel Poppe,(48) 22 547 6139

STRANGERS (ono)
(Telewizja Polska, Pandora Film, STI Studio Filmowe, Eurimages) Drama. A young woman faces an unwanted pregnancy. Dir: Malgorzata Szumowska. Scr: Szumowska, Przemyslaw Nowakowski. Cast: Malgorzata Bela, Marek Walczewski, Andrzej Chyra.
Contact: Miroslaw Warchol, (48) 22 547 6628

YOU CAN'T TAME A NUT (nie ma bata na wariata)
(MTL Maxfilm, Vision Film Production) Comedy. Prods: Tadeusz Lampka, Wlodzimierz Otulak. Dir: Piotr Weresniak. Cast: Andrzej Grabowski, Joanna Zolkowska, Katarzyna Bujakiewicz, Bartolomiej Topa.
Contact: Tadeusz Lampka, (48) 22 621 3086

HEDWIG D'ANJOU
(TOR Studio) Budget: e3.5-e4m. Period drama. The 14th-century child queen of Poland, her loves and dramatic marriage. Dir/scr: Krzysztof Zanussi.
Contact: Irena Strzalkowska, TOR Studio, (48) 22 845 5303

ELIZABETH AND KLODIL (elizaveta i klodil)
(Krug Film Studio) Co-prod: Mosfilm. Backer: Ministry of Culture. Two 15-year-old girls, one Russian, the other French, run away to the south of France. Dir/scr: Sergey Solovjev. DoP: Pavel Lebeshev.
Contact: Fedor Popov, Krug Film Studio, (7) 095 938 2312

FAINA - WAY OF WARRIOR (faina - put voina)
(Slovo Production Company) Tragi-comedy. An investigator tracks down a missing girl. Prods: Yelena Yatsoura, Renata Litvinova. Dir/scr: Litvinova. Cast: Litvinova. Shooting from September.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

FELINE (koshka)
(RS-TV Studio) Co-prod: Mosfilm. Romance. A teenager tries to get her boyfriend back at any cost. Prod: Yuri Morozov. Dir: Morozov, Aleksander Karpilovsky. Scr: Zoya Kudrya, Morozov.
Contact: Svetlana Frichinskaya, Mosfilm, (7) 095 143 9500

THE FINAL JOURNEY (poslednee puteshestvie)
(Sokol) Co-prod: Videfco (US). Budget: $70m. Drama. The last cosmonaut refuses to leave his space station. Based on the novel The Mark Of Cassandra. Prod: John Daly. Dir: Yury Kara. Cast: Vladimir Steklov.
Contact: Yury Kara, Sokol,(7) 095 745 8810

HIROHITO
(Lenfilm Studio) Drama. Life of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Dir/scr: Alexander Sokurov.
Contact: Alexander Pozdnyakov, Lenfilm Studio, (7) 812 326 8224

THE HOUSE (dom)
(Rock Film Studio) Drama. Story of the women sent to brothels in northern Russia during World War II. Dir: Alexei Uchitel. Scr: Alexander Rogozhkin, Gregory Markett, Dunya Smirnova.
Contact: Alexei Uchitel, Rock Film Studio, (7) 095 433 6778

I WILL COME TOMORROW(ya pridu zavtra)
(Angel Film) Co-prods: State Fund (Can), George Marshalk (Fr). Budget: $11m. Drama. A Russian emigrant in 1936 Paris tries to track down the man he thought he killed during World War I. Dir: Alexander Atanessyan. Scr: Vitaly Gulmassyan. Shooting from September.
Contact: Alexander Atanessyan, Angel Film, (7) 095 923 7475

IN THE SEA AND IN HEAVEN(v more i na nebesakh)
(Rock Film Studio) Drama. An ordinary Russian worker pretends to be a cosmonaut so he can leave the Soviet Union. Prods: Alexei Uchitel, Alexander Golutva. Dir: Uchitel.
Contact: Alexei Uchitel, Rock Film Studio, (7) 095 433 6778

THE LIGHTHOUSE (mayak)
(Paradise Productions) Co-prods: KinoglazGorky Film Studio, Russian Centre of Youth Cinema, Kirgizfilm (Kirgizia), Kazakhfilm (Kazakhstan). Budget: $300,000. Drama. Trilogy of shorts about hope, love, salvation and death. Prod: Pyotr Chernayev. Dirs: Alexander Kott, Nurbek Egen. Scr: Ulyana Shilkina, Yekaterina Tirdatova, Kott, Nurbek Egen.
Contact: Pyotr Chernayev,(7) 095 912 3178

MOONLIT GLADES (lunnye polyany)
(NTV-Kino) Co-prod: ART-CAM (Fr). Drama. A brother and sister who had an incestuous relationship meet up again at their mother's funeral. Prods: Vladimir Arseniev, Joel Farge. Dir: Igor Minaev. Scr: Olga Mikhailova. DoP: Vladimir Pankov. Cast: Andrey Tolubeev, Alexander Berda.
Contact: Elena Kupriyanova, NTV-Kino, (7) 095 284 1338

9th COMPANY (devyataya rota)
(Slovo Production Company) Co-prod: Art Pictures Group. Drama. Young conscripts try to survive the Afghan war. Prods: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Victor Glukhov, Sergey Melkumov, Stepan Mikhalkov, Yelena Yatsoura. Dir: Bondarchuk. Scr: Yuri Korotkov. DoP: Maxim Osadchy. Prod des: Yekaterina Zaletaeva. Cast: Mikhail Porechenkov, Nikolai Fomenko, Fyodor Bondarchuk. Shooting from late April until July.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

POINT OF HONOUR (delo chesti)
(Soyuz Studio) Romance. An emigrant to Russia find his dreams shattered. Prod: Elena Plyasunova. Dir: Fedor Petrukhin.
Contact: Dmitry Zaitsev, Soyuz Studio, (7) 095 147 2310

RUSSIAN QUESTIONS (russkie voprosy)
(Slovo Production Company) Budget: $2m. War drama. In August 1941, three men escape captivity. Prods: Yelena Yatsoura, Sergei Melkumov. Dir: Dmitry Meskhiev. Scr: Valentin Chernykh. Cast: Evgeny Matveev.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

SHIKOTAN THE BEST PLACE (shikotan luchshee mesto)
(Slovo Production Company) Co-prod: Dinoteriun-film. Budget: $2.5m. Romantic drama. Prod: Yelena Yatsoura. Dir: Vlad Lanne. Scr: Igor Kopylov, Lanne. Cast: Ksenya Rappoport, Igor Lifanov. Shooting from August until October.
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. The Russian national junior kick-boxing team run into trouble in Buenos Aires. Prods: Nikolai Stambula, Pyotr Chernayev. Dir: Stambula. Scr: Stambula, Irina Tischenko.
Contact: Pyotr Chernayev,(7) 095 912 3178

STATE ADVISOR (statsky sovetnik)
(Trite Studio) Co-prod: Mosfilm. Drama. Life for a detective in St Petersburg. Exec prod: Nikita Mikhalkov. Prod: Leonid Vereschagin. Scr: Boris Akunin. Cast: Oleg Menshikov.
Contact: Leonid Vereschagin, Trite Studio, (7) 095 299 0258

SUPERMAN OF THE DAY (superman na odin den)
(Gorky Film Studio) Backer: Ministry of Culture. Drama. First working day for a young TV journalist. Dir/scr: Vasily Fenin.
Contact: Valery Kozlov, Gorky Film Studio, (7) 095 181 0325

THANK YOU, EVERYBODY (vsem spasibo)
(Pigmalion Production) Metropolitan fairy tale. Prod: Sergei Khovenko. Dir/scr: Dmitry Tomashpolsky.
Contact: Sergei Khovenko, Pigmalion Production, (7) 095 953 8761

THE TRUTH ABOUT SCHELPS (pravda o schelpakh)
(Workshop Of The First Experimental Film) Co-prod: Lenfilm Studio. Fairy tale. Life of fairy-tale creatures called schelps. Dir: Alexei Muradov.
Contact: Alexander Pozdnyakov, Lenfilm Studio, (7) 812 326 8224

ZELIMKHAN: CHECHNYA'S TRAGEDY (zelimkhan: tragedia chechni)
(Fora Film M Studio) Co-prod: Cinema Zelimkhan Studios. Budget: $2.5m. Adventure drama set in Chechnya 100 years ago. Dir: Valery Akhadov.
Contact: Andrei Razumovsky, Fora Film M Studio, (7) 095 254 0136

THE AMPHIBIAN MAN (chelovek-amfibiya)
(Angel Film) Co-prod: DK Videofilm. Int'l sales/dist (Russia): RTR. Fantasy about a man who has gills and lives under the sea. Exec prod: Valery Todorovsky. Prods: Leonid Zagalsky, Arsen Gotlib. Dir: Alexander Atanessyan. DoP: Ugulbek Khamrayev. Shooting until May 8 in Cuba.
Contact: Alexander Atanessyan, Angel Film, (7) 095 921 2698

CRIMINAL READING (kriminalnoe chtenie)
(Eurofilm-Service) Co-prod: Mosfilm Studio. Prod: S Grishina. Dir: A Muratov.
Contact: Svetlana Frichinskaya, Mosfilm, (7) 095 143 9500

DRIVER FOR VERA (voditel dlya very)
(Profit+) Co-prod: TRK 1+1 (Ukraine). In Sebastopol in 1962, a general's chauffeur and his hot-headed daughter cross paths. Exec prod: Vitaly Koshman. Prod: Michael Zilberman. Dir/scr: Pavel Chukhrai. DoP: Igor Klebanov. Ed: Anna Kagarlitskaya. Cast: Igor Petrenko, Alena Babenko, Bogdan Stupka, Andrei Panin. Shooting from April 22 in Crimea and Moscow.
Contact: Elena Kupriyanova, Profit,(7) 095 916 9349

IT IS DIFFICULT TO BE GOD (trudno byt bogom)
(Sever Studio) Co-prod: Lenfilm Studio. Backer: Ministry of Culture. Fantasy based on the novel by Soviet fantasist Boris Strugatsky. Prod: Victor Izvekov. Dir: Alexei German. Scr: German, Svetlana Karmalita. DoP: Yuri Klimenko, Vladimir Ilyin. Prod des: 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

LONG GOOD BYE (dolgoe proshanie)
(Film-Pro) Co-prod: Mosfilm Studio. Prod: Sergei Soloviev. Dir: Sergei Ursulyak.
Contact: Sergei Soloviev, (7) 095 938 2312

AND THEY WOKE UP IN THE MORNING (a po utru oni prosnulis)
(Kinosphera Company) Co-prod: Mosfilm Studio. Prod: V Malysheva. Dir: Sergei Nikonenko.
Contact: Svetlana Frichinskaya, Mosfilm Studio, (7) 095 143 9500

ENIKI-BENIKI
(Profit) Backer: Service of Cinematography of the Government of the Russian Federation. Comedy. An eight-year-old boy meets his father. Prod: Michael Zilberman. Dir: Yuri Rogozin. Scr: Andrei Samsonov, Sergei Sergeev, Rogozin. DoP: Sergei Yurizditsky. Costume des: Anna Kuznetsova. Cast: Igor Vinogradov, Anatoly Ravikovitch, Natalia Rogozhkina, Petr Merkuriev, Valentina Talyzina.
Contact: Elena Kupriyanova, Profit, (7) 095 916 9349

FOUR (chetyre)
(Slovo Production Company) Budget: $600,000. Dist: Non-Stop Production. Drama. Young people try to preserve their identities in a world of mass-produced relationships. Prod: Yelena Yatsoura. Dir: Ilya Khrjanovsky. Scr: Vladimir Sorokin. DoP: Shandor Berkeshi. Prod des: Shavkat Abdusalamov. Cast: Marina and Irina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Yuri Laguta.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

IN DREAMS FORGET YOUR SORROWS
(Ritm Studio) Backer: Ministry of Culture. Budget: $750,000. Love story. How two married people found their first loves. Scr: Vitaly Moskalenko. Dir: Evgeny Malevsky.Cast: Elena Saponova, Aleksei Guskov, Aristarch Livanov.
Contact: Alexander Nakhimson, Ritm Studio, (7) 095 147 6386

MAN'S SEASON (muzhskoy sezon)
(Private Cinema Group) Co-prods: ProFilm, Rospo, Krug Film Studio. Thrillerbased on Brian de Palma's The Untouchables. Prods: Alexei Petrukhin, Andrey Chistyakov. Dir/scr: Din Makhamatdinov. DoP: Sergei Machilsky. Cast: Valentin Gaft, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Natalia Gudkova, Andrey Zaikov, Igor Artashonov.
Contact: Fedor Popov, Krug Film Studio, (7) 095 143 9289