EASTEUROPEAN PRODUCTION LISTINGS - 16 June 2004

RUSSIA

PRE-PRODUCTION

BUMER-2 (BIMMER-2)
(STV Film Company, Pygmalion Production) Action movie. ProdS: Sergei Selyanov, Sergei Chlyants. Dir: Pyotr Buslov. Scr:Denis Rodimin, Pyotr Buslov.
Contact: MikhailMaltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817

MONGOL (GENGHIS KHAN)
(STV Film Company). Epic saga about the unknown period of life of Genghis Khanand his love story. Prods: Sergei Selyanov, SergeiBodrov. Dir: Sergei Bodrov. Scr: Sergei Bodrov, Arif Alyev.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817

SOVIET PARK (PARK SOVETSKOGOPERIODA)
(Slovo Production Company). A parable about a young journalist who gets achance to live in a park where the Soviet era is reproduced in an ideal form.Dir: Yuly Gusman. Scr: Eduard Akopov, Yuly Gusman.
Contact: Sergei Melkoumov, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

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

IN PRODUCTION

9th LEGION (DEVYATAYA ROTA)
(Slovo Production Company) Co-prod: Art Pictures Group. Thisis a heroic film about the Afghan War. The characters are the young drafteeswho find themselves in the hell of combat. They grow up in war and die beforebecoming adults. Prods: Fyodor Bondarchuk,Victor Glukhov, Sergey Melkumov, Stepan Mikhalkov, Yelena Yatsoura. Dir:Fyodor Bondarchuk. Scr: Yuri Korotkov. DoP: Maxim Osadchy. Prod des: YekaterinaZaletaeva. Cast: Mikhail Porechenkov, Nikolai Fomenko, Fyodor Bondarchuk.Shooting from spring 2004.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Company, (7) 095 143 9160

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

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

THE GODDESS (BOGINYA)
(Slovo Production Company). Budget: $2m. A love story. Investigator Fainadelves into an interesting and complicated case about missing girl. Prods:Renata Litvinova, Elena Yatsura, Sergei Melkumov. Dir: Renata Litvinova. Scr: RenataLitvinova. DoP: Vlad Opeliants. Musik: Igor Vdovin. Cast: Renata Litvinova,Victor Soukhoroukov, Maxim Soukhanov, Svetlana Svetlichnaya.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, SlovoProduction Company, (7) 095 143 9160

HIROHITO
(Lenfilm Studio) Drama about life of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Prods:Nikola Film, Andrei Sigle, Andrei Zertsalov (Lenfilm). Dir: Alexander Sokurov. Scr: Alexander Sokurov, YuriArabov. DoP: Alexander Sokurov, Anatoly Rodionov.
Contact:Evgeny Grigoryev, Lenfilm, (7) 095 935-2647

IT IS DIFFICULT TO BE GOD(TRUDNO BYT' BOGOM)
(Sever Studio) Co prod: Lenfilm Studio. Backer: The Service of Cinematographyof the Russian Ministry of Culture. A fantasy based on the novel by Sovietfantasist Boris Strugatsky It Is Difficult to be a God. Prod: Victor Izvekov.Dir: Alexei German. Scr: Alexei German, Svetlana Karmalita. DoP: Yuri Klimenko,Vladimir Ilyin. Prod Des: Georgy Kropachev. Cast: Leonid Yarmolnik, YuryTsurilo, Alexander Ilyin, Laura Pitskhelauri, Petr Merkuryev. Shooting inRussia and Czech Republic.
Contact: Victor Izvekov, Sever Studio, (7) 812 326 8558

LASTTRAIN FROM ROPPONGI
(STV Film Company, Uplink Co Japan) Drama about the life of Russian girls whohappen to come to Japan in the early 1990s to entertain Japanese men at karaokeclubs. Prod: Sergei Selyanov. Dir/scr: Vera Svechina. DoP: Sergei Astakhov, EdLokman Cast: Tatiana Peshkova, Maria Kurkova, Olga Karpovich, Andrei Merzlikin,Alexei Chadov.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817

NOCHNOIPRODAVETS (NIGHT SALESMAN)
(STV Film Company) Black comedy about crazy adventures of a maniac in the city.Prod: Sergei Selyanov. Dir/scr: Valery Rozhnov. DoP: Roman Vasyanov. Cast:Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrei Krasko, Vyacheslav Razbegayev, KonstantinMurzenko, Pavel Barshak. Shooting until June 2004.
Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817

OURS (SVOI)
(Slovo Production Company). Budget: $2mn. Action film. War drama takes place inAugust of 1941 in Russia. Three men have escaped from captivity. Prods: YelenaYatsoura, Sergei Melkumov. Dir: Dmitry Meskhiev. Scr: Valentin Chernykh. DoP: Sergei Machilsky. Cast: Bogdan Stoupka, SergeiGarmash, Konstantin Khabensky, Fedor Bondarchouk, Mikhail Evlanov.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, SlovoProduction Company, (7) 095 143 9160

POST-PRODUCTION

FOUR (CHETYRE)
(Filmocom) Drama about young people who want to preserve their identities inthe world of mass produced relationships. Prod: Yelena Yatsoura. Dir: IlyaKhrjanovsky. Scr: Vladimir Sorokin. DoP: Shandor Berkeshi. Prod Des: Shavkat Abdusalamov. Cast: Marina and Irina Vovchenko, SergeyShnurov, Yuri Laguta.
Contact: Yelena Yatsoura, Slovo Production Studio, (7) 095 143 9160

A MAN WHO KEPT SILENT(CHELOVEK, KOTORY MOLCHAL)
(Central Partnership, Studia Pro Cinema) Thriller.A web-designer receives a letterthat says that he must keep silent, beginning with the next Saturday. By thetime Saturday comes, the poor designer totally forgets about the weird letter. Prod: Ruben Dishdishyan. Dir/scr: Pavel Ruminov. DoP: Anatoly Litvak. Cast: Mikhail Efimov,Mikhail Dementyev, Olga Bondaryeva, Ivan Volkov, Dmitry Shvadchenko.
Contact: Ruben Dishdishyan, CentralPartnership, (7) 095 777-4961

MARS
(Film Company Slon) Tragi-comedy. Famed boxer Boris is fed up with his life andwants to start everything form scratch at a strange town called Mars. Prods:Sabina Eremeeva, Ruben Dishdishyan. Dir/scr: Anna Melikyan. DoP: Oleg Lukichev. Cast: gosha Kutsenko, Artur Smolyaninov, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Elena Morozova.
Contact: Ruben Dishdishyan, FilmCompany Slon, (7) 095 777-4961

STATE ADVISOR (STATSKYSOVETNIK)
(TRI TE Studio). Co-prod: Mosfilm. A detective story. A detective fromSt. Petersburg whose intelligence and quick wit help him to find criminals andcope with daily life on the street. Prod: Leonid Vereschagin. Exec Prod: NikitaMikhalkov. Dir: Phillip Yankovsky. Scr: Boris Akunin. Cast: Oleg Menshikov andNikita Mikhalkov
Contact: Leonid Vereschagin, TRITE Studio, (7) 095 299 0258

THEY DANCED ALL WINTER LONG(ONI TANTSEVALI ODNU ZIMU)
(Film & TV Company Ritm) Melodrama. Prod.:Sergei Kushneryov. Dir. Vitaly Tarasenko. Scr:Ludmila, Valery Dyomin. DoP: Yuri Nevsky. Cast: Galina Belyaeva, Pavel Novikov,Ada Rogovtseva.
Contact: Vera Kunitsina, Ritm, (7) 095 147 6386

LATVIA

PRE-PRODUCTION

BILLE
(Devini) Family film based on widely known writer's Vizma Belsevica novel Billeabout a little girl Bille, whose sensitive heart can not understand the life ofadults. Dir: Inara Kolmane. Scr: Arvis Kolmanis.
Contact: Film Studio Devini, (371) 7241688

DARK DEER
(Kaupo Filma) Budget: E 800,000m. Drama. Sixteen-year-oldRa, a female nymphet,an untamed animal and a secret, caught in the drama of complicated familyaffairs, inhabits the center of events. Disagreement with her father leads to the desperate and tragic act of killing the ones sheloves most of all. Prod: Guntis Trekteris. Dir/scr: Viesturs Kairiss.
Contact: Guntis Trekteris, Kaupo Filma, (371) 7281720

POLAND

PRE-PRODUCTION

FREE STYLE (STYL WOLNY)
(Perspektywa Film Studio). Co-prods: Vision Film Production, Witwornia FilmowDokumentalnych I Fabularnych Dist: Vision Film Distribution. A musical about amusic school student who is fascinated by hip-hop and is looking for artisticfreedom. Dir: Witold Adamek. Cast: Polish hip-hop stars.
Contact: Jarek Kemus,Vision Film Production, (48) 22 839 0753

THE GORKY SANATORIUM
(Bow & Axe Entertainment). Budget: E2.8m. Historical drama. Based on thetrue life story of the murder of Polish officers by NKVD agents in Katyn forestin 1940. Prod: Marek Nowowiejski. Dir: Robert Glinski. Scr: Robert Glinski,Dzamila Ankiewicz.

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

LILI
(Telewizja Polska SA) Co-prods: Agencja Produkcji Filmowej (Poland), Telemedia(Poland). Comedy/drama about the inmates of The House of Senior Actors whodecide to stage Faust by Goethe. Dir: Jacek Blawut. Scr: Jacek Blawut. Cast:Lukasz Garlicki, Leon Niemczyk, Danuta Szaflarska, Irena Malkiewicz-Domanska,Lidia Wysocka.
Contact: Jacek Blawut, Telewizja Polska SA, (48) 22 547 8167

THE MAN FROM THE OTHER SIDE(CZLOWIEK Z TAMTEJ STRONY)
(Applefilm). Drama based on the storyby Uri Orlev. Scr: Jasek Gasiorowski, Krzysztof Lang.
Contact: Violetta Kaminska, Applefilm, (48) 22 853 7265/64

PERSONA NON GRATA
(Studio Filmowe TOR) Co-prod: Three T Productions (Russia). Budget: E1,400,000. Stefan, the Polish ambassador to Uruguay, is pained by the suddendeath of his beloved wife. Visiting his home country he meets his old friendOleg, the Russian Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. Stefan about to find outwhether his wife and Oleg had an affair' Prods: Krzysztof Zanussi, IwonaZiulkowska. Co-prod: Leonid Vereschagin. Dir/scr: Krzysztof Zanussi. DoP:Edward Klosinski. Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Daniel Olbrychski, NikitaMichalkov.
Contact: TOR Film Studio, (48) 22 8455303

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

IN PRODUCTION

MIRACLE IN CRACOW
(TOR Film Studio). Co-prods: Katapult Film, Film Production Agency. Dist: SPIHungary (Hungary). A mystical film about a young man who is looking for amysterious book which will help him to bring back to life his grandmother, whodied 15 years ago. Prods: Krzysztof Zanussi, Iwona Ziutkowska, Gabor Garami,Ivan Angelusz. Dir: Diana Groo. Scr: Diana Groo, Andras Szeker. DoP: SandorKardos. Ed: Agnes Mogor. Prod des: Monika Esthan, Ryszard Melliwa. Cost des:Zsuza Balai, Jagna Janicka. Music: Daniel Kardos. Cast: Maciej Adamczyk,Orsolya Torok Illys, Franciszek Pieczka, Itala Bekes, Jerzy Trela. Shootingfrom October 2003 in Poland and Hungary.
Contact: Irena Strzalkowska,TOR Film Studio, (48) 22 845 5303

THE WELTS (PREGI)
(TOR Film Studio). Co-prods: Vision Film Distribution, Non Stop Film Service,The Chimney Pot, Film Production Agency. Dist: Vision Film Distribution(Poland). A psychological drama about a young man whose life in childhood wasmarked by a domestic violence and who has to learn how to cope with his pastexperience when he becomes a parent himself. Prods: Krzysztof Zanussi, IwonaZiutkowska. Dir: Magdalena Piekorz. Scr: Wojciech Kuczok. DoP: Marcin Koszatka.Ed: Wojciech Mrowczynski. Prod des: Ewa Skoczkowska. Cost des: Dorota Rqueplo.Cast: Jan Frycz, Michat Zebrowski. Shot from 26 August 2003 till end of January2004.
Contact: Irena Strzalkowska ,TOR Film Studio, (48) 22 845 5303

ESTONIA

PRE-PRODUCTION

AND THERE IS HELL IN YOUR HAND (SINU KATES ONPOGUTULI)
(F-Setse OU). Tragicomedy. A man who always loses comes to Estonia where he gets unexpectedlyrich but loses his love. Prod: Reet Sokmann. Dir/scr: Valentin Kuik.
Contact: Reet Sokmann, F-Setse OU, (372) 601 5983

DOMINOES (DOOMINO)
(Kairiin Studio) A David Lynch style thriller set in Eastern Europe where amysterious man/woman character haunts a Western businessman who has bought anuclear plant in Estonia. Prod: Juri Sillart. Dir: Juri Sillart. Scr: WilliamAldridge.
Contact: Juri Sillart, Kairiin Studio, (372) 652 0182

FORCE MAJOR
(Rao Heidmetsa Filmistudio). Black comedy which mixes puppet and cel animationtechniques to tell a story about a Japanese man who comes to Estonia to take deliveryof a film he has commissioned 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) A story set in contemporary Estonia about a man from a bigcity who is forced to re-evaluate his life when he finds himself in the midstof untouched nature. Prod: Hannes Lintrop. Dir: Renita and Hannes Lintrop. Scr:Avro Valton, Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop. Drama.
Contact: Hannes Lintrop, Filmistudio See, (372)644 6644

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