The creators of “Brigade” will film a series about the annexation of Crimea to Russia
Moscow - Simferopol, May 16 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) - About a week ago, the Ministry of Culture received an application from the Avatar Film company to create a full-length feature film about the Crimean events, with the working title “Home,” RBC reports.
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The creators of the series “Brigade” have already contacted the Ministry of Culture and now intend to submit an application to the Cinema Fund for state support for the project. They are asking the state for $4 million to produce “a humane story with the drama of schism.”
As press secretary of the Minister of Culture Irina Kaznacheeva told RBC, it is planned to attract “the best Russian actors” to the work, and part of the filming will be carried out on the basis of the Yalta film studio.
General producer of “Avatar Film” Anatoly Sivushov clarified that the screenwriter of the future film will be the writer Sergei Shargunov, and the film will be directed by the young director Taisiya Igumentseva, who received first place in the student work competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 for the short film “The Road to”.
According to Sivushov, his film will not be a blockbuster: “I want to tell the story of living people, so that, first of all, the film is about a person.” The general producer adds that in the near future he and Shargunov will go to Ukraine and communicate “directly with the participants in the events.”
In 2002, “Avatar Film” filmed the series “Brigade” with Sergei Bezrukov for the “Russia” channel (now “Russia 1”).
The “Film Avatar” application is so far the only attempt to film the recent history of Crimea. But the Ministry of Culture, as assured by the ministry’s press service, is already preparing a competition to create films “on Crimean themes.”
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