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GroupStitch has fallen for The Summer Will End.

The independent distribution and content consultancy firm founded by Nick Isaak confirmed that it has acquired global rights (outside Russia) as well as English language remake rights to the crime thriller starring Anora breakout and best supporting actor nominee Yura Borisov.

The Summer Will End, directed by Maksim Arbugaev and Vladimir Munkuev from a script by the latter, is set in a remote northern town and centers on two brothers who are on the run after one of them has stolen gold from a local mafia syndicate. As they struggle to outrun the consequences, the film takes a suspenseful turn setting off a violent chain of events. Borisov leads alongside Makar Khlebnikov as the two brothers while Dmitriy Podnozov, Aleksandr Mosin, Makar Khlebnikov, Vasiliy Shchipitsyn, Ivan Tarabukin, Batma Imanakunova and Denis Kuznetsovround out the cast.

The film was produced by Valery Fedorovich,...

Morphine (Morphia) Mubi Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten Director: Aleksey Balabanov Screenwriter: Sergey Bodrov, from short stories by Mikhail A. Bulgakov Cast: Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko, Katarina Radivojevic, Yuri Gertsman, Aleksandr Mosin Screened at: Mubi.com The folks in the rural Russia of 1917 may […]

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The latest feature from Russian Writer/Director, Alexey Balabanov, uses a semi-mythical story as the trigger for a somewhat surreal road movie. After Sanya, “The Bandit” brutally kills a group of people who greet him, he bumps into musician Oleg. Persuading him to go for beer and salted fish, Sanya tells him of “the bell tower of happiness”, a church in the middle of a radiation zone that apparently arbitrarily transports people to happier times.

The film begins with a clip of the TV show “Amazing People” being filmed live before switching to the programme being shown on a bar TV where we meet Oleg (Oleg Garkusha) before he leaves to purchase Fir Tree Oil and bumps into Sanya (Aleksandr Mosin). Their conversations reveal humanity is due to end in a year but Balabanov deliberately never makes it clear why or how, besides vague references to a TV show and the Mayan Calendar.