Fledgling Russian sales agent Ant!pode Sales & Distribution has picked up international distribution for Oksana Bychkova’s Another Year (Esche odin god).
The film has its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Spectrum sidebar yesterday (Jan 28).
The €850,000 Moscow-set melodrama is based on Alexander Volodin’s play Do Not Leave Your Lovers and stars Alexey Filimonov, who appeared in Vasily Sigarev’s Live at Rotterdam in 2012, and newcomer Nadya Lumpova.
Bychkova’s previous feature films include Piter FM and Plyus odin as well as collaboration on the second instalment of Bazelevs’ New Year comedy franchise Yolki 2.
Ant!pode was launched at last year’s Cannes Film Festival with a line-up including The Geographer Drank His Globe Away, which has been nominated for six Golden Eagle awards, of which the winners will be announced at a gala ceremony in Mosfilm studios tonight.
The film has its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Spectrum sidebar yesterday (Jan 28).
The €850,000 Moscow-set melodrama is based on Alexander Volodin’s play Do Not Leave Your Lovers and stars Alexey Filimonov, who appeared in Vasily Sigarev’s Live at Rotterdam in 2012, and newcomer Nadya Lumpova.
Bychkova’s previous feature films include Piter FM and Plyus odin as well as collaboration on the second instalment of Bazelevs’ New Year comedy franchise Yolki 2.
Ant!pode was launched at last year’s Cannes Film Festival with a line-up including The Geographer Drank His Globe Away, which has been nominated for six Golden Eagle awards, of which the winners will be announced at a gala ceremony in Mosfilm studios tonight.
- 1/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
How’s this for an odd film pedigree: a remake of a Hong Kong action film, shot in Russian with largely Russian backing with a Swedish director. This is what you’ve got with Newsmakers.
A remake of Johnnie To’s Breaking News with the action transplanted to Russia - reportedly the first ever Russian remake of a Hong Kong film - the film is directed by young Swede Anders Banke, well known is these parts as the director of Swedish vampire film Frostbiten. Banke, it turns out, attended film school in Moscow and is totally Russian fluent, which makes sense of his directing a Russian language film, and the brilliant, period set opening to Frostbiten should put to rest any question as to whether he’s got the technical skills needed to tackle To. He very clearly does.
What Banke also has is a very strong cast. A quick...
A remake of Johnnie To’s Breaking News with the action transplanted to Russia - reportedly the first ever Russian remake of a Hong Kong film - the film is directed by young Swede Anders Banke, well known is these parts as the director of Swedish vampire film Frostbiten. Banke, it turns out, attended film school in Moscow and is totally Russian fluent, which makes sense of his directing a Russian language film, and the brilliant, period set opening to Frostbiten should put to rest any question as to whether he’s got the technical skills needed to tackle To. He very clearly does.
What Banke also has is a very strong cast. A quick...
- 9/22/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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