Almost half a century later, Russian filmmakers decided to revive the well-known novel "12 chairs". Filming of the new film of the same name will end in January 2020, and the film will be released in 2021, 50 years after the premiere of Leonid Gaidai's comedy. The film crew will have to reproduce the era of the contradictory 20s of the last century as accurately as possible in order to acquaint modern youth with that time. It is reported that the new project will be a "pure comedy" with many dynamic action scenes. The roles of Ostap Bender and Kisa were developed specifically for the actors Dmitry Nagiyev and Dmitry Nazarov. Information about the 12 Chairs (2021) movie is already known: the actors have been named, the release date and the trailer are expected in 2020.
Expectations rating - 55%.
Russia
Genre:comedy
Producer:P. Zelenov
Premiere in Russia:2021
Cast:D. Nagiyev, D. Nazarov, S. Stepanchenko, A. Oshurkov, A. Ichetovkina, S. Nemolyaeva
Plot
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov.
According to the director, on the wheel steamer "N. V. Gogol ", the famous scenes with the Great Combinator drawing the picture" The Sower Scattering State Loan Bonds "will be played.
Production
The director's chair was taken by Pyotr Zelenov (Tobol, Legend No. 17, Moving Up).
Film team:
- General Producer: Oleg Urushev (Franz + Polina, Challenge);
- Operator: Ivan Gudkov ("KostyaNika. Summer Time", "Swing", "Plus One");
- Artist: Yulia Makushina ("The Decision to Liquidate", "The Demon of the Revolution"), Maya Martyanova ("The Split", "The Fall of the Empire", "Red Bracelets").
Production: Prime Production Center, Mosfilm, Solivs.
Filming starts in June 2019, on-site at Mosfilm. The end of filming - January 2020. Location: Tbilisi, Sochi, Arkhangelsk.
Oleg Urushev about the film:
“Our task is to create the most detailed screen version of the legendary novel. The problem is that during the years of the USSR the written original source was published with cuts, and we decided to take up the film adaptation of the author's original, avoiding censorship abbreviations. "
Dmitry Nazarov wrote in his Instagram account:
Actors
The film starred:
- Dmitry Nagiyev - Ostap-Suleiman-Berta-Maria-Bender-Bey ("Fizruk", "Yeralash", "Mayakovsky. Two days");
- Dmitry Nazarov - Kisa Vorobyaninov ("Kitchen", "Prince Vladimir", "Concert");
- Sergey Stepanchenko ("Mosgaz. Major Cherkasov's New Case", "Tobol", "Memorial Prayer", "Contract with Death");
- Alexey Oshurkov (“Time to collect stones”, “Driver for Vera”);
- Anna Ichetovkina ("Beautiful Life", "Arrhythmia");
- Svetlana Nemolyaeva ("Office Romance", "Quarantine", "All the way around").
Facts
Interesting to know:
- Mark Zakharov, the director of the original 12 Chairs (1976), passed away on September 28, 2019.
- For Petr Zelenov, this is his debut in a feature film.
- According to the creators, the image of Kisa Vorobyaninov will be completely rethought. In the new "chairs" the character will not be a tragicomic old man, offended by the whole world and dreaming of profit. Vorobyaninov will appear as an influential person with a bright character.
- One of the scenes was filmed on Red Square, where a retro transport from the Mosfilm collection is involved.
- The rating of the mini-series "12 chairs" in 1976 directed by M. Zakharov: KinoPoisk - 8.5, IMDb - 8.3.
- Rating of the full-length comedy "12 chairs" in 1976 directed by L. Gaidai: KinoPoisk - 8.2, IMDb - 8.3.
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