"Air" is a new war movie directed by Alexei German Jr. Many aerial combat scenes are expected in the film. According to the director, it will be a picture where "the war is like a real war, and the heroes are like heroes." Bondarchuk's "Stalingrad" became an example for the director, and he plans to bypass Nolan's "Dunkirk". The film "Air" will be released in 2020, information about the exact release date and the actors is still unknown, the trailer will have to wait.
Russia
Genre:military, drama, history
Producer:Alexey German Jr.
Premiere:2020
Cast: unknown
The film's budget was 450 million rubles.
Plot
War drama about the first detachment of female fighters who ended up at the front during the Great Patriotic War. The film will be set in the first year of World War II. Heroes meet, quarrel, reconcile, get to know themselves and die in the most difficult time of war.
Production
Directed by Alexey German Jr. (Dovlatov, Short Circuit, The Last Train) plans to make the picture thin and poignant. The theme of the film is extremely important to Alexei, since many of his relatives fought. In addition, German Jr. is aimed not only at Russian, but also at international distribution.
Film crew:
- Screenplay: Elena Kiseleva ("Sin", "White Nights of the Postman Alexei Tryapitsyn", "Paradise");
- Producers: Andrei Savelyev (Tula Tokarev, Outdoor Surveillance), Artem Vasiliev (One and a Half Rooms, or Sentimental Journey to the Homeland, Spikelets);
- Operator: Roman Vasyanov (Patrol, Rage, Men Don't Cry).
Production: Metrafilms.
Filming location: St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Astrakhan and Pskov regions.
Cast
The full cast of the Oka cast has not been announced. It is known that one of the main roles went to Milan Marich (Dovlatov, Civil Servant).
Facts
Interesting about the film:
- The film project was first presented by the director at the pitching of the Cinema Fund, from which, according to TASS, the creators asked for an additional 120 million rubles to the total budget.
- Fyodor Bondarchuk's military action movie "Stalingrad" (2013) became a reference point for the director.
- The director found out that the girls fought on Yak-1 aircraft, and was surprised that none of the Yak-1 aircraft were saved. Therefore, the film crew will have to build dozens of such aircraft from scratch.
- Herman Jr. plans to use computer graphics to a minimum, since it looks fake in Russian films and leaves much to be desired. The director decided to concentrate on the objective world, so many of the scenery and even a huge bomber will be built on their own.
- Herman Jr. admitted that, together with the team, he is developing a special computer technology, the essence of which is still kept secret. With its help, all military props and constructed objects will be harmoniously integrated into the virtual world of the film.
- The director shared that for the roles he needed to find several dozen talented actresses of the level of Inna Churikova, which is not so easy to do. Castings took place in Omsk, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Saratov.
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