The biographical picture "Kupala" (2020) tells the story of the growing up of Ivan Lutsevich, who later became a favorite of Belarusians and a real songwriter. The role of Yanka Kupala will be performed by 5 different actors at once, as the viewer will be shown the poet's life in childhood and adolescence. The trailer has already been released and information about the actors of the film "Kupala" (2020) is known, the release date in Russia is expected in 2020. This film is not only about the facts of the biography of the great poet, but also about people at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, about repression, hunger and revolution.
Expectations rating - 100%.
Belarus
Genre:biography, history
Producer:Vladimir Yankovsky
Premiere:2020
Cast:N. Shestak, V. Plyashkevich, T. Markhel, A. Abramovich, A. Lobotsky, E. Pobegaeva, A. Polupanova. V. Yankovsky, A. Efremov, A. Ilyin
For Belarusians, Yanka Kupala is not just a folk poet. He became a favorite because he wrote about the problems and lives of ordinary people.
Plot
Late 19th - early 20th century. The story of the dramatic fate of an extraordinary personality and national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala. The picture reveals the main milestones in the life and creative path of the poet, which coincided with the most tragic events of the 20th century.
Production
Directed by Vladimir Yankovsky ("Believe the Corrected", "Citizen Nobody", "Undiscovered Talent", "The Other Side of the Moon").
Film team:
- Screenwriters: Alena Kalyunova (Insight, Three Thalers), Alexandra Borisova (The Bachelor), Vladimir Yankovsky;
- Operator: Ilya Pugachev ("Witching Lake", "Money Does Not Have Happiness")
- Artist: Natalia Navoenko ("Parsley Syndrome", "Where the Motherland Begins").
Studio: Belarusfilm.
Historians worked on the set of the film, and the events were reconstructed from photographs of the time period at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Actors
The film starred:
- Nikolai Shestak - Yanka Kupala (Dream Team 1935);
- Veronika Plyashkevich ("Handsome and the Beast", "Death to Spies: Fox Hole");
- Tatyana Markhel ("Law", "Summer of Wolves", "I Trust in You");
- Alexander Abramovich ("Provincial", "Love as an Accident");
- Anatoly Lobotsky ("Pop", "Mountain of Gems", "Youth");
- Elena Pobegaeva ("The Other Side of the Moon", "1942");
- Anna Polupanova ("Challenge", "Summer of Wolves");
- Vladimir Yankovsky - officer (Throw March 2: Special Circumstances, "Revenge");
- Alexander Efremov ("The Eighties", "Thirst");
- Alexander Ilyin ("Graffiti", "Closed Spaces", "Wild Field").
Interesting about the film
Did you know that:
- The release date in Belarus is December 17, 2019. The film will be widely released in 2020.
- The picture has an international team: the young Janka is played by Nikolai Shestak, a Latvian actor with Belarusian roots; and the film was shot by Russian operators.
- The film's budget was more than $ 1 million.
- In addition to the full-length film, the creators will also release a 4-episode tape.
- The director himself played an episodic role. The viewer will be able to see Vladimir Yankovsky as an officer in one of the scenes.
Information about the exact date of the release of the biopic is expected in 2020, the actors and the trailer for the film "Kupala" (2020) are already online.