SPOTLIGHT ON UPCOMING RUSSIAN FILMS: PERIOD SET HITROVKA: THE SIGN OF FOUR, MASTER AND MARGARITA, WW2 MOVIE AIR, AND ADVENTURE MOVIE LORD OF THE WIND

 UPCOMING RUSSIAN FILMS 

HITROVKA: THE SIGN OF FOUR

I have a number of upcoming Russian films to present to you, so I thought I'd put them all in a nice little spotlight, beginning with HITROVKA: THE SIGN OF

Hitrovka is out in cinemas May 18th

FOUR (Хитровка. Знак четырёх) which should be out May 18th. Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky (Konstantin Kryukov), in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help. Together they go to the legendary bandit Hitrovka and find themselves embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a mysterious local resident - an Indian Sikh with a dark past. You can check out a rather beautiful trailer below:

 

 

MASTER AND MARGARITA

The adaptation of Bulgakov's famous novel switched its title from Voland to MASTER AND MARGARITA  (Мастер и Маргарита) and should arrive

Master and Margarita will arrive soon

sometime this year. Moscow, 1930s. A famous writer (August Dil) on the rise of his career suddenly finds himself at the center of a literary scandal. The performance based on his play is removed from the repertoire, colleagues defiantly avoid meeting, in a matter of days he turns into an outcast. Shortly thereafter, he meets Margarita (Yuliya Snigir), who becomes his lover and muse. Inspired by her love and support, the writer takes on a new novel in which the characters are people from his environment, and the main character is the mysterious Voland, the prototype of which is a recent acquaintance of a foreigner. The writer plunges headlong into the world of his novel and gradually ceases to notice how fiction and reality are intertwined into one.

 

 

WORLD WAR II MOVIE AIR

The Second World War movie AIR (Воздух) is currently in post production. Heavy fighting is going on in the USSR, the German army is advancing. A unit

Air movie is in post production currently

of female pilots arrives in a mixed aviation regiment. All of them are young and do not quite understand what war is. Many are not yet accustomed to them, just as they are not accustomed to war in general. Girls have a hard time in the male world, but they prove day by day that they are no worse than men. Zhenya (Anastasiya Talizina) is a talented pilot with a difficult fate, who has experienced a lot, learned not to become attached to people, so that later she would not suffer from the pain of loss. She is afraid of her feelings and tries to restrain them. The only thing Zhenya wants is to fly well and defeat the enemy. She would like to merge with the air, with the wind, with the plane into one. In a series of air battles, the girls are fighting better and better. But many in the regiment are dying. Friendship and love are difficult for Zhenya; in the sky, in battle, she feels more in her place. Soon she becomes the regiment's best pilot, although there are fewer and fewer survivors around her. Zhenya grows up and prepares to enter her last battle. Anton Shagin, Sergei Bezrukov also star.

 

LORD OF THE WIND

The story of Fyodor Konyukhov's round-the-world balloon flight. He completed it in 2016 in 11 days and set a world record. LORD OF THE WIND (Повелитель ветра), out October, follows famous Russian traveler

Lord of the Air arrives this October

Konyukhov (Fedor Bondarchuk), who has conquered the earth's poles, oceans and the highest peaks, and now sets off on a new, most dangerous journey. He will have to circumnavigate the Earth in a balloon all alone. The flight is prepared by a whole team, but it is impossible to foresee all the dangers that await the traveler in extreme conditions. Konyukhov falls into a hurricane - without communication, without sleep, almost without air, he has to go only forward in order to return to those he loves. And the whole world, with bated breath, is watching the man who challenged the elements.