At the end of 2012, producer and director Alexander Shein will begin to shoot a film-biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky. The picture will involve Natalia Vodianova and the wife of the director Chulpan Khamatova.
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The lead actor in the film about Vladimir Mayakovsky has not yet been determined. The director explains this by saying that "I want to make a discovery, to find a completely new hero, a fresh person." Someone prophesies for the role of Mayakovsky master stage reincarnation Sergei Bezrukov. But while all this is still rumor. Chulpan Khamatova will appear in the film as a co-producer, and, as planned, will play the role of Lily Brik. Model Natalya Vodyanova will embody the image of Mayakovsky's lover Tatyana Yakovleva.
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The project producer Sergey Chliyants assessed the budget of the film as quite large even on a European scale, while he did not specify the numbers. He mentioned that funds are needed for names and to create the atmosphere of the Silver Age. He also stated that there were no government investments in the project, and the creative plan was realized thanks to the "private initiative of a rich man." Chilyants also noted that partners from Paris, Normandy, New York and the Crimea promise to make the film more interesting than the film would have been shot without their participation.
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Alexander Shane explained that he plans to shoot a picture not about the great man Mayakovsky, but about the struggle of the soul. He is going to show his exciting story, adding to it details about love and spies, in order "to watch it was interesting."
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As the producer of the film, Sergei Chliyants, noted that two people lived in Mayakovsky: one of them is a brilliant poet, the other in search of God, love and the meaning of life. "The poet is watching a man, conflicts arise between them. The result should be a fairly modern picture, today in Russia, alas, they do not make films about a suffering man."
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According to the director, the script was written for a very long time - about five years, but now the project is already in the stage of active preparation and shooting should begin at the end of this year. The release of the picture is scheduled for rental in 2014.
