At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012, Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova, together with Sergei Chliyants and Gia Lordkipanizde, announced that they were beginning to search for sponsors to create the Mayakovsky drama about the life and love of the great Soviet poet.
Six years ago, the contemporary Moscow theater actress, known for films like Doctor Zhivago, Land of the Deaf, Children of the Arbat, and more, was looking for a script for a potential new role. She fell into the hands of a text written by Alexander Schein and Arkady Vaksberg: the plot for the future film about Vladimir Mayakovsky. The meeting with the director Shane was not only creative, but also personal luck for the actress: Chulpan became the wife of Alexander, gave birth to his daughter. The last few years, the creative couple has been collecting additional material for the film about Mayakovsky. In particular, Khamatova goes to consultations and talks with Inna Gens-Katanyan, a relative of Lily Brik, the fatal lover of the poet.
The script is based on Arkady Vaksberg’s book “The Riddle and Magic of Lily Brik”, which caused a lot of noise at the time and caused the author to conflict with relatives of Lily Yurievna. When the novel was released for re-circulation, Weisberg removed several chapters from the story. It is still unknown whether their content was included in the scenario of the future picture.
At the Cannes Film Festival, Chulpan Khamatova and Alexander Shein emphasized that the life and love of the great Soviet poet will be at the center of the narrative of the film. In particular, his difficult relationship with two iconic women: Lily Brik and Tatyana Yakovleva. The proposal to play the muse of the poet, the initiator of the most piquant fact in his biography, is considered by Khamatova herself. The role of Yakovleva, the Parisian love of Mayakovsky, according to preliminary data, "tries on" the top model with a world name Natalia Vodyanova.
The creators of the film "Mayakovsky" promise that viewers will be able to see the drama in 2014, despite the fact that the issue of financing the project has not yet been fully resolved. At this stage, there is a search for foreign producers and a search for an actor for a major male role. The director has already noticed that "it will definitely not be Bezrukov."
