At the briefing held before the 35th Moscow International Film Festival, its permanent president Nikita Mikhalkov made a speech. He shared his immediate creative plans and, in particular, talked about the fact that he is currently planning to mount a television series based on his full-length film "Sunstroke". According to the director, the television version will consist of four series.
Background to the film and the series Sunstroke
The film “Sunstroke” is based on the self-titled story of Ivan Bunin and his diary story-record “Cursed Days”. Filming began only last year, although Nikita Mikhalkov was going to turn to Bunin's work in the 1980s. The film will premiere in September this year at the international film festival in Vladivostok.
In the fall of this year, the release of the picture into a wide distribution of films is also planned.
To make the film as close as possible to Russian life and original, the director invited young and not very well-known actors to participate in the filming of the film. The roles involved are the Latvian actor Martins Kalita, who plays the role of Poruchik, and Victoria Solovyova as the Stranger, who is a student of one of the theater universities in Moscow. These are the first roles of actors in a big movie.
