“Russia 88”
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Rossiya 88
Russia 88
Russia
2009
104 min.
35 mm
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A gang of skinheads ‘Russia 88’ are filming propaganda videos in order to place it on the internet (Youtube). At the same time the camera records the life of the gang, they become accustomed to this and stop paying attention to it. The leader of the gang
‘Blade’ discovers that his sister is dating a Caucasian guy. This family drama develops into a tragedy. The plot converges with the story of Romeo and Juliet. Although, the main character of the film is the savage and intolerant Tibalt.
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Docudrama
– a film based on real facts and events, documentary interviews are used in the film.
Yet this is not an ordinary docudrama. The plot of the film comes from the imagination of the author. The imaginary story is based on the facts of today’s life in Russia:
- Only original Nazi music is used in the film, all disks were bought in the ‘Gorbushka’ shopping centre in Moscow;
- the larger part of the Nazi gear was obtained from a Russian internet shop.
- All the clothes of the characters in the film come from a real shop in Moscow, including tshirts with slogans such as ‘I am Russian’ and the quote ’14 words’ from the Nazi ideologist of David Lane;
- the bureaucrat who was played by Andrey Merzlikin speaks using phrases from the correspondence of two Nazi-leaders whose electronic post was broken by a team of anti-fascist hackers;
- periodically, on ultra-right forums and sites in the internet zone .ru instructions concerning street-fighting are placed. The main character Blade reads out one of these texts word for word to the camera in a balaclava mask;
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- on the site youtube.com it’s possible to download clips of Nazis that are both documentary in nature and also staged. There is a very wide assortment of Nazi video material: documentary and staged clips of fights and murders, comic scenes in costume, propaganda messages, celebrations, ceremonial initiations, outings, training in shooting and hand-to-hand combat. Some of the shots from our film are directly taken from the ‘creativity’ of Russian skinheads;
- murder, pogroms, terror acts, which are stated in police reports form Vladivostok to
Kondopoga and from Saint Petersburg to Verkhnaya Pyshma are not fantasies of the script writer;
- and commonplace xenophobia is also a reality, a large part of our society is racist.
Interviews on the Pushkin Square in Moscow and in a Moscow Region suburban train are true and authentic documentary evidence.
PS: Our film is the result of the efforts of a large number of people who have been working for an idea. Not so much as an idea for a film but for ideas of freedom, equality and brotherhood.
The main performers:
Abraham - Mikhail Polyakov
Needle - Nikolai Machulsky
Borman - Andrey Merzlikin
Goody - Anton Kuznetsov
Master - Artur Yenikeev
Small - Ivan Ignatenko
Mum - Yelena Tokmakova-Gorbushkina
Marta - Marina Orel
Father - Alexander Makarov
Porkie - Mikhail Pavlik
Robert - Kazbek Kibizov
Sister - Vera Strokova
Local Police Constable - Petr Barancheev
Blade - Petr Fedorov
Featured Persons (actors with words):
Arsen - Georgy Totibadze
Grand Mother - Nina Fedorova
Brother - Alexander Spiridonov
Knight - Oleg Sokolov
Voronezh - Vasily Troshin
Clerk - Alexander Sokolovsky
Abraham's mother - Tatiana Fadeeva
Young skinhead - Petr Vlasov
Junkie - Denis Kulyutnikov
Guard - Dmitry Bolysov
Teen - Azamat Nigmanov
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Tanya - Olga Smirnova
Auntie - Ludmila Ganzha
Aunt - Alexandra Nikolaeva
Executive Producers - Giya Lordkipanidze, Anna Mikhalkova, Alexander Rodnyansky,
Alexander Shein
Producers – Pavel Bardin, Petr Fedorov, Vasily Soloviev
Script-Writer
– Pavel Bardin
Director - Pavel Bardin
Director of Filming – Sergey Danduryan
Cameramen – Alexander Koloskov, Eduard Semin
Executive Directors
– Vasily Soloviev, Artur Yenikeev, Vasily Troshin
Sound Producers – Kirill Simakov, Alexander Turkunov
Sound Engineer – Alexey Zobov
Composer
– Petr Fedorov
Stage Artists – Constantin Vitavsky, Kirill Petrovsky, Maria Sokolova, Oksana Fominova
Stage Directors – Sergey Belikov, Vladimir Gusev, Yegor Vasiliev
Props - Alexandra Kravchenko-Berezhnaya, Nikita Kuzin, Sergey Prishepo, Yegor
Vasiliev
Costume Artist - Alena Alenkina
Costumier
– Yekaterina Yermakova, Svetlana Khokhlova
Make-up Artist
– Tatiana Fadeeva
Acting Assistants – Maria Karpovich, Alexandra Lukyanova
Location Managers – Alexey Ternovsky, Dmitry Pisaruk, Artur Yenikeev, Vasiily Troshin
Manager, Director
– Yevgeny Ulyasov
Commissioning producer – Philipp Pastukhov
Plan2Play LLC
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