Yakutian film Nuuccha receives its premiere at Kinotavr
2021-09-22 13:34
Yakutian film Nuuccha received its premiere on September 20 as part of the main competition at the 32nd Kinotavr Film Festival. On stage at Sochi's Winter Theater were director and screenwriter Vladimir Munkuev, creative producer Boris Khlebnikov, actors Irina Mikhailova, Sergei Gilev and Pavel Kolesov, and producer Albert Ryabyshev.
"Thank you so much for being here," said Vladimir Munkuev from the stage. "I'm not a fan of drawn-out introductions to films. Let's watch the movie, then discuss it. I hope you enjoy it." "While you're all taking your seats, I'll tell you how this all came about," continued the film's producer Albert Ryabyshev. "In the summer of 2020, we read a script by Vladimir Munkuev that came highly recommended by Boris Khlebnikov. Then, we were launched into the crazy, bizarre adventure that was COVID, restrictions, and the industry grinding to a halt. And there we were, two Moscow-based producers wanting to shoot a film about Yakutia. Movies are always a strange, interesting, emotional journey, of course, and I'm truly grateful to my friends and colleagues Valeriy Fedorovich, Evgeniy Nikishov, Sasha Plotnikov and Andrey Ushatsky that we set off on this mad adventure just because we wanted to, so you could see this story on screen."
Nuuccha is a psychological drama based on the works of the Polish writer and ethnographer Wacław Sieroszewski. In late nineteenth-century Yakutia, Habji and his wife Keremes have just buried their second child, and are preparing for a harsh winter of famine. Instead of giving them the help he promised, the local prince foists a Russian convict, Kostya, on the family, who the law decrees must live in the same house as them. They initially struggle to find a common language, and the convict soon decides that he will be the master of the house from now on.
The film won the Grand Prix in the prestigious East of the West competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and was also presented at the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event in Tallinn, where it won a Work in Progress Award in the Post Production Awards category.
Genre: Psychological drama Production: Look Film, Place of Power (Mesto Sily), R-Media Producers: Boris Khlebnikov, Alexander Plotnikov, Evgeniy Nikishov, Valeriy Fedorovich, Albert Ryabishev, Andrey Ushatskiy Lead producers: Anna Tikhonova, Anastasia Kulikova Screenwriter: Vladimir Munkuev Director: Vladimir Munkuev Director of photography: Denis Klebleev Editor: Ivan Lebedev Sound designer: Alexander Kopeikin Production designer: Roman Arutyunyan Costume designer: Ekaterina Shaposhnikova Makeup artist: Dmitry Mestnikov Actors: Sergei Gilev, Pavel Kolesov, Irina Mikhailova, Innokenty Lukovtsev, Danil Osipov, Zoya Bagynanova, Nikolai Protasov, and more.