Sky in diamonds

Sky in diamonds
Sky in diamonds
Genre	Crime comedy
Producer	Vasily Pichul
Producer	Raisa Fomina ; Oleg Botogov ; Sergey Chliyants ; Sylvain Bursten
Author; script	Maria Khmelik ; Vasily Pichul
In the main; cast	Nikolay Fomenko ; Angelica Varum ; Alla Sigalova ; Garik Sukachev ; Valentine Gaft ; Alexander Semchev ; Anna Mikhalkova ; Sergey Gabrielyan ; Andrey Bronnikov ; Vladimir Tolokonnikov
Operator	Andrey Makarov
Composer	Alexey Shelygin
Film company	SoyuzKino , ; Intersinema-Art ; Parnasse International , together with the Goskino of Russia and Arte France Cinema
Duration	100 min
A country	Russia ; France
Language
Year	1999
IMDb	ID 0163248

“Sky in Diamonds” is a crime comedy by Vasily Pichul , which premiered at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival in 1999 ^[1] .

According to the director, most of the money was spent filming an opera episode ^[2] .

Content

1 plot
2 Cast
3 Filmmakers
4 Russian film crew
5 Awards
6 notes
7 References

Story

The genre of the film is difficult to determine - from the comedy of the absurd to the crime drama .

The main character of the comedy action movie, Anton Chekhov, grew up in an orphanage and dreams of becoming a writer, but is engaged in the robbery of safes. His fantastic book was the beginning of an affair with the girl Vika ^[3] .

Cast

Nikolay Fomenko - Anton Chekhov
Alla Sigalova - Nina
Angelica Varum - Vika
Alexander Semchev - Igor Koscheev
Valentin Gaft - Deputy Minister
Anna Mikhalkova - Zina
Garik Sukachev - Copernicus
Anna Kireeva - Popova
Maria Kireeva - Klimova
Boris Shuvalov - publisher
Roman Radov - poet Lobikov
Vladimir Tolokonnikov - President of Russia
Andrey Bronnikov - “Queen”
Philip Kirkorov - Cockroach
Sergey Gabrielyan - doctor
Alexey Yakubov - Lutov
Alexander Rezalin - Ichthyander
Elena Bushueva - Aelita
Valentin Varetsky - Colonel
Victor Vladislavlev - Colonel
Alexander Borovikov - 3rd Colonel
Andrey Batukhanov - the main mafiosi
Huat Akhmetov - Mafiosi
Valery Derkach - mafiosi
Ali Ibragimov - Mafiosi
Vladimir Karpovich - mafiosi
Maxim Mamatsashvili - mafiosi
Timothy Fokin - Mafiosi
Valentina Berezutskaya - Janitor
Natalya Potapova - teacher
Natalya Pozdnyakova - director of the orphanage
Ilya Utkin - agent
Mikhail Semin - partner's agent
Elena Boginskaya - make - up artist
Kristina Kravchenko - make-up assistant
Natalya Kolmykova - TV journalist
Evgeny Batov - action movie
Victor Gushchin - action movie
Gennady Leskiv - action movie
Andrey Tyugay - action
Alexander Fedin - Action
Inna Sukhareva - duty at the hospital
Oleg Demidov - ensign in prison
Evgeny Teterov - publisher security guard
Oleg Lagodinsky - hairdresser
Evgeny Stychkin - Inquirer
Svetlana Shchipanskaya - radiologist

Movie Makers

Stage Director: Vasily Pichul
Script writer: Maria Khmelik
- with the participation of Boris Babkin
Operator: Andrey Makarov
Composer: Alexey Shelygin
Artists: Andrei Makarov , Vasily Pichul
- with the participation of Vladimir Yarin and Alexei Leonovich
Sound Engineer: Jan Potocki
Costume Designer: Ekaterina Kotova
Edited by Olga Grinshpun
Director of the picture: Nikita Klebanov
Producers: Raisa Fomina , Oleg Botogov , Sergey Chliyants , Sylvain Bursten
French Producer Consultant: Joel Chapron
Manufacturing company: SoyuzKino , Intersinema-Art , Parnasse International , together with the Goskino of Russia and Arte France Cinema

Implementation Rights: Pygmalion Production Film Studio Ltd.

Russian film crew

Director: Yuri Kryuchkov
Assistant director for actors: Olga Loginova , Vitaly Vedenin
Assistant Director: Vera Dubacheva
Installation Assistant: Tatyana Markelova
1st operator assistants: Oleg Lagodinsky , Sergey Lopatin
2nd assistant operator: Alexey Glukhov
Music Editor: Konstantin Shevelev
Recording music: Gennady Papin , Arkady Gurvich
Symphony Orchestra named after S. V. Rachmaninov
- Conductor: Andrey Chistyakov

Rewards

1999 Golden Aries Award for Best Music ^[3] ^[4]
The cameraman Andrei Makarov was nominated for the Nika Prize ^[5]
Special mention by the jury of the film press “For the Diamond Hardness of the Director's Style” at the Kinoshok Film Festival (Anapa, September 1999) ^[6]

Notes

↑ ANAPSKY “KINOSHOKING” , Moscow Komsomolets No. 18190 (September 21, 1999). Date of appeal November 13, 2013. “The bright, so-called commercial, block at the festival was presented by the films“ Sky in Diamonds ”by Vasily Pichul (the picture was already shown at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival).”
↑ Dmitry Savelyev . The plot is just an excuse for Vasily's songs. Pichul directed a musical and dreams of an opera , Vedomosti (10/19/2005). Date of treatment November 12, 2013.
↑ ¹ ² Valery Kichin. On air: "SKY IN DIAMONDS" (neopr.) . Russian Newspaper (02/03/2010). Date of treatment November 12, 2013.
↑ “SKY IN DIAMONDS”, Russia-France, 1999, col., 115 min. (unspecified) . Date of treatment November 13, 2013.
↑ The best Russian operators of commercials (neopr.) (Inaccessible link) . Adme Date of treatment November 12, 2013. Archived November 13, 2013.
↑ Venice of the Kuban spill Just ended in Anapa, the VIII Open Film Festival of the CIS and Baltic countries is increasingly featured under the name "festival, formerly known as the" Kinoshok "." , Kommersant Number 169 from 17-09-99 Lane 009. Date of appeal November 13, 2013. “For the rest, Russia is not ashamed. Another fruit of creative cooperation (between Russia and France), Vasily Pichul’s rich and beautiful film “Sky in Diamonds” fully justifies the wording with which he received a special mention from the jury of the film press - “for the diamond hardness of the director's style.”

Links

Sky in Diamonds on the Internet Movie Database

Chekhov strikes back. Premiere of Vasily Pichul's film “The Sky in Diamonds” // Kommersant, no. 134 from 30-07-99 Strip 009
Breitman A. S. Traditional values of Russian culture in the postmodern era (based on the material of the “new” Russian cinema) // Izvestia RGPU im. A.I. Herzen. 2004. Vol. 4 No. 7.
07/28/1999 At the closing of the Moscow Film Festival, the premiere of Vasily Pichul's film “The Sky in Diamonds”. // Igor MANTSOV. The latest history of domestic cinema. 1986-2000. Cinema and context. T. VII. St. Petersburg, Session, 2004
SKY IN DIAMONDS // Encyclopedia of Cinema. 2010.

[1] ANAPSKY “KINOSHOKING” , Moscow Komsomolets No. 18190 (September 21, 1999). Date of appeal November 13, 2013. “The bright, so-called commercial, block at the festival was presented by the films“ Sky in Diamonds ”by Vasily Pichul (the picture was already shown at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival).”

[2] Dmitry Savelyev . The plot is just an excuse for Vasily's songs. Pichul directed a musical and dreams of an opera , Vedomosti (10/19/2005). Date of treatment November 12, 2013.

[rg10-3] ¹ ² Valery Kichin. On air: "SKY IN DIAMONDS" (neopr.) . Russian Newspaper (02/03/2010). Date of treatment November 12, 2013.

[4] “SKY IN DIAMONDS”, Russia-France, 1999, col., 115 min. (unspecified) . Date of treatment November 13, 2013.

[5] The best Russian operators of commercials (neopr.) (Inaccessible link) . Adme Date of treatment November 12, 2013. Archived November 13, 2013.

[6] Venice of the Kuban spill Just ended in Anapa, the VIII Open Film Festival of the CIS and Baltic countries is increasingly featured under the name "festival, formerly known as the" Kinoshok "." , Kommersant Number 169 from 17-09-99 Lane 009. Date of appeal November 13, 2013. “For the rest, Russia is not ashamed. Another fruit of creative cooperation (between Russia and France), Vasily Pichul’s rich and beautiful film “Sky in Diamonds” fully justifies the wording with which he received a special mention from the jury of the film press - “for the diamond hardness of the director's style.”