Freak (movie)

Freak
Freak
Genre	comedy
Producer	Roman Kachanov
In the main; cast	Nikita Vysotsky ; Joanna stingray
Film company	THAT "Screen" ; Firm "Caravan"
Duration	92 min.
A country	Russia
Tongue
Year	1993
IMDb

"Freak" - a feature film by Roman Kachanova ^[1] ^[2] .

Content

Story

By genre this is a fairy tale film for adults. It tells about the adventures of a baby born at the age of thirty. He has the unique ability to immediately assimilate any information gathered from various sources. For the baby organizes a hunt for the KGB , at the end of joining forces with the CIA .

Cast

Nikita Vysotsky - baby "Freak"
Joanna Stingray - Jane
Valery Storozhik - surgeon
Alexey Zolotnitsky - Colonel
Vyacheslav Innocent (Junior) - captain
Gennady Bortnikov - Stepan Ivanovich Volkonsky
Elena Kononenko - the colonel's mother
Konstantin Markov - Stanley
Sergey Lebedev - therapist
Anatoly Obukhov - Mosgaz
Arthur Nishyonkin - Golovako, stoker
Gennady Matveev - Fisher
Vasily Alekseenko - businessman
Vladimir Prokhorov - customs officer

Film crew

Director: Roman Kachanov
Screenwriter: Ivan Okhlobystin
Operator: Valentin Khalturin
Artists: Yuri Zelenov , Peter the Prophets
Composer: Igor Zubkov

Interesting Facts

In addition to the compositions of Joanna Stingray (“Modern world” and “Baby Baby Bala Bala”), the film features the composition of Louis Armstrong “Hello, Brother” and the Soviet Olympic song from the Olympics-80 (“Goodbye, our sweet bear!”)

Criticism

The picture of Roman Kachanov “Freak”, shot according to the excellent script of Ivan Okhlobystin, is clearly breaking out of this severely serious series of film tales about the struggle between good and evil. It would not be desirable to draw inappropriate parallels, but if “Liber” is a sample of absurdist western comedy exploring areas that are far from funny, then “Freak” is an excellent example of Russian comedy mystification, proving that there is nothing funnier than scary. A freak (Nikita Vysotsky) is born in a provincial maternity hospital at the age of "about thirty years" and begins his journey through life. He has the unique gift to take on the image of anyone who draws his interest, from Count Monte Cristo to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesus Christ. Naturally, he is hunted by a KGB maniac. The freak, as expected, falls in love, but not before reading the revelations of the Kama Sutra. Arriving in America, he recalls that he had already been here, "but then there were rocks here, and I was a dinosaur." That is, before us - a true freak of all times and peoples. But most of all, Kachanova and Okhlobystin’s “Freak” is good in the absence of all kinds of pathos and claims for a place in world cultural tradition. It is made as if with a fright from what is happening around, but it is so easy and so fun that there is not a trace left of this fright in the final

Inna Tkachenko, “There is nothing more fun than the struggle between good and evil,” Kommersant newspaper, 02.06.1994 ^[3]

Creation

“A bit from the memoirs of the cult Russian director Roman Kachanov (“ DMB ”,“ Down House ”, etc.)”

If neither the American producer Menachem Golan , I would [...] hardly become a director. Golan then shot in Moscow 90th Chicago 30th. The film “Call - rabid dog”. It was the winter of 1991-1992. The scenery of the film Golan stood in the pavilions of Ostankino , in the 10th and 11th studios, if I'm not mistaken. [...] I [...] launched the movie “Freak”, but production was hampered by two things: first, I needed the main character - an authentic American American, and second, (Soviet rubles then turned into paper) very much needed money. And for the first, and for the second, I went to Menachem Golan. I found out where his room was in Ostankino, and I went to him without any recommendations or doubts. [...] I was then 24 years old. [...] So, I told the Golan that I needed his actress and, due to economic difficulties, his money for my film. [...] I showed him the typed script in Russian and said that, if necessary, they would make a translation for me ... Golan answered that it was not necessary, that he already understood me and did not take the script from me ... On the first point (on an American actress) he called his girls out of their dressing room, introduced me and said that they were supporting actresses and, if I offered them the main role, he thinks none of them will refuse. [...] On the second point (on money), he replied that he would not give money to me, but he could help me in another. He said that he would not make out the pavilions and scenery until the installation of his film, that is, another eight months. The scenery will be in the pavilions in an unassembled, untouched form with furnishing props (furniture, carpets, fake flowers in vases, and so on). [...] It was about ten sets of decorations: a two-story bar decoration, decorations of luxury villas and apartments. He said that I can take pictures of them for free and use the lighting equipment. I politely said: “Thank you and goodbye ...” I didn’t have any decorations! .. Why the scenery, if he didn’t give me the money for the film itself? .. But after a while there were sponsors for $ 8,000 (now This is ridiculous to say, but then it was a super significant amount). In general, with the sponsorship of 8 thousand and free golanovskiy pavilions, my project “with a squeak”, but grew together. [...] I didn’t take any of the Golanov protégés - actresses. I was very annoyed that he did not support my film financially, but only threw a handout to some pavilions and scenery. I also took on the main female role a quite authentic American rock-singer Joanna Stingray , who was then living in Moscow ... And started shooting ...

Much later, I realized that the gift that the Golan made to me ... This gift was the only real material link that allowed me to begin and complete my debut. [...] The old man, after the first and last ten minutes of our acquaintance, with his decorations and pavilions, blocked me 80–90% of the budget of my film. Then, due to my childhood and inexperience, I didn’t even appreciate it, didn’t even think about it ^[4] .

Notes

↑ About the film in the newspaper "Kommersant"
↑ Fragment of the article by Alla Bossart in the Capital magazine, 1994
↑ Kommersant 02.06.1994 “There is nothing more fun than the struggle between good and evil”
“A bit from the memoirs of the cult Russian director Roman Kachanov (“ DMB ”,“ Down House ”, etc.)” // Medium.com. Aug 6, 2017

Links

[1] About the film in the newspaper "Kommersant"

[2] Fragment of the article by Alla Bossart in the Capital magazine, 1994

[3] Kommersant 02.06.1994 “There is nothing more fun than the struggle between good and evil”

[4] “A bit from the memoirs of the cult Russian director Roman Kachanov (“ DMB ”,“ Down House ”, etc.)” // Medium.com. Aug 6, 2017