Minnesota (film)

The Budniki brothers, the main stars of the freelance hockey team Diesel, convincingly beat the Chemist. The elder brother Michael is slightly insane, drives a red Japanese car, whose brakes are broken, and is torn between his wife and her lover very similar to her. The younger Igor (the elder brother calls him the child’s nickname “Cap”), shy in front of fans and women in general. The visiting recruiter Gataulin seduces the illusory Enhael contract of the younger, who refuses to go without the senior.

• Sergey Gorobchenko - Mikhail Budnik
• Anton Pampushny - Igor Budnik
• Vitaliy Khaev - Gataulin
• Alexey Shevchenkov - father of the Budnik brothers
• Lidia Matasova - mother of the Budnik brothers
• Anna Ukolova - Mikhail's lover
• Tatyana Kopylova - wife of Mikhail
• Andrey Gurkin - OMON, classmate of the Budnik brothers
• Natalya Tereshkova is a fan
• Andrey Belmach - sports agent

• Stage Director: Andrey Proshkin
• Script writer - Alexander Mindadze
• Director of photography - Yuri Raysky
• Set Designer: Yuri Karasik
• Composer - Mark Erman
• General Producer - Ruben Dishdishyan
• Producers - Aram Movsesyan, Sergey Danielyan

The original script for the film was called "The Breakaway." Then the scriptwriter Alexander Mindadze began to shoot his own picture , which he gave this name ^[1] as a director in another scenario. The film Proshkin became known as "Minnesota." At first it was just the name of the state, then something unrealistic, but incredibly desirable ^[2] . The director tried to maintain the expressive style of Mindadze, his strange, rhythmic, inverse dialogue. This determined the style of the film - and the rhythm, and a kind of over-charged, and even the way the actors exist ^[1] . The director speaks of “separation” as a state of mind: “Today they say:“ I have gone to separation ”. But there is also a gap: the ties between people are torn, the chain of generations, culture is torn, the feeling of self in the world is torn. This also has a metaphor. A window was opened for our heroes - and a hurricane blew into it. They so want everything to work out, so they want to make this spurt, that their whole life takes place at an elevated degree. Mindadze and I talked a lot about the “podium”, about elation over ordinary life. Therefore, our actors exist in some kind of artificial rhythm, which one does not like - they call the picture hysterical, while others, on the contrary, see the point in this ” ^[2] . For the role of an older brother, the director invited Sergei Gorobchenko, who is similar in temperament to his hero. The role of the younger brother went to the young actor Anton Pampushny, who at that time played one role in the movie. The hockey skills of the actors were taught by Eduard Ivanov - a hockey defender, Olympic champion.

The shooting took place in Yaroslavl, Rybinsk and Kostroma ^[1] .

• 2009 - Amur Autumn Film and Theater Festival in Blagoveshchensk ^{[3] [2]}
  • Grand Prix them. V. Priyemova
  • Prize for the best script - Alexander Mindadze
  • Prize for Best Actor - Sergey Gorobchenko
• 2009 - Sputnik over Poland Festival of Russian Films in Warsaw, participation in the New Cinema program - Andrey Proshkin

• " Minnesota " on the Internet Movie Database
• Minnesota Online Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema
• Proshkina beckoned to Minnesota Moskovsky Komsomolets, No. 25131, August 15, 2009
• American dream with a Russian accent (about the film "Minnesota") Cinematheque.ru November 5, 2009
• Andrei Proshkin’s film “Minnesota” in Alexander Gordon’s program “Closed Screening ” 1tv.ru March 11, 2011