"Raw Firewood" - the Russian low-budget film of 2007. The first and in August 2013 the only feature film produced in the Kaluga region [1] .
| Raw firewood | |
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| Producer | Sergey Varitsky |
| Producer | Sergey Varitsky Evgeny Churkin |
| Author script | Konstantin Syngaevsky |
| In the main cast | Igor Kornilov (Kolya) Larisa Fanaskova (Kolya's wife) Leonid Klets (businessman) |
| Operator | Pavel Polishchuk |
| Composer | Vladimir Chuchelov |
| Film company | OST |
| Duration | 76 min |
| Budget | 500 thousand rubles |
| A country |  Russia |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 2007 |
Content
Story
The village machine operator Kolya, sitting without a salary, receives an order from a visiting businessman to prepare several cubes of wood. Under this unsecured order, he takes vodka and food on credit at a local store and collects a future team in his house. The next day, nothing happens, and the most efficient feller of the forest leaves to work in the city. Kolya is trying to “revive” his chainsaw, he cannot and falls asleep with a hangover. A day later, he carries a chainsaw to the workshop, but there they turned off the electricity. Every day there is a reason to drink free moonshine. A few days later, a businessman with a companion arrives, nothing permits a conversation with Kolya's breathing fume; businessman is leaving with nothing.
To earn at least some money, Kolya unscrews and sells a motor from a collective farm tractor to visitors to Caucasians. But Caucasians pay with vodka, and Kolya again can’t get out of the vicious circle.
The loan in the store has not been repaid; his wife and daughter are leaving Kolya. Kolya makes an attempt to leave to work in the city, but, having met his neighbor’s son at the exit from the village, he still cannot leave it.
Creation History
In the early 2000s, the Obninsk entrepreneur Sergei Varitsky read the script for the Konstantin Syngaevsky feature film "Raw Firewood" in the magazine "Screenplays" and decided to make his first feature film [2] . In 2007, a film with a budget of 500,000 rubles was shot. The main roles were played by the actors of the Kaluga Drama Theater , the supporting roles were played by unprofessional Obninsk actors [3] . The real buildings of the Kaluga villages Karpovo, Kollontai and Zagryazye served as scenery [4] .
In early 2008, Varitsky announced the shooting of the film “Ivanov” about the Lyudinov’s anti-fascist underground during World War II [5] [1] [6] during the year, but was unable to launch the picture, probably due to the outbreak of the global economic crisis . In early 2010, Varitsky repeatedly announced the filming of two films during the year - “Raw Firewood-2” (the continuation of “Raw Firewood”) and “Ivanov” [7] , but did not start again.
Awards and Prizes
- 2007 - Prize of the Governor of the Kaluga Region "For achievements in culture and art" in the nomination "Cinematography" [8]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Lapygina Julia. In the summer, they will start shooting the second Kaluga film // Komsomolskaya Pravda - Kaluga. - March 19, 2008.
- ↑ Sobachkin Alexey . Correspondent hour // Radio Liberty . - October 19, 2002.
- ↑ Timofeeva Olga, Sobachkin Alexey . Self-made director // Russian reporter . - October 16, 2007. - No. 20 (20) .
- ↑ Fedorova Anastasia. "Raw firewood" from the province // MK in Kaluga. - 2007. - No. 2 . (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Another picture of the Obninsk film director // You and Us . - March 21, 2008.
- ↑ Films about the heroes of the anti-fascist underground will be shot in the Kaluga Region // REGNUM . - March 12, 2008.
- ↑ “Orthodox cinema is aimed at cultivating the soul”: Interview with Sergey Varitsky // New Wednesday +. - February 11, 2010.
- ↑ Presentation of prizes of the governor of the region “For achievements in culture and art”, the literary prize named after M. Tsvetaeva, the literary prize named after V.D. Berestova // My city. - December 20, 2007. (inaccessible link)
Bibliography
- Sobachkin Alexey . Correspondent hour // Radio Liberty . - October 19, 2002.
- Sobachkin Alexey . Kaluga entrepreneurs filmed a movie // Radio Liberty . - September 29, 2007.
- Timofeeva Olga, Sobachkin Alexey . Self-made director // Russian reporter . - October 16, 2007. - No. 20 (20) .
- Fedorova Anastasia. "Raw firewood" from the province // MK in Kaluga. - 2007. - No. 2 . (inaccessible link)
- Sobachkin Alexey . What is the use of raw firewood // Novaya Gazeta . - November 21, 2007. Archived on September 4, 2008.
- Sergey Varitsky: Where did the wood come from // Obninsk Week. - December 21, 2007.
- Kolosova Oksana. How Kaluga turned into Hollywood // KP40.RU. - August 27, 2008.