Directed by Konstantin Fam Director Konstantin Fam | Movies Shoes, Brutus, Violin | |
Produced by Konstantin Fam
Alex A. Petruhin
Yuri Igrusha
Ian Fisher Romanovsky
Egor Odintsov Written by Konstantin Fam
Maxim Voskoboynikov
Sergei Rachlin Production
company Konstantin Fam Production
Russian Film Group
Ark Pictures Country Russia
Belarus
Ukraine
Poland
France
Czech Republic
Israel Characters Red head prostitute, Ada, Rosanna, Klara, Man #2, Leo Cast Filipp Yankovsky, Oksana Fandera, Mariya Zykova, Anna Churina, Vladimir Koshevoy | ||
Witnesses (film series) or Thе trilogy "Witnesses" - historical drama directed by Konstantin Fam, consisting of three novellas "Shoes", "Brutus" and "Violin", united by a common concept and dedicated to the memory of Holocaust victims.
Contents
Concept
The aim of the project is the story of the tragic events of 1933–1945 years and a reminder to the younger generation of the tragedy with the aim of preventing it in the future.
Konstantin Fam:
-This film I dedicate to the memory of their relatives who were killed or went missing during the Second World War, as well as the memory of the six million victims of the Holocaust. I wholeheartedly wish that such a tragedy does not happen again.
The project objectives
History of creation
In 2012 it was created the short film "Shoes", dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust, which was warmly welcomed by the audience and the festival was a success. The film's director Konstantin Fam, decided to develop the idea of "unusual sight" to the Holocaust and to create a full-length Kinoalmanah, which in addition to "shoes" will include two more novels - "Brutus" and "Violin".
Presentation the Trilogy was held at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, which is also under the Short Film Corner, were shown the presentation materials to the novel "Brutus."
The producer group the Trilogy includes filmmakers from Russia, Belarus, Israel and the United States.
November 9 at the 34th American Film Market held a unique special pitching new projects. Kinoalmanah "Witnesses" with the support ROSKINO became the only Russian project, presented at the pitching.
"Shoes"
"Shoes" The film is the first novel of the Trilogy "Witnesses". The film is set in the 30s-40s of the twentieth century and tells the story of a pair of women's shoes, which story begins in a shop window and was tragically cut short in a mass grave footwear concentration camp "Auschwitz." In the story "Shoes" is the main character shoes - women's shoes. In the picture is not visible persons and the lack of dialogue. The entire film is accompanied by an original symphonic music.
Status: finished film
The shooting of the film took place on the territory of Belarus, Poland, Czech Republic and France. The picture was a success of the festival, both in Russia and abroad.
The only Russian short film nominated for the Academy Award in 2013.
"Brutus"
Events in the film "Brutus" (from a story by Ludvik Ashkenazy) are shown through the dog's eyes.This particular view allows you to see the different human values. War, racial laws, human cruelty are separated a German shepherd named Brutus with his beloved mistress. From kennel it as a watchdog gets to a concentration camp, where in the process of training and psychological manipulation of a harmless pet turns into a killer dog.
Status: finished film
There it was reported that the main role in the film can fulfill one of Hollywood actresses, do not hide their Jewish ancestry - Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman June 27, 2013 "Brutus" won a screenwriting pitching the 35th Moscow International Film Festival and received a grant from the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Of the 418 applications submitted for the competition by the selection committee of the Youth Center made the long list of 22 projects of full-length feature films and television projects and 23 short film project. Special guest and expert Pitching was Nikita Mikhalkov.
The script for "Brutus" wrote Sergei Rachlin - the first Russian journalist, received the Association of the Hollywood Foreign Press, today - the executive secretary of the award "Golden Globe".
Film premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival in June 2016.
"The Violin"
World of third novel "Violin" entirely revolves around the unique musical instrument. The third story, "Violin" (from a story by Yossi Tavora) tells about the amazing violin fate, passed through all the horrors of war. The story begins in a violin workshop in Nuremberg, where at the beginning of the XX century, was created a violin, intended as a gift to the Jewish boy, and ends with a hundred years later concert at the Wailing Wall.
Status: Production