Buddha's Little Finger (film)

Buddha's Little Finger
Directed by Tony Pemberton
Produced by
  • Karsten Stöter
  • Benny Drechsel
  • Martin Paul-Hus
Screenplay by
Based on "Chapayev and Void"
by Victor Pelevin
Starring
Music by Delphine Measroch
Cinematography Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron
Release dates
  • September 1, 2015 (2015-09-01)
Running time
 84 minutes[3][4]
Country
Language English
Budget €2.2 millions[5]

Buddha's Little Finger — English-language feature film directed by Tony Pemberton and starring Toby Kebbell. Screenplay is based on Victor Pelevin's 1996 novel Chapayev and Void, which is known in the US as Buddha's Little Finger and in the UK as Clay Machine Gun. Genre of the film is called as drama,[7] psychological romance,[8] arthouse,[9] thriller.[10] Release in Germany was scheduled on September 1, 2015.[7]

Synopsis

Unemployed Russian poet Pyotr Voyd arrested by KGB during the 1991 Soviet August Coup, by tortures he loses consciousness and appears in 1919 post-revolutionary Russia, where he fights on the same side with the legendary Red cavalry commander Chapaev and his machine-gunner Anka. The strange memory lapses all the time throw him to the bandits' Moscow of nineties, then to the Russian Civil War back and forth, again and again. Pyotr learns how long may raging two winds of changes simultaneously in the head of one and the same person.

Cast

Production

Funding

In 2006 film was officially selected for the third Berlinale Co-Production Market.[11] As Mikheil Kalatozishvili early produced the film[12] notes in 2008—2009, the filming start is delayed because of financial difficulties on the side of Western partners.[13][14] In 2012 Tony Pemberton tells, that when Kalatozishvili died they were to get a million dollars from the Russian film funds but finally he wouldn't get grants because he is not Russian.[15]

Title

Main article: Chapayev and Void

The translation of Pelevin's novel by Andrew Bromfield for UK has name "The Clay Machine Gun",[16] and for US — "Budda's Little Finger".[17][18] According to the translator Andreas Tretner he had invented the German name of the book — "Buddhas kleiner Finger"(German),[19] and as "The Clay Machine Gun" was less successful name, Americans had chosen their one.[20] Pemberton's film has the same name.

Screenplay

External image
Screenplay of "Buddha's Little Finger" at Karine Vanasse's Instagram

As reported in 2011 by "Правда.Ру" screenplay was replenished with dungeons of Lubyanka and cannons firing at White House, though earlier was "planned" style of "incredible cocaine trip" with the respect to the original text.[21] According to the film producer Karsten Stöter scenario was seriously adapted and interprets text of the original novel quite freely.[9]

Viktor Pelevin, according to the director, have read the script and responded positively, he said that he likes "115 pages out of 120, and with these 5 pages you have managed to almost destroy the whole story", so he wrote a number of his comments how to fix.[22]

Shooting

External image
Photos of Filming Location at Flickr

Filming had planned to produce in Leipzig[9] and Berlin.[23] According to the director, he had to reduce the number of filming to 30 days, although earlier there were planned a 40-days filming, finally, because of the budget deficit - 21.[15]

In accordance to the data of "filmportal.de" shooting have been conducted August 28, 2012—September 25, 2012.[24]

Cast

Western actors play the starring roles of the film, so as planned initially, the French actor Jean-Marc Barr[25] should play the role of Volodin,[26] British actor Rupert Friend will play the role of Pyotr Voyd,[27] and Sophia Myles as Anna.[26] According to Mikheil Kalatozishvili, to make the film truthful — the Russian actors must be at least in the crew of the film, and western stars is a kind of "duck call" for the public from overseas.[13]

Release

The dates of release and filming were repeatedly postponed, so according to the IMDb release was scheduled for 2009.[28] In August 2012, one of the film producers Martin Paul-Hus pointed out that the film will be ready by September 2013,[23] same time in December 2012 the director hoped to release film in the spring of 2013.[15]

As tells film director Tony Pemberton, he spent 10 years to make this film.[29][15]

Premiere

The premiere of "Buddha's Little Finger" took place on August 6, 2015[30][31][32][33] in Leipzig.[34]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Karadzhev 2013, 58:30: Pemberton: "And we followed a few of the ideas"
  2. ↑ as story editor (IMDb); photo of Karine Vanasse's copy of the screenplay
  3. ↑ "Buddha's Little Finger" at AllMovie
  4. ↑ Patrick Wellinski (2015-08-06). "Merkliche Müh" (in German). www.kino-zeit.de. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-26. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  5. 1 2 "Buddha's Little Finger" at Rohfilm (English)
  6. ↑ Official website "Buddha's Little Finger" (German)
  7. 1 2 "Buddha's Little Finger" at the Internet Movie Database
  8. ↑ Buddha's Little Finger on Facebook
  9. 1 2 3 Татьяна Фирсова (2012-08-28). "Съёмки фильма по книге Пелевина "Чапаев и Пустота" начнутся в Германии" (in Russian). РИА Новости. Archived from the original on 2012-08-30. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  10. ↑ Regina Singer (2015-08-07). "Description of "Buddha's Little Finger"" (in German). www.kritiken.de. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-29. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
  11. ↑ Press Office (2006-01-13). "European Film Market & Co-Production Market (Jan 13, 2006: Berlinale Co-Production Market presents its new projects)". "Berlinale". Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-26. Official Selection of Projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2006
  12. ↑ "Friend and Barr cast for Russian gangster movie". Film magazine "Screen International". 2007-02-11. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  13. 1 2 ""Кинотавр" — враждебный фестиваль" (in Russian). Daily business newspaper "РБК". 2008-07-09. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  14. ↑ Вита Рамм (2009-01-20). "Кинорежиссер Михаил Калатозишвили: "Мой дед не был советским разведчиком в Америке"" (in Russian). Daily business newspaper "Известия". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  15. 1 2 3 4 Alix Lambert (2012-12-12). "Director Tony Pemberton Talks Russia, Film and Devo". Magazine "Filmmaker". Archived from the original on 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  16. ↑
  17. ↑
  18. ↑ Виктория Шохина (2006-10-05). "Чапай, его команда и простодушный ученик" (in Russian). Независимая газета. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-29. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  19. ↑ Karadzhev 2013, 52:40.
  20. ↑ Karadzhev 2013, 53:47—54:02.
  21. ↑ Михаил Фомин (2011-03-25). ""Бабочка сознания" порхает из России в Европу" (in Russian). Online newspaper "Правда.Ру". Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  22. ↑ Karadzhev 2013, 58:17.
  23. 1 2 André Duchesne (2012-08-15). "Karine Vanasse et Anne-Marie Cadieux tournent en Allemagne (Deutschland / Kanada 2012-2015, Spielfilm)" (in French). Newspaper "La Presse". Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  24. ↑ "Buddha's Little Finger (Deutschland / Kanada 2012-2015, Spielfilm)" (in German). Online data base "filmportal.de". 2015-08-26. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  25. ↑ "Жан-Марк Барр снимется в "Чапаеве и Пустоте" с подачи фонда Михаила Калатозова" (in Russian). Information Agency "InterMedia" (Russian). 2007-02-12. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  26. 1 2 "Новая экранизация романа Виктора Пелевина" (in Russian). Web portal "kinokritik.com". 2009-07-20. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  27. ↑ "Фильм по "Чапаеву и пустоте" Пелевина начнут снимать в Германии летом" (in Russian). РИА Новости. 2011-03-21. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-26. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  28. ↑ "Buddha's Little Finger (2009)". archive of "IMDb". 2009-01-23. Archived from the original on 2009-01-23. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  29. ↑ Karadzhev 2013, 57:53.
  30. ↑ "Buddha's Little Finger" (in German). Web portal "Filmstarts". 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  31. ↑ "Buddha's Little Finger" (in German). Website "Moviepilot". 2015-08-06. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-29. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  32. ↑ "Kinostarts (Startliste, 06.08.2015)" (in German). Electronic magazine "Critic.de". 2015-08-06. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-27. Buddha's Little Finger - D, CA 2015. Regie: Tony Pemberton
  33. ↑ "Aktuelle Literaturverfilmungen im Kino (Revolution und Teufel)" (in German). Journal "buchreport". 2015-08-04. Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) from the original on 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  34. ↑ "Kinos in Leipzig (LuRu - Kino in der Spinnerei)" Check |archiveurl= value (help) (in German). Site "www.kino.de". 2015-08-06. Archived from the original on 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2015-08-26. Buddha's Little Finger — 20:00 External link in |publisher= (help)

Further reading

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.