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   {{Infobox film
| image          = 
| director       = [[Alexei Uchitel]]
| writer         = Aleksandr Gonoroviskii<br>Savva Minaev<br>[[Alexei Uchitel]]
| producer       = [[Alexei Uchitel]]<br>Elena Bystrova<br>Filipp Pastukhov<br>Pavel Gorin<br>Kira Saksaganskaia<br>Gints Grube<br>Inese Boka-Grube
| starring       = [[Yevgeny Tsyganov]]<br>[[Maryana Spivak]]<br>[[Paulina Andreeva]]<br>[[Igor Vernik]]
| cinematography = [[Yuri Klimenko]]
| music          = Fedor Zhuravlev
| studio         = Rock Films, Mistrus Media
| released       = 2020
| runtime        = 98 minutes
| country        = {{RUS}}<br>{{LAT}}
| language       = Russian
| budget         = 150 000 000 RUB
| gross          = 26 236 961 RUB ($353.504)
}}
'''''Tsoi''''' (working title - '''''47''''') is a 2020 Russian feature film directed by [[Alexei Uchitel]], a joint production of [[Russia]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Latvia]], telling the story of how a car accident (which resulted in [[Viktor Tsoi]]'s death) participant carries singer's coffin from [[Jūrmala]] to [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] (modern Saint Petersburg). However, there is no character named "Viktor Tsoi" in the movie. "''There isn't even Tsoi in the „Tsoi“'' " — said "[[Komsomolskaya Pravda]]"<ref name="автоссылка22">{{Cite web |last=КОРСАКОВ |first=Денис |date=2020-11-12 |title=Цой мертв |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/2171207/4320191/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=kp.ru |language=ru}}</ref>, while a review by "[[Argumenty i Fakty]]" was titled "''„Tsoi“ without Tsoi'' "<ref name="автоссылка52">{{Cite web |last=Карев |first=Игорь |date=2020-11-11 |title=«Цой» без Цоя. Рецензия на фильм Алексея Учителя |url=https://aif.ru/culture/movie/coy_bez_coya_recenziya_na_film_alekseya_uchitelya |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=AiF |language=ru}}</ref>.

== Production ==
This wasn't the first time Uchitel addressed Tsoi's figure. His filmography includes documentary films "Rock" (one of the novels dedicated to the musician) and "Last Hero", in which Uchitel for the first time investigates the reasons behind the singer's tragic passing. The director calls ''Tsoi'' a continuation of that storyline and the plot - an assumption of what might have happened in August 1990. Uchitel claims that after the accident he witnessed the ill-fated bus, furthermore, talked with the case investigator and with the "Ikarus" driver<ref>{{Cite web|lang=ru|url=http://www.kinometro.ru/interview/show/name/Uchitel_interview_9903|title=Алексей Учитель: «Если не выработаем программу по быстрому выходу из кризиса, произойдет катастрофа»|website=www.kinometro.ru|access-date=2021-04-30}}</ref>.

First mentions of a project with a working title '''''47''''' refer to 2017. Uchitel postponed the beginning of production due to problems with a previous film [[Matilda (2017 film)|''Matilda'']], so the shooting began only on July 8, 2019. It took place in [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Kaliningrad Oblast|Kaliningrad]], [[Pskov Oblast|Pskov]] region, and [[Latvia]]<ref>[https://mixnews.lv/culture/2020/06/23/uchitel-zavershil-semki-filma-o-viktore-czoe-rabotali-i-v-latvii/ Учитель завершил съемки фильма о Викторе Цое. Работали и в Латвии ] // mixnews.lv, 23 июня 2020</ref>.

Alexei Uchitel refused to artistically depict Viktor Tsoi in any way, instead using archival videotape recordings with the singer in the vast majority of the scenes. The only such scene, in which Viktor Tsoi was shown from the back, was shot to illustrate the accident. It was entirely generated by a neural network since the film crew couldn't find an actor with the right shape of the occiput. {{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} 

Viktor Tsoi's son [[Aleksandr Tsoi|Alexander]] has asked to change the characters' names<ref name="Газета2">[https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2020/08/27/n_14855533.shtml Сын Виктора Цоя неоднозначно отреагировал на фильм о смерти отца // Газета.Ru]</ref>.

According to the director, [[Igor Vdovin]], who worked with «[[Kino (band)|Kino]]» musicians (project «Symphonic KINO»), refused to write music for the film<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-27 |title=«Есть противоречивое поле вокруг фильма, и нам с этим придется что-то делать» |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4468078 |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=www.kommersant.ru |language=ru}}</ref>.

[[Rashid Nugmanov]] told about his working relationship with the director<ref name="RT2">{{Cite web |title=Режиссёр Нугманов заявил о нарушении авторских прав в фильме «Цой» |url=https://russian.rt.com/nopolitics/news/779266-rezhissyor-nugmanov-film-coi |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=RT на русском |language=ru}}</ref>:<blockquote>I met Uchitel to tell him about the necessity of getting permissions... Unfortunately, Alexey didn't listen to my advice. His requests to include scenes from the film «[[The Needle (1988 film)|The Needle]]» I refused.</blockquote>

== Plot ==
The Tsoi himself isn't in the movie: the characters are on the bus that's carrying the musician's casket from [[Jūrmala]] to [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]. The film begins with a shot from the accident where Tsoi passed; alternating shots of the singer's car interior and the bus. The film ends with an alternate scene without the accident, which is revealed to be the artist's pre-death dream. In it, the bus and the car safely cross each other.

== Cast ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|'''Actor'''
|'''Role'''
|-
|[[Yevgeny Tsyganov]]
|Pavel Shelest, bus driver (prototype - Ianis Fibigs)
|-
|Nadezhda Kaleganova
|Viktoriia, band's photographer
|-
|[[Maryana Spivak]]
|Marina, Tsoi's ex-wife (prototype - [[Marianna Tsoy|Marianna Tsoi)]]
|-
|Mariia Peresild
|Zhenia, singer's son (prototype - Tsoi's son [[Aleksandr Tsoi|Alexander Tsoi)]]
|-
|Ilya Del
|Rika, Marina's boyfriend (prototype -  [[Ricochet (musician)|Alexander Ricochet Aksyonov)]]
|-
|[[Paulina Andreeva]]
|Polina, musician's latest love (prototype - [[Natalya Razlogova|Nataliia Razlogova]])
|-
|[[Igor Vernik]]
|Iurii Raizen, singer's producer (prototype - [[Yuri Aizenshpis|Yuri Aizenshpis)]]
|-
|Inga Tropa
|Detective Ilze Iass (prototype - Erik Ashman)
|-
|Arturs Skrastynsh
|Major Tsirulis (prototype - Gunnar Tsirulis, chief of Tukumse's local police precinct investigation unit)
|-
|[[Vitaly Kovalenko|Vitalii Kovalenko]]
|Lieutenant colonel Sviridov
|}

== Release ==
The premiere was scheduled for September 3, 2020, <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/kultura/9097277|title=Премьеру фильма "Цой" Алексея Учителя перенесли на сентябрь|website=ТАСС|accessdate=2020-08-01}}</ref> however, on August 27 the decision was made to indefinitely hold over the release of the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/kultura/9303991|title=Премьеру фильма "Цой" вновь перенесли|website=ТАСС|accessdate=2020-08-28}}</ref> On September 2 the inclusion of the movie in the competitive program of the 36th [[Warsaw Film Festival]]<ref name="автоссылка12">{{Cite web |title=Фильм Учителя "Цой" покажут в конкурсной программе Варшавского кинофестиваля |url=https://tass.ru/kultura/9532765 |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=tass.ru}}</ref><ref>[https://rg.ru/2020/09/23/film-coj-otobran-v-konkurs-varshavskogo-kinofestivalia.html Фильм «Цой» отобран в конкурс Варшавского кинофестиваля] Российская газета</ref> was announced, where, on October 12, its international premiere was held<ref name="автоссылка62">[https://lentv24.ru/Film_Coj_Alekseya_Uchitelya_vihodit_v_rossijskij_prokat.htm Фильм «Цой» Алексея Учителя выходит в российский прокат] ЛенТВ24</ref>. [[Cinema Foundation of Russia]] announced their financial support of the film among other ten movies planned for screening in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2020<ref>[https://rg.ru/2020/09/28/fond-kino-utverdil-spisok-filmov-dlia-finansovoj-podderzhki.html Фонд кино утвердил список фильмов для финансовой поддержки] Российская газета</ref>. The Russian premiere took place in Moscow on November 9, 2020<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/kultura/9955031|title=В Москве прошла премьера фильма Алексея Учителя "Цой"|website=ТАСС|accessdate=2020-11-11}}</ref><ref name="автоссылка33">[https://tass.ru/kultura/9980135 Фильм «Цой» Алексея Учителя выходит в прокат] ТАСС</ref><ref>[https://iz.ru/1084857/2020-11-09/v-moskve-sostoialas-premera-filma-tcoi В Москве состоялась премьера фильма «Цой»] Известия</ref>. The film had a wide release on November 12. 

After the film's release, [[Aleksandr Tsoi|Alexander Tsoi]] filed a lawsuit against the film distributors for "illegal use of his father's image in the feature film ''Tsoi''"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Сын Цоя подал в суд на Учителя за фильм об отце |url=https://www.mk.ru/culture/2020/11/16/syn-coya-podal-v-sud-na-uchitelya-za-film-ob-otce.html |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=www.mk.ru |language=ru}}</ref>. However, the claim was dismissed<ref>[https://ria.ru/20201120/tsoy-1585569070.html Суд не стал рассматривать иск сына Цоя к студии Учителя] РИА Новости</ref>.

== Reception ==
[[Aleksandr Tsoi|Alexander Tsoi]], with whom the director had, in his words, «heated conversations», assessed the film before its premiere<ref name="Газета3">[https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2020/08/27/n_14855533.shtml Сын Виктора Цоя неоднозначно отреагировал на фильм о смерти отца // Газета.Ru]</ref>: "I can't say anything good, while anything bad will only drum up interest to this film"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Сын Цоя прокомментировал новость о начале съёмок фильма об отце |url=https://russian.rt.com/nopolitics/news/648202-syn-coi-film |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=RT на русском |language=ru}}</ref>.

The father and son of the ''Kino'' leader, calling the film a "low-minded sight"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-31 |title=«Пошлое зрелище». Отец и сын Виктора Цоя просят Путина снять с проката фильм Алексея Учителя «Цой» |url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2020/08/31/69450943/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=www.fontanka.ru |language=ru}}</ref>, requested [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Наследники Цоя попросили Путина не допустить выхода в прокат фильма Учителя |url=https://news.ru/cinema/nasledniki-coya-poprosili-putina-ne-dopustit-vyhoda-v-prokat-filma-uchitelya/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=NEWS.ru |language=ru}}</ref> to "organize an inspection"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Миллионова |first=Анна |title=«Пошлое зрелище»: отец и сын Виктора Цоя просят Путина запретить фильм о рокере-легенде {{!}} WOMAN |url=https://www.woman.ru/stars/poshloe-zrelishe-otec-i-syn-viktora-coya-prosyat-putina-zapretit-film-o-rokere-legende-id519616/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=www.woman.ru |language=ru}}</ref> and "take appropriate measures" to prevent defamation of their relative's name<ref>{{Cite web |title=Наследники Цоя попросили Путина не допустить выхода фильма Учителя о лидере «Кино» - Газета.Ru {{!}} Новости |url=https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2020/08/31/n_14872790.shtml |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Газета.Ru |language=ru}}</ref>. Alexander Tsoi was the request's initiator<ref>{{Cite web |title=Наследники Виктора Цоя попросили президента РФ запретить фильм Алексея Учителя о музыканте |url=https://meduza.io/news/2020/09/01/nasledniki-viktora-tsoya-poprosili-prezidenta-rf-zapretit-film-alekseya-uchitelya-o-muzykante |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Meduza |language=ru}}</ref>. The message emphasizes that: "''the creators of „Tsoi“ didn't receive consent to the usage of the musician's name and image from neither the successors, nor the "Kino" musicians, nor other right holders or persons concerned''". Yet, despite letters to the Ministry of Culture, the film was issued a rental certificate"<ref>[https://www.znak.com/2020-09-01/syn_i_otec_viktora_coya_poprosili_putina_zapretit_pokaz_film_alekseya_uchitelya_o_muzykante Сын и отец Виктора Цоя попросили Путина запретить показ фильма Алексея Учителя о музыканте // znak.com]</ref>.

Rashid Nugmanov stated: "Alexei renamed the film from   ''47'' to ''Tsoi'', which is a direct violation of image rights… This is an outright deceit that can't be justified by any verbiage".

The director rejects all accusations of defacing Tsoi's figure<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/obschestvo/10031159|title=Алексей Учитель не согласился с претензиями сына Цоя по поводу фильма о музыканте|website=ТАСС|accessdate=2020-11-18}}</ref>.

The film received controversial responses from critics after its release on October 12, 2020 (one of the reviews was titled "Tsoi is dead"<ref name="автоссылка23">{{Cite web |last=КОРСАКОВ |first=Денис |date=2020-11-12 |title=Цой мертв |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/2171207/4320191/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=kp.ru |language=ru}}</ref>). Film expert Olga Galitskaia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Рецензия на фильм Алексея Учителя "Цой" : - Кино, Рецензия, Фейсбук - Алексей Учитель - Галицкая Ольга - Издательский Дом «Новый Взгляд» - |url=http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=58035 |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Издательский Дом «Новый Взгляд» |language=ru-RU}}</ref> wrote: "Speculative, devoid of any viability idea that Uchitel stubbornly cherished for as much as ten years brought into the world a dull, dreary movie". Rock journalist, music critic and writer [[Artemy Troitsky]]<ref name="ЭМ2">[https://echo.msk.ru/blog/troitskiy/2744504-echo/ Йоц — Блоги // Эхо Москвы, 19.11.2020]</ref> called the film "a betrayal to Tsoi's life and death memory", whereas journalist and theatre expert [[Marina Timasheva]]<ref name="НВ2">{{Cite web |title=Цой жив, а фильм — нет : - Новости - - Евгений Ю. Додолев - Издательский Дом «Новый Взгляд» - |url=http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=58045 |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Издательский Дом «Новый Взгляд» |language=ru-RU}}</ref> — "another speculation on someone's name". Magazine's "Bear" chief editor [[Boris Minaev]] wrote<ref name="НВ3">{{Cite web |title=Цой жив, а фильм — нет : - Новости - - Евгений Ю. Додолев - Издательский Дом «Новый Взгляд» - |url=http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=58045 |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Издательский Дом «Новый Взгляд» |language=ru-RU}}</ref>: "Tsoi is alive, however, the film is not, unlike [[Leto (film)|''Leto'']], where everyone is alive, though remembering the plot is practically impossible".

Writer [[Platon Besedin]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=«Цой» осквернитель |url=https://www.politnavigator.net/cojj-oskvernitel.html |access-date=2022-05-05 |language=ru-RU}}</ref> expressed an opinion that "Uchitel, from a competent director, turned into a merchant artisan... It's actually really profitable to take someone's name... and shoot who knows what, claiming: what do you mean? It's fiction, all similarities are coincidental. Okay, let it be, but why are you, pest, making such a name then?

Sound producer [[Aleksei Vishnya|Aleksei Vishnia]]<ref name="автоссылка42">{{Cite web |last=ВОЛЧКОВ |first=Сергей |date=2020-11-12 |title=«Сценаристам за такое надо руки оторвать»: За что друзья и близкие Виктора Цоя разругали фильм «Цой» Алексея Учителя |url=https://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/2171207/4320608/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=spb.kp.ru |language=ru}}</ref>: "The film isn't about anything at all... The picture isn't about Tsoi but about rock. Except not about musical rock but an evil one... Was it worth making or naming it ''Tsoi?'' In my opinion, the answer is obvious". [[InterMedia (agency)|InterMedia]] journalist Vadim Bogdanov believes<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-12 |title=Рецензия на фильм Алексея Учителя «Цой»: Цой жив, а кино – мертво |url=https://www.intermedia.ru/news/352619 |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=www.intermedia.ru |language=ru}}</ref> that the film "consists of a set of ridiculous coincidences, artificial characters, violation of causality and dialogues, written by a person who not even once heard an ounce of human speech… Alexei Uchitel merely made a very bad film". Producer and public figure [[Joanna Stingray]]<ref>{{Cite web |title="Абсурд": Джоанна Стингрей раскритиковала фильмы Учителя и Серебренникова о Цое |url=https://sobesednik.ru/kultura-i-tv/20210610-absurd-dzoanna-stingrei-raskritikoval |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=sobesednik.ru |language=ru}}</ref> called ''Tsoi'' "nothing short of nonsense, a continuous fantasy about a real person".

=== Reviews ===

* «[[Argumenty i Fakty]]»<ref name="автоссылка53">{{Cite web |last=Карев |first=Игорь |date=2020-11-11 |title=«Цой» без Цоя. Рецензия на фильм Алексея Учителя |url=https://aif.ru/culture/movie/coy_bez_coya_recenziya_na_film_alekseya_uchitelya |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=AiF |language=ru}}</ref>:
{{Cquote|The problem is that the film's plot is almost entirely made up.|
}}

* «[[Komsomolskaya Pravda]]»<ref name="автоссылка43">https://www.kp.kg/daily/2171207/4320608/</ref>:
{{Cquote|To be honest, script-writers should get their hand snapped for this... You don't have to sue, condemn and cancel anyone. Everyone will forget this film after a week or two.|
}}

* «[[Izvestia]]»<ref>{{Cite web |last=Сычев |first=Сергей |date=2020-11-13 |title=Дорогой Цой: Учитель и Кончаловский стартуют одновременно |url=https://iz.ru/1086219/sergei-sychev/dorogoi-tcoi-uchitel-i-konchalovskii-startuiut-odnovremenno |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Известия |language=ru}}</ref>:
{{Cquote|To rate Uchitel's new work to the fullest extent, you need to not only and not so much have no idea about Tsoi's legacy (you can also not know about him at all, that's even better) as be familiar with biblical stories.|
}}

== References ==
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[[:Category:Road movies]]
[[:Category:Russian films]]
[[:Category:Kino (band)]]
[[:Category:Latvian drama films]]
[[:Category:Russian drama films]]
[[:Category:Films postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic]]
[[:Category:Russian-language films]]