Text (film)
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| Directed by | Klim Shipenko |
| Written by | Dmitry Glukhovsky |
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| Cinematography | Andrey Ivanov |
| Edited by | Tim Pavelko |
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Production companies | Central Partnership Productions StartFilm |
| Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 132 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | 75 million rubles ($1,181,000) |
| Box office | $6,305,572 |
Text (Template:Lang-ru) is a 2019 Russian crime drama psychological thriller film directed by Klim Shipenko, an adaptation of the best-selling novel Text (2017) by writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, who adapted the novel into a movie script.[1] The main roles are played by Alexander Petrov, Ivan Yankovsky and Kristina Asmus.[2][3]
Text is was released in wide distribution on October 24, 2019. Having recouped its budget[4], the film achieved box office success[5] and received generally positive reviews from Russian film critics. The film received 6 nominations for the Golden Eagle Award on January 24, 2020.
Plot
The film tells about a man, Ilya Goryunov, who ended up behind bars on a false accusation. Once on the outside, he realizes that it is no longer possible to return to his former life, according to which he was so nostalgic, and he decides to take revenge on the man because of whom he ended up in prison. As a result of their meeting, Ilya received the offender’s smartphone and became him for his entourage.[6]
Cast
- Alexander Petrov as Ilya Goryunov, a student
- Ivan Yankovsky as Pyotr Khazin
- Kristina Asmus as Nina
- Maksim Vinogradov as Seryoga, a friend of Ilya Goryunov
- Sofya Ozerova as Vera, ex-girlfriend Ilya Goryunov
- Sonya Karpunina as employee of the travel Agency
- Kirill Nagiev as Gosha
- Vitaliy Khaev
Production
The novel Text (ru) by Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the Metro 2033 series, was released in 2017 and was later translated into more than 20 languages[7]. Within a week after the release of the book, Glukhovsky received about ten proposals for a film adaptation, including from Alexander Rodnyansky and Timur Bekmambetov, who wanted to make a film in the screenlife genre[8]. Offers also came from the United States, Italy and South Korea[9]. On October 21, 2019, Glukhovsky said that in parallel with the Russian company, the rights to the film adaptation were bought by an American company.[10]
Filming
At the beginning of the filming, Dmitry Glukhovsky offered the director Klim Shipenko the script Text he already had, which the director asked for some adjustments[11]. Due to the busy travel schedule, Glukhovsky managed to visit the film set just a few times. He repeatedly met with the director and talked with the actors about their roles, and also played the role of a metro passenger in an episode of the film.
Principal photography took place in January - March 2019. Instead of Lobnya, the town of Dzerzhinsky, Moscow Oblast was filmed, also the shooting took place in Moscow and the Maldives. Filming in the apartment Goryunov took place in an ordinary residential building. The scene in the sewer was filmed in a real sewer in Troparyovo-Nikulino District at a depth of about 10 meters. Scenes in the subway took place in the Moscow metro after the approval process. Kristina Asmus also plays her heroine Nina in the eponymous production of the Yermolova Theatre.
Scenes on the streets, in the subway, on trains, were shot without blocking the area among ordinary passers-by and passengers - with the help of a half-hidden camera integrated into the animal carrier.
Music
Basta (rapper), having watched the film, wrote for him the song It’s scary to live like this, the director of the clip was Klim Shipenko. Alexander Petrov appears in the video in the image of Ilya Goryunov and performs the verse.
Release
The film was released in Russia by Central Partnership on October 24, 2019.
References
- ^ Дмитрий Глуховский: фанаты «Метро 2033» не простят ошибок создателям фильма // РИА Новости
- ^ Александр Петров получил главную роль в экранизации «Текста» Дмитрия Глуховского // kino-teatr.ru
- ^ Альперина С. Александр Петров сыграет в экранизации романа «Текст» // Российская газета, 28.01.2019
- ^ Павлючик Л. В. От текста — к сексу // Труд. № 79 за 01.11.2019
- ^ ЦПШ на Российском кинобизнесе 2019: шахматы, фехтование, футбол и Пугачева
- ^ Текст, 2019
- ^ Одноименная экранизация романа Дмитрия Глуховского «Текст» выходит в широкий прокат
- ^ Дмитрий Глуховский — почему образы Петрова и Янковского не совпали с книжными персонажами «Текста»
- ^ «Подброшенные наркотики — вид заработка»: Глуховский о «Тексте»
- ^ "Text". Russian Film Week New York. December 13, 2019.
- ^ Дмитрий Глуховский: про Метро 2033 в Голливуде, про Петрова в фильме «Текст» и консультации с зоны