A low budget film is currently being shot in Malta.
Man of the East (its working title) – a sort of Russian take on James Bond – is intended to be the first of a series by film company Central Partnership.
The film is the company’s first production made entirely outside Russia.
The $6 million movie is directed by Oleg Pogodin and is planned both as a feature and a four-part mini series.
Central Partnership, Russia’s leading independent sales and production house, is shooting its biggest project yet, a $25 million adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s novel on Cossack swashbuckler Taras Bulba.
A co-production with Russian television channel Rossiya, Taras Bulba – directed by Vladimir Bortko and starring acclaimed Ukrainian actor Bogdan Stupka – will be ready for a winter 2009 release.
One of a slate of three new features, the two-hour costume drama tells the story of the fierce defence Ukraine’s Cossack warriors put up in the 16th century when Polish armies intent on conquest swept across their lands. United Artists released a version starring Tony Curtis in 1962.
The film has already notched up pre-sales to China, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey and Romania.
Man of the East (its working title) – a sort of Russian take on James Bond – is intended to be the first of a series by film company Central Partnership.
The film is the company’s first production made entirely outside Russia.
The $6 million movie is directed by Oleg Pogodin and is planned both as a feature and a four-part mini series.
Central Partnership, Russia’s leading independent sales and production house, is shooting its biggest project yet, a $25 million adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s novel on Cossack swashbuckler Taras Bulba.
A co-production with Russian television channel Rossiya, Taras Bulba – directed by Vladimir Bortko and starring acclaimed Ukrainian actor Bogdan Stupka – will be ready for a winter 2009 release.
One of a slate of three new features, the two-hour costume drama tells the story of the fierce defence Ukraine’s Cossack warriors put up in the 16th century when Polish armies intent on conquest swept across their lands. United Artists released a version starring Tony Curtis in 1962.
The film has already notched up pre-sales to China, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey and Romania.