The film "Territory": reviews. Russian feature film directed by Alexander Miller

Only this spring the Russian spectator saw the adventure drama of Alexander Melnik "Territory", announced back in 2013. 2015 is rich in premieres, but this one is special. It is supported at the highest level and glorifies the generation, at the cost of its health, and sometimes lives rebuilt post-war state of the USSR.

The idea of creating a picture

The past can be treated differently, but the fact that ordinary people rebuilt the country from the ruins is undeniable. Each profession is necessary and important, but the geologist's profession is visible only on the scale of the state. Unconquered severe Chukotka still keeps places where a man's foot has not walked.

The film by Alexander Melnik "Territory", reviews of which were only enthusiastic, tells exactly about these people - nameless heroes who killed hundreds in the harsh conditions of the extreme North, but performed their assigned tasks, and sometimes challenged the orders stubbornly searched for the facts of their rightness.

The idea of creating a film based on the novel by Oleg Kuvaev based on real events arose in Alexander Melnik in 2009, but the director realized that for the filming under such conditions, considerable financial injections are needed. In search of financing, the author threw a cry among investors, and the indifferent were found. The Chukotka administration greatly assisted. The funds were assisted by gold mining and oil companies. Enterprises that could not afford the ruble made their contribution with technology - provided aircraft, helicopters, trucks.

Minister of Natural Resources Sergei Donskoy told about the picture to the Russian president. Vladimir Putin helped in the filming of the picture. In the credits, gratitude is indicated practically to the entire top leadership of Russia. This is not surprising, because the budget of the picture is considerable - $ 14 million was spent by the director to remove a quality sound film that makes one proud of his ancestors, not to sit idly by, but to act. The film "Territory" in 2015 contains a very strong motivation. According to the leadership of the country, he is able to show the beauty and significance of this region and work in such conditions for the general public good.

Director and crew

The director of the picture is Alexander Melnik. This is the second large-format film in Alexander's career. The first one is "New Land", 2008. Originally I wanted to shoot the picture in Iceland, the landscapes approached, but the director decided the film "Territory", the actors of which are mostly famous stars, to shoot only in Russia. And the New Year brought the main backbone of the picture to Chukotka. Why? Yes, because this is a real drama, pavilion shootings or substitution will be immediately felt by the audience. The Chukchi region is covered with a severe romantic aureole, and in order to shoot about the development of the North by geologists, one must visit here and feel all the beauty and danger of these places.

If the director can be called a novice, then the operator in the film is more than famous - Igor Grinyakin, on his account such pictures as "Admiral", "Vysotsky: Thank you, that alive!"

The makeup artist is an Englishwoman Lizzie Lawsonzess, who worked with Robert Patinson, Daniel Craig and a lot of Hollywood celebrities. After visiting Chukotka, she remained in love with Russia and is now writing a book about these places and people.

Another person without whom the picture would be inadequate is the composer of the drama Territory. Soundtracks for the film and the main melody throughout the action is chosen so harmoniously that even without looking at the screen, it creates the feeling that you are looking at the endless snow, waterfalls and mountain ranges of the North. Tuomas Kantelinen could only convey melodious sounds to this whole unlimited world.

And of course, to create the necessary emotional background, several songs in the style of bardic ballads were used. Moussa Totibadze - a young, promising singer - sang "The Ballad of the White Bear", which became the main musical theme of the "Territory" painting. The soundtrack to the film reveals his inner world. The compositions sounded in the film reflected the spirit of that era. There were seven in all, not counting the "Ballad ..." - "You are my breath", "Calm, comrade, calmly", "Song about troubled youth", "Song of Ben", "Lullaby with four rains," " Autumn Leaves "," Who but a fool ".

Plot

At the heart of the plot of the film "Territory", reviews of which are only positive, lies the history of geologists who are developing gold deposits in Chukotka.

After the war, gold is vitally necessary, but the Territory gives only tin deposits. The top management decides to curtail the expedition and close the project. Ilya Nikolaevich Chinkov, nicknamed Buddha, goes against his immediate superiors and decides in one field season to find gold deposits. To accomplish this task, Chinkov attracts young geologists dedicated to his cause and ready to go to the end and sacrifice many for his convictions.

The film "Territory": actors and roles

Film masterpiece of 2015 about the hard labor of geologists gathered a magnificent cast of actors. Without a doubt, 70% of the success of the film is due to the performance of the actors.

Ilya Nikolayevich Chinkov - chief engineer, "soul" and head of the Territory. This role of a harsh, just and devoted man was embodied on the screen by Konstantin Lavronenko - the owner of the "Golden Bear" of the Cannes Festival for Best Actor.

Grigory Dobrygin played a geologist Sergei Baklakov.

Egor Beroev turned into engineer Vladimir Mongolov.

Evgeny Tsyganov played the penultimate adventurer and geologist-philosopher Andrei Gurin.

Female roles masterfully embodied on the screens of Olga Krasko, Ksenia Kutepova and Tamara Obutova.

Such a brilliant cast made the film "Territory". Reviews of the actors for their selfless play from the audience and film critics received positive. Perhaps some of the actors will be nominated for a film award. Time will tell.

Interesting facts from the filming

The film "Territory", whose actors and roles earned a stormy ovation after the premiere, was the main event in the cinematographic environment in the spring of 2015. Some of the moments of filming were told by the main characters and the director during the pre-orders.

The film was shot in Chukotka in the Providence Bay, in the pavilions of Moscow and on the Putorana Plateau. Actors for 1.5 months lived in the harsh temperature conditions of the Far North.

Almost all the actors performed all the dangerous stunts themselves, jumped into the cold water, paced the passes and snow-covered valleys.

Filming the picture was almost two years.

In the crowd, many residents of the village took part, even the mayor of Providence, Vladimir Bychkov, was shot.

Premiere

In February 2015, the long-awaited premiere of the film Territory was held in the Kremlin. The picture was extremely positive at the stage of the prediction. Among the first spectators in the cinema were Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov, researcher of the Arctic Artur Chilingarov, chairman of the State Duma Alexander Zhukov. On the pre-order, the whole color of the Moscow movie-theater was gathered - Svetlana Khodchenkova, Anna Chipovskaya, Anna Gorshkova, Maria Andreeva and many others.

Another prerequisite took place at the Cosmos Theater on April 5, 2015, on the Day of the Geologist.

"Territory" is the first film of Russian production in 4K format.

The film "Territory": reviews of the audience

It is not surprising that such a resonant premiere caused genuine interest among the public. The Russian audience is the best critic for such dramatic and complex works. Our people immediately feel the falsity or understatement of the plot.

Rare film in this millennium is able to force the Russian viewer to sit in the cinema until the end of the credits, and Territory did it. The film excites a person so much that the pride for the country, for grandfathers, fathers and mothers rolls by a wave.

Thanks to this emotional aftertaste, the film "Territory" received only favorable reviews. According to the responses in social networks, and this is today one of the most reliable rating systems, the picture of Alexander Miller had a high percentage of expectations and views in the first week of the shows. It's still early to talk about box office, because the drama is still being broadcast in some cinemas of the country.

Having looked at the picture, many viewers expressed a desire to revise it again. Epithets, which they used after viewing to characterize the film - beautiful, honest, real, restrained. Despite the fact that the drama really turned out to be "male", many spectators caused a lot of positive emotions and gratitude to those people who built a happy, post-war life and did not cowardly "live by the dream."

Reviews of film critics

Surprisingly, the film "Territory" - is the unique case where the viewers' opinion unconditionally coincided with the ratings of the film critics. Although the picture has not yet begun its triumphal procession at festivals, many "film-makers" are already predicting a worthy future for this path.

Geologist from Kazan Denis Andreev published in his blog post-review after viewing the "Territory". Geologists, and there were 208 people at the premiere, were touched by such a real and worthy film, which virtually "word for word" repeated replicas from the "original source."

The newspaper "Murmansk Vestnik" called the film a powerful picture, which is difficult to talk about. This film is about real people and a real feat.

The newspaper "Trud" called the film a picture, which will still excite the thoughts of those not indifferent.

"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" described the picture as an opportunity for every person to plunge into the happiest moments of his past and think about the future.

The newspaper "Nizhny Novgorod Pravda" called the film "a spectacle" and "the return of real Russian cinema."

In 2015, Russian filmmakers presented to the audience a lot of premieres, one of which - the film "Territory." Reviews about the picture do not surprise with their identity. All of them are positive, it's not surprising, because the film is made about people and people.