Lucky Trouble

Lucky Trouble (Russian: Выкрутасы, romanized: Vykrutasy) is a 2011 Russian comedy film, directorial debut of Levan Gabriadze.[3]

Lucky Trouble
Directed byLevan Gabriadze
Produced byTimur Bekmambetov
Pavel Korsakov
Iva Stromilova
Written byRoman Nepomnyashchiy
StarringKonstantin Khabensky
Milla Jovovich
Ivan Urgant
Sergei Garmash
Vladimir Menshov
CinematographyMarat Adelshin
Edited byTimofey Goloborodko
Yana Kulikova
Evgeniy Ryzhonkov
Production
company
Release date
  • February 17, 2011 (2011-02-17)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget$7.8 million[1]
Box office$12,437,699[2]

The film premiered on February 17, 2011, and grossed 12.86 million dollars by May 1, 2011.[4]

Plot

Vyacheslav "Slava" Kolotilov (Konstantin Khabensky) is a natural science teacher from a coastal Caspian village called Palchiki (diminutive of fingers) who is passing through Moscow seeking luck as a novelist without much success. Lost in thoughts he crosses a street and a car strikes him at high speed. Nadezhda (Milla Jovovich) is at the wheel with her fiancé Danil (Ivan Urgant). Vyacheslav escapes from the collision with just a broken leg. A crush develops between Slava and Nadezhda. Vyacheslav convinces her to cut off her engagement and they pledge to marry each other instead. The teacher, in addition to leaving his work must move to Moscow where the wedding will take place. However he hits a snag, on the same day that he must take the train the preparations for the Russian Youth Football Cup are taking place. He gets mistaken for a coach by the Tournament Supervisor (Vladimir Menshov), a Duma deputy, who takes his passport so that he is not able to escape.

Slava wants to leave as quickly as possible, he receives advice from Khlobustin (Sergei Garmash), coach of Central Moscow, to make sure that his team will lose. Desperate to reunite with his fiancée, he recruits a group of juvenile delinquents (after he catches one attempting to steal his mobile phone). He is certain that they do not have the sufficient expertise but they begin to demonstrate an innate ability to play football and win brilliantly to the despair of Kolotilov.

Cast

Production

Initially the project was called "Kolotilov".[5] The film was not initially planned to be a romantic comedy, but the screenplay was altered on a late stage of production when Milla Jovovich agreed to act in the film.[6] Jovovich said in an interview that she agreed to act in the film because of her friendship with Ivan Urgant. Scenes with her participation took 10 days to film.[7]

Russian-speaking Milla Jovovich voiced her role herself, and it was her first role in the language. Although half Russian, Jovovich moved to London as a child, which made her main language English, so she had some difficulties with learning her lines.[7] Her mother, Galina Loginova, also appears in the film. She plays Galina Alexandrovna, Nadya's mother.

Most of the film was shot in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai.[8]

The first letters of the names of the actors who played in the film starring (Khabensky, Urgant, Jovovich) form an obscene word in Russian. In one of the trailers of the film this is visible. For this reason many cinemas refused to show the film's trailer.[9]

gollark: But actually focusing it and whatever to make it cut cleanly is hard. Setting the lawn on fire is easy.
gollark: The obvious solution is some sort of laser lawnmower system which just sets the lawn on fire every week or so.
gollark: Those need a lot more active management.
gollark: I mean, yes, other wasteful things exist (... I don't think mowing lawns is a significant one), but that doesn't actually make every instance of waste fine.
gollark: It is cool technology, at least, if horrendously wasteful.

References
  1. RIA Novosti. "Из 33 российских фильмов текущего года рентабельными стали шесть" [6 Russian films became profitable out of 33 films this year.] (in Russian).
  2. "ВЫКРУТАСЫ" [Lucky Trouble]. Kinobusiness.
  3. ABC DE SEVILLA. "Milla Jovovich presentará en Sevilla "Lucky Trouble"" [Milla Jovovich presents "Lucky Trouble in Seville] (in Spanish).
  4. Kinoafisha Rossii. "Выкрутасы" [Lucky Trouble] (in Russian).
  5. New Look Media. ""Футбольные выкрутасы"" [Football Trouble] (in Russian).
  6. "Выкрутасы" [Lucky Trouble]. VokrugTV.
  7. Stas Tyrkin. "Милла Йовович: "Я снялась в российском кино ради Вани Урганта"" [Milla Jovovich: " I acted in Russian film because of Vanya Urgant"]. Komsomolskaya Pravda.
  8. Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Благодаря съемкам "Выкрутасов" ейский стадион привели в порядок" [Due to the filming of "Lucky Trouble" Yeysk stadium was put in order] (in Russian).
  9. MTV Russia. Трейлер фильма «Выкрутасы» запретили в кинотеатрах [Trailer of the film "Lucky Trouble" banned in movie theaters] (in Russian). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do6fOyp1bpA.CS1 maint: location (link)
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