The Silver Skates (film)
The Silver Skates (Russian: Серебряные коньки) is an upcoming Russian historical romance adventure drama film directed by Michael Lockshin and written by Roman Kantor. The story is set in a Christmas tree from the 19th century in Saint Petersburg transforms into a fairytale-like wonderland where frozen rivers and canals of Moyka in the Russian Empire. Matvey is a young man from a poor lamplighter, fate brings two people together on the festive streets to be the silver skates, who once met an aristocrat girl named Alice is an intellectual from a noble family. Since then, the heroes together follow their dreams, based on the novel of the same name. The main roles will be played by Fedor Fedotov and Sofia Priss, the film also starred Aleksei Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janusauskaite, Kirill Zaytsev and Yuri Borisov.[1]
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Directed by | Michael Lockshin |
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Written by | Roman Kantor |
Based on | Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge |
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Cinematography | Igor Grinyakin |
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Distributed by | Central Partnership |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Principal photography lasted from February winter to May spring 2019, and took place in Saint Petersburg, in the palaces of the Grand prince, taking place at Sadovaya Street in the Saint Michael's Castle, as well as on the frozen rivers and canals of the Northern Capital, in the town of Kronstadt, Gatchina and Vsevolozhsk of the Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
Plot
The film takes place in 1899 in St. Petersburg, where absolutely different people meet: the father and son of an ordinary lamplighter, Matvey, who has silver skates, and a daughter of a dignitary named Alice, who is fond of the world of science. They will help each other realize their dreams... [2]
Cast
- Fedor Fedotov as Matvey
- Sonia Priss as Alice
- Aleksei Guskov as Nikolai Nikolaevitch
- Yuri Kolokolnikov as Grand prince
- Severija Janusauskaite as Severina
- Kirill Zaytsev as Prince Arkadiy Trubetskoy
- Yuri Borisov as Alex
- Aleksandra Revenko as Margo
- Timofey Tribuntsev as Petr
- Sergey Koltakov as Dmitri Mendeleev
- Yan Reshetnikov as footman
- Denis Lavant[3] as Fourier
- Cathy Belton as Miss Jackson
- Vasiliy Kopeikin as Muha
Production
—directed by Michael Lockshin
The director of the picture was the debutant of the full meter Michael Lockshin, a famous clip maker and director of advertising.
Casting
The main roles in the film are debutants - actors Fedor Fedotov and Sonya Priss in St. Petersburg. The company on the screen are the masters and actor of the star: Aleksei Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janusauskaite, Kirill Zaytsev, Yuriy Borisov, Aleksandra Revenko, Timofey Tribuntsev, Sergey Koltakov, and also stars of European cinema Denis Lavant and Cathy Belton.
Filming
The shooting location for the film set began on February 4, 2019, a snowy day in the Leningrad Oblast. Most of the filming took place on the frozen rivers and canals of St. Petersburg, in which the cinema has never been filmed in such a volume in the entire history! The film crew built and decorated ice fairs and skating rinks, and when spring began to come into its own, a large-scale decoration of the frozen Moyka River was built in the pavilion to shoot action scenes on ice.[4][5]
References
- "Главные роли в фильме «Серебряные коньки» достались дебютантам" [The main roles in the film The Silver Skates went to debutants]. Kino-teatr.ru (in Russian). February 4, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
- "Серебряные коньки / The Silver Skates (2020)". Kinoafisha.info.
- Bugulova, Inga (March 26, 2019). "Француз Дени Лаван сыграет медиума в фильме "Серебряные коньки"" [Frenchman Denis Lavant will play medium in the film The Silver Skates]. Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved April 25, 2020.
- Pirogova, Anastasiya (February 1, 2019). "Для съемок фильма расчистили от снега заледеневшую Мойку" [To shoot a film, we cleared the icy Moyka from snow] (in Russian). moika78.ru. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
- Entyakova, Anna (February 4, 2019). "Культурная неделя: выбор «Известий»" [Shooting of the Russian historical melodrama The Silver Skates has begun] (in Russian). Vokrug.tv. Retrieved April 25, 2020.