Saving Pushkin
Directed byIgor Ugolnikov (ru)
Written by
  • Yevgeny Ayzikovich
  • Igor Ugolnikov
  • Natalya Nazarova
Produced by
  • Igor Ugolnikov
  • Pavel Smirnov
  • Eduard Pichugin
  • Bagrat Chelabyan
  • Elena Belkova
  • Yevgeny Ayzikovich
Starring
CinematographyAndrey Gurkin
Music bySergey Shustitsky
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Productions and Releasing
Release date
  • October 21, 2021 (2021-10-21)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget₽209 million
Box office₽3 million[1]

Saving Pushkin, also known as Saving Legacy (Russian: Учёности плоды, romanized: Uchyonosti plody) is a 2021 Russian war drama film directed by Igor Ugolnikov. The main roles were played by Sergey Bezrukov and Nastassja Kerbengen.[2]

It was released on October 21, 2021 by Sony Pictures Productions and Releasing (SPPR).[3]

Plot

The film is set in 1944 at the Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve in the village of Mikhailovskoye. Some of the local residents became a partisan, another began to cooperate with the invaders, and left-handed Sergey did not choose any side and decided to just wait. Suddenly, a professor of literature, Maria Schiller, arrives from Germany. She tells the Wehrmacht soldiers and local residents about Alexander Pushkin. Meanwhile, an order comes from Berlin - to remove all historical values from the village.[4]

Cast

  • Sergey Bezrukov as Sergey Trofimov, rural left-hander
  • Nastassja Kerbengen as Frau Maria Schiller
  • Fyodor Bondarchuk as Bespalov, the commander of the partisan detachment
  • Igor Ugolnikov as Antipov, museum employee
  • Anastasiya Melnikova as Lyudmila Antipova, Antipov's wife
  • Mikhael Epp as Major Zangler
  • Anastasiya Butkova as Anisya, a resident of the village
  • Aleksey Nesterov as Amel
  • Igor Savochkin as Yegor, partisan
  • Dmitry Solomykin as Zangler's adjutant
  • Konstantin Fisenko as Dyoma, partisan
  • Andrey Gorbachev as Yupatov
  • Andrey Nekrasov as Voronin

Production

The distribution of Ugolnikov's picture is handled by the Russian film company Sony Pictures Productions and Releasing (SPPR), which has released films such as Petrov's Flu on the big screens.

Filming

Principal photography took place in 2019 on the territory of Pushkinskiye Gory. The authorities of the Pskov Oblast provided direct assistance in choosing locations for the film.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)
  2. ↑ Создатели драмы "Учености плоды" о жизни в Михайловском в войну создадут версию для ТВ
  3. ↑ Uskov, Oleg (September 23, 2021). "Вышел трейлер "Учёности плодов" Угольникова с Безруковым и Бондарчуком" [The trailer for Saving Pushkin by Igor Ugolnikov with Sergey Bezrukov and Fyodor Bondarchuk has been released]. Russian Gazette (in Russian). Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Учёности плоды / Saving Pushkin (2021)". kinoafisha.info (in Russian).
  5. ↑ "Сергей Безруков покажет зрителям "Учености плоды"" [Sergey Bezrukov will show the audience Saving Pushkin]. smotrim.ru (in Russian).
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