Vladimir Mashkov has started filming the film adaptation of the famous Soviet novel “Not on the Lists”
In Russia, there is still a boom not only in remakes and fairy tales, but also in historical dramas, including war ones. In addition to the film adaptation of War and Peace, which Sarik Andreasyan (feature film) and Sergei Ursulyak (series) are filming simultaneously, there are other projects being filmed at the moment. “KP” presents several of the brightest ones.
“Not on the lists”
In Belarus and the Moscow region, the artistic director of Tabakerka, Vladimir Mashkov, has started filming the film adaptation of the famous Soviet novel “Not on the Lists”, written by the writer and veteran of World War II Boris Vasiliev; the artist himself is also involved in the project. This will be another project dedicated to the defense of the Brest Fortress, where a young officer Nikolai Pluzhnikov (Vladislav Miller) arrives, not knowing that he will spend the next 10 months in fierce battles with the Nazis.
“Not on the lists” is a great work,” says Mashkov. — The whole story is imbued with the life of Boris Vasiliev, his understanding of life. And we created very accurately and carefully all the circumstances of this difficult, but extremely important story for the human spirit.
In addition to Miller and Mashkov, the project features Yana Sexte, Vitaly Egorov, Alexander Kuzmin and others.
“So we are on our way there”
Another military drama, the title of which includes a line from the well-known song by Evgeniy Dolmatovsky, military correspondent and World War II veteran https://cdn-st2.smotrim.ru/vh/pictures/hd/515/578/5 .jpg – with music by Mark Fradkin: “Road to Berlin”.
The plot revolves around five friends (Mark Bogatyrev, Ivan Dobronravov, Alexey Bardukov, Anton Pampushny, Alexander Bukharov), born in different Soviet republics, who serve in the same infantry regiment. They have already spent three years of war behind them and ahead of them lies the liberation of Russian, Byelorussian, Polish and German cities.
“Working in the role of a military man means, first of all, responsible behavior, the ability to handle weapons and master tactical skills,” emphasizes Dobronravov, who played the Belarusian Stanislav Mironchik. “But still, the most important thing is the very circumstances of war in which our heroes exist. This is what encourages them to live completely differently, because each of them understands that in war, life can end at any second. This fact makes everything incredibly worse. And this applies not only to purely military actions (offensives or attacks), but also to events in interpersonal relationships. For me, the most important thing is that my hero on the screen turns out to be honest, and people, looking at him, see a living, good-natured person who really wants to live, who really wants peace, but at the same time needs to desperately fight and fight every day.”
The premiere of the series, which is being filmed in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Belarus, is scheduled for 2025 on the Russia 1 channel.
“Axe. 1945. July”
The name of this project, or rather the fourth part of the franchise, is more reminiscent of the name of another Telegram channel, but this is only at first glance. And in the center of the plot, borrowed from the story of the 731st Japanese detachment, which conducted inhuman experiments and produced bacteriological weapons, is the story of foreman Ivan Rodin, whose role is played by People’s Artist of Russia Andrei Smolyakov.
Summer 1945. After the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Soviet command transferred part of the troops liberated in the West to the Far East to attack the Japanese army in Manchuria. Alexey Khlamov (Alexander Panekin), a Russian emigrant infected with smallpox, sneaks into the location of one of the divisions. He says that the Japanese army kept him in the so-called “Unit 731”.
In order to understand whether Khlamov fabricated the story of the Japanese detachment’s terrible experiments or not, a reconnaissance group consisting of Kravtsov (Konstantin Adaev), Rodin (Andrei Smolyakov) and a resident of Japan Chen (Alexey Frandetti) is sent to the Japanese rear. Colonel Takeshi Tanaguchi (Song Kyung Wang), who heads the laboratory’s security, tries with all his might to prevent the Soviet troops from discovering secret developments. Novices from a nearby Buddhist monastery come to the aid of the reconnaissance group.
The series will appear on NTV in 2025.
“Taganrog”
Filming is also continuing on the eight-episode military historical drama “Taganrog,” dedicated to the underground heroes who fought against the Nazis during the occupation from 1941 to 1943.
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“The artistic image was created as part of the project “Without Prescription” and tells the story of the immortal feat of the Taganrog youth, who fought against the Nazi invaders in the ranks of the city’s underground during the Great Patriotic War,” the creators of the project explain. — The historical line of the series will resonate with modern events.
The film begins in 1941. In the story, state security officer Viktor Shvets (Denis Donskoy) is tasked with going to Taganrog to create a DRG cell there.
He gets a job with the Nazi occupation authorities under the guise of a Volga German, Gustav Schwartz. A talented intelligence officer increases the cell size to a hundred people, which, of course, the Gestapo understands and they begin to raid the underground. Young people are tortured and executed, but this does not frighten the Soviet people – the resistance force is only gaining strength. When creating the script, data from declassified archival documents were used, indicating Nazi Germany’s plans for the genocide of the peoples of the USSR.
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The series, filmed in the Rostov and Leningrad regions, will appear on the Premier platform in 2025.
