Cherkasy (film)
«Cherkasy»[1] is also known as «U311 «Cherkasy» — Ukrainian feature film directed by Timur Yashchenko about the defense of the eponymous naval minesweeper, blocked by Russian troops in the bay Donuzlav in March 2014 during the annexation of Crimea. The film was created with the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency .
The Ukrainian and international premiere of the festival version of the film took place on July 16, 2019 at the Odesa International Film Festival 2019.[2] The distribution version of the film was released in Ukraine on February 27, 2020 by MMD UA.
Plot[edit]
Myshko and Lev are guys from a Ukrainian village who, for different reasons, found themselves on the Ukrainian Navy warship Cherkasy, stationed in the port of the Crimean Lake Donuzlav, during the events of the Euromaidan 2014.
At a time when the crew of the Cherkasy minesweeper is being trained, President Yanukovych is fleeing Ukraine, and Crimea is being seized by "little green men". The occupation of the Crimean peninsula begins. The ship returns to base, but the port is already lost. "Cherkasy", along with other ships of the Ukrainian fleet, is blocked in Lake Donuzlav - the road to the sea is blocked by sunken ships.
Ukrainian ships surrender one after another, only the crew of "Cherkasy" resists and continues a brave, albeit hopeless, fight against the enemy.
Cast[edit]
- Eugene Lamakh as Myshko — senior sailor
- Dmitry Sova as Lev, sailor
- Roman Semisal as Yuri Fedash, captain of the ship
- Vadim Lyalko as Michman
- Ruslan Koval as Sergey, foreman
- Eugene Avdeenko as Ilya
- Oleg Shcherbyna as "Hare"
- Mikhail Voskoboynik as "Sport"
- Oles Katsion as cook
- Maxim Zapisochny as Hena, foreman
- Sergey Detyuk as navigator
- Dmitry Gavrilov as Vadim Boyko, lieutenant
- Timur Aslanov as a senior mechanic
- Vitalina Bibliv as Misha's mother
- Orest Garda's as Misha's father
- Valery Astakhov as a chairman of the village council
- Alexander Lapti as Tahir
- Alexander Bogna Rodzik
- Oleg Karpenko
Production[edit]
In early April, the head of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration Yuriy Tkachenko stated that in April 2017 filming a tape about the minesweeper «Cherkasy" will be continued in the Odessa region.[3] Official filming of the events in Donuzlav began on April 18, 2017 near the shores of Ochakiv and Kinburn Spit.[4] During the filming, was created the scenery of sunken Russian ships, with which the invaders blocked the way to Cherkasy.[5]
The film was created in cooperation with the Ukrainian military, some scenes were filmed during the exercises of the Ukrainian Navy. Instead of the Cherkasy minesweeper, which Russia never gave back to Ukraine, the tug of the Ukrainian fleet Korets, which is similar in silhouette and size, was used for filming.[6] Yuri Fedash, the real commander of the Cherkasy minesweeper, was the film’s military consultant.
Scenes of pro-Russian performances in the Crimea were filmed in Odessa. Filming was also carried out in a village in the Chernihiv region.
Budget[edit]
The total budget of the film is about 40 million hryvnias, of which the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency is about 17.3 million.[7] The rest of the budget was provided by the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of Odessa and Chernihiv regions.[8] In February 2019, the creators raised UAH 350,000 for post-production (UAH 200,000 raised on the biggggidea crowdfunding platform, as well as UAH 150,000 added by the International Renaissance Foundation)[9].
Release[edit]
Initially, it was planned that the film would be released on August 24, 2018 - on the Independence Day of Ukraine.[10] The premiere was later postponed to 2019.[11]
The Ukrainian and international premiere of the festival version of the film took place on July 16, 2019 at OIFF 2019, where the film competed in the section "National films - full-length".[12] The film premiered internationally on October 15 at WFF 2019, where the film competed in the main competition.[13][14]
The distribution version of the film was released in Ukraine on February 27, 2020 by MMD UA.
On October 14, 2020, the TV version of the film premiered on Ukrainian «1+1» TV channel.[15]
Cash fees[edit]
The box office for renting the film in Ukraine (for the whole period) amounted to UAH 6,490,726, and 73,428 spectators watched it in cinemas.[16]
Reception[edit]
After the premiere of the festival version of the film in July 2019 at the OIFF 2019, most Ukrainian film critics praised the film. [17] Yaroslav Pidhora-Hvyazdovsky, a film critic for Media Detector, praised the film, its "authenticity" and presence in the film of criticism of the Ukrainian army, especially in the linguistic aspect. In particular, Pidgora-Gviazdovsky called justified the use of Russian swear words and multilingual dialogues in the film, because in his opinion it objectively shows the current language state of the Ukrainian fleet. [18]
Zaxid.net film critic Kateryna Slipchenko also responded positively to the film, noting that the film, despite some miscalculations, still fulfills the main task of emotionally and honestly telling about the annexation of Crimea by Russia.[19]
Dmytro Desyateryk, a film critic for The Day, called the film "the first worthy feature film about the Ukrainian military," noting that director Timur Yashchenko had avoided the temptation to fall into propaganda.[20]
In addition to film critics, after the premiere of the film at the OIFF, the real participants of those events also spoke about it. Thus, the captain of "Cherkasy" Yuri Fedash, who was also a consultant during the making of the film, was satisfied with the film and said that in general it truthfully reproduces the background on which the infamous events took place, but also noted that there were significant deviations from real events. So Fedash complained about the episode from "Olshansky", where the crew allegedly sings "Warriors of Light", because in fact the singing of this song happened much earlier; also complained about the addition of an episode with pouring concrete into the main engines, which, according to Fedash, in fact did not exist. Fedash was also dissatisfied with the fact that the film showed the crew uncoordinated until the beginning of Russia's military aggression, because, according to Fedash, the crew was prepared from the beginning and there was no "smoking in the cabins."
After the premiere of the rental version of the film in Ukraine in March 2020, the film provoked a mixed reaction from Ukrainian film critics.[21] Among the biggest shortcomings of the film, film critics noted a weak scenario that has no length and resembles a random collection of individual episodes, the lack of an obvious protagonist, and ideological uncertainty of the film and, accordingly, incomprehensibility for viewers who knew nothing about the annexation of Crimea in 2014.[22][23]
Vitaliy Gordienko, a film critic for the Сinephile Squad, called the film "Ukrainian failure of the year" and called the film's biggest shortcoming its ideological uncertainty, where Russia's aggression is not even clearly explained to the audience. Thus, according to Gordienko, there is no clear explanation of who "little green men" are in the film, and the critic concluded that "if he had not lived at that time, he might not even have understood what it was all about."
Although the critic for the Geek Journal said that he liked the film in general, he still called the film's biggest shortcoming its ideological uncertainty and unsuitability to be "a source of truth for those who do not know it." Thus, according to Anderson, "a person without knowledge of the context of events, or at least without reading an article on Wikipedia, will get porridge for himself, from various scenes and events.
Vika Sloboda and Serhiy Zakharchenko, film critics of hromadske.ua, had a similar opinion, noting that "without knowledge of documentary chronicles it is difficult to trace and understand the plot of the film", and "due to disregard for the motives and transformation of the characters those who remained, understood only with knowledge of the real history of the minesweeper "Cherkasy" [and not from the film itself]."[24]
However, there were those who saw in the ideological uncertainty of the tape its biggest advantage - so the columnist of Radio Liberty Pavel Kazarin praised the creators for creating a film that "does not chew for the viewer accents and meanings - leaving room for co-creation."[25] Film critics from telekritika.ua, Oleg Danilov from itc.ua, Igor Kromf from Pryamiy TV channel, Anastasia Dyachkina from ICTV TV channel and Yulia Poteryanko from 112 TV channel noted among the greatest virtues of the film the true depiction of events and non-use of show heroism or military heroism. [26] [27] [28] [29] Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". "Cherkasy", also known as "U311 "Cherkasy" is a Ukrainian feature film directed by Timur Yashchenko.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Черкаси". dzygamdb.com (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "На Одеському кінофестивалі покажуть україно-польський фільм про анексію Криму - новини Еспресо TV | Україна". espreso.tv. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Фільм про тральщик "Черкаси" дознімуть вже цього року - Дзвін". web.archive.org. 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "«Перший бій»". Крым.Реалии (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Україна почала знімати новий художній фільм на узбережжі Чорного моря". 24 Канал (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Тепер як у кіно. Чому корабель "Черкаси" не злякався "ввічливих людей"". BBC News Україна (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Держава дасть 17 мільйонів на зйомки фільму про тральщик "Черкаси" (Відео) - Дзвін". web.archive.org. 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Сміливий кінодебют про відважних матросів". Збруч (in українська). 2018-04-05. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Воєнна драма «Черкаси». Спільнокошт – краудфандинг в Україні. Велика Ідея". web.archive.org. 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Фільм «Черкаси» про спротив російській агресії у Криму покажуть на День Незалежності". detector.media (in українська). 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Прем'єру фільму про тральщик «Черкаси» перенесли на наступний рік". Радіо Свобода (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "25 фільмів Одеського кінофестивалю – 2019". web.archive.org. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "«U-311: Черкаси» у головному конкурсі 35-го Варшавського міжнародного кінофестивалю". web.archive.org. 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "WARSAW FILM FESTIWAL". web.archive.org. 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "«1+1» покаже телепрем'єру драми «Черкаси» - Детектор медіа". web.archive.org. 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Черкаси". dzygamdb.com (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ Zaxid.net. "«Черкаси» йдуть на прорив". ZAXID.NET (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ Підгора-Гвяздовський, Ярослав (2019-07-17). "(Column) Негероїчне геройство «Черкас»". detector.media (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ Zaxid.net. "«Черкаси» йдуть на прорив". ZAXID.NET (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Фільм «Черкаси» про героїчну сторінку в історії військового флоту: чому варто подивитися". armyinform.com.ua (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Останній корабель у Криму: що пишут кінокритики про фільм "Черкаси"". Нове українське кіно (in українська). 2020-02-29. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ ПАТРІОТИЧНЕ ЛА…👎🏻або ГОДНОТА?Огляд фільму «ЧЕРКАСИ», retrieved 2021-03-09
- ↑ ЧЕРКАСИ - ПРОВАЛ РОКУ? ОГЛЯД ФІЛЬМУ, retrieved 2021-03-09
- ↑ "Сильна історія та заплутана екранізація: рецензія на фільм «Черкаси» від «Громадське.Культура» | Громадське телебачення". hromadske.ua (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Павло Казарін: Правдива історія корабля «Черкаси» робить нас сильнішими". Радіо Свобода (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ telekritika (2020-02-26). "Героїчний опір: рецензія на фільм «Черкаси»". Telekritika (in русский). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ ""Черкаси", прем`єра фільму "Черкаси", рецензія на фільм "Черкаси",". prm.ua (in українська). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ "Черкаси - рецензія на фільм". ФАКТИ ICTV (in українська). 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ↑ Данилов, Олег Данилов Олег. "Рецензія на військову драму «Черкаси» - ITC.ua". itc.ua (in русский). Retrieved 2021-03-09.
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