Chapiteau Show: Love and Friendship - Part 1

"There are many remixes, but the song is one"

2012 1h 47m RU

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★6.3TMDB · 43

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Synopsis

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A cyberstranger, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea, all in the first part of Sergei Loban's dilogy. - Love. This is a performance not to be missed! A love story between a fragile girl who daydreamed of becoming a princess and Cyberstranger, a mysterious young man hiding behind a nickname. A sea of tears and an abyss of despair! Can Cinderella and the Invisible Man be together? Step right up, step right up! - Friendship. Light the lights! There is a show in town today! Here is a story of a deaf young man with a flaming heart and a boy with an ice shard in his eye. Witness insidious betrayal and unbending courage! Danko and Kai – fire and ice collide! Will the universe survive the battle of the elements? A spectacle you have never seen before and will never see again!

“There are many remixes, but the song is one”

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Cast

Vera Strokova
Vera
Aleksei Podolsky
Cyberwanderer
Aleksei Znamensky
Lyosha
Dmitriy Bogdan
Senya
Anton Kuznetsov
Nikolay, sound engineer
Dmitry Novikov
cameraman
Yevgeny Yerovenkov
Zhenya
Valeri Zavodovsky
Valera

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sergei Loban
Writers: Marina Potapova
Languages: Russian
Countries: Russia

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MONEY

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Shot for just $1.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 20% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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ERA

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Released 14 years ago.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Part of the "Chapiteau Show" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sergei Loban, shot by Ivan Mamonov. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Zhak Polyakov. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Sergei Loban shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Vera Strokova and Aleksei Podolsky and Aleksei Znamensky carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Sergei Loban directs. Ivan Mamonov behind the camera. Zhak Polyakov scores. Sergei Loban cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in Russia. Dialogue in Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $1.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Earned back only 20% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 14 years ago.
4Part of the "Chapiteau Show" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Sergei Loban, shot by Ivan Mamonov. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Zhak Polyakov. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Sergei Loban shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Vera Strokova and Aleksei Podolsky and Aleksei Znamensky carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "There are many remixes, but the song is one".
10IMDB entry: tt1651118 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Only 43 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ivan Mamonov
Original score: Zhak Polyakov
Editing: Sergei Loban
Stunt coordinator: Sergey Silkin
Runtime: 107 min · 1h 47m
Status: Released
Budget: $1,000,000
Box office: $196,908
Return: 20% of budget
Original language: RU
IMDB: Chapiteau Show: Love and Friendship - Part 1 (2012)

Awards

Steppenwolf Award

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Part of

Chapiteau Show

A mysterious circus tent in a seaside resort on the Black Sea forms the start and end-all for bizarre stories filled with light-hearted absurdity. A teenage girl lures her sombre Internet friend very reluctantly into the real world. The main threats in this coastal resort come from fanatical boy scouts, deaf kids and gays. A famous actor yearns for a reunion with his son, and in the last part we follow an ambitious producer. The protagonists want love, friendship, respect and cooperation (the titles of the four parts), but get bogged down in aimless peregrinations that mock their ambitions. For outsiders, their personal tragedies are only comic and banal.