"... "Franz + Polina" by Mikahil Segal = Love. Regardless of war, ethnicity, and time. Pure Love..." Anatoly Vasiliev (Theatrical Director, Russia) "... I have a soft corner in my heart for a work of talent. "Franz +Polina" is a talented film. It is made with unexpected, for a debutant, skill and accuracy. While accuracy is a truth of today's time. It allowed the director to read this as old as the hills story in a new fashion." Pavel Lungin (Film Director, Russia) "...We strongly recommend to see the Russian film "Franz + Polina" directed by Mikhail Segal, that won the Grand Prix of the 20-th FIPA festival in Biarritz! This story of love against a background of Nazi's barbarity in Belorussia in 1943 stands out by an exceptional cinema quality and indisputably deserves that." "L'Humanite", France "...No doubt, in the first place this is a duet, excellently performed story of love..." "Timeout", Russia
The press release FRANZ + POLINA (the military fairy-tale) Full-length feature film. 119 min. 2006. "UGRA-FILM" FILM COMPANY «SOLIVS» FILM COMPANY Script writer Ales Adamovich Director Mikhail Segal Director of photography Maxim Trapo R.G.C. Production designer Alexander Maximovich Composer Andjei Petras Costume designer Lyudmila Torshina Make-up Galina Kosygina Plotline and dialogues Vladimir Stepanenko, Mikhail Segal, Maxim Trapo Edited by Mikhail Segal, Rinat Khalilullin Producer Oleg Urushev
Story 1943. In the answer of the actions of partisans and also according to the program "The plan of the distraction of Slavonic nation", Nazis were burning hundreds of villages with their inhabitants along all Belorussia. Directed to one of such villages a division of "SS" was given an order to suspend an action unexpectedly at the last moment. Instead of destroying the inhabitants and the village, German soldiers became kind and lovely lodgers. Will the young soldier be in time to have a talk about his love and feelings to Polina, a daughter of the mistress, until a new order will come? How much time is left? Neither love, nor murder was in life of Franz. Realism gradually changing into a thriller has been represented in the film stylistically. Main characters had to go through a number of mystical transformations, a number of situations which made them choose between craving to each other and desire to survive every time. There are almost no dialogues in the film. Unexpected and terrible events do not provoke main characters to talk.
The author The author "Franz+Polina" is a film by the last novel of classic of the Soviet literature Ales Adamovich (1926-1994) who being a teenager has passed the war and German occupation in Belarus, and then became well-known due to a shocking military publicism. The film «Come and see» (1985, Director Elem Klimov) became the classics famous all over the world. Adamovich Cover of the «Come and see»
The director Mikhail Segal. The debut at cinema. Education theatre director, then one of the most recognized Russian music video maker and director of advertising commercials. He became famous as a music video creator for Russian rock stars: Би2 (Be2) («My rock-and-roll»), Сплин (Spleen) («Plastic life», «New people», "Romance"), Ночные снайперы (Night s Snipers) ("Catastrophically"), Ногу свело! (Leg Cramp!) («Our young funny voices») and many others. The director s work and the trailer of the film may be found here: http://www.showreel.ru/eng/segal. Вы также можете посетить персональный сайт режиссёра www.msegal.ru и познакомиться с его литературным и музыкальным творчеством.
Actors Adrian Topol (Germany, Born in 1981) and Svetlana Ivanova (Russia Born in 1985, the first time as a leading role actress in a movie). Roles Andrey Merzlikin Tamara Mironova Uve Yellinek Valentin Matsapura
Film company «UGRA-FILM» FILM COMPANY It is the most northern company among Russian film companies. It was established in 2003. The main activity is making fiction, documentary and serials. Technical base is situated in Khanty-Mansiysk. «Franz + Polina» is the company s debut at the full-length cinema. The official web-site: www.ugra-film.ru. Contacts: Film Press attaché and general coordinator Kseniya Akimova romina82@mail.ru Film Official website www.franzipolina.ru Film Official e-mail franzipolina@yandex.ru Film Producer Oleg Urushev e-mail bossotrk@ugra-tv.ru phone: +7 (34671) 93 706 fax: +7 (34671) 33 402