Studio “The Third Rome” Yevgeny Mironov will shoot a feature film about the explorer of the Far East, Vladimir Arseniev. Mironov will play the main role in the upcoming film. It has been reported TASS.
The actor called the tape not a biographical, but a “historical drama.” Filming takes place from mid-September 2023 to February-March 2024 in Primorye and St. It will be held in St. Petersburg. “This is Vladivostok in 1907 – we [с этого] to start. This is the city itself, the taiga and the crossing of rivers, ”says the words of the agency Mironov.
Currently, the creators are making a casting, they plan to invite residents of Primorye to extras. The director will be Dmitry Kiselev (“First Time”, “Peace”), and Vladimir Bashta (“Geographer Drank His Globe Away”, “Brest Fortress”) will be responsible for the camera work.
Traveler and ethnographer Vladimir Arseniev made more than 10 expeditions, which resulted, for example, in the book “A Brief Military Geographical and Military Statistical Essay on the Ussuri Territory.” His works “Beyond Ussuri Region” and “Dersu Uzala” have been translated into 30 languages of the world. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa made an Oscar-winning film based on these works in 1975.
Previously reported about the start of the shooting of the film “The Arctic” about the first Soviet nuclear submarine.