Beanpole
Country
Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$0
Director
Actors
Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Konstantin Balakirev, Kseniya Kutepova, Olga Dragunova, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov, Timofey Glazkov, Alyona Kuchkova, Veniamin Kac
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Alexander Terekhov, Kantemir Balagov
Producer
Aleksander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov, Natalya Gorina, Ellen Rodnianski
Camera operator
Ksenia Sereda
Composer
Artist
Sergey Ivanov
Audition
Vladimir Golov
Editing
Igor Litoninskiy
Whole Team (20)
Whole Team (20)
Short description
1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot in Saint Petersburg in 2018.
- Syringes with a telescopic needle retracting into the body of the syringe were specially made for close-up shots in the hospital.
- All bandages were tinted with tea and dried on the radiator the night before filming to simulate a washed-out appearance.
- To develop prosthetics for damaged limbs, patients in hospitals of that era made their own training devices. The team managed to find these homemade items in museums and books and create accurate replicas.
- The son of a party official’s car is also a museum exhibit. It is a 1938 Mercedes. The actor who played Sasha underwent training to be able to handle it himself.
- Real posters from that era are displayed on the poster stand near the club.
- The walls in the hospital corridor were repainted green in three stages directly during filming. But in the final scene in the hospital corridor, the corridor is shown completely renovated. This was not in the original plan, but the producers suggested it to the director, who liked the idea. As a result, the walls were painted between takes unnoticed, and this remained in the film.
- The film features a scene celebrating the New Year. The crew gained access to archives where they discovered how small pieces of cotton were threaded onto strings to imitate snowflakes.
- The film used real tram cars from that era, now stored in the Museum of Urban Electric Transport in St. Petersburg. For a number of shots, the crew had to devise a structure that could imitate the external footboards that existed at the time for fare-dodgers – one that wouldn't damage the museum exhibit and could simultaneously support a dozen passengers.
- Window cracks were sealed with genuine newspapers from 1942, found by the props master at the Udelnaya Flea Market – all issues of the "Pravda" newspaper from that year. During the set decoration process, these newspapers had to be carefully hidden, otherwise they would be taken as souvenirs. In addition, these newspapers were cut and used to make improvised napkins on bedside tables for the New Year's scene in the hospital.
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