Central Partnership, the largest distributor of Russian films, will start selling new films on the European Film Market (EFM), a leading international film market. EFM is part of the program at the Berlinale Film Festival. This year, the film market will be held online from March 1 to 5.
Central Partnership will present the new film Chempion Mira (World Champion), produced by Nikita Mikhalkov’s TRITE Studio with the participation of the Russia 1 television channel, about the battles taking place on the chessboard as the brightest human minds come head-to-head. It is among several new projects in Central Partnership’s international distribution package.
Other new films that will be presented at EFM include Lyotchik (The Pilot), a World War II epic about pilot Nikolay Komlev, who receives an order to stop a German tank procession moving towards Moscow. Komlev’s mission is successful, but then he is discovered and shot down. After landing his plane in a remote forest clearing, at first it seems like the worst is behind him. What he doesn’t know is that his ordeal has only just begun. Freezing, starving, and surrounded by a pack of wolves, Komlev now has to find a way to survive.
The film Dekabr (December) looks at the last days of Sergei Yesenin, one of the greatest Russian poets. The story starts with the arrival of Isadora Duncan, a famous dancer, to the Soviet Union from Germany. She is plotting to help her beloved Yesenin escape from the country. All he has to do is get on a train and travel to Riga. The poet flees Moscow for snowy Leningrad, where he finds himself at the center of a mad whirlwind of events. He rushes towards his lover, regardless of the relentless obstacles that keep popping up.
Ryad 19 (Row 19), a joint production between KIT Film Studio, Central Partnership and Monumental Pictures, will also be among Russia’s fall premieres. A thriller about a young doctor named Katya on an overnight flight with her 6-year-old daughter Diana in the midst of a storm, the flight turns sinister as passengers start to die unexpectedly in the half-empty plane cabin. Crossing the boundaries of reality, she is forced to face her own fears and relive the biggest nightmare from her childhood.
