Director Alexander Shein, together with his wife Chulpan Khamatova, decided to write a script and start filming a biopic about the greatest poet of the Silver Age, Vladimir Mayakovsky. Filming is expected to start at the end of 2012.
Alexander Shein, previously known as the producer of the film "Euphoria" directed by Ivan Vyrypaev, created the script for his next film work about Mayakovsky for about five years. The source of inspiration for the director and producer of the film was Marina Tsvetaeva's phrase that "for 13 years a man killed a poet, and in the 14th year a poet got up and killed a man."
It is already known that Shein approved top model Natalia Vodianova for the role of one of the beloved women of Vladimir Mayakovsky. According to Lenta.ru, she will appear on the screen in the image of Tatyana Yakovleva, with whom the poet had a short romance in the last years of his life. The director also hopes that Lilya Brik will play Chulpan Khamatov.
At the same time, it remains unknown who will get the main role in the film. It is known that the director himself would like to open a new actor for the viewer, to whom the public would not be prejudiced.
According to information published on the website of the UNION acting agency, one of the producers of the project, Sergei Chliyants, said that, in his opinion, two people coexisted in Mayakovsky at the same time: a poet and a seeker of the meaning of life, love and faith. Thus, the picture promises to become relevant within the framework of our time.
According to the director's idea, the film will draw several historically significant parallels. He himself made the bold assumption that "all punk came out of our futurists", since both directions were based on a tragic state of mind. In addition, Alexander Shein also pointed to a reference to perestroika, when most people experienced the same collapse of ideals as the great poet did in his time.
The film's financial budget is still under wraps. We only know that he is a private initiative, which should be enough to create a picture. According to preliminary forecasts, a biopic about the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky will be released in 2014.
