Forbidden Empire - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Forbidden Empire"
Вий (2014)
Timing:
2:8 (128 min)
5.884/10
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5.702/10
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104997
5.2/10
7000
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Film crew
Director
Oleg Stepchenko
Director
Producer
Ruslan Ustinov
Producer
Oleg Teterin
Producer
Alexander Kulikov
Producer
Anatoly Sergeev
Producer
Executive Producer
Aleksey Ogurtsov
Executive Producer
Oleg Lyubaev
Executive Producer
Editor
Petr Zelenov
Editor
Costume Design
Jarmila Konečná
Costume Design
Production Design
Arthur Mirzoyan
Production Design
Stunt Coordinator
Jiří Kuba
Stunt Coordinator
Aleksandr Stetsenko
Stunt Coordinator
Makeup Artist
Pyotr Gorshenin
Makeup Artist
Natalya Gorina
Makeup Artist
Co-Producer
Leonid Ogorodnikov
Co-Producer
Oleg Andreev
Co-Producer
Director of Photography
Vladimír Smutný
Director of Photography
Yaroslav Pilunskyi
Director of Photography
Visual Effects Supervisor
Viktor Lakisov
Visual Effects Supervisor
Evgeniy Gittsigrat
Visual Effects Supervisor
Dmitriy Tokoyakov
Visual Effects Supervisor
Arkadiy Dubinin
Visual Effects Supervisor
Ilya Shutov
Visual Effects Supervisor
Nikolay Goryaev
Visual Effects Supervisor
Hristo Velev
Visual Effects Supervisor
Igor Zadorin
Visual Effects Supervisor
Eduard Kargin
Visual Effects Supervisor
Artur Abidnov
Visual Effects Supervisor
Stereoscopic Supervisor
Florian Maier
Stereoscopic Supervisor
Screenplay
Oleg Stepchenko
Screenplay
Aleksandr Karpov
Screenplay
Sound Designer
Arcady Noskov
Sound Designer
Ivan Titov
Sound Designer
Additional Director of Photography
Jiří Maxa
Additional Director of Photography
Aleksandr Sakhno
Additional Director of Photography
Special Effects
Kamil Jaffar
Special Effects
Story
Assistant Director
Maxim Malinin
Assistant Director
Dmitry Galperin
Assistant Director
Music
Anton Garcia
Music
Sound
VFX Supervisor
Mikhail Korovyansky
VFX Supervisor
Sound Director
Yuliya Ratnikova
Sound Director
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, to demonstrate that the film was in production, Alexey Petrukhin and Oleg Stepchenko shot a promotional trailer for the film in 2006, in 18 hours, in which Petrukhin himself played the role of Khoma Brut. In early 2007, this teaser was released in cinemas, although the script had not yet been written; the film's actual production began only a year later, and filming was completed only in March 2012.
- Vincent Cassel, Christian Slater, Tim Roth, Sean Bean, Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Keanu Reeves, and Pierce Brosnan were all considered for the role of the main character – traveler and cartographer Jonathan Green. Official negotiations were held with each of the actors.
- The prototype for the main character – Jonathan Green – was Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan (1595-1685) – a French engineer and military cartographer, author of the books “Description of Ukraine” and “From Transylvania to Muscovy.”
- The main character's carriage was specially designed and built by one of the German automotive corporations. The design turned out to be so modern that its technical characteristics can compete with the latest cars, but externally it remained a model of transport from the 18th century. The carriage cost $75,000. There is also a duplicate carriage worth $23,000, which was used for filming interiors.
- The total number of people involved in the film crew throughout the entire production of the film was 923.
- Work on the set design took more than 6 months, and as a result, an entire village of 21 houses was built, with a guard tower, a high palisade, antique cannons and other attributes characteristic of 18th-century Ukraine.
- According to Valery Zolotukhin, the most difficult moment for him during filming was smoking a pipe. As it turned out, Valery Sergeevich had long given up this harmful habit.
- Model Natalia Vodianova was supposed to star in the film, but her contract forbade her from changing her appearance. The role required her to get a haircut and dye her hair. As a result, the role of Nastusya went to Agniya Ditkovskite.
- A technology called "local GPS" was developed specifically for filming, which solved the problem of combining virtual and real sets.
- Five different looks, involving varying makeup and costumes, were designed for just one traveler, Jonathan Green.
- The wings of the monster characters were made and filmed separately, as synchronizing them live was difficult – they were very heavy.
- The Czech National Postal Service issued a series of commemorative postage stamps featuring the film's characters.
- The youngest actor in the film was 8 months old during filming, while the oldest was 71 years old.
- "Viy" became the highest-grossing Russian film of 2014, with box office receipts of 1.2 billion rubles, and the fourth in the list of the most successful domestic projects in the entire history of distribution (as of June 2015).
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