Beanpole

Дылда (2019)

Timing: 2:14 (134 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2019-06-20

Country

Russia

Production

Non-Stop Productions, AR Content, Algous studio

Genre

Drama, War

Budget

$0

Revenue

$1 591 621

Website

https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/3731

Director

Kantemir Balagov

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)

Scenario

Alexander Terekhov, Kantemir Balagov

Producer

Aleksander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov, Natalya Gorina, Ellen Rodnianski

Operator

Ksenia Sereda

Composer

Artist

Audition

Vladimir Golov

Editing

Igor Litoninskiy
All team (20)

• 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.
• The film features a scene celebrating the New Year. The team gained access to archives where they discovered how small pieces of cotton were ‘strung’ onto threads to imitate snowflakes.
• 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 film used genuine tram cars from that period, now stored at the Museum of Urban Electric Transport in St. Petersburg. For a number of shots, the team had to devise a structure that could simulate the external footrests that existed at the time for ‘fare dodgers’: one that would not damage the museum exhibit and simultaneously support a dozen passengers.
• 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.
• Window cracks were sealed with genuine newspapers from 1942, which the prop master found at the Udelnaya 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 for souvenirs. In addition, these newspapers were cut up and used to make improvised napkins on bedside tables for the New Year’s scene in the hospital.
• 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.