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Foundation date 1 january 2004
Proline Film was founded in 2004 by a famous Russian movie composer and producer Andrey Sigle. The Studio cooperates with many independent European producers, major funds, film studios and TV channels such as: «Le Canal+» (France), «Downtown Pictures» (Italy), «Mact Productions» (France), «Rezo Films» (France), «Barrandov» (Check Republic), «Sagafilm» (Iceland), «Generator Post» (Finland) and others.
Our mission is to promote Russian Auteur Cinema worldwide.
«The Sun» (2005) directed by famous Russian cinema figure Alexander Sokurov was the first Studio's project. It was the first movie in the past five years to represent Russia at the 55th International Film Festival in Berlin. «The Sun» and «The Ugly Swans» by Konstantin Lopushansky (screen version of the original Strugatsky brothers' novel) are the following reflection of the Studio’s high art standards.
In 2006 the Studio was the co producer of «Serko» a French project by Joel Farges starring Aleksey Chadov and Jacques Gamblin. In 2007 the studio presented «Alexandra» at Cannes International Film Festival, a movie by Alexander Sokurov starring opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya.
In the following year Proline Film released a new movie called «The Orchard» by Sergey Ovcharov (screen version of Anton Chekhov’s famous comedy «The Cherry Orchard»). The world premiere of the film took place at Moscow International Film Festival.
In 2011 «Faust» by Alexander Sokurov won The Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival.
At the present moment Proline Film Studio is working on two movies: «Arventur» by Irina Yevteeva and «The Role» by Konstantin Lopushansky. Studio’s CEO Andrey Sigle is the movie's producer and composer.
Filmography of Proline Film (2 films)
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Faust (2011)
, 2h14Directed by Alexandre Sokourov
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion, Théâtre, Demons in film, Films based on plays
Actors Isolda Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla, Maxim Mehmet, Georg Friedrich, Andreas Schmidt
Heinrich Faust (Johannes Zeiler) is driven by his longing for enlightenment. He seeks to understand the very nature of life and how it makes the world go round. Driven by his burning desire for cognition, he even unearths corpses and rummages in their guts just to localize the home of the soul.
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The Ugly Swans (2006)
, 1h45Directed by Konstantin Lopushansky
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about writers, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Gregory Hlady
The film's plot is loosely based on the novel, with some superficial differences. The story has been adjusted slightly to contextualize it in the "near future," with the main character Victor Banev recast as a UN envoy to the town of Tashlinsk, where a mysterious group has taken the town's children to an isolated boarding school. The major departure from the novel's plot is in the ending, in which the "Aquatters" ("Slimeys" from the novel) are all killed by the humans. The children are heroically rescued by Banev, but they are unable to reassimilate into society and are institutionalized.