A Rough Draft Explained

A Rough Draft
Director:Sergey Mokritskiy
Starring:
Music:Kirill Richter
Cinematography:Alexander Tananov
Language:Russian
Country:Russia
Producer:
Studio:Columbia Pictures
New People Film Company
Runtime:116 minutes
Budget:RUB 200 000 000[1]
Gross:RUB 209 679 187

A Rough Draft (Russian: Черновик|Chernovik) is a 2018 Russian science fiction film directed by Sergey Mokritskiy, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Sergei Lukyanenko[2] and starring Nikita Volkov, Yulia Peresild and Yevgeny Tsyganov.[3] [4] It was released in Russia on May 25, 2018.[5]

Plot

A young resident of Moscow, Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he is chosen for an important and mysterious mission. His purpose is to become a customs officer between parallel worlds, of which there are dozens in the universe.

Kirill learns to open the portals to a variety of parallel worlds which represent alternative versions of Moscow: a steampunk Imperial Russia, a post-apocalyptic tropic resort world, a dystopian Gulag world, and a highly advanced utopian world. Over time, Kirill learns that our Earth is a rough draft, a setting for social experiments secretly staged by the government of the utopian world, in order to avoid our mistakes. Learning this, Kirill rebels against his supervisors.

Cast

Critical reception

Although the film was one of the most anticipated Russian releases of 2018, it received generally negative reviews from professional critics, receiving 32% on KinoPoisk. The majority of criticism was focused on CGI, acting and an incomprehensible storyline. Critics also panned the film for its changes from the novel.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Observer of Kommersant Mikhail Trofimenkov in his review notes that by multiplying the fantasy worlds above the necessary number, the authors doomed the film to madness of entropy. Equally helpless, in the opinion of the author, is the actor's work.[12] Critic Alexey Lytovchenko (Rossiyskaya Gazeta) wrote that in some places it is impossible to differentiate the characters and understand their motives.[13]

А Rough Draft underperformed in the box office.[14]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.kinobusiness.com/movies/chernovik2016/ Фильм«Черновик» в журнале «Кинобизнес сегодня»
  2. https://life.ru/t/фёдорбондарчук/1029707/vtb_stal_vladieltsiem_russkogho_ghollivuda ВТБ стал владельцем «русского Голливуда»
  3. Web site: "Черновик" покажет Кремль с высоты других планет . 2018-06-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170729181333/http://vm.ru/news/2017/01/11/chernovik-pokazhet-kreml-s-visoti-drugih-planet-346205.html . 2017-07-29 . dead .
  4. https://www.kinoafisha.info/movies/8324951/ «Черновик» (2018) Сергея Мокрицкого
  5. Web site: Фильм Сергея Мокрицкого по роману Сергея Лукьяненко «Черновик», как сообщили КиноПоиску в компании Sony Pictures, выйдет в прокат 25 мая 2018 года.. kinopoisk.ru. 2018-03-06.
  6. https://actorlist.ru/rossiyskie-filmy-aktery/5728-chernovik.html «Черновик»
  7. https://kanobu.ru/articles/retsenziya-nachernovik-372052/ Рецензия на «Черновик» — бездарную адаптацию книги Лукьяненко
  8. http://www.interfax.ru/culture/614338 Черновик: Нужна правка
  9. https://ria.ru/culture/20180525/1521256115.html?inj=1 Черновой вариант: почему не удалась экранизация романа Сергея Лукьяненко
  10. http://www.kritikanstvo.ru/movies/chernovik/ Рецензии на фильм «Черновик» (2018)
  11. https://www.megacritic.ru/film/chernovik Черновик (2018) — отзывы о фильме зрителей и критиков
  12. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3641837 Переписанное начерно
  13. https://rg.ru/2018/05/24/chernovik-plohaia-ekranizaciia-knigi-lukianenko-s-matreshkami-ubijcami.html Borschevik fields forever
  14. Web site: Мультфильм "Садко" с треском провалился, на "Черновике" менее 24 зрителей на каждом сеансе . 2018-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180530182755/http://kinodata.pro/vse-o-kino/obzor-kassovyh-sborov-v-rossii/35957-multfilm-sadko-s-treskom-provalilsya-na-chernovike-menee-10-zritelej-na-kazhdom-seanse.html . 2018-05-30 . dead .