''Three Minutes of Silence'' () is a 2023 Russian

coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can b ...

disaster film A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such disasters may include natural disasters, accidents, offensive (military), military/terrorism, terrorist att ...

written and directed by

Boris Khlebnikov Boris Igorevich Khlebnikov (; born August 28, 1972) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer, producer. Filmography As director * ''Roads to Koktebel'' (2003) * ''Free Floating'' (2006) * ''Help Gone Mad'' (2009) * ''Crush (20 ...

, created by the CTB Film Company with the support of the

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation () is a ministry of the Government of Russia responsible for state policy in cultural spheres such as art, cinematography, archives, copyright, cultural heritage, and censorship. Formation and ...

, a free adaptation of Georgi Vladimov's novel ''Three Minutes of Silence''. Starring Makar Khlebnikov and Oleg Savostyuk as student sailors, with Aleksandr Robak and Timofey Tribuntsev about a battered seiner called "Bullfinch" and the trials that befell the crew of a

fishing trawler A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively dragging or pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers. Trawls are fishing nets tha ...

. It was theatrically released in Russia on June 8, 2023, by Cinema Atmosphere.

Plot

A well-worn fishing ship called "Bullfinch" plows the sea in search of a rich catch of fish. The team was diverse, but all with character, persistent and purposeful, driven by the desire to work and get at least some penny for their hard work. And at home, most of them are expected by relatives and loved ones. But this time, two video bloggers wormed their way to the sailors - Nikita and Maxim. The guys went for sea romance, but the reality was not what they imagined: terrible pitching, piercing wind, icy cold, unbearable fishy smell and a harsh crew. Suddenly, a severe storm hits a fishing seiner, and people find themselves in a deplorable situation. But, perhaps, someone is even worse than these heroes, and urgent help is needed.

Cast

* Makar Khlebnikov as Nikita * Oleg Savostyuk as Maxim * Aleksandr Robak as Gennady *

Timofey Tribuntsev Timofey Vladimirovich Tribuntsev () is a Russian actor. Winner of the ''Nika Award The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, ...

as Yuri "Yurik" * Anatoly Popov as

captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police depa ...

* Vasiliy Shchipitsyn as Starpom * Oleg Kamenshchikov as Evgeny * Mikhail Kremer as Sergey "Seryoga" * Vladimir Lukyanchikov as "Dimon" * Yevgeny Sytyy as "Grandfather" * Sergey Nasedkin as "Vitya" * Konstantin Gayokho as Andrey, the Fishmaster * Ilya Borisov as a

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. While the term ''sailor'' ...

Murmansk Murmansk () is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far Far North (Russia), northwest part of Russia. It is the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle and sits on both slopes and banks of a modest fjord, Ko ...

* Veronika Aniskina as an investigator

Production

Production was handled by CTB Film Company and Globus Film Studio. The Ministry of Culture of Russia provided significant assistance. The literary basis of the film's script was a novel by the

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

writer Georgi Vladimov, substantially revised by

, the director's son Makar Khlebnikov, an actor. The script was created by the director in collaboration with

Nataliya Meshchaninova Nataliya Viktorovna Meshchaninova (, born on 17 February 1982) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, and author. As a screenwriter, she won, in 2015 together with Lyubov Mulmenko, the Nika Award for Discovery of the Year. The films she directed ...

based on the novel of the same name by Georgi Vladimov, published in 1969, at the end of the "thaw", which did not give the first post-war generation answers to their existential questions.

Filming

Filming for June is taking place in a huge pavilion located on the site of a former warehouse near

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

and will last until mid-August, after which the filmmakers themselves repeatedly visited

and

Teriberka Teriberka () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') in Kolsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Barents Sea coast, at the mouth of the river Teriberka (river), Teriberka. Histor ...

in the

Murmansk Oblast Murmansk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country, with a total land area of . Its only internal border is the Republic of Karelia to the south, and it is bor ...

to shoot textures that you can't draw using graphics, until the end of September 2021.

Release

Theatrical

The presentation of Boris Khlebnikov’s new work for a narrow circle of viewers took place in April 2023, and the opening film was premiered at the 45th

Moscow International Film Festival The Moscow International Film Festival (, Transliteration, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is a film festival first held in Moscow in 1935 and became regular since 1959. From its inception to ...

will be held in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

from 20 to 27 April. The release of the tape is on June 8, 2023, by Cinema Atmosphere.

References

External links

Official website
at the CTB Film Company * {{IMDb title, id=22900230 2023 films 2020s Russian-language films 2020s coming-of-age drama films 2020s disaster films Russian coming-of-age drama films Russian disaster films Coming-of-age drama films based on actual events Disaster films based on actual events Films about educators Films about friendship Films about fishing Films based on non-fiction books Seafaring films based on actual events Films shot in Saint Petersburg Films set on ships Films set in Murmansk Oblast