''Territory'' () is a 2015 Russian

adventure drama film The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...

written and directed by

Aleksandr Melnik Aleksandr Vladimirovich Melnik (; 11 June 1958, Chervonopartyzansk – 8 September 2021) was a Russian film director. Career Melnik graduated from Odessa State Environmental University, Odessa Hydrometeorological Institute, and worked for a tim ...

, a screen version of the same novel by Oleg Kuvaev. The film, like the book, is based on real events and narrates about the discovery of a grandiose

gold Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ...

deposit in the Far North-East of the

Soviet Union 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 ...

. The film stars

Konstantin Lavronenko Konstantin Nikolaevich Lavronenko () is a Soviet and Russian actor most commonly accredited for his performance as the mysterious father of two boys in 2003 film '' Vozvrashcheniye'' (international English title ''The Return''). He won the Bes ...

, Grigoriy Dobrygin,

Egor Beroev Egor Vadimovich Beroev (; born 9 October 1977) is a Russian actor of film, television and theater. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1994. Career Beroev was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He graduated from the Mikhail S ...

Kseniya Kutepova Kseniya Pavlovna Kutepova (; born 1 August 1971) is a Russian actress, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, the winner of State Prize of the Russian Federation. She has appeared in over 40 films. Twin sister of actress Polina Kutepova. Bi ...

and

Yevgeny Tsyganov Yevgeny Eduardovich Tsyganov (; born 15 March 1979) is a Russian stage and film actor, director, screenwriter and composer. Early life Yevgeny Tsyganov was born in Moscow in the family of employees of the Moscow Research Institute. Yevgeny gra ...

joining the cast. The novel was previously adapted in the Soviet Union in 1978 by Aleksander Surin. The picture starred

Donatas Banionis Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Andrei Tarkovsky, ...

as Ilya Chinkov.

Plot

1960 year. The Far North-East of the

. Geographical reference: City

Magadan Magadan ( rus, Магадан, p=məɡɐˈdan) is a Port of Magadan, port types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative centre of Magadan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the isthmus of the Staritsky Peninsula by the ...

and Village

Pevek Pevek (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Pèèkin'' / ''Pèèk'') is an Arctic port types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Chaunsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Chaunskaya Bay (pa ...

. After the war, the country needs gold, but the Territory continues to give only tin. Territory management is closed. Chief engineer, the legendary Ilya Chinkov is convinced that there is gold in the Territory. He challenges the fate and for one field season it is taken to find it. Using absolute authority, Chinkov organizes searches for gold in the Territory, despite the absence of direct instructions from the leadership and the sad fate of his predecessor, whose career was destroyed due to the fact that no gold was found in the Territory.

Cast

Production

The production of film titles took place from May to October 2014. The video sequence is based on materials provided by the Department of the History of Geology, the

Vernadsky State Geological Museum The Vernadsky State Geological Museum is the geological museum in Moscow. Mineralogical collection was founded in 1755 and is now an earth sciences and educational centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. History Mikhail Lomonosov Mikhail ...

, the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

(RAS).

Release

On February 11, 2015, a preliminary screening for the press, artists, and the invited geological community of Russia took place in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. The show was held on a 30-meter screen in 4K format. ''Territory'' was released in the

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on April 16, 2015 by VolgaFilm.

Reception

Box office

The film failed at the box office - with a budget of half a billion rubles, six times less was collected.

References

External links

* * 2015 films 2010s Russian films 2010s Russian-language films 2010s adventure drama films Russian adventure drama films Films set in the Soviet Union Films shot in Russia 2015 drama films Russian-language adventure drama films {{2010s-Russia-film-stub