Collector (2016 film)
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| Directed by | Alexey Krasovsky |
| Written by | Alexey Krasovsky |
| Produced by | Eduard Eloyan Dmitry Ruzhentsev Georgiy Shabanov |
| Starring | Konstantin Khabensky |
| Cinematography | Denis Firstov |
| Edited by | Artyom Baryshnikov |
| Music by | Dmitry Selipanov |
Production company | Paprika Production |
| Distributed by | All Media Company |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | $1 million |
The Collector (Russian: Коллектор, Kollektor) is a 2016 Russian drama film written and directed by Alexey Krasovsky. The film stars Konstantin Khabensky in the title role, with Xenia Buravskaya, Polina Agureeva, Darya Moroz, Valentina Lukaschuk, Evgeny Stychkin, Kirill Pletnyov, Igor Zolotovitsky, Tatyana Lazareva, Alexander Tyutin, Marina Lisovets, Nikita Tyunin providing voices.
The film premiered at Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi on June 2015. Collector received critical acclaim, particularly for Khabensky's performance. Khabensky won the Kinotaver Film Festival for Best Actor for his performance. The film also won the Kinotavr prize for best cinematography. On July 2012, during Karlovy Vary International Film Festival the film has won the Special Jury Prize.
Plot
Arthur is the best employee of a collecting firm. He's got a high income and a solid reputation among his colleagues.
He risks losing it all at once because of a scandalous video involving that just hit the web. In one instant he becomes the main target of journalists and gossip columnists. His colleagues and friends turn away from him. He provokes intense hatred within society and is being threatened. The video, that was fabricated to set him up, becomes the truth. The truth he's trying to tell is perceived as a lie.
Arthur is trapped inside his office. Alone against the world. But his main enemy, the author of the video, turns out to be a widow who is convinced that it was Arthur who drove her husband to suicide. She is going to do everything in her power to drive him off the deep end.
Cast
- Konstantin Khabensky as Arthur
- Polina Agureeva as Tamara (voice)
- Ksenia Buravskaya as Natalya (voice)
- Tatyana Lazareva as Tatiana (voice)
- Marina Lisovets as Doctor (voice)
- Valentina Lukashchuk as Liza (voice)
- Kirill Pletnyov as Evgeny (voice)
- Evgeny Stychkin as Lev (voice)
- Nikita Tyunin as Yurlov (voice)
- Aleksandr Tyutin as Roman (voice)
- Igor Zolotovitsky as Journalist (voice)
Release
Collector was shown out of competition at the 27th Sochi International Film Festival named Kinotavr, and premiered in the Spotlight program in the 2016 Karlovi vary Film Festival.
It is about to be release on 6 October 2016 in the Russian Federation.
Production
Almost the entire film takes place within a room, where the main character is talking to phone. Shooting took place in real time for 8 days,[1] and the filmmakers only took breaks to change the cameras' memory cards. The Collector is the only character other than those who talk to him on the phone; their parts were also recorded in real time.
