The Silver Skates (film)

The Silver Skates
Directed by	Michael Lockshin
Screenplay by	Roman Kantor
Story by	Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
Produced by	Pyotr Anurov (ru) Leonid Vereshchagin (ru) Anton Zlatopolskiy (ru) Rafael Minasbekyan Nikita Mikhalkov Grigoriy Stoyalov
Starring	Fedor Fedotov Sonia Priss Aleksei Guskov Yuri Kolokolnikov Severija Janusauskaite Kirill Zaytsev Yuriy Borisov
Cinematography	Igor Grinyakin
Production companies	Central Partnership KIT Film Studio Kinoslovo Studio Trite Russia-1
Distributed by	Central Partnership
Release date	2020
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

The Silver Skates (Russian: Серебряные коньки) is an upcoming Russian historical romance adventure film directed by Michael Lockshin and written by Roman Kantor. The story is set in December 1899 at the Christmas of Saint Petersburg transforms into a fairytale-like wonderland where frozen rivers and canals bustle with activity, the Russian Empire. Matvey is a young man from the father and son of a poor lamplighter, fate brings two people together on the festive streets to be the ice skaters, who once met an aristocrat girl named Alice is an intelligent from a noble family. Since then, the heroes together follow their dreams, based on the novel of the same name. The main roles will be played by Fedor Fedotov and Sofia Priss, the film also starred Aleksei Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janusauskaite, Kirill Zaytsev and Yuriy Borisov.

Location shooting took place in Saint Petersburg, in the palaces of the Grand prince, in the Saint Michael's Castle, as well as on the frozen rivers and canals of the city, in the town of Kronstadt, Gatchina and Vsevolozhsk of the Leningrad Oblast, from January to May 2019.

The Silver Skates is scheduled to be theatrically released in the Russian Federation on 2020 by Central Partnership.

Plot

The film takes place in 1899 in St. Petersburg, where absolutely different people meet: the son of an ordinary lamplighter, Matvey, who has silver skates, and a daughter of a dignitary named Alice, who is fond of the world of science. They will help each other realize their dreams...

Cast

• Fedor Fedotov as Matvey
• Sonia Priss as Alice
• Aleksei Guskov as Nikolai Nikolaevitch
• Yuri Kolokolnikov as Velikiy Knyaz
• Severija Janusauskaite as Severina
• Kirill Zaytsev as Arkadiy
• Yuriy Borisov as Alex
• Aleksandra Revenko as Margo
• Timofey Tribuntsev as Petr
• Sergey Koltakov as Dmitriy Mendeleev
• Yan Reshetnikov as footman
• Denis Lavant as Fourier
• Cathy Belton as Miss Jackson
• Vasiliy Kopeikin as Muha

Production

"These were very difficult half a year of my life, but the memories from the filming were only positive! We have a team of amazing professionals who are incredibly dedicated to the cinema, so even the weekly night shifts with frost and blizzard were surprisingly easy, in a creative atmosphere."

—directed by Michael Lockshin

The director of the picture was the debutant of the full meter Michael Lockshin, a famous clip maker and director of advertising.

Casting

The main roles in the film are debutants - actors Fedor Fedotov and Sonya Priss in St. Petersburg. The company on the screen are the masters and actor of the star: Aleksei Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janusauskaite, Kirill Zaytsev, Yuriy Borisov, Aleksandra Revenko, Timofey Tribuntsev, Sergey Koltakov, and also stars of European cinema Denis Lavant and Cathy Belton.

Filming

Most of the filming took place on the frozen rivers and canals of St. Petersburg, in which the cinema has never been filmed in such a volume in the entire history! The film crew built and decorated ice fairs and skating rinks, and when spring began to come into its own, a large-scale decoration of the frozen Moyka River was built in the pavilion to shoot action scenes on ice.

Release

The Silver Skates is scheduled for release in Russia on 2020.

Marketing

The first trailer was released on June 19, 2019.

External links

• The Silver Skates at IMDb