The production of a new film about the cruiser "Varangian"

04.08.2009

Film RFG (Russian Film Group) in conjunction with the Foundation Cultural Development and movie launched into production -length fiction film "Varangian". based realist painting lay story about heroism command cruiser "Varangian", which took during Russian-Japanese War unequal battle with the superior enemy forces. Manufacture of tapes will be completed in autumn 2010, and on screens picture should emerge in 2011.

Scenario "Varyag" wrote Vladimir Shemen, a few years for studying the history of the Russian-Japanese war. "We need to create not just high budget movies, and contact to heroic events 1904 - 1905 years., which our contemporaries know even less than about the First World War В»,- he said.

General Producer Film RFG Alexey Petrukhin noted that the film's budget will be approximately $ 18 million By According to project managers, in the picture will use the latest computer technology. Creation of special effects will take Russian and American specialists with expertise in the production of big- and technically complex picture.

assumed that the first film clips "Varyag" viewers can see already in the beginning in 2010.