On June 12, 2020, the first channel showed the Viking film released in 2016, filmed by Andrei Kravchuk. The grand historical adventure project, to the creation of which put a hand as producers Konstantin Ernst and Anatoly Maximov, and music and songs wrote Igor Matvienko, cost the creators of 1.25 billion rubles.
About where and how they were filmed by film, as well as other interesting facts related to the production of paintings and its access to screens, in the material 24cm.
From swords to monasteries
The film "Viking" collected the star composition on the screen. And each of the actors involved in the project in their own way was preparing for work in the frame.Thus, Danil Kozlovsky, in the picture he spent in the role of Prince Vladimir, a lot of time paid fencing and management of "historical transport" - horses. Rognjed Alexander Bortich trained knife battle. And Svetlana Khodchenkova, who embodied his wife Yarina on the screen, visited Greek monasteries to watch the behavior of the servants of the Orthodox cult.
Incredible Writer and Own Reading
The picture was based on the events described in the "Tale of Bygone Years", the monument of the ancient Russian literature. Konstantin Ernst even jumped about this, referring to the fact that Nestor-Chronicler himself made the project screenwriter. Although, in general, the film corresponds to the historical source, since the latter leaves space for various options for the interpretation of events that took place in the X century, without retreats, it did not cost.
So, for example, Danil Kozlovsky himself in an interview claimed that the screen would not be embodied by Prince Vladimir, but his own vision of the character. A number of critics and historians noted the inconsistency of the character of Kinherman to the real prototype.
Long harnessed - quickly drove
The film "Viking" was removed only with the third attempt - the work began on the picture 2 times stopped. Although the shooting process itself was met for only 3 months, the preparation was spent significantly more time: the idea to remove the historic tape has arisen from Kravchuk back in 2008, and from the moment he was engaged in collecting documentary material, seeking to achieve maximum reliability.Over 3 thousand people - they included not only cinematographers, but also the mass of representatives of other professions - the world of ancient Russia was detailed in detail. In total, for 7 years of preparation, 6 decorations were built. And more than 800 plans are created using computer graphics.
Also sewed over 1.5 thousand costumes, in detail and materials of repeating clothes of the era under consideration. Part of the fabrics were acquired in China, Italy and India. And to reproduce materials such as vigony and burlap used mainly in Russia, has to be Belarusian weaving factories.
By the covenants of Tolkina
Pechenezhsky did not live up to modernity, so the creators of the film fees had to invent him again. In addition to him, Russian, Norwegian and Greek are also used in the film.
From 12 and older
The picture became the first Russian film that came to the screens immediately in two versions - 12+ and 18+. In the second variant of the film, no numerous bloody scenes and dissembly, as well as candle bed episodes, does not leave the crud.Shaggy artists and moving pictures
More than 100 different animals are involved in the picture. Not only horses, but also dogs with leopards. But the wild tour had to be drawn through computer graphics - until our time, the mighty animal came only in the form of petrified remains.
From Crimea to Italy
The film "Viking" was filmed on the territory of Crimea - in the Genoese Fortress, located in Sudak, Bakhchisaraye, in the vicinity of Sevastopol and Belogorsk. The scene of the confession of the main character took place in the Byzantine Basilica San Vitaly, located in Italian Ravenna. For this, cinematographers had to get an ending from the Vatican - before the cinema did not remove there.