The Walt Disney Company CIS has joined forces with Russia's top filmmaking talents for their first Russian produced feature, "The Book of Masters."The film started shooting this month outside of Minsk. Upon completion of the first stage of shooting, production will then move to the Mosfilm Studio stages.
Nikita Mikhalkov's Three T Studio is the production company, noted for movies "12", "The Councilor of State", "Barber of Siberia", "Burnt by the Sun" and "Urga".
"The Book of Masters" is being directed by Vadim Sokolovsky, noted for such TV fare as "An Occasional Fellow-Traveler", "The Ticket to the Harem" and "Ambulance-2".
"We are very happy that the first Russian Disney movie starring famous Russian actors will be adapted from Russian fairy-tales we all know from childhood," said Marina Jigalova-Ozkan, managing director, The Walt Disney Company CIS.
"We are glad to render production services and to be working with The Walt Disney Company CIS on the first Disney movie to be produced in Russia," said Leonid Vereshyagin, general director of the Three T Studio LLC and producer of the movie.
"We are extremely encouraged that the Disney Company, known throughout the world for its film versions of immortal stories, aims to revive the feature-film fairy-tale genre in Russia."
"The Book of Masters" Russian debut is scheduled for fall 2009...
