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Ostap Bender. The Beginning (2021) [N/A]

Release Date:
June 24, 2021

Original Title:
Бендер: Начало

Alternate Titles:
Bender - O Início
Bender: Nachalo
Бендер Начало

Genres:
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
Sreda

Production Countries:
Russia

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Overview from TheMovieDB

Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure. And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation... as well as brute force.

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Production

Additional Director of Photography:
Oganes Marutyan

Assistant Director:
Diana Ugryumova

Casting Director:
Alla Petelina

Characters:
Ilya Ilf
Yevgeni Petrov

Costume Designer:
Viktoriya Igumnova

Creative Producer:
Varvara Avdyushko
Maksim Polinsky
Nikolay Bulygin

Director:
Igor Zaytsev

Director of Photography:
Sergey Trofimov

Executive Producer:
Danila Ippolitov
Aleksey Alekseev

General Manager:
Ivan Samokhvalov
Aleksandr Tsekalo

Head of Production:
Aleksandra Remizova

Lead Editor:
Ekaterina Beresnevich

Line Producer:
Anastasiya Fateeva

Makeup Artist:
Marina Lebedeva

Makeup Designer:
Marina Lebedeva

Original Music Composer:
Ryan Otter

Post Production Producer:
Olga Feshchenko
Olga Nikulina

Production Design:
Elena Zhukova
Aleksandr Arefev

Screenplay:
Oleg Malovichko

Script Editor:
Elena Lazareva

Sound Director:
Alla Petelina

Steadicam Operator:
Nikita Rozhdestvenskiy
Valeriy Petrov

Stunt Coordinator:
Aleksandr Baranov
Sergey Golovkin

VFX Supervisor:
Alexander Petrov

Visual Effects Producer:
Evgeny Barulin

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