Buddha's Little Finger (2015)

Interesting facts

• Based on: Chapayev and Void

Buddha's Little Finger is an English-language feature film directed by Tony Pemberton and starring Toby Kebbell. The screenplay is based on Victor Pelevin's 1996 novel Chapayev and Void, which is known in the US as Buddha's Little Finger and in the UK as Clay Machine Gun. The genre of the film has been called drama, psychological romance, arthouse, and thriller. It was released in Germany on September 1, 2015.

Production

In 2006 film was officially selected for the third Berlinale Co-Production Market.

As Mikheil Kalatozishvili early produced the film notes in 2008—2009, the filming start is delayed because of financial difficulties on the side of Western partners. In 2012 Tony Pemberton tells, that when Kalatozishvili died they were to get a million dollars from the Russian film funds but finally he wouldn't get grants because he is not Russian.

The translation of Pelevin's novel by Andrew Bromfield for UK has name "The Clay Machine Gun", and for US — "Budda's Little Finger". According to the translator Andreas Tretner he had invented the German name of the book — "Buddhas kleiner Finger"(in German), and as "The Clay Machine Gun" was less successful name, Americans had chosen their one. Pemberton's film has the same name.

As reported in 2011 by "Правда.Ру" screenplay was replenished with dungeons of Lubyanka and cannons firing at White House, though earlier was "planned" style of "incredible cocaine trip" with the respect to the original text.

According to the film producer Karsten Stöter scenario was seriously adapted and interprets text of the original novel quite freely.

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