Зоя

Зоя (2021)

Fall of 1941. Freshly graduated from school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya volunteers for a partisan unit. During an assignment, her comrades are ambushed, and she is captured by the Nazis. She endures hours of grueling interrogations and horrendous torture, but defiantly refuses to divulge any information that would compromise other units’ partisan missions. She doesn’t even tell her captors her real name. Zoya’s sacrifice was not in vain; it ignited fire in the hearts of millions of people and became the symbol of selfless heroism during WWII. She is one of the most celebrated heroes of that time.

Data di uscita
2021-01-28
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (14)
Durata
1 h 45 min
Generi
Dramma, Storia, Guerra
Regista
Максим Бриус

Cast

Curiosità

  • Incassi: 70,5 Mln RUB
  • Budget: 95 Mln RUB
  • Ha incassato 0,7× il suo budget
  • Premi: 1 · Candidature: 0

Zoya is a 2020 Russian biographical war film directed by Maxim Brius and Leonid Plyaskin. The film is based on the life of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

Production

The idea of making a feature film about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was first voiced on November 27, 2016 by Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. He also suggested the tentative title of the future film - “The Passion of Zoya”. The initiator for the creation of the film was the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO).

Work on the project began in 2017: Egor Konchalovsky was chosen to direct, the script was written by Elizaveta Trusevich. At the same time, it was emphasized that the plot was built exclusively on documents and eyewitness accounts; there was no unreliable information, including various kinds of “war myths".

The film is based on a script written by Andrei Nazarov and Leonid Plyaskin. Plyaskin became the director, and Maxim Brius later joined him. The production was carried out by the Gorky Film Studio (Moscow) with the participation of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, which allocated 60 million rubles for the creation of the film.

Actor Wolfgang Cerny who played Hauptmann Erich Sommer, initially refused the role since he did not wish to play a sadist. The part ended up being rewritten, with Sommer not being one of the torturers and instead seeing a like-minded spirit in Zoya and tries to save her.

The first filming days of the film took place from February 10 to 13, 2019 in Belarus. Part of the filming took place in the village of Zabrodye, Vileika district, Minsk region, where with great difficulty it was possible to find village buildings preserved from the pre-war years. On April 19, 2019, filming ended.

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