The history of the film
The idea to create a film based on Zamyatin's novel came to me in 2012. Since then, my team and I have tried to launch this project three times. The first time it was a student studio, we storyboarded a few scenes and settled on that.
The second time the team partially changed and it was a crowdfunding platform. For her, on the advice of PR people, we created a demo video.
Unfortunately, we were faced with the fact that the novel was completely unknown to the mass audience, and the advertising campaign failed miserably. Then I began to slowly prepare the script.
When the script was ready, a new team with me found co-production in Finland. Unfortunately, the Finnish side was ready to support us only by 10% and we began to look for additional resources. The producer from the Russian side offered to conduct a casting.
After a successful casting, looking for more new locations, I already began to think about launching. But to my regret everything slowed down again. The Russian side was unable to find funds to continue the project.
During this time, I have reconsidered the positions of the view on the film "Us" quite well, and even I would change the genre of the film. It seems to me that it can be filmed with a lower budget than the producers used to tell me. An example of this is the film "Equal" in 2015. Roman Zamyatin "we" is also read in it, right line by line, no matter what the screenwriter says about authorship, but the texts coincide by 70%
Now I would make a film in the style of "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky. And I would even use a new title for the film "The Origin of the Soul"
Logline
A talented mathematician, chief engineer of the spaceship Integral falls in love with the traitor of the United State. Falling under the spell of love, he risks his own life and himself becomes the cause of the destruction of the “true happiness of mankind”.Режиссер: Ефим Берсон
Сценарий: Ефим Берсон, Александр Эжбер
Format: full-length feature film (120 min)
Genre: psychological thriller, fantasy
Location: Earth
Action Time: Alternate Reality
Audience: 18 years and older
Additional project materials on Russian
P.S.
Now I am looking for a producer who will be able to continue this project.
Feel free to write to me and ask questions.
Sincerely,
directed by Efim Berson