Bender: The Beginning
Directed byIgor Zaytsev
Written byOleg Malovichko
Produced by
  • Aleksandr Tsekalo
  • Ivan Samokhvalov
  • Varya Avdyushko
  • Aleksandra Remizova
  • Anastasiya Fateeva
Starring
CinematographySergei Trofimov
Edited byYekaterina Beresnevich
Music byRyan Otter
Production
companies
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release date
  • 24 June 2021 (2021-06-24) (Russia)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Box office50 million

Bender: The Beginning, also known as Ostap Bender. The Beginning (Russian: Бендер: Начало) is a 2021 Russian action adventure comedy film directed by Igor Zaytsev, a prequel to The Twelve Chairs from the production company Sreda. It stars Sergey Bezrukov as Ibrahim Bender, and Aram Vardevanyan in the role was dedicated to Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky.[1][2]

It is scheduled to be theatrically released on 24 June 2021.[3]

Plot

The film is set in 1919. A young idealist named Osip ran into a Turkish swindler, Ibrahim Bender, who, like Osip, hunts for a royal relic. Osip learns from Ibrahim flattery, deception, blackmail and brute force, falls in love with a fatal beautiful foreigner and becomes the legendary Ostap Bender.[4]

Cast

Production

The film was shot by the Sreda company, owned by Aleksandr Tsekalo, and the television channel Russia-1. The film was directed by Igor Zaytsev. Bender: The Beginning is the first part of the series, followed by the films Bender: Gold of the Empire and Bender: The Final Hustle. It is assumed that later on from these pictures a single series about Ostap Bender will be created.

See also

References

  1. "Жезл раздора: Сергей Безруков, Юрий Колокольников и Гарик Харламов в трейлере фильма "Бендер: Начало"" [Rod of discord: Sergey Bezrukov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, and Garik Kharlamov in the trailer for the film Bender: The Beginning]. www.kino-teatr.ru (in Russian). May 24, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  2. Karev, Igor (May 28, 2021). "Когда злодеи были небольшими. Главные блокбастеры лета-2021" [When the villains were small The main blockbusters of summer 2021]. Arguments and Facts (in Russian). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  3. Вышел первый трейлер фильма "Бендер: Начало" с Безруковым
  4. "Бендер: Начало / Bender: The Beginning, 2021". www.kinoafisha.info (in Russian).
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