Last Friday I was invited to a movie premiere, first time in my life - rather as a guest, not a journalist. I am writing on this film for almost a year now, I`ve been on the set twice. It was great to see, how the scenes I saw being filmed worked out in the story.

I did an interview with the director Dzhanik Fayziev and next week I`m talking to VFX supervisor Arman Yahin (both are very nice people by the way). But most of all I was impressed by the youngest cast member, that 8 year old kid not only played his part naturally, but also gave a speach on stage - mind you, the audience consisted of famous Russian actors and directors and the like, well, and the press.

It was a great experience, which I`d love to repeat some time in the future. The movie is called in Russian “August. The Eight” it is going into international release some time later, I don`t know the international title though.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2094767/combined

At the pictures: (top) female lead Svetlana Ivanova, (middle left) Dzhanik Fayziev and Ilya Bachurin (producer), (middle right) Artyom Fadeev, (bottom left) Dzhanik Fayziev helps Artyom do his speach, (bottom right) Dzhanik Fayziev (director), Fyodor Bondarchuk and Ilya Bachurin (producers).