''Territory'' (russian: Территория, Territoriya) is a 2015 Russian

adventure drama film An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, anim ...

written and directed by

Aleksandr Melnik Aleksandr Vladimirovich Melnik (russian: Александр Владимирович Мельник; 11 June 1958, Chervonopartyzansk – 8 September 2021) was a Russian film director. Career Melnik graduated from Odessa State Environmental Uni ...

, a screen version of the same novel by Oleg Kuvaev. The film, like the book, is based on real events and narrates about the discovery of a grandiose

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deposit in the Far North-East of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. The film stars

Konstantin Lavronenko Konstantin Nikolaevich Lavronenko (russian: Константи́н Никола́евич Лавро́ненко; born 20 April 1961) is a Soviet and Russian actor most commonly accredited for his performance as the mysterious father of two boys ...

Grigoriy Dobrygin Grigoriy Eduardovich Dobrygin (''also trans.'' Grigory; russian: Григо́рий Эдуа́рдович Добры́гин; born 17 February 1986) is a Russian film and theatre actor, director and producer. A classically trained ballet dance ...

Egor Beroev Egor Vadimovich Beroev (russian: Егор Вадимович Бероев; born 9 October 1977) is a Russian actor of film, television and theater. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1994. Early career Beroev graduated from the Mikha ...

Kseniya Kutepova Kseniya Pavlovna Kutepova (russian: Ксе́ния Па́вловна Куте́пова; born 1 August 1971) is a Russian actress, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, the winner of State Prize of the Russian Federation. She has appeared in ...

and

Yevgeny Tsyganov Yevgeny Eduardovich Tsyganov (russian: link=no, Евгений Эдуардович Цыганов; born 15 March 1979) is a Russian stage and film actor, director, screenwriter and composer. Early life Yevgeny Tsyganov was born in Moscow in th ...

joining the cast. The novel was previously adapted in the Soviet Union in 1978 by Aleksander Surin. The picture starred

Donatas Banionis Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's ''Sola ...

as Ilya Chinkov.

Plot

1960 year. The Far North-East of the

. Geographical reference: City

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and Village

Pevek Pevek (russian: Певе́к; Chukchi: , ''Pèèkin'' / ''Pèèk'') is an Arctic port town and the administrative center of Chaunsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Chaunskaya Bay (part of the East Siberian Sea) on a pe ...

. After the war, the country needs gold, but the Territory continues to give only tin. Territory management is closed. Chief engineer, the legendary Ilya Chinkov is convinced that there is gold in the Territory. He challenges the fate and for one field season it is taken to find it. Using absolute authority, Chinkov organizes searches for gold in the Territory, despite the absence of direct instructions from the leadership and the sad fate of his predecessor, whose career was destroyed due to the fact that no gold was found in the Territory.

Cast

Production

The production of film titles took place from May to October 2014. The video sequence is based on materials provided by the Department of the History of Geology, the

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, the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

(RAS).

Release

On February 11, 2015, a preliminary screening for the press, artists, and the invited geological community of Russia took place in the

Kremlin Palace of Congresses The State Kremlin Palace (russian: Государственный Кремлёвский Дворец), formerly and unofficially still better known as the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (Кремлёвский Дворец съездов), is a ...

. The show was held on a 30-meter screen in 4K format. ''Territory'' was released in the

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on April 16, 2015 by VolgaFilm.

Reception

Box office

The film failed at the box office - with a budget of half a billion rubles, six times less was collected.

References

External links

* * 2015 films 2010s Russian-language films 2010s adventure drama films Russian adventure drama films Films set in the Soviet Union Films shot in Russia 2015 drama films {{Russia-film-stub