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Bazelevs Productions (or Bazelevs Company; Russian: Базелевс) is a Russian production company, named after the Greek title for monarch and rulers of ancient Athens, Macedonia and Sparta: Basileus (Βασιλεύς).
The company was founded by Russo-Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov. The company has been producing films such as The Irony of Fate 2, Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, Chernaya Molnya, Vykrutasy, The Darkest Hour and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
The company was involved in producing the animated film 9, which was nominated for Best Animated Film in 2010 at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2009.
In winter of 2010–2011, the film Trees (Yolki) was the top among other Russian films at the box office over the past three years. In February 2011, the film Vyrkutasy (Lucky Trouble) won the main audience award – "Golden Taiga" which debuted at the festival in Khanty-Mansiysk.
In the summer of 2010 in Moscow, they filmed the Russo-American project The Darkest Hour, in cooperation with 20th Century Fox, New Regency and Summit Entertainment, with Bekmambetov as a producer.
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Profile (2018)
, 1h45Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams
Ce long métrage raconte l'histoire vraie d'une journaliste enquêtant sur les réseaux djihadistes.
Searching (2018)
, 1h42Directed by Aneesh Chaganty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about families
Actors John Cho, Debra Messing, Dominic Hoffman, Melissa Disney, Sean O'Bryan, Ashley Edner
David Kim (John Cho), un père de famille fait tout son possible pour retrouver sa fille Margot (Michelle La), mystérieusement disparue…
Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Rebecca Rittenhouse, Douglas Tait, Andrew Lees
En Californie. Matias O'Brien, amoureux d'Amaya DeSoto, une malentendante, travaille sur la création d'un logiciel qu'il a baptisé Papaya et qui lui permettra de communiquer en langage des signes avec sa bien-aimée sur Skype. Dans un cybercafé, il a subtilisé un ordinateur portable qui traînait aux objets trouvés depuis plusieurs semaines et, innocemment, l'a ramené chez lui afin de parachever son logiciel dans de meilleures conditions qu'avec son ancien PC. Lorsqu'il s'aperçoit que le disque dur est plein, il consulte les dossiers et finit par dénicher d'inquiétants fichiers vidéo cachés qu'il s'empresse de montrer sur Skype à ses amis Serena Lange, Nari Jemisin, Damon Horton, Connor Del Rio alias AJ Jeffcock et la DJ Lexx Putri. Sans le vouloir, tous se retrouvent plongés dans les tréfonds dangereux du Dark web et découvrent rapidement que quelqu'un les observe.
The Spacewalker (2017)
, 2h30Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Historical
Actors Evgueni Mironov, Constantin Khabenski, Aleksandr Ilyin, Jr., Elena Panova
Dans les années 1960, durant la guerre froide et la course à l'espace, l'URSS a déjà envoyé un homme dans l'espace et prévoit cette fois de franchir une nouvelle étape : effectuer la première sortie de l'Homme dans l'espace. Les pilotes de l'armée Pavel Beliaïev et Alexeï Leonov sont sélectionnés pour cette mission mais ils devront affronter de nombreux obstacles et dangers.
Hardcore Henry (2016)
, 1h36Origin Russie
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée
Actors Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovski, Haley Bennett, Svetlana Oustinova, Tim Roth, Elena Berkova
Henry est sur le point de mourir mais est ramené à la vie par son épouse, qui l'a en partie transformé en cyborg. Il doit sauver cette dernière des griffes d'un tyran psychotique doté de pouvoirs télékinétiques, Akan, et de son armée de mercenaires.
Ben-Hur (2016)
, 2h5Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Toby Kebbell, Jack Huston, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Morgan Freeman, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi
A nobleman Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) is falsely accused of an assassination attempt by his boyhood friend Messala (Toby Kebbell). He survives years of slavery under the Romans and attempts to get revenge.
Unfriended (2015)
, 1h23Directed by Levan Gabriadze
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about computing, Films about suicide, Ghost films, Films about school violence
Actors Shelley Hennig, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, Courtney Halverson, Greg Cipes
Set in Fresno, California, Unfriended is told through a Macbook screencast of high school student Blaire Lily (Shelley Hennig), one year after her childhood friend Laura Barns (Heather Sossaman), a victim of cyberbullying, committed suicide after an embarrassing video of her was uploaded to YouTube without her consent.
I Am Dragon (2015)
, 1h47Origin Russie
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons
Actors Stanislav Lyubshin
Durant des siècles, les habitants d'un village isolé ont sacrifié de jeunes vierges au dragon qui rôdait aux alentours. Ces filles voguaient sur une petite barque avant d'être enlevées par le monstre. Aujourd'hui, les villageois ont abandonné ce rituel, devenu une tradition matrimoniale. Le jour de sa noce, la princesse Mira se soumet bien entendu à cette coutume... C'est alors qu'un dragon refait son apparition et l'abandonne sur une île perdue au milieu de l'océan ! À son réveil, elle fait la rencontre d'un naufragé sans nom, qui la met en garde : le jour, ils sont sains et saufs mais à la nuit tombée, la créature ailée regagne son repaire. Petit à petit, la confiance s'instaure entre Mira et le jeune homme, qu'elle baptise Arman. Jusqu'au jour où il lui confesse un terrible secret.
Straight A's (2013)
, 1h28Directed by James Cox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Anna Paquin, Ryan Phillippe, Luke Wilson, Powers Boothe, Tess Harper, Josh Meyers
Scott (Ryan Phillippe) is a man who has been in and out of rehabilitation for 10 years and is haunted by the ghost of his dead mother pressing him to return home to the family he turned his back on years ago. Outfitted with nothing more than a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana (and a horse instead of a car), he goes back to Texas only to be faced with his brother’s wife Katherine (Paquin), who he is still pining for, his first love.
, 1h45Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, Marton Csokas
In 1818, Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) lives in Indiana with his parents, Nancy (Robin McLeavy) and Thomas (Joseph Mawle), who works at a plantation owned by Jack Barts (Marton Csokas). There, Lincoln intervenes when he sees his friend, a young African American boy, William Johnson (Anthony Mackie) being beaten by a slaver. Because of his son's actions, Thomas is fired. That night, Lincoln sees Barts break into his house and attack his mother. Nancy falls ill the following day, and dies shortly afterwards. Thomas tells Lincoln that Barts poisoned her, but asks that he promise not try to avenge her death.
Apollo 18 (2011)
, 1h26Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Films about the Apollo program, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Alternate history films, Space opera, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life, Disaster films
Actors Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins, Sylvain Hétu, Andrew Airlie, Michael Kopsa
In December 1974, the crew of the cancelled Apollo 18 mission is informed that it will now proceed as a top secret Department of Defense (DoD) mission disguised as a satellite launch. Commander Nathan Walker, Lieutenant Colonel John Grey, and Captain Ben Anderson are launched toward the Moon to place detectors to alert the United States of any impending ICBM attacks from the USSR.
Kikoriki: Team Invincible (2011)
, 1h30Genres Comedy, Animation
Krash and Chiko wander into a cave, find an old television set, and bring it to the rest of the Kikoriki team. They don't know what it is, but Carlin believes that it shows everything that is happening in the world. Dokko fixes the set and they watch Lucien, a show in which the hero Lucien's archenemy, Dr. Caligari, comes up with a plan to destroy Lucien and take over the world. Unaware that it's only a TV program, the Kikoriki characters build a raft and sail to a distant big city where they believe Lucien lives.
The Darkest Hour (2011)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman, Gosha Kutsenko
Americans Ben and Sean (Max Minghella and Emile Hirsch) travel to Moscow to sell their social networking/party locating software. As they approach the airport the plane short circuits due to an electrical storm but regains power. They find their Swedish business partner, Skyler (Joel Kinnaman), has betrayed them and already made a deal with the Russians, using a knockoff application. They go to a nightclub and meet Natalie (Olivia Thirlby), an American, and her Australian friend Anne (Rachel Taylor). The lights go out in the club and everyone heads outside. There, they witness what appears to be an aurora. Balls of light fall from the sky and then fade away. When a policeman investigates he is disintegrated. The invisible entities begin hunting and disintegrating people, sending them into a panic.
Lucky Trouble (2011)
, 1h37Directed by Levan Gabriadze
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about children, Sports films, Association football films, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Constantin Khabenski, Milla Jovovich, Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov, Ivan Ourgant, Galina Jovovich, Sergueï Garmach
Vyacheslav "Slava" Kolotilov (played by Khabensky), a schoolteacher from a sleepy seaside town by the name of "Palchiki" (Little Fingers) comes to conquer Moscow with a draft of his first novel in hand. But instead, quite by accident, he conquers the heart of a beauty named Nadia (played by Jovovich).
Six Degrees of Celebration (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Timour Bekmambetov, Aleksandr Voïtinski
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy
Actors Ivan Ourgant, Kristina Asmous, Sergueï Svetlakov, Sergueï Garmach, Kristina Orbakaitė, Artur Smolyaninov
La Russie est le plus grand pays du monde, et, pour le Nouvel An, le président Dmitri Medvedev présente neuf fois ses vœux à ses compatriotes.