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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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Filmography of Bazelevs Production (26 films)
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Black Lightning (2009)
, 1h46Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films
Actors Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergueï Garmach, Viktor Verjbitski, Ekaterina Vilkova, Ivan Jidkov, Ekaterina Starchova
Dmitry "Dima" Maykov (Grigoriy Dobrygin), an average university student at Moscow State University, is given a car for his birthday by his father (Sergei Garmash), a black 1966 GAZ 21 Volga. However, this is not an ordinary car; it is a secret product of a Soviet defense contract, and is equipped with a rocket engine. Dima, however, suspects none of this. He's not even excited when he finds an old record and a photo of three scientists in the glove box of the car.
9 (2009)
, 1h21Directed by Shane Acker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau
Prior to the events of the film, a scientist is ordered by his dictator to create a machine in the apparent name of progress. The Scientist uses his own intellect to create the B.R.A.I.N., a thinking robot. However, the dictator quickly seizes it and integrates it into the Fabrication Machine, an armature that can construct an army of war machines to destroy the dictator's enemies. Lacking a soul, the Fabrication Machine becomes corrupted and decides to exterminate almost all life on Earth. The Fabrication Machine reprograms the other war machines to turn against humans by using toxic gas and chemical weapons. On the verge of destruction, the Scientist uses alchemy to create nine homunculus-like rag dolls known as "Stitchpunks" using portions of his own soul via a talisman and dies upon finishing the last one.
Wanted (2008)
, 1h50Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Common, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann
In Chicago, Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) works at a dead-end desk job with an overbearing boss, takes anti-anxiety medication for panic attacks, and has an unfaithful live-in girlfriend who cheats on him with his friend and colleague Barry. One night at the pharmacy, Wesley is told by a woman named Fox that his recently murdered father was an assassin, and the killer, a man named Cross, is now hunting him. Cross and Fox engage in a shoot-out with hi-tech guns. Wesley panics and runs into the parking lot followed by Cross who steals a truck and attempts to run Wesley down. Fox flips Wesley into her car and she then calmly executes a spectacular escape.
, 1h55Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yury Yakovlev, Constantin Khabenski, Elizaveta Boïarskaïa, Sergueï Bezroukov
The characters from the first film now have children, who have managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago. However, this story is not simply a remake of the original movie. Firstly, all of Lukashin's adventures were accidental, whereas here everything is done according to a plan thought up by Pavlik (a friend of Lukashin's). His idea is to help his friend Evgeniy with his loneliness. To this end, he dispatches Lukashin's son Kostya to Petersburg, where he acts in the same manner as his father 30 years ago. In flat 12 he meets Nadejda (who is actually the daughter of Nadejda from the first movie). She has a fiancé called Irakliy, a businessman. Kostantin's task is to lure Iracliy away from the flat, then wait for Nadejda's mother to come; he then makes her call Evgeniy Lukashin. Pavlik persuades Evgeniy to go to St. Petersburg. The plot becomes a story of two fights over a woman: Konstantin vs. Irakliy and Evgeniy vs. Ippolit. Finally Lukashins win the competition, because Irakliy turns out to be too dull for Nadya and Nadejda understands that she was never in love with Ippolit.
Day Watch (2006)
, 2h19Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Vampires in film, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Constantin Khabenski, Maria Porochina, Jeanna Friske, Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov, Gosha Kutsenko, Viktor Verjbitski
It is New Year's Day of 2006, more than a year after the events of Night Watch. Anton Gorodetsky, the protagonist of the first film, finds himself in the middle of an approaching conflict between the Light and Dark Others, who are still bound with an uneasy truce. Anton is still a Night Watch operative, now working with his trainee and romantic interest, Svetlana. As his son Yegor has now become a Dark Other, Anton is forced to secretly destroy evidence of Yegor's attacks on normal people, which violates the treaty, leaving the Night Watch unable to sentence Yegor.
Night Watch (2004)
, 1h50Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin Russie
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Constantin Khabenski, Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov, Viktor Verjbitski, Valery Zolotoukhine, Aleksey Chadov, Maria Porochina
In the prologue, which is set in medieval times, the audience is introduced to humans with special powers called The Others (Иные, иной; Inyye, Inoy). The Others are divided into two camps, with each Other either allied with the forces of Light or the forces of Darkness, and the prologue recounts a great battle between the two sides. Geser, the Lord of the Light, realized that the two forces would eventually annihilate each other. He stopped the battle and offered a truce to the forces of Darkness, led by Zavulon. To make sure each side honored its side of the agreement, the Light would have a "Night Watch" to monitor the forces of Darkness at night, and the Darkness would have a "Day Watch" to police the forces of Light during the day. This agreement maintained balance for centuries to come.
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The Fool (2014)
, 1h56Directed by Youri Bykov
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Artiom Bystrov, Darya Moroz, Elena Panova
A Russian plumber, Dima Nikitin, is also a municipal repair-crew chief in an unnamed Russian town that’s not even 40 years old, though some of the city’s housing blocks are already in a grave state of disrepair. A routine burst bathroom pipe in one of the rickety communal housing buildings unearths a much larger problem, as the exterior wall behind the pipe has cracked and started to shift. When Nikitin goes outside to inspect the matter, he realizes the building has fissured from the ground right up to the ninth and last floor.
The Major (2013)
, 1h39Directed by Youri Bykov
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Youri Bykov
Police Major Sergei Sobolev's wife gives birth. Future father rushes to the hospital, but then his car at full speed throws a boy who was crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing, causes his death. The only witnesses is his mother, Irina Gutorova.
The Snow Queen (2012)
, 1h20Origin Russie
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film, Children's films
Actors Patrick Noérie, Ivan Okhlobystine, Loïc Houdré, Kirk Thornton, Dmitry Nagiev, Erin Fitzgerald
The Snow Queen covered the world in ice. Only Master Vegard stands in her way, whose mirrors reflect not only appearances but also souls. One day the polar wind takes away Vegard and his wife Una, but they hide their children Gerda and Kai. Years later, the Snow Queen's servile troll Orm (who can shapeshift into a black weasel) locates Kai, who is deemed Vegard's successor, at an orphanage. After a tangle between both siblings and Orm, Kai is abducted by the polar wind to the Snow Queen's palace. Gerda embarks on a journey with Orm and her pet white weasel Luta across the icy lands to rescue her brother.
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).
, 1h55Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska, Yury Yakovlev, Constantin Khabenski, Elizaveta Boïarskaïa, Sergueï Bezroukov
The characters from the first film now have children, who have managed to get into the same situation as their parents many years ago. However, this story is not simply a remake of the original movie. Firstly, all of Lukashin's adventures were accidental, whereas here everything is done according to a plan thought up by Pavlik (a friend of Lukashin's). His idea is to help his friend Evgeniy with his loneliness. To this end, he dispatches Lukashin's son Kostya to Petersburg, where he acts in the same manner as his father 30 years ago. In flat 12 he meets Nadejda (who is actually the daughter of Nadejda from the first movie). She has a fiancé called Irakliy, a businessman. Kostantin's task is to lure Iracliy away from the flat, then wait for Nadejda's mother to come; he then makes her call Evgeniy Lukashin. Pavlik persuades Evgeniy to go to St. Petersburg. The plot becomes a story of two fights over a woman: Konstantin vs. Irakliy and Evgeniy vs. Ippolit. Finally Lukashins win the competition, because Irakliy turns out to be too dull for Nadya and Nadejda understands that she was never in love with Ippolit.