The Geographer Drank His Globe Away
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$4 000 000
Box office
$4 459 303
Director
Actors
Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elena Lyadova, Aleksandr Robak, Agrippina Steklova, Andrey Prytkov, Anfisa Chernykh, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Evgenia Brik, Anna Ukolova, Maksim Lagashkin
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Rauf Kubaev
Producer
Valery Todorovsky, Leonid Lebedev, Vadim Goryainov, Maksim Koroptsov
Camera operator
Vladimir Bashta
Composer
Alexey Zubarev
Artist
Vladimir Gudilin, Sergey Gudilin
Audition
Editing
Short description
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot in 2011–2012 in Perm (Kirovsky District, 19 Kalinina St., School No. 1), Zakamsk, the Nizhnyaya Kurya microdistrict, and the village of Usva in the Gremyachinsky District.
- In total, there were 34 filming days, two expeditions, and a planned five-month break: for the river trip scene, they had to wait for the water levels that only occur for two weeks in May, as the river is shallow the rest of the time. Therefore, the winter block was filmed in November 2011, followed by a wait until April to film the school interiors, where spring was seen 'peeking' through the windows. After that, the crew moved 200 kilometers away from Perm to film the trip.
- Viktor Sluzhkin's date of birth is May 24, 1975 (as seen on the passport page at the beginning of the film), but in the movie, his birthday is celebrated in winter.
- In the novel, the main character, Sluzhkin, is 28 years old; in the film, Khabensky's character is older. The choice of actor for the lead role was approved by the novel's author, Alexei Ivanov, who noted that Khabensky's character resembles the depiction of the hero on the cover of the novel's first edition.
- The film is based on the novel "The Geographer Drank His Globe Away" by Alexei Ivanov (written in 1995, published in 2003).
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