Glyanets (2007)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Andrei Konchalovsky

Writers:

Andrei Konchalovsky (writer)
Dunya Smirnova (writer)

Release Date:

23 August 2007 (Russia)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A pretty, young girl from a coal-mining town comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a supermodel in this satirical look at the fashion industry.

Plot Keywords:

Moscow | Magazine | Dream | Bride | Russia

Cast

Yuliya Vysotskaya	...	Galya
Irina Rozanova	...	Alina
Aleksandr Domogarov	...	Misha Klimenko
Yefim Shifrin	...	Mark
Aleksei Serebryakov	...	Stasis
Gennady Smirnov	...	Petya
Ilya Isaev	...	Vitek
Olga Arntgolts	...	Nastya
Andrei Noskov	...	Gleb
Aleksandr Ilyin	...	Chmur
Artemiy Troitskiy	...	Vor v Zakone
Ela Sanko	...	Galya's Mother (as Yola Sanko)
Yuris Lautsinsh	...	Galya's Father
Tatyana Arntgolts	...	Oksana
Oleg Komarov
Aleksei Grishin	...	The Director
Mikhail Politsejmako	...	The Journalist
Marina Politsejmako	...	Journal Secretary (as Masha Politseymako)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yelena Fomina	...	The Witch
Igor Marychev	...	Misha
Olga Meloyanina	...	Zhanna
Yuri Nifontov	...	Samsonov
Slava Schoot	...	Facebreaker
Vladimir Shiryayev
Yuliya Snigir
Inna Stepanova	...	Anzhela
Timofei Tribuntsev	...	Valera
Elmira Tuyusheva	...	Ingeborge

Directed by
Andrei Konchalovsky

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Andrei Konchalovsky		writer
Dunya Smirnova		writer

Produced by
Jeremy Burdek	....	co-producer
Nadia Khamlichi	....	co-producer
Andrei Konchalovsky	....	producer
Olga Ogurtsova	....	line producer
Adrian Politowski	....	co-producer
Evgeny Stepanov	....	producer

Original Music by
Eduard Artemyev

Cinematography by
Masha Solovyova		(as Mariya Soloveva)

Film Editing by
Olga Grinshpun

Production Design by
Yekaterina Zaletayeva

Costume Design by
Yekaterina Dyminskaya

Makeup Department
Yelena Dementyeva	....	assistant makeup artist
Irina Lyashko	....	assistant makeup artist
Valeria Nikulina	....	makeup artist
Sergey Sirin	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Guy Courtecuisse	....	post-production manager
Vadim Koryuzlov	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Olga Antropova	....	second assistant director
Natalya Lyashchenko	....	scheduling assistant director
Yuliya Marina	....	second assistant director
Natalya Obukhova	....	assistant director

Art Department
Andrei Belan	....	swing gang
German Belan	....	set dresser
Fyodor Chernyshenko	....	assistant production designer
Maksim Korneyev	....	property master
Vasili Korobkov	....	swing gang
Vlad Kuznetsov	....	set dresser
Andrei Mantsurov	....	swing gang
Aleksei Pokhornyak	....	swing gang
Boris Rakhmanov	....	property master
Daniil Simbirtsev	....	swing gang

Sound Department
Alek Goosse	....	sound
Gert Janssen	....	sound editor
Caroline Landsweerdt	....	adr editor
Alexis Oscari	....	foley recordist

Visual Effects by
Timur Saitgarajev	....	visual effects artist
Sergey Vygran	....	visual effects

Stunts
Yuri Luchinkin	....	stunts
Aleksei Silkin	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Ilya Agafonov	....	lighting technician
Ivan Alekseyev	....	dolly grip
Igor Bibeyev	....	focus puller
Roman Gorelov	....	Steadicam operator
Vladimir Ilyin	....	second cinematographer
Vladimir Kovalenko	....	dolly grip
Aleksandr Kozilo	....	crane operator
Dmitri Kuznetsov	....	lighting technician
Aleksandr Lenko	....	chief lighting technician
Igor Nikolyukin	....	lighting technician
Yevgeni Nikolyukin	....	lighting technician
Ivan Pomorin	....	Steadicam operator
Bagir Rafiyev	....	Steadicam operator
Igor Ryabtsev	....	video operator
Serge Smirnov	....	assistant camera
Aleksei Zhuravsky	....	lighting technician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Galina Volovikova	....	assistant costume designer
Galina Yefimova	....	costumer

Other crew
Anton Alfer	....	consultant
Iwona Sellers	....	production coordinator
Gilles Waterkeyn	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky (production company)

Distributors

• MC4 Distribution (2009) (France) (theatrical)
• Central Partnership (2007) (Russia) (all media)

Also Known As:

Gloss (International: English title) (literal title) (USA)
Глянец (Russia)

Runtime:

Russia:118 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Company:

Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky

Soundtrack:

O Sole mio

Pretty scary realistic film

Well,I saw this film because Edward Artemiev made score for it. It is the story of underworld live of Moscow-based glamour model studio, that turns out to be a prostitution market. A girl from Rostov on Don comes to Moscow to become a model, but she does not fit the standards of that business. She is old enough and one of her legs is shorter. But she still has that idea that she must be that kind of star. But her ex-boyfriend a bandit from Rostov, who still loves her, made everything to help her. She becomes a body on a modern magazine cover, but..

Quite cynic and bloody ending. Anyway ,this look is close to reality. pretty critical Andrey Konchalovski's effort. You can see a lot of famous people acting very untypically . The real hymn of crazy money-makers.