Bender: The Beginning | |
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Directed by | Igor Zaytsev |
Written by | Oleg Malovichko |
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Cinematography | Sergei Trofimov |
Edited by | Yekaterina Beresnevich |
Music by | Ryan Otter |
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Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Box office | ₽50 million |
Bender: The Beginning, also known as Ostap Bender. The Beginning ( Russian: Бендер: Начало) is a 2021 Russian action adventure comedy film directed by Igor Zaytsev, a prequel to The Twelve Chairs from the production company Sreda. It stars Sergey Bezrukov as Ibrahim Bender, and Aram Vardevanyan in the role was dedicated to Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky. [1] [2]
It is scheduled to be theatrically released on 24 June 2021. [3]
The film is set in 1919. A young idealist named Osip ran into a Turkish swindler, Ibrahim Bender, who, like Osip, hunts for a royal relic. Osip learns from Ibrahim flattery, deception, blackmail and brute force, falls in love with a fatal beautiful foreigner and becomes the legendary Ostap Bender. [4]
The film was shot by the Sreda company, owned by Aleksandr Tsekalo, and the television channel Russia-1. The film was directed by Igor Zaytsev. Bender: The Beginning is the first part of the series, followed by the films Bender: Gold of the Empire and Bender: The Final Hustle. It is assumed that later on from these pictures a single series about Ostap Bender will be created.