| Heat | |
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| Directed by | Rezo Gigineishvili |
| Produced by | Fyodor Bondarchuk Alexander Rodnyansky Dmitry Rudovsky |
| Written by | Rezo Gigineishvili |
| Starring | Aleksei Chadov Artur Smolyaninov Konstantin Kryukov Timur Yunusov Olga Bolbukh |
| Music by | Dato Evgenidze |
| Cinematography | Maksim Osadchy |
| Editing by | Igor Litoninsky |
| Distributed by | Art Pictures Studio Channel STS |
| Release date(s) | December 28, 2006 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | US$5,550,000[1] |
| Box office | US$15,710,000 (Russia)[1] |
Heat (Russian: Жара, stylized as ЖАRА[nb 1]) is a 2006 Russian teen romantic comedy loosely based on the I Step Through Moscow,[3] directed by Rezo Gigineishvili and produced by Fyodor Bondarchuk. Heat along with Wolfhound became one of the most expensive Russian films in 2006.[4] Besides, its budget was three times less as compared to the advertising campaign.[5]
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After three years a sailor Aleksei (Aleksei Chadov) comes back from the Black Sea Fleet to Moscow for a meeting with his waiting girlfriend (Maria Kurkova) and old classmates. Unfortunately, he finds out that his girlfriend is already married and has a child, and decides to spend the remaining time in the restaurant with friends: a son of an oligarch Konstantin (Konstantin Kryukov), beginner actor Artur (Artur Smolyaninov) and hip-hop artist Timati. When their lunch is coming to the end, it appears that no one has money to pay the bill, except Konstantin's dollars which do not accept for payment. The rapper is decided to exchange currency at the nearest exchanger, that will cause troubles.
As the former exchanger belongs to the Armenian (Tigran Keosayan), Timati sets out in search of another, but runs against a nazi skinhead gang. Saving his own life, the hero hides in Konstantin's flat, where Ostap Bender-like[3] swindler Dani (Deni Dadaev) in waiting him. Meanwhile, his friends cannot wait anymore and Artur is sent off. Before he can exchange, he is allured by the film director (Fyodor Bondarchuk) and prepares for shooting, but misses the actor-bus and leaves with gastarbeiters to demolish the Rossiya Hotel. Konstantin hands over his last dollars to Aleksei, but he also fails and falls in love with a young traffic victim Nastya (Agniya Ditkovskite). After all that, despaired Konstantin raises noise in the restaurant, as a result he gets jailed by the militsiya. Luckily for him, the mates do not abandon a friend and rescue him from captivity.
Gigineishvili and Bondarchuk used the same young cast and crew from The 9th Company for their Heat, set in Moscow during a hot boiling summer, which caused as the title instead of the draft entitled "City Tales" ("Сказки города").[5] Its filming took place in the shortest time period: "the script was written in ten days; pre-production took no more than two weeks; and after four months of shooting, the movie was done."[2][6]
Despite the fiscal success, Heat took in $15 million in CIS, and about $1 million in Ukraine,[7] the film, mainly, received disapproving responses of critics for the commercial direction. According to the e-poll of Moskovskij Komsomolets, Heat was recognized as the worst Russian film of 2006.[8]
| ЖАRА: Soundtrack | |||
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | |||
| Released | February, 2007 | ||
| Genre | Pop, R&B | ||
| Length | 62:27 | ||
| Label | CD Land | ||
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The original soundtrack was released in February, 2007 and included a song of Tokio, several tracks from new Timati album Black Star and other artists.[9]