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Anna Kudevich

Following the high benchmark set by Ilya Naishuller with the previous ones, the latest video&nbsp;for Russian band Leningrad just happens to be another breathtaking tour de force - extravagantly creative, brilliantly realised and, as tradition demands, outrageously, eye-wateringly violent.For Gold - which is produced by Naishuller, and written and directed by another precocious talent, the Moscow-based director&nbsp;Lado Kvataniya &ndash; a beautiful girl is under questioning by two cops, and recounting her exploits - as a shape-shifting vampire who&nbsp;feasts on gold and gems, leaving mindboggling levels of&nbsp;bloody slaughter in her wake.And she not only tells of the incidents at a casino stuffed with rich pickings, and driving around with a Saudi&nbsp;prince&nbsp;in his gold Rolls Royce, she brings them right into the interrogation room - and that includes an out of control Roller crashing through the wall.This brilliant and disorientating device arguably makes this one of the best of the Leningrad vids. And certainly the astonishing VFX work in the&nbsp;video once again makes this looks like it was produced on a budget that wouldn&#39;t shame a Hollywood blockbuster. A really really violent one.&bull; <a href="http://vimeo.com/308870631" target="_blank">BACKSTAGE</a> &nbsp; &bull; <a href="http://directorsnotes.com/2019/01/03/leningrad-gold/">Directors Notes</a>&nbsp;

Russian Federation

Lado Kvataniya

Ilya Naishuller

Ekaterina Kononenko

Ruben Adamyan

Versus Pictures

Egor Solomatin

Alexei Smoliar

Andrey Krauzov

Dmitriy Onishenko

Anastasiya Ramlya

Vlad Yakunin

Jamie O'Bradovich

Alexey Uskov

Snezhana Samokhina

Leningrad 'Gold' by Lado Kvataniya

Leningrad /// GOLD

A rich young guy is living the dream - but that&#39;s nothing compared to the story inside his head. Ilya Naishuller&#39;s latest blockbuster for Russian rock band Leningrad flashes back&nbsp;from our hero and his numerous&nbsp;lingerie model, pole-dancing girlfriends, to his career as a master criminal. It all serves Naishuller&#39;s true purpose - to deliver as many explosive visual thrills as possible in four minutes.Featuring famous Russian actor Aleksandr Pal as the chain smoking anti-hero, Voyage is a trademark blockbusting thrill-ride from Naishuller involving girls, drugs, yachts and, of course, serious crime and punishment. It follows the jawdropping Kolshik, Naishuller&#39;s previous video for Leningrad, that&#39;s been scooping awards all over the place this year, including Best VFX in a Video at last month&#39;s UKMVAs.&nbsp;The new video includes a&nbsp;cast of over forty models, and the jacuzzi scene is set in one of Moscow&rsquo;s most famously expensive hotel suites (but they didn&#39;t have to pay the US$12K a night charge because the hotel owners are fans of both Naishuller and Leningrad, apparently). The final nightclub scene, where Pal&#39;s character pays his dues in a Bonnie &amp; Clyde style pay-off, required 120 squibs to get that full bloodbath effect. Naishuller doesn&#39;t really do things by halves.&quot;I wanted the audience to feel like they&#39;re watching a typical male fantasy video where something feels a little off, then flip the concept on its head with a crime drama twist,&quot; says Ilya Naishuller. &quot;We nodded our hat to a few impossible tricks to denote the imagination of the lead character. For example, old Cadillacs can&rsquo;t drift, so we used a mix of practical FX and CGI magic to bring that to life. Also,&nbsp;Alexander Pal, is actually well known for his comedic chops in Russia. I wanted him to play against type.When it came to the&nbsp;yacht scene, he points out it wasn&#39;t so glamourous for the models, as they were shooting in Russia locations in October, and it was very chilly.&nbsp;&ldquo;It was only five degrees outside when we shot the yacht scene, so it&#39;s fair to say that Russian women are hard as nails! The stuntwoman who dove into the freezing waters is probably a Kryptonian.&rdquo;[imgtoken data:1]

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