The Rise of Russian Film: Shadow Boxing, Pobeg and The Day Watch Trailers!
Earlier today Triflic posted a link to this article on the recent surge of Russian film over on our forum and it's worth a read. If the massive success of the Night Watch wasn't enough to convince you that Russia is poised to become a player in world film some of the figures cited in there will. Most projections say Russia will be the third or fourth largest film producer in continental Europe within the next couple years, topped only by France, Germany and possibly Italy. This is a big, big country just coming into its own ...
Now, of the films listed there we've linked to Turkish Gambit and The Night Watch before (a quick search of the site will turn up trailers for both)but I've come up with trailers for both of the other films mentioned: the spy/sports hybrid Shadow Boxing, and Pobeg, a Russian take on The Fugitive. Neither of those look strong enough to make much of an impression on these shores, but here's one that most certainly will: The Day Watch. Yep. The trailer for the follow up film to The Night Watch has hit online ... don't let the opening sequence of shots from the first film fool you, there's a LOT of footage from the new flick in there and it looks gooooood. Unfinished - it is still in post-production, after all - but goooooood. Click here to download a big ol' trailer for The Day Watch in avi format!
**** UPDATE ****
Looks like we maxed out the bandwidth of the Russian site that was hosting this trailer, because they've taken it down ... luckily Harry over at Aint It Cool is a big fan of The Night Watch and has been hosting a version of the trailer that he converted to MPG format for Mac users here.
