Piter FM

Name: Piter FM
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2006-04-20
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Yekaterina Fedulova, Yevgeni Tsyganov, Irina Rakhmanova, Kirill Pirogov, Tatyana Kravchenko

It’s not the radio. It’s a movie!

Питер FM (2006)

Timing: 1:25 (85 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2006-04-20

Country

Russia

Production

STS Media, Profit

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Budget

$1 100 000

Revenue

$873 244

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Director

Oksana Bychkova

Actors

Yekaterina Fedulova, Yevgeni Tsyganov, Irina Rakhmanova, Kirill Pirogov, Tatyana Kravchenko, Aleksandr Bashirov, Artyom Semakin, Andrey Krasko, Vladimir Mashkov, Aleksey Barabash
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Nana Grinshtein, Oksana Bychkova

Producer

Lyudmila Zakharova, Elena Glikman, Aleksander Rodnyansky, Igor Tolstunov

Operator

Ivan Gudkov

Composer

Artist

Solbon Lygdenov

Audition

Editing

Aleksandr Chupakov, Svetlana Ivanova, Olga Grinshpun
All team (18)

Short description

Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.

What's left behind the scenes

The idea for the film belonged to Andrey Migachev. In an open letter to director Oksana Bychkova, he pointed out that it was incorrect for his name to be absent from the screenwriters' section of the credits. In the end, Migachev was only given a thank-you note in the credits.
The main character's apartment was filmed in the studio of avant-garde artists (Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya and Olga Egorova). The most labor-intensive part of building the sets was removing a vast amount of the artists' personal belongings. Models and blueprints were borrowed from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, some directly from an exhibition.
The "Peter FM" studio was built in a house that had served as a brothel before the revolution. Later, the building became a dormitory for the Mining Institute. It took two weeks to erect the walls and one week for the set decoration itself.
The ghost house that constantly appears in the frame (the one Maxim draws) was built between 1908 and 1910. While searching for this house, the crew traveled across nearly all of St. Petersburg and examined many buildings. They were helped by the film's producer, Elena Glikman, who contacted a local architect who then took the group to 159 Fontanka.
The city's residents served as extras on the streets without even knowing it. To ensure the crowds behaved naturally, an old trick involving a screen was used. They built a triangular booth, covered it with posters, made a hole, and filmed through it. Curious St. Petersburg residents would linger by the posters and look bewildered when assistants began to shoo them away.
The role of the alcoholic kicked out of his home (played by Andrey Krasko) could have been played by Sergey Garmash, but the actor declined to participate in the filming.
Actor Robert Gorodetsky from the "Litsedei" comedy troupe plays a cameo role as a homeless man who finds the photos of Maxim's ex-girlfriend in a trash bin. The bin was painted green with a cheerful little flower and the words "Glikman was here" were written on it. This was a joke played on the film's producer, Elena Glikman.
A real Romani camp appeared in the film.
In the police station where Maxim is brought, the intercom announces the address "3rd Builders Street, Building 25, Apartment 12." This is the address from the film "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!"
Real radio divas, Alena Masurenkova and Katya Sryvkova, took part in the production of the film.
To play the role of architect Maxim, Evgeny Tsyganov had to have several consultations with real architects.
One of the film's climactic scenes, where Maxim drops his phone into the water, was filmed on the Fontanka River. The scene took two days to shoot because it suddenly snowed in the middle of summer on the first day, and filming had to be postponed.