Cinema is one of those types of art that you want to man even in times of revolution, war, or economic stagnation of the country. And although Ukraine is now combined all three extreme situation, cinema, paradoxically, remains relevant. The appearance of the scenario Smiling!” (“Smile!”) about famous Soviet jazz Eddi Rozner – accurate proof.

Who should film when people EN masse lose their jobs when the food prices have doubled, and the country for half a step from the war? This is a banal question to the brave souls who dare to remember about the movie. Instead, you can lead a historical fact during the great American depression, when people were dying from hunger, rushed out of the apartment blocks with despair or emigrated to other countries, however, the film ” king Kong” 33-year collected in hire crazy grandmother, the amount of which exceeded the gross profit of individual cities. Today the situation is almost similar: the box-office of Ukraine, despite the collapse of the economy and the horror of murder in opposition to Yanukovych regime, since the beginning of 2014 showcases the best of last year’s results.

Let that people can not exist in constant tension. Besides, the movie is not only a means of entertainment, but also important, is very well informed in the Soviet Union and the United States, a way to influence citizens, supporting their Patriotic spirit. Waving the flag of almost every American film or beating his chest with the words “sraka country may, if are the same, – effects on the brains, without which it is not possible, no ideology. Ideology is especially relevant in a time of turmoil and crisis, because an empty stomach, at least for a moment, can only satisfy a picture of something delicious (as shocking and scary showed Steven Soderbergh in his “King of the mountain”). While we have not reached the status of a dying from hunger “king”, it is necessary to smile. Because that is what advised “the best trumpeter Europe”, “white Armstrong” Adolf Ignacy Rosner, people with empirical knowledge and hunger, and about the war, and about the crisis. “Smiling!”, “smile!” – favorite phrase Eddie during concerts, and he gave them throughout the world many…

The script Zaza Buadze “Smiling!” in General can be classified as “smile of fate”, because he, in particular, and in a synthesis moments perfect for our time, as perhaps no other.

First, drama Rozner very life and understood by anyone, because, though it is about celebrities, but the life of the “stars” is never cloudless, they are doomed to love and to suffer. The main hero – a person, whose life circumstances, the Nazi and the Soviet system by all means tried to “drown”, and he followed. Born in Berlin, a Polish Jew, caught the beginning of the war in Warsaw, in Lviv with the status of “stars of the Soviet music” got in a GULAG; again, after 8 years in the camps and rehabilitation rose to the recognition and again as the king of the mountain, was reset to its foot.

Secondly, the script that connects the past and present, written in the form of “flash-Bek”, is very dynamic and very modern. In combination with a spectacular drama this makes it attractive for producers and desired by the viewer.

Thirdly, he designed for this we need now coproductions, for the event “Smiling!” takes place in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, the far East and far in the United States. None of the domestic films cannot count on the world resonance without involving at least, European producers. And the chances script Buadze to get to the international market is quite large.

The idea of the project, proposed last summer Dnepropetrovsk private entrepreneur Igor Demyanenko, liked Kiev companies Fresh Production. And treatments script Zaza Buadze praised at the first Ukrainian-Polish forum in September Gdynia (The Hollywood reporter wrote it about this project, but from Ukraine he was one of four). Polish production company Film it! interested in the script, not least because a surprising coincidence: for several years before that it was created documentary work of Eddie Rozner. And because there is already a base, and a major feature films about him have not removed – the God ordered to accept the offer, which itself is in the hands (who cares, the company is a renowned producer of the acclaimed movie of 2009 “House of evil” Wojtek Starovskogo).

Is conducive to a variety of “coincidences” and “amazing coincidences”, known for his work on the project “Ursus” (which website Zbruc.eu twice already wrote), Buadze was different this time. Having for some time in view of the poles as possible partners, he thought of the future film Director, namely about Paul Pulikovskogo, known for its British “My summer of love” with Ameli blunt in the title role and French Woman with the fifth circuit” with Ethan hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. And connect with a desirable candidate for the post of the Director of the writer had neither the time nor courage. And in the beginning of April Buadze sent his scenario for participation in coproduction-market next Odessa film festival, and only then learned that it is at this festival Pawlikowska not just be present in person, but will chair the jury.

… The advantages of the scenario can be attributed more the aspect that this is not a biopic in the encyclopedic understanding. As stated on the title page, the screenplay was written under the influence of real events, but a large part of it is fiction. With the sight of eventful, exciting and dramatic life of an outstanding musician and a notorious womaniser, Buadze, using the Russian language official biography Eddie Rozner written by Dmitry Dragleave, and English-language memoir of his first wife Ruth Kaminsky, invented the story, on which, as on a pedestal, found its hero. In history – fact trip Rosner from Moscow to Warsaw for his daughter’s wedding. What exactly happened there and why before travel abroad, zamordowany camps and skovannyy press talented and thirst for happiness trumpeter and conductor Rosner not managed to run away and stay in the West is known.

After returning Rosner lived another ten years. And screenwriter did not go into their course, and not trying to squeeze in the film all events of 1939 to 1966, the first years, outlined in the scenario. And this is very good, because basically it is an attempt to cover the entire career able to “bury” the film (which happened last year with ambitious project Paradzhanov Serge Avedikian and Elena Fetisova). Compact form and validity of the content, the accuracy in the description of the characters and situations, reasonable logic scenes and transitions from one storyline to another, from now to the once – this is a brief summary cute script Zaza Buadze “Smiling!”, completely ready for implementation in the film.

Dossier

Eddie Rosner (Adolf Eduard Rosner, Adolf Ignatievich Rosner Eddie Ignacy Rosner, Eddie Rosner; may 26, 1910, Berlin – August 8, 1976, West Berlin) – jazz trumpeter, violinist, conductor, composer and arranger.

The virtuoso improvisation was nicknamed “white Armstrong”. Author of numerous jazz and tango, waltzes, songs to the words of Yuri Zeitlin, Michael Pljackovskaja, Century Mass and, Chervinsky, Evgeny Dolmatovsky, Vladimir Kharitonov, Leonid Kuksa, Gregory pozhenyana, B. Door etc) and jazz arrangements. Honoured artist of Belarus ( 1944). One of the most popular jazz artists in the USSR, whose records were twice denied.

At the Lviv festival Alfa jazz fest was founded international music awards “Alfa Jazz Fest Awards to them. Eddie Rozner. The award was established with the aim of celebrating the musicians who have made a significant contribution to the development of jazz music, as well as with the purpose of popularization of jazz music.

Yaroslav Pidgora-Gvyazdovskiy

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