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CHILD 44
SHORT SYNOPSIS
A politically-charged serial killer thriller set in 1953 Soviet Russia, CHILD 44 chronicles the
crisis of conscience for secret police agent Leo Demidov (TOM HARDY), who loses status, power
and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa (NOOMI RAPACE), as a traitor. Exiled
from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov
(GARY OLDMAN) to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice
threatens a system-wide cover-up enforced by Leo’s psychopathic rival Vasili (JOEL KINNAMAN),
who insists “There is no crime in Paradise.”
LONG SYNOPSIS
Based on author Tom Rob Smith’s best-selling novel, Child 44 is a gripping thriller set
against the backdrop of 1953 Stalinist Russia. A proud product of the Soviet system, orphan-turnedwar-hero Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) has risen through the ranks of the MGB, the state’s domestic
security apparatus, to become a star investigator of dissident activity. When he and sadistic colleague
Vasil (Joel Kinnaman) capture suspected spy Anatoly Tarasovich Brodsky (Jason Clarke), the “traitor”
names Leo’s own wife, beautiful schoolteacher Raisa (Noomi Rapace), as a co-conspirator.
Forced to investigate Raisa on suspicion of treason, Leo also takes on the case of a boy
found carved up alongside railroad tracks. Despite evidence to the contrary, Leo describes the death
as an accident to the boy’s father, MGB Agent Alexei Andreyev (Fares Fares) because Stalinist decree
dictates, “There is no crime in Paradise.”
When Leo refuses to denounce his wife, MGB Commander Major Kuzmin (Vincent Cassel)
exiles the couple to the grim industrial city of Volsk. Confined to a one-room hovel and stripped of
rank, Leo and Raisa learn that dozens of other dead boys have suffered gruesome “accidents” near
railroad tracks under almost identical circumstances as Alexei’s son. Teaming with local Police Chief
General Nesterov (Gary Oldman), they sneak back to Moscow and pursue clues before zeroing in on
mild-mannered factory worker Vladimir Malevich (Paddy Considine).
Desperate to rein in his former colleague, the increasingly psychotic Vasili tries to stop Leo
and Raisa before they catch the child murderer, who has no place in Stalin’s supposedly crime-free
Communist society. In the end, only one man survives the spectacular forest showdown between
hero, pedophile and bureaucrat. But despite the victims and the damage done, the Soviet State
remains immune to Leo’s inconvenient truths.
Child 44 is directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House, Snabba Cash aka Easy Money). Screenplay
was written by Richard Price (Clockers, “The Wire”). Based upon the novel by Tom Rob Smith.
Produced by Ridley Scott (Prometheus, Exodus: Gods and Kings), Michael Schaefer, and Gregory Shapiro.
Executive Producers Kevin Plank, Molly Conners, Maria Cestone, Sarah E. Johnson, Hoyt David
Morgan, Adam Merims (Safe House), Elishia Holmes (Exodus: Gods and Kings), and Douglas Urbanski
(Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy). Co-producers Matthew Stillman and David Minkowski. The Director of
Photography is Oliver Wood (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy). The Production Designer
is Jan Roelf (Fast & Furious 6). The film is edited by Pietro Scalia, ACE and Dylan Tichenor, ACE
(Zero Dark Thirty). Costume Design is by Academy Award® winner Jenny Beavan (A Room with a View,
Costume Design, 1986). Music is composed by Jon Ekstrand (Snabba Cash).
Child 44 is produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer (Exodus: Gods and Kings) and
Academy Award® winner Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Best Picture, 2009).
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
A sumptuous period thriller encompassing themes of power, love, betrayal and murder,
Child 44 is loosely based on the crimes of real-life serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Also known as “The
Butcher of Rostov,” Chikatilo was convicted of murdering and mutilating 52 women and children in
Soviet Russia in the early 1950s. Novelist Tom Rob Smith’s fictionalized version of the grisly case
met with resounding critical and popular acclaim upon publication in 1998. Winner of the Crime
Writers Association’s CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award and translated into 26 languages,
Child 44 became the first in a trilogy that now includes The Secret Speech and Agent 6.
“The great thing about detective stories and police investigations is they soak up a lot of the
society in which they take place,” Smith says. “If you want to understand a world, take a look at the
way the police work in that country.”
From Page to Screen
The author’s fans include Oscar®-winning filmmaker Ridley Scott. Galvanized by Child 44’s
rich characterizations and epic scope, Scott arranged nine years ago to meet the novelist at his
London production headquarters. “It was slightly surreal,” recalls Smith. “I’d gone from having this
project I thought might not even get published to talking to Ridley Scott in his office sitting next to a
Gladiator sword and a prop from Alien. Ridley was full of incredible ideas for the project.”
Scott initially intended to direct Child 44 himself. Then he saw Swedish director Daniel
Espinosa’s 2010 crime thriller Snabba Cash (aka Easy Money). The highest-grossing movie in Swedish
history, Snabba Cash showcased Espinosa’s inventively staged action sequences and stylish editing.
“Ridley liked the movie and invited me dinner,” recalls Espinosa. “Just getting a chance to sit down
and talk about movies with a master filmmaker like Ridley Scott was a great thrill. Then we started
talking about Child 44, which I had already read. I gave him my thoughts and Ridley asked if I
wanted to direct the movie with him producing. That was a very cool moment for me.”
Epic Scope, Intimate Core
Once Espinosa signed on to direct, he recruited Oscar®-nominated screenwriter Richard
Price (The Color of Money, The Wanderers). While the specifics are rooted in a particular time and place,
the story resonates as a universal commentary about the way totalitarian states in general can crush
the human spirit. “In all my films, I like to look at characters who are undergoing some kind of
transformation,” says Espinosa, who made his first Hollywood movie, the Denzel Washington
blockbuster Safe House, before embarking on Child 44. “For me, the story of Child 44 is about a man
who loses his illusions. So the question then becomes: How does he keep going after everything he’s
believed in, even his marriage, turns out to be based on lies?”
In Child 44, Espinosa saw an opportunity to blend visceral action sequences with
psychologically nuanced character arcs against a rich historic tapestry. “Of course I love the high
energy action aspects of the story but I also wanted to make this about the characters,” says Espinosa.
“We wanted to explore the power dynamic between Leo and Raisa. For me, the story raises questions
about trust, about what it means to love somebody in a society where everyone’s afraid to let down
their guard.”
An Unlikely Hero
To anchor an adventure of such grand historical scope, the filmmakers needed an actor
capable of handling the script’s demanding emotional and physical range, from quiet dramatic
moments to brutal action sequences. They also needed someone who could subtly express the
protagonist’s inner conflicts as he struggles to find his humanity in an inhuman situation.
They found their Leo Demidov in British actor Tom Hardy. Regarded as one of the most
charismatic talents of his generation, Hardy impressed moviegoers as a violent convict in Bronson,
then broke through to a global audience with his portrayal of the evil Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.
More recently he earned both critical and popular acclaim for his role as a Brooklyn bartender with a
dark secret in The Drop.
“I’ve been an admirer of Tom Hardy’s work for many years,” says Espinosa. “He’s one of
those enormously talented and committed actors who becomes so subsumed into whatever role he
plays that you forget it’s him and only see the character on the screen. I was thrilled when he agreed
to play Leo, not just because he’s one of the most in-demand actors right now, but because I knew
he would bring an intensity and honesty to the role that would propel the whole film.”
Hardy says he was attracted to the project by the moral complexity of his character—and the
script as a whole. “, I responded to the story. But at the same time I also really responded to the team
making it. I had worked with Lionsgate with Warrior and had a great experience; I enjoyed that movie
immensely,” Hardy explains. “As for the story, Child 44 had a lot of action, but it’s also period
drama – familiar, yet exciting territory for me, with a character-led naturalism to the whole.”
During production on Child 44, Hardy burnished his reputation for meticulous preparation
and intense performance. “Tom came in the first day with a very clear idea of who Leo was,” says
Espinosa. “He manages, with the subtlest expressions, to convey the inner emotions and uncertainty
of a man who has been trained his whole life to avoid showing emotion or uncertainty, and who lives
in a society where honesty can get you killed. And he does it all with a great Russian accent.”
Hardy was thrilled to reunite with his The Drop co-star Noomi Rapace, who plays his wife
Raisa in this film. “Noomi is somebody who will find a project and then work her ass off to make it
happen. And then once she’s on set, she will work 110% to bring it to life… She’s one of the finest
actors I’ve ever met. If Noomi comes with a project, there’s no way I won’t look at it and take it
seriously because I know that she loves the work as much as I do. She facilitated and created a
relationship with Daniel Espinosa for Child 44 and then pushed and pushed and pushed to see it
come to fruition. ”
“It’s a rich narrative,” Hardy continues. “You have a man who works for the MGB who was
a war hero, a man who started out as an orphan and became the poster boy of Stalin’s Russia - and
ultimately the poster boy for communism itself - who then finds that it’s failed him. He is forced to
deny the murder of his best friend’s son and then face up to the fact that the woman who he’s deeply
in love with (Noomi Rapace’s Raisa) doesn’t love him. That he’s seen as a monster by those that he
cares about, and yet he can’t really do anything about it in the political environment that he not only
lives in but that he represents the vanguard of as a member of the secret police.”
Woman on the Verge
Producer Ridley Scott introduced Rapace to Child 44 in Los Angeles when he cast her in his
2012 sci-fi epic Prometheus. “I loved the script and couldn’t let it go,” she says. “The love story is so
complicated, it just hit me and stayed in me and I couldn’t forget about it because this character just
started to live in me.”
When she learned Espinosa would be directing, Rapace was thrilled. “I had been wanting to
work with Daniel for a long time,” she says. “He’s such a wild soul. Daniel’s like this street boy who
makes gangster films and action films, but at the same time he’s an amazing director who can do
anything and everything. He has an old soul and I felt he was perfect for this movie.”
Rapace was also pleased to be back on set with Hardy. “Tom and I have a really good
connection,” says the Swedish actress. “I feel completely safe with him, so it really became about
finding the truth in the scene and seeing how far it could take us. I love working with Tom because I
feel like I can do anything, go anywhere, and he always has my back.”
Rapace’s portrayal of meek schoolteacher Raisa Demidova marks a dramatic departure from
the role that brought her to international attention, the nail-tough title character in The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo. To understand Raisa’s timidity, Rapace imagined the paranoia experienced by ordinary
citizens on a daily basis during the Stalinist regime. “Raisa has this survival instinct where she’s
constantly scanning the room, playing angles, finding ways to disappear, to fade away, to not stand
out,” Rapace explains. “You don’t want people to pay too much attention to you because that can be
dangerous. Raisa’s managed to survive by not expressing her feelings or standing up for things,
There’s a whole war zone going on inside her head but she can’t tell anyone because that would be
too risky.”
Rapace notes that everything changes when Raisa goes into exile with Leo. “We’re sent away
to this horrible little factory town where they force me to scrub floors at the local school,” she says.
“Leo loses his power and influence and privileged lifestyle. We end up in a small crappy room and
it’s a hard life but at the same time, it sets Raisa free because now, Leo can’t control her. She’s not
playing the nice housewife game anymore.”
The Stalinist Psychopath
Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman, who first worked with Espinosa in Snabba Cash, enjoyed the
challenge of developing treacherous secret-police bureaucrat Vasili as a three-dimensional character.
“Vasili’s a damaged individual with sociopathic traits,” he says. “The challenge was to build a contrast,
so that Vasili has a journey and evolves. Daniel and I did that by changing the relationship between
Vasili and Leo. Early on, he looks up to Leo and wants to be him. When Leo gets exiled, Vasili starts
living in his apartment. He’s wearing his robe. He’s always had strong feelings about his wife Raisa.
He’s trying to be Leo.”
By film’s end, admiration turns to homicidal rage. “Vasili becomes this very devious and
manipulative character,” says Kinnaman.
Kinnaman broke through to American audiences when he co-starred as slacker detective
Stephen Holder in the cable television crime series The Killing. “I was shooting The Killing right up
until I got on the plane and the next day I’m in Prague,” the actor recalls. “Until that moment, I
hadn’t really been thinking so much about the fact that Child 44 was a period piece. But then I got
off the plane and went straight to wardrobe where we started trying out these clothes and it suddenly
hit me: ‘This is the ’50s!’ It was great because trying on these clothes gives you so much flavor. You
can sort of step back and let the clothes and the boots and the haircut do a lot of work.”
A Bureaucrat with a Conscience
For Academy Award® nominee Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Best Actor, 2011),
the weary provincial police chief General Mikhail Nesterov he portrays in Child 44 embodies the
moral compromises many citizens had to make in order to survive Stalinist-era politics. “There was
so much emotional, physical, and psychological terror in Stalinist society that a character like
Nesterov just turns a blind eye to it all,” he says. “The Soviet system won’t allow for evil capitalist
things like murder, killing and prostitution, to the point that Leo and Nesterov have become, in a
sense, ethically and emotionally straight-jacketed. If your thinking goes just a little bit off the party
line, Stalin could banish you, which is what happened to Nesterov when he gets sent to this rural
village, Volsk.”
By the time Leo arrives in Volsk, Nesterov has acclimated himself to the reduced
circumstances of local militia chief. “He’s not as much under the microscope and the watchful eye of
Moscow,” says Oldman, who previously navigated Cold War moral ambiguity in the 2011 spy thriller
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. “Nestorov has made a nice little nest for himself. He has a community, a
family and his men. Leo’s appearance threatens all of that.”
When Leo explains that he’s trying to track down the killer who’s been dumping the bodies
of his young victims along the railroad tracks, Nesterov, who has children of his own, rises to the
occasion. “Leo re-ignites his conscience,” says Oldman.
Soviet Fashion
With eight Academy Award® nominations plus a win for A Room with a View, costume
designer Jenny Beavan has worked on her fair share of period dramas set in England, including
Sherlock Holmes and The King’s Speech. But she had a chance to explore new terrain when she delved
into Soviet-era fashion for Child 44. “I realised that a lot of the research I was finding on the
internet, or in books and periodicals was actually propaganda,” Beavan says. “The images were being
filtered through the Soviet Union system because they only wanted people to see the ‘happy’ Soviet
life!’ It was difficult to find photographs of the real people and life as everything was so heavily
censored.”
Once she determined the look she wanted for the civilian characters, Beavan scoured the
Internet for warehouses stockpiled with old clothes. Then she enlisted wardrobe breakdown artist
Joanna Weaving and her team of Czech crafters to give the clothes a well-worn appearance. “We
found old clothes from the period as our starting point, but anything made new was then aged and
distressed,” Beavan says. “The ager /dyers use all sorts of basic household tools to speed up the
natural process of wear and tear-graters, wire brushes, dye, vaseline and paint - I also have the fabrics
washed before we start cutting which helps soften the material. Jo Weaving is an textile artist who
paints into the fabrics to enhance their age and wear.”
For the military outfits worn by Leo, Vasil and their colleagues, Beavan engaged a Polish
manufacturer. “Hero Collection in Poznan are uniform specialists who make uniforms for the Polish
army, police and sporting associations,” she says. “But Krzysztof’s passion is historical uniform. He
has a very fine tailor with a very good eye for period cutting, and with the workshop set up they
made about 400 uniforms for Child 44.”
“Drab” proved to be the operative word for most of the characters’ wardrobes, including
Raisa’s. “I could dress Noomi in old sacks and she’d look fabulous,” Beavan notes. “Since she’s
playing a teacher, we kept it very straightforward: simple clothing and cheap fabrics. She wears it
well.”
Beavan took a similar approach when dressing 800 extras for a train-station crowd scene. “In
the Soviet Union during this period there was an enormous fear among ordinary people,” she says.
“So people in our crowds are not trying to stand out. Even for our leading characters I’ve kept the
colours muted. Nobody wears blazing red or any bright colour. They didn’t want to show off for fear
of being noticed.”
During a visit to Beavan’s headquarters, Espinosa was taken aback by the sheer volume of
muted shirts, coats and dresses. Our workshop is in a warehouse building not unlike an aircraft
hangar, but stuffed with clothes,” says Beavan. “Daniel told me he’d never seen anything like it in his
life. We do have a lot of clothes organized on racks and they are all unrelentingly grim.”
Moscow on the Vitava
Child 44’s 15-week shoot took place over the summer of 2013 in the Czech Republic. The
capital city of Prague doubled for Cold War-era Moscow. Prague’s beautiful old National Theatre and
the Rudolfinum, a neo-Renaissance concert hall, were used to shoot scenes in which the elite group
of MGB officers and their wives watch “Swan Lake” performed by Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet.
Additionally, two-time Academy Award®-nominated production designer Jan Roelfs (Gattaca, Art
Direction, 1997) oversaw the creation of 125 sets for scenes staged at Prague’s famed Barrandov
Studios.
In cooperation with the Czech Republic’s Cinematography Fund, Espinosa worked closely
with Roelfs to secure as many period-specific locations as possible. “Prague and the Czech Republic
had the best mix of Soviet-style architecture from the 1950s and 1960s within one hour of the city
center and a highly experienced crew base,” says executive producer Adam Merims.
Re-Creating the Gulag
Contrasted with Moscow’s urban splendor is the grimy village of Volsk, where the exiled
Leo and Raisa first meet Nesterov. A “ghastly, dirty, filthy industrial sort of swamp,” as Beavan
describes it, Volsk is the desolate outpost where non-conformists are forced to live as punishment
for deviating from Communist Party groupthink.
Having executive produced Safe House for Espinosa, Merims was familiar with the director’s
strong preference for shooting on practical locations. “Daniel loves the feeling that it gives the actors,
the crew,” Merims says. “He loves the sounds of actual period environments.”
Finding a real-world approximation of Volsk became paramount. The filmmakers scouted
more than 50 locations within a three-hour radius of Prague. Eventually, they settled on the town of
Králuv Dvur, home to a gargantuan steel mill in operation for 163 years. “The idea was to make the
actual steel mill the town itself,” says Merims. “We used these surface tracks that had been set up to
cart steel ore and heavy steel pieces of equipment in and out of the factory for our passenger train
line.”
Shuttling between Moscow and Vost by rail, Leo and Raisa journey 600 miles in crowded
trains. To lend authenticity to the couple’s treks, filmmakers made use of the “Big B” steam engine,
manufactured in 1928 and capable of a maximum speed of 31 miles an hour. Train station sequences
featured
“German
Girl,”
an
operational steam-engine train manufactured by Wiener
Lokomotivfabrik in 1944. “We made sure the track was up to safety code and made it look like a real
working train station, complete with period passengers and peasants coming on and off the train with
chickens and suitcases and everything else,” recalls Merims.
Child 44’s climactic showdown in Rostov at the Rostelmach Factory, home base for the
serial killer, was shot amid the industrial landscapes of Králuv Dvur and Hrádek u Rokycan. “The
world that Daniel gives you is so authentic that it actually does a great deal of the work for you,”
Oldman says.
A Totalitarian State of Mind
If politics are ultimately personal, then Child 44 can be seen as a cautionary tale from a
nightmarish chapter of history: tyrannical political cultures stifle fundamentally decent people with
tragic results.
ABOUT THE CAST
TOM HARDY (Leo Demidov) shot to global attention with his captivating performance
as a real-life, notoriously violent convict in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson in 2009. The Londonborn actor’s subsequent film credits include John Hillcoat’s Lawless, Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy and both Inception and The Dark Knight Rises for director Christopher Nolan. More recently
Hardy received rave reviews for his powerhouse performance in the independent film Locke, written
and directed by Steven Knight.
Hardy last starred in the crime drama The Drop, alongside the late James Gandolfini and
Noomi Rapace. Up next is George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, in which Hardy plays the title role,
followed Legend, for director Brian Helgeland. In the film he takes on the roles of both notorious
Kray twins, London’s most reviled gangsters. Hardy is currently shooting director Alejandro
González Iñárritu’s next film The Revenant, where he stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 19th
century Western thriller.
On television Hardy received a BAFTA nomination for best actor for his role in “Stuart: A
Life Backwards” in 2008. Other TV credits include “Band of Brothers,” “The Reckoning” and
“Wuthering Heights.”
Hardy’s stage performances include “Festen” at the Almeida, “Blood” at the Royal Court,
“Man of Mode” at the National and “In Arabia We’d All Be Kings,” for which he won the award for
Best Newcomer at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2003. Hardy was also nominated for an
Olivier Award as Most Promising Newcomer.
GARY OLDMAN (General Mikhail Nesterov) has been a legendary presence on the
screen for more than 25 years and is known to millions worldwide for his embodiment of some of
cinema’s most iconic characters. In addition to Commissioner Jim Gordon, he has portrayed such
wide-ranging and unforgettable roles as Harry Potter’s beloved godfather Sirius Black, Dracula,
Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sid Vicious and John le Carré’s ultimate spy, George Smiley (in an
Oscar®-nominated performance).
Oldman is one of the highest-grossing actors at the global box office, having appeared in a
number of the most successful films of all time. He originated the part of Sirius Black in 2004’s Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, reprising his role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix and the record-breaking finale Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
He first played Commissioner Gordon in Christopher Nolan’s 2005 hit Batman Begins.
Oldman returned to the role of Batman’s crime-fighting ally in 2008’s billion-dollar blockbuster The
Dark Knight and 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises.
In 2011 Oldman portrayed master spy George Smiley in the film version of John le Carré’s
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In addition to an Oscar® nomination, Oldman’s performance was recognized
with nominations for a BAFTA, a British Independent Film Award and an Empire Award (all for
Best Actor).
Oldman has repeatedly been honored for his work on the screen, including the 2011 Empire
Icon Award (bestowed for a lifetime of outstanding achievements), the Gotham Awards’ Career
Tribute prize and the International Star of the Year Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival.
Oldman began his acting career on the stage in 1979 and for the next few years he worked
exclusively in the theater. From 1985 through 1989 he performed at London’s Royal Court. His
earliest onscreen work includes the British films Meantime, for director Mike Leigh, and The Firm,
directed by the late Alan Clarke. To follow came such features as Sid & Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears,
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, State of Grace, JFK, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, True Romance, Romeo Is
Bleeding, The Professional, The Fifth Element, Immortal Beloved, Murder in the First, The Scarlet Letter, Lost in
Space, Air Force One and The Book of Eli.
In 1995 Oldman and manager/producing partner Douglas Urbanski formed a production
company that subsequently released the highly acclaimed Nil by Mouth, marking Oldman’s directing
and writing debut. It was selected to open the main competition for the 1997 Cannes Film Festival,
where Kathy Burke won Best Actress and Oldman was nominated for a Palme d’Or. Among other
honors, the film won the prestigious Channel 4 Director’s Prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival, an
Empire Award and BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Best Original Screenplay.
In 2000 Oldman starred in the political drama The Contender, which he and Urbanski also
produced. The film, which also starred Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater and Sam Elliott,
received a number of accolades including two Oscar® nominations.
NOOMI RAPACE (Raisa Demidov) captured the eyes of the international entertainment
community with her commanding, unnerving and critically acclaimed portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in
the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who
Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Rapace was recently seen in Michaël R. Roskam’s crime-drama The Drop alongside Tom
Hardy and James Gandolfini. Set in Boston, the film focuses on a man, Bob (Hardy), who wants to
shed his criminal past but somehow gets mixed up in a bad heist and a killing resulting from a lost
and contested pit bull. Rapace will play Nadia, a woman who crosses paths with Bob when he finds
a wounded puppy outside her home. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and was
released by Fox Searchlight on September 12, 2014.
Rapace wrapped production on Mikael Hafstrom’s spy thriller Unlocked in which she will star
opposite Michael Douglas and Orlando Bloom. She plays a female CIA interrogator duped into
getting a terrorist to provide key information to the wrong side.
Upcoming, Rapace will begin production on Tommy Wirkola’s What Happened to Monday?,
Síofra Campbell’s The Price, Khurram Longi’s Alive Alone, and Julius Onah’s Brilliance.
Additionally, Rapace will reprise her role as ”Elizabeth Shaw” in the sci-fi
sequel Prometheus 2. Ridley Scott's Prometheus, was released in 2012 and Rapace starred opposite
Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce and Michael Fassbender, portraying scientist 'Elizabeth
Shaw.' The film followed the crew of the Prometheus spaceship, as they explore an advanced
civilization and the origins of humanity.
Rapace began her acting career at the age of seven, in Iceland's In the Shadow of the Raven. She
has since gone to appear in over twenty films and television shows. In 2007, she made her mark on
the big screen with a breakthrough performance in the 2007 Danish film, Daisy Diamond. In the film,
Rapace portrays a troubled teen-mother who leaves her home to pursue a dream, ultimately failing
and having a breakdown with fatal consequences. For her performance, she was honored with the
Bodil Award (Danish Critics Award) and a Robert Award (Denmark's equivalent of the Academy
Award®) for Best Actress.
She garnered high praise for her breakthrough performance in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
the first installment of the Millennium Trilogy which opened in February 2009 in Sweden. She won
the Best Actress Guldbagge Award (Swedish equivalent of the Academy Award®) and the Best
Actress International Jupiter Award (Germany) in addition to being nominated for an Orange British
Academy Film Award for Lead Actress and a Best Actress European Film Award for her role.
Rapace garnered subsequent praise for her performances in the second and third installments, The
Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Additional credits include Guy Ritchie's sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, opposite
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. Rapace portrayed a gypsy fortuneteller, “Sim,” who sees more
than she is telling. Rapace was also seen in the action thriller Dead Man Down in which she reunited
with director Niels Arden Oplev and starred opposite Colin Farrell. Rapace portrayed “Beatrice,” a
crime victim seeking retribution. Additionally Rapace starred in Pernilla August's directorial debut,
Beyond (Svinalägorna), in Sweden. The film screened at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and won the
Venice Critic's Week prize, and the 2011 Nordic Council Film Prize. Based on the best-selling novel,
the film is a poignant story about a young girl's dramatic childhood growing up in a home plagued by
abuse and alcoholism. Rapace was nominated for a 2011 Guldbagge Best Actress' Award in Sweden
for her performance.
Following Beyond, Rapace was seen in Pål Sletaune's Norwegian thriller Babycall, about a
young mother who believes she overhears a murder. For her performance, Rapace received the Best
Actress honor at the 2011 Rome Film Festival.
JOEL KINNAMAN (Vasili) has quickly become a sought-after commodity in Hollywood.
Most recently he took on the leading role in the remake of Robocop, directed by José Padhilla. He
starred as the title character, Officer Alex Murphy, opposite an impressive cast including Gary
Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson and Abbie Cornish. His next film projects include Terrence Malick’s
Knight of Cups, in which he stars alongside Natalie Portman and Christian Bale. Kinnaman also
recently completed the Warner Bros. thriller Run All Night, starring opposite Liam Neeson under
director Jaume Collet-Serra.
Hailing from Sweden, Kinnaman made his debut in the Swedish trilogy Snabba Cash, directed
by Daniel Espinosa. The first of a three-film series is based on the international best-selling series
written by Jens Lapidus and is the highest grossing Swedish movie in history. Kinnaman won a 2011
Guldbagge Award (the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Award®) for Best Actor for his work in
the film. More recently he starred in Snabba Cash’s latest installment, which was released last year.
His rise to stardom began after he screen-tested for the lead roles in George Miller’s Fury
Road for Warner Bros. and Kenneth Branagh’s Thor for Paramount. Soon after relocating to Los
Angeles, he went on to win the male lead in the critically acclaimed AMC series The Killing, which will
premiere its fourth and final season on Netflix August 1st, after three successful seasons on AMC.
Following his notable debut in The Killing, Kinnaman starred in New Regency’s The Darkest
Hour, squeezed in a cameo in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was reunited with
director Daniel Espinosa in the Universal action-thriller Safe House and even tried his hand at
romantic comedy in Fox Searchlight’s Lola Versus.
Originally from Stockholm, Joel Kinnaman is a graduate of the prestigious Swedish
Academic School of Drama, whose alumni include Stellan Skarsgård, Peter Stormare and Lena Olin.
PADDY CONSIDINE (Vlad) is an award-winning actor and now a lauded director
following the release of his feature debut Tyrannosaur, starring Olivia Colman, Peter Mullan and Eddie
Marsan. Considine won the Sundance Film Festival award for Best Director in the world drama
category, the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut and the British Independent Film Awards’ Douglas
Hickox Award for Best Debut Director. Tyrannosaur was also nominated for Best International Film
at the Independent Spirit Awards and won a Satellite Award.
In 2014, Considine appeared in the feature film Pride which won the BAFTA for
Outstanding Debut. He can next be seen in Miss You Already and Macbeth which are both scheduled
for a 2015 release.
Considine began his acting career when his friend Shane Meadows cast him in the leading
role in A Room for Romeo Brass. Next he took the lead in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort, for which he
won the Best Actor Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Since then he has appeared in
Hollywood films such as Cinderella Man, The Bourne Ultimatum and In America. Considine again
collaborated with Shane Meadows on Dead Man’s Shoes, co-writing and starring in the film. He
received numerous nominations and awards including both The Evening Standard and Empire Film
awards for Best Actor.
Considine recently appeared in the British films Now Is Good and Submarine. He was also seen
in director Edgar Wright’s sci-fi comedy The World’s End, their second collaboration after the 2007
comedy Hot Fuzz.
In 2007 he wrote and directed the short film Dog Altogether, for which he won the BAFTA
Award and the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Award.
JASON CLARKE (Anatoly Tarasovich Brodsky) has emerged in the U.S. with a slate of
critically acclaimed performances in both television and film. He is most known for his lead role as
“Dan” in the Academy Award®-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. He
will next star in the reboot of the Terminator series, Terminator: Genisys, as "John Connor,” alongside
Emilia Clarke and Arnold Schwarzenegger, which Paramount will release on July 1, 2015.
Last year, he appeared in the highly anticipated sci-fi sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, costarring Gary Oldman, Judy Greer and Keri Russell, which was released on July 11, 2014. Clarke was
also seen in the Abraham Lincoln biographical drama The Better Angels, with Brit Marling and Diane
Kruger, which Amplify released in the Fall of 2014. It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
to positive reviews.
Upcoming films for Clarke include Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups opposite Christian Bale,
Cate Blanchett, and Natalie Portman.
Clarke most recently wrapped production on Everest, opposite Josh Brolin and Jake
Gyllenhaal.
Clarke recently starred as “George Wilson” in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great
Gatsby opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. Additionally, he was also
seen in Roland Emmerich's White House Down, opposite Channing Tatum and Maggie
Gyllenhaal. Clarke also appeared in John Hillcoat's period drama Lawless opposite Tom Hardy, Shia
LaBeouf, Guy Pierce and Jessica Chastain, as well as several other high profile films including
Michael Mann's Public Enemies opposite Johnny Depp, Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
opposite Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas, and Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race.
Clarke first came to America's attention in the critically acclaimed dramatic Showtime series,
Brotherhood, where he played Tommy Caffee, an ambitious Rhode Island politician who navigates the
treacherous worlds of local politics and organized crime. He most recently starred in Shawn Ryan's
acclaimed crime-drama, The Chicago Code on FOX. Clarke starred as Veteran Chicago Police Detective
Jarek Wysocki who leads the special unit fighting against the corruption.
In the world of independent films, Clarke starred in Texas Killing Fields, which premiered at
the 2011 Venice Film Festival, Jada Pinkett Smith's directorial debut, The Human Contract and David
Schwimmer's Trust opposite Clive Owen and Catherine Keener, as well as Yelling to the Sky directed
by Victoria Mahoney and Swerve, directed by Craig Lahiff.
In his native Australia, Clarke starred in Phillip Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence, as well as Better
than Sex and Park Street. In television, Clarke worked opposite Geoffrey Rush on Mercury.
Clarke graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and also has extensive
credits in theater, both as an actor as well as director.
VINCENT CASSEL (Major Kuzmin) is a prolific and prominent actor who is well
known for his bold choice of roles and fearless portrayal of characters.
He finished the filming of Matteo Garrone, The Tale of Tales with Salma Hayek (Gomorra,
Reality which both won Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival), The Great Mystical Circus directed by
Carlos Diegues and Mon Roi, Maïwenn’s movie (Polisse, Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival) and the
movie Un moment d’égarement de Jean-François Richet (Mesrine ).
He played the main character in Ariel Kleiman’s first movie shot in Australia, Partisan.
Cassel has been seen, as the beast, in Christophe Gans' adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty &
the Beast, featuring Lea Seydoux as the beauty.
In 2013, Cassel has been starring in Dominik Moll's The Monk, an 18th century-set story
based on Matthew Lewis' Gothic novel depicting the rise and tragic downfall of Capucin Ambrosio, a
respected Spanish monk. As well, co-starring in Danny Boyle's much anticipated art heist thriller,
Trance, opposite James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson.
In 2010, Cassel was seen in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, which received a Best Picture
Academy Award®, Golden Globe®, Critic's Choice Award and Independent Spirit Awards
nominations as well as Best Ensemble Cast Screen Actors Guild Award® nomination.
Prior to Black Swan, Cassel starred in Jean-Francois Richet's Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 and
Mesrine : Killer Instinct. The two-part films tell the true story of Jacques Mesrine, who became France's
most notorious felon throughout the 1970's. Arch-fiend to some and folk hero to others, Mesrine's
illegal career spanned nearly two decades of brazen bank robberies, prison breaks, and ingenious
identity changes. Critically acclaimed worldwide, the film was a commercial success in France,
garnering the country's highest honor in film, ten César Award nominations and winning the awards
for Best Actor and Best Director. For his performance, Cassel went on to receive Best Actor honors
at the Lumiere Awards, the Etoile D'Or and the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Cassel began his career in France in 1988 starting out with small roles on television and in
film. In 1995, he made his mark in Mathieu Kassovitz's critically acclaimed film La Haine, where he
played a troubled youth from the deprived outskirts of Paris. For his performance, Cassel received
his first César Award nominations for Best Actor and Most Promising Newcomer.
Following this breakthrough performance, Cassel appeared in over thirty-five films in both
France and the United States. Notable film credits in France include Gilles Mimouni's L'Appartement,
Gaspar Noe's Irréversible, Jan Kounen's Dobermann, and Jacques Audiard's Sur Mes Lèvres, for which he
received his third César Award nomination.
Cassel has appeared in various English-language films such as James Ivory's Jefferson in Paris,
Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Mathieu Kassovitz's The
Crimson Rivers, Christophe Gans' The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Paul McGuigan's The Reckoning, Andrew
Adamson's Shrek, Jan Kounen's Renegade, Mikael Håfström's Derailed, David Cronenberg's Eastern
Promises and A Dangerous Method. Cassel also co-starred in Stephen Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve for
which he later reprised the role in Ocean's Thirteen.
Behind the lens, Cassel also heads a production company, 120 Films. Formed in 1997, the
banner has developed and produced Shabbat Night Fever, Irréversible, Renegade, Secret Agents, Sheitan,
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 and Mesrine: Killer Instinct, and Our Day Will Come.
Cassel splits his time between Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
DANIEL ESPINOSA (Director) is a filmmaker whose edgy, visceral approach to his
work brings his films to life in a way that captivates audiences and takes them on a journey into his
characters’ aesthetically chaotic world. He made his U.S. directorial debut with Safe House, starring
Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. The film went on to gross more than $200 million
worldwide. With the success of Safe House, Espinosa quickly became one of the most sought-after
directors in Hollywood.
Espinosa’s breakout film was Snabba Cash, aka Easy Money. It was one of the highest-grossing
films in Swedish history and the first installment of a trilogy based on the international bestseller
written by Jens Lapidus. First released in 2010, the film was re-released in the U.S. in July 2012
through The Weinstein Company. Warner Bros has since purchased the American remake rights.
Espinosa is a graduate of the director’s program at the prestigious National Film School of
Denmark.
RICHARD PRICE (Screenwriter) is one of America’s preeminent novelists and
screenwriters. He’s the author of eight novels including the national bestsellers Lush Life,
Freedomland and Clockers, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC)
Award. The Whites, released in February 2015, is high on The New York Times bestsellers list.
In 1999 he was the recipient of a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. His fiction, articles and essays have appeared in Best American Essays 2002, The New York
Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone.
His screenwriting credits include Sea of Love, Ransom, The Color of Money and Night and the City.
He shared a 2007 Edgar Award as a co-writer of HBO’s classic drama series “The Wire.”
TOM ROB SMITH (Novelist) graduated from Cambridge University in 2001 and lives in
London. Born in 1979 to a Swedish mother and an English father, his bestselling novels in the Child
44 trilogy were international publishing sensations. Among its many honors, Child 44 won the
International Thriller Writer Award for Best First Novel, the Galaxy Book Award for Best New
Writer and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. The book was longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize and shortlisted for both the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliot Prize.
His new novel The Farm is a number 1 international bestseller and the first crime thriller to be
longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
RIDLEY SCOTT (Producer) is a renowned Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker
honored with Best Director Oscar® nominations for his work on Black Hawk Down (2001), Gladiator
(2000) and Thelma & Louise (1991). All three films also earned him DGA Award nominations. Scott’s
most recent releases include Exodus: Gods and Kings starring Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton, The
Counselor, written by Cormac McCarthy and starring Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz
and Javier Bardem, and the acclaimed hit Prometheus, starring Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace and
Charlize Theron. Scott is currently in production on The Martian, a space thriller starring Kate Mara,
Jessica Chastain and Matt Damon.
Scott has garnered multiple nominations over his illustrious career. In addition to his
Academy Award® and DGA nominations, he also earned a Golden Globe® nomination for Best
Director for American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. As he also served as a
producer on the true-life drama, Scott shared in a BAFTA nomination for Best Film. Scott also
received Golden Globe® and BAFTA nominations for Best Director for his epic Gladiator. The film
won the Oscar®, Golden Globe® and BAFTA Award for Best Picture.
In 1977 Scott made his feature-film directorial debut with The Duellists, for which he won the
Best First Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival. He followed with the blockbuster science-fiction
thriller Alien, which catapulted Sigourney Weaver to stardom and launched a successful franchise. In
1982 Scott directed the landmark film Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford. Considered a sci-fi
classic, the futuristic thriller was added to the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in
1993 and a director’s cut was released to renewed acclaim in 1993 and again in 2007.
Additional film credits as director include Legend, starring Tom Cruise; Someone to Watch Over
Me, starring Tom Berenger; Black Rain, starring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia; 1492: Conquest of
Paradise, starring Gérard Depardieu; White Squall, starring Jeff Bridges; G.I. Jane, starring Demi Moore
and Viggo Mortensen; Hannibal, starring Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore; Body of Lies, starring
Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio; A Good Year, starring Russell Crowe and Albert Finney; the
epic Kingdom of Heaven, with Orlando Bloom and Jeremy Irons; Matchstick Men, starring Nicolas Cage
and Sam Rockwell; and Robin Hood, marking his fifth collaboration with star Russell Crowe, also
starring Cate Blanchett.
Scott and his late brother Tony formed the commercial and advertising production company
RSA in 1967. RSA has an established reputation for creating innovative and groundbreaking
commercials for some of the world’s most recognized corporate brands.
In 1995 the Scott brothers formed the film and television production company Scott Free.
With offices in Los Angeles and London, the Scotts produced such films as In Her Shoes, The A-Team,
Cyrus, The Grey and the Academy Award®-nominated drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford.
On television, Scott executive produces the Emmy®, Peabody and Golden Globe®-winning
hit The Good Wife, for CBS. He also served as an executive producer on the long-running series
“Numb3rs,” which ran for six seasons on CBS.
Scott has also been an executive producer on the company’s long-form projects, including the
Starz miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, the A&E miniseries The Andromeda Strain, the TNT miniseries
The Company and the award-winning HBO movies RKO 281, The Gathering Storm and Into the Storm.
Additionally, Scott directed his first-ever television pilot with “The Vatican,” for Sony Pictures
Television. Written by Paul Attanasio, the show explores the relationships, rivalries, mysteries and
miracles taking place within the Catholic Church. Scott will also executive produce the series.
In 2003 Scott was awarded a knighthood from the Order of the British Empire, in recognition
of his contributions to the arts.
MICHAEL SCHAEFER (Producer) was appointed president of Scott Free Films in 2012.
Since then he has overseen production and development for all feature projects under the Scott Free
banner, including The Counselor and the blockbuster biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, both directed
by Ridley Scott.
Prior to Scott Free, Schaefer served as senior vice president of acquisitions and coproductions at Summit Entertainment, where he was instrumental to films such as Now You See Me,
50/50, Source Code and the Academy Award® winner The Hurt Locker. Previously, Schaefer worked at
The Weinstein Company as VP of production and development.
GREG SHAPIRO (Producer) is the Academy Award®-winning producer of The Hurt
Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, which received a total of six Oscars®, including Best Picture.
Shapiro was also executive producer on Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, which received five
Academy Award® nominations, and Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp.
Shapiro most recently produced James Gray’s much anticipated The Immigrant, starring
Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, which premiered at the 66th Annual Cannes
Film Festival as part of the official competition and was released by The Weinstein Company in 2014.
His other producing credits include The Conspirator, directed by Robert Redford, Detachment,
directed by Tony Kaye, and the popular Harold & Kumar franchise.
ADAM MERIMS (Executive Producer) most recently executive produced the film
Straight Outta Compton (August 2015) as well as the widely acclaimed film Lee Daniel’s The Butler, which
features a stellar ensemble cast featuring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Lenny
Kravitz, Terrence Howard and Academy Award® winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Merims and director
Daniel Espinosa first collaborated on the blockbuster action-thriller Safe House, starring two-time
Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.
Merims also executive produced The Lucky Ones, starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins
and Michael Peña; The Hunting Party, starring Richard Gere, Terrence Howard and Jesse Eisenberg;
and Breach, starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney.
His earlier executive producer credits are Casanova, directed by Lasse Hallström and starring
Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Oliver Platt and Jeremy Irons; writer-director Richard Shepard’s The
Matador, starring Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis; and House of D, David Duchovny’s
feature directorial debut, starring Robin Williams, Téa Leoni, Erykah Badu and Anton Yelchin.
Merims produced writer-director Billy Ray’s critically acclaimed first feature Shattered Glass,
starring Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Rosario Dawson and
Hank Azaria. As producer, his other credits include Ed Solomon’s Levity, starring Billy Bob Thornton,
Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter and Kirsten Dunst; Love Stinks, written and directed by Jeff Franklin
and starring French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Tyra Banks and Bill Bellamy; and Cold
Around the Heart, written and directed by John Ridley and executive produced by Oliver Stone. He
was co-producer of Universal Soldier: The Return and the HBO movie “Freeway.”
From August 1993 to November 1994 Merims was producer and head of West Coast
operations for Nickelodeon Movies. At Nickelodeon he was responsible both for managing the startup of a Nickelodeon features office in Los Angeles and for identifying and developing projects
suitable for motion-picture production in the family-entertainment arena, in conjunction with 20th
Century Fox and Paramount Pictures.
Before Nickelodeon Merims was vice president of production at Lobell/Bergman
Productions from 1990 through 1993. He was responsible for all development at the company and
served as associate producer on Andrew Bergman’s Honeymoon in Vegas, Herbert Ross’ Undercover Blues
and Andrew Scheinman’s Little Big League.
From 1984 to 1989 Merims worked as a freelance producer, production manager and
assistant director. In these capacities, he was involved with a number of projects, most notably the
original miniseries “Lonesome Dove.” He has been a member of the Directors Guild of America
since 1986.
Merims graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and
economics. He is also a graduate of the Collegiate School in New York City.
ELISHIA HOLMES (Executive Producer) joined Scott Free as a vice president in 2011
and by early 2013 had risen to senior vice president of production and development. Under the Scott
Free banner, Holmes oversaw the biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings and is currently at work on the
sci-fi film Wool and a sequel to Prometheus.
Prior to Scott Free, Holmes was vice president of development at Graham King’s GK Films. She
served as a production executive at Warner Bros. for four years, working on the Hughes brothers’
post-apocalyptic thriller The Book of Eli (starring Denzel Washington) and the mega-blockbusters
Sherlock Holmes and The Dark Knight.
DOUGLAS URBANSKI (Executive Producer) is a theater impresario, raconteur, film
producer and occasional actor. As one of Broadway and London’s most active stage producers
during the 1980s, he presented plays by Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Noel Coward, Herman
Wouk, Anton Chekhov, Michael Frayn, Eugene O’Neill, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein.
Among the actors who starred in his productions were Geraldine Page, Sir Peter Ustinov, Charlton
Heston, Jack Lemmon, Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Rex Harrison, Claudette Colbert, Dame Maggie Smith,
Glenda Jackson, Dame Joan Plowright, Donald O’Connor, Sir Ian McKellen and Lauren Bacall. The
shows received numerous Tony Award® nominations and Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Urbanski and Gary Oldman produced the feature Nil by Mouth, Oldman’s screenwriting and
directing debut. The film was selected to world premiere as the opening-night film of the 1997
Cannes International Film Festival, where its leading lady Kathy Burke won the Best Actress
award. Subsequent honors for Nil by Mouth included the prestigious Channel Four Director’s Prize,
awarded at the Edinburgh International Film Festival; six British Independent Film Award (BIFA)
nominations, with wins for Burke and her fellow cast members Ray Winstone and Laila Morse; the
BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay; and BAFTA’s Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding
British Film of the Year (shared by Oldman and Urbanski).
The team’s subsequent productions have included Rod Lurie’s The Contender, starring Joan
Allen and Jeff Bridges. The film received two Academy Awards®, two Golden Globe® Awards and
three Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® nominations, including one for Best Supporting Actor
(Gary Oldman). The ensemble and the writer-director were honored with the Broadcast Film Critics’
Association Alan J. Pakula Award.
Urbanski 2011 acclaimed performance as former Harvard president Larry Summers in the
multiple-Academy Award®-winning drama The Social Network, directed by David Fincher and scripted
by Aaron Sorkin. won Urbanski a share in the Ensemble Acting Awards the film received at the Palm
Springs and Hollywood Film Festivals. Also, in 2011 he Executive Produced Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,
which received several Academy Award® Nominations and also won numerous BAFTA Awards,
including the Alexandra Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year.
Summit Entertainment Presents
In Association with
Worldview Entertainment
a Scott Free Production
a Daniel Espinosa Film
Tom Hardy
Gary Oldman
Noomi Rapace
CHILD 44
Joel Kinnaman
Paddy Considine
Fares Fares
With Jason Clarke
And Vincent Cassel
Mark Lewis Jones
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Charles Dance
Tara Fitzgerald
Josef Altin
Sam Spruell
Finbar Lynch
Ned Dennehy
Agnieszka Grochowska
Heather Craney
Casting by
Nina Gold
Music by
Jon Ekstrand
Costume Designer
Jenny Beavan
Edited by
Pietro Scalia, ACE
Dylan Tichenor, ACE
Production Designer
Jan Roelfs
Director of Photography
Oliver Wood
Co-Producers
Matthew Stillman
David Minkowski
Executive Producers
Adam Merims
Elishia Holmes
Douglas Urbanski
Executive Producers
Kevin Plank
Molly Conners
Maria Cestone
Sarah E. Johnson
Hoyt David Morgan
Produced by
Ridley Scott
Michael Schaefer
Greg Shapiro
Based upon the Novel by
Tom Rob Smith
Screenplay by
Richard Price
Directed by
Daniel Espinosa
Unit Production Managers
ADAM MERIMS
SILVIA JANCULOVÁ
First Assistant Director
SIMON WARNOCK
Post Production Supervisor and Visual Effects Producer
LISA DENNIS
Supervising Sound Editor/Designer
PER HALLBERG, M.P.S.E.
Sound Re-Recording Mixers
Additional Re-Recording
GARY A. RIZZO
BOB BEEMER
JON TAYLOR
FRANK A. MONTAÑO
CAST
(In Order of Appearance)
Young Leo Demidov
Tortoise MARK
Leo Demidov
Vasili
Alexei Andreyev
Photographer
XAVIER ATKINS
MARK LEWIS JONES
TOM HARDY
JOEL KINNAMAN
FARES FARES
KAREL DOBRÝ
Raisa Demidov
NOOMI RAPACE
Nina Andreyev
AGNIESZKA GROCHOVSKA
Fyodor
Mara
Anatoly Tarasovich Brodsky
Zina Gubinova
Semyon Okun
Elena Okun
Tamara Okun
Semyon Okun’s Wife
MGB Agent #3
PETR VANĔK
JANA STRYKOVÁ
JASON CLARKE
URSINA LARDI
MICHAEL NARDONE
JEMMA O’BRIEN
LOTTIE STEER
BARBARA LUKEŠOVÁ
PETR SEMERÁD
Jora Aleksevic Andreyev ZDENĔK BAŘINKA
Vladimir Malevich PADDY CONSIDINE
Doctor Boris Zarubin FINBAR LYNCH
Coroner NED DENNEHY
Major Kuzmin VINCENT CASSEL
Alexei’s Mother HANA FREJKOVÁ
Alexei’s Family #1 MAGDALENA WEIGERTOVA
Alexei’s Family #2 PETR VISDAL
Forager (Jora) ROBERT LAURINEC
MBG Agent/Driver MICHAL GULYÁŠ
Ivan Sukov NIKOLAJ LIE KAAS
Zoya PETRA LUSTIGOVÁ
MGB Agent #1 GRANT PODELCO
MGB Agent, Metro Sequence JAROMÍR NOSEK
Anna LORRAINE ASHBOURNE
Domestic Arts Teacher KRISTÝNA LEICHTOVÁ
Guard #1 JAN JANKOVSKÝ
Aleksander JOSEF ALTIN
General Mikhail Nesterov GARY OLDMAN
Basurov PEDJA BJELAC
Volsk School Director, Larissa Anasova MARKÉTA TANNER
Varlam SAMUEL BUTTERY
The Collector, Yury Abelman ONDŘEJ MALÝ
Doctor Tyapkin SAM SPRUELL
Budenny IVAN GVERA
Driver at Crime Scene FEDJA STUKAN
Aleksander Pickup ANSSI LINDSTROM
Driver, Picks Up Raisa - Volsk TOMÁS VALÍK
Bald Man, Picks Up Raisa - Volsk ZORAN KOVACEVIC
Vasili’s Waitress HANA SKÁLOVÁ
Stephan VÁCLAV JIRÁČEK
Tibor PAVEL ŠIMCÍK
Cyril ONDŘEJ VOLEJNÍK
Inessa Nesterov TARA FITZGERALD
Artur SONNY SERKIS
Galina Shaporina HEATHER CRANEY
Galina Shaporina’s Husband MARTIN HUB
Vlad’s Son FLYNN MATTHEWS
Alicia MARIE JANSOVÁ
Artur’s Father IVAN SHVEDOFF
Artur’s Mother ROMANA GOŠČÍKOVÁ
Rostov Parent #1 ANDREA MILTNER
Rostov Parent #2 VLASTINA SVÁTKOVÁ
Rostov Parent #3 JAN ANTONÍN DUCHOSLAV
Young Militia, Illiterate TOMÁŠ MĔCHÁČEK
Grey Haired Woman JAROSLAVA ŠIKTANCOVÁ
Train Guard MICHAL ZELENKA
Man #1, Dissident In Cattle Car TOMÁŠ DIANISKA
Man #2, Dissident In Cattle Car JIŘÍ WOHANKA
Dimitri IGOR FARBÁK
Rostelmach Worker #1 ROBERT JASKOW
Rostelmach Bookkeeper ZDENĔK MARYŠKA
MGB Agent, Rostov KEVIN CLARKE
Major Grachev CHARLES DANCE
City Orphanage Director JAN NEMEJOVSKÝ
Stunt Coordinator OLIVIER SCHNEIDER
Czech Stunt Coordinator PAVEL CAJZL
Assistant Stunt Coordinators YVES GIRARD
PATRICK VO
Leo Stunt Double TRAIAN MILENOV
Raisa Stunt Double ZUZANA DRDÁCK
Stunts
CHRISTIAN PETERSSON
MARTIN SPUR
MIROSLAV NAVRÁTIL
PAVEL BEZDĔK
JAN LOUKOTA
MAREK SVITEK
JOSEF JELÍNEK
MARTIN DAVID
PAVEL DVORŠČÍK
JIŘÍ HORKÝ
IVO ZUBATÝ
PETR KUČERA
JAROSLAV PŠENIČKA
MICHAELA SALAŠOVÁ
JINDŘICH KLAUS
ZDENŠK DVORÁCEK
MAREK MOTLÍCEK
JAN VOSMIK
ALEŠ PUTÍK
MARTIN HUB
Supervising Art Director ERIK POLCZWARTEK
Art Director MARTIN VAČKÁR
Set Decorator SOPHIE HERVIEU
“A” Camera Operator JAROMÍR ŠEDINA
First Assistant “A” Camera RADEK ŠKUDRNA
Second Assistant “A” Camera JAN SKRIČKA
Film Loader PAVEL FRYDRYCH
Central European Casting by NANCY BISHOP, C.S.A.
Still Photographers LARRY HORRICKS
SLOBODAN PIKULA
First Assistant Editor CHRIS PATTERSON
Second Assistant Editor BANNER GWIN
Additional Assistant Editors KAT SPIESS
MICHAL KRUMPAR
ERIKA NILSSON
Editorial Assistants HANA VORLOVA
MAJA ASPERÖ LIND
Post Production Coordinators BRENT LANFORD
COLIN WALTER
Second Assistant Directors SALLIE HARD
JAKUB DVOŘÁK
Script Supervisor JANA NEMCEKOVÁ
Production Sound Mixer MICHAL HOLUBEC
Boom Operator #1 JAN SKÁLA
Boom Operator #2 LUKÁŠ SPÁČIL
Video Operator KAREL SCHNEIBERG
Video Assistant STANISLAV HUBÁČEK
Key Grip KAREL “KÓDL” CHARVÁT
Dolly Grip JIŘÍ POSPÍŠIL
Grips JAROSLAV UNGR
IVO ČERVENKA
Rigging Key Grip JIŘÍ ČTVRTEČKA
Rigging Grips JIŘÍ NOSEK
MIROSLAV BÁRTEK
MICHAL BIČIŠTĔ
Gaffer VÁCLAV “ENZO” ČERMÁK
Best Boy Electric ZDENĔK VODVÁŘKA
Electricians
JAN ŘÍMSKÝ
JIŘÍ HORYCH
ROMAN TOMANA
MARTIN JUHÁSZ
PETR PROCHÁZKA
JAN ŠIMEČEK
JIŘÍ MAŠEK RUDOLF
RUDOLF PROCHÁZKA
VÁCLAV DROBIL
Rigging Gaffer JAROSLAV HROMÁDKA
Rigging Best Boy Electric MARTIN RAIN Sr.
Rigging Electricians
MARTIN RAIN Jr.
PETR JIRÁČEK
TOMÁŠ ROZLER
MARTIN KULHAVÝ
MARTIN VORTEL
JIŘÍ NOVÁK
MARTIN BUBLÍK
JAKUB SMETANA
PAVEL ČÁSLAVSKÝ
JAN SANKOT
MILOSLAV NEVŠÍMAL
MILAN ZITA
Generator Operators VRÁŤA VOSIČKA
ROLAND ŠAFR
Assistant Art Directors ZUZANA BORECKÁ SVOBODOVÁ
ZUZANA ČIŽMÁROVÁ
ŠTEFAN KOVÁČIK
Standby Art Director PAVEL TATAR
Set Designers PETR MACHO
DAVID VONDRÁŠEK
Art Department Coordinator KLÁRA HOLUBOVÁ
Storyboard Artist KURT VAN DER BASCH
Conceptual Artist JAN BLAŽÍČEK
Graphic Designers ALICE LINHARTOVÁ
SARAH PSQUALI-LASANI
VIKTOR HOSCHL
Additional Graphic Designer ADÉLA HÁKOVÁ
Visual Effects Concept Artist JONATHAN BACH
Art Department Production Assistant JANA VLASÁKOVÁ
Art Department Intern ANETA SEDLÁKOVÁ
Leadman LUKÁŠ LEHOUČKA
Set Decoration Swing Gang
ROBERT KAMARYT JIRÍ PRCHAL
MAREK PETR TOMÁŠ ZIKA
MIROSLAV CÁSLAVKA VLASTIMIL ŠAFÁR
MAREK ODNOHA
Set Decoration Painter ZDEŇKA HERČÍKOVÁ
Drapes Man JAN GÁL
Set Decoration Buyer DOROTHY SULLIVAN
Assistant Set Decorator JANA EVANS
Assistant Buyer MICHAL SVOBODA
Greenspersons JAN KULMAN
PETR KLOBOUK
DAVID TUMA
MARIE KULMANOVÁ
LUCIE KULMANOVÁ
Property Master TY TEIGER
Czech Property Master PETR RICHTER
Armourers MAREK BOCEK
FRANTIŠEK MESÍČEK
Assistant Property Master MARTIN KINGSLEY
Buyer DAN MICHL
Stand-By Props PETR JANOUT
Storeman JAN ROVINSKÝ
JAN CIBOCH
Special Effects Supervisor PAVEL SÁGNER
Special Effects Senior Technicians ONDŘEJ HRNČÍŘ
JIŘÍ VOJTĔCH
KAMIL JAFAR
Special Effects Technicians
BOHUSLAV NOVOTNÝ ROMAN HOLUB
JAN RIS KAREL ŠOLC
MICHAL HAVLÍČEK BORIS TATAROV
JAROSLAV ZAVORAL
Costume Supervisor CLARE SPRAGGE
Czech Costume Supervisor LJUBA ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ
Assistant Costume Designer SARAH MEGAN YOUNG
Principal Costume Coordinator SEKAU TRAORE
Principal Dressers DAVID OTZEN
BRUNO DE SANTA
PATRICIE ŠTASTNÁ
Military Costumer ROBERT BROWN
Costume Buyer KATEŘINA POLANSKÁ
Crowd Costumer/Stunts Costumer JOE KOWALEWSKI
Crowd Fitters/Dressers JITKA ŠVECOVÁ
MARIE CHARVÁTOVÁ
DANIELA BÁRTOVÁ
ZUZANA BROŽOVÁ
Costume Set Supervisor ZUZANA KOLÍNOVÁ
Chief Breakdown Artist JOANNA WEAVING
Breakdown Assistants VANDA PATLEVIČOVÁ
MAGDALENA ŠLAJCHOVÁ
RADEK ŠETKA
Tailors/Seamstresses MARIE NEUBAUEROVÁ
JANA ŽILÁKOVÁ
JIŘINA ŠPILAJOVÁ
DAGMAR ŠPOULOVÁ
Costume Coordinator BÁRA WILDOVÁ
Junior Military Dresser DAVID TŮMA
Costume Trainees JAKUB KŘÍŽ
MARTINA HEJLOVÁ
Costume Intern ZUZANA BYSTŘICKÁ
Hair and Makeup Designer SHARON MARTIN
Makeup for Tom Hardy AUDREY DOYLE
Hair and Makeup Artists AMY BYRNE
NIAMH O´LOAN
Hairstylist DAVID DORLING
Crowd Hair and Makeup Artists HELENA STEIDLOVÁ
ANDREA KOUTKOVÁ
MARTINA MRÁZOVÁ
Casting Assistant OLEG KIM
Assistant to Nina Gold THEO PARK
Assistants to Nancy Bishop ANDREA PRUSÁKOVÁ
ŠÁRKA HUDEČKOVÁ
Extras Casting by JIRÍ HRSTKA
Extras Casting Coordinators DUŠAN ROBOVSKÝ
KAMIL REZLER
DANIEL ADAM
Location Managers PAVEL MRKOUS
PAVEL ŠPAČEK
Assistant Location Managers PETR ŠKVOR
ADAM FUCHS
LUKÁŠ PUČALÍK
Additional Assistant Location Managers ELIŠKA BAŘINOVÁ
ONDŘEJ KŘUPALA
Location Scout MARTIN MINÁŘ
Base Camp Operators LUKÁŠ KOČKA
DANIEL HOUŠTĔK
ALEŠ KODAT
ZDENĔK VEBR
Production Controller SONNY ADAM RITSCHER III
Assistant Production Controller JASON MATTHEW HINKEL
Post Production Assistant Accountant LEAH HOLMES
Accountant MICHAL ENGRTH
Construction Accountant JIŘÍ TICHÁČEK
Assistant Accountant MARKÉTA MUTLOVÁ
Payroll Clerk VĔRA TROUSILOVÁ
Cashier ROMAN GRAF
Filing Clerk JURAJ KÝŠKA
Production Coordinator LUDEK VOMÁČKA
Unit Manager VOJTĔCH ŠKVOR
Assistant Production Coordinator,
Travel and Accommodation TEREZA MANDIĆ-LISTÍKOVÁ
Assistant Production Coordinator, Shipping GORAN ULJANIĆ
Production Secretary MICHAELA SYNÁČKOVÁ
Office Production Intern ZUZANA DĔDOCHOVÁ
Second Second Assistant Director LUCIE ZÁZVORKOVÁ
Third Assistant Director JIŘÍ KOLÁŘSKÝ
Crowd Assistant Director MARTIN OKTÁBEC
First Team Production Assistant CRYSTAL MUNSON
Set Production Assistants MARTIN “OVEČKIN” HLADÍK
JAKUB HEMALA
NASTASIJA GOSPIČOVÁ
Set Production Interns
LUCIE JÁNOVÁ JIŘÍ ŽÁK
ONDŘEJ ŠMEJKAL ONDŘEJ PAUL
KLÁRA VAŠÁKOVÁ KAREL HIMMER
ROMAN MACHANEC PROKOP SLEZÁK
Camera Trainee DAVID LUPÁČ
Assistants to Daniel Espinosa KARL TIDBECK
JOHN FERRY
Assistant to Adam Merims MARINA DODLEK
Assistant to Producers DENISA DAINES FRANCOVÁ
Assistant to Tom Hardy GENEVIEVE DETERING
Assistant to Gary Oldman MARGARETA VÍZNEROVÁ
Assistant to Noomi Rapace VERONIKA HLADÍKOVÁ
Assistant to Joel Kinnaman TEREZA BAXOVÁ
Military Advisors PETR FRANKS
MICK T. GOULD
Russian Technical Advisor PROF. DARRA GOLDSTEIN
Russian Advisor MARINA DOBUŠEVA
Health and Safety Advisor PETR TLACHÁČ
Dialogue Coach BRENDAN GUNN
Tutor JANET WILLIS
Standby Construction MIROSLAV MRÁZ Sr.
MIROSLAV MRÁZ Jr.
Construction Painters ALEŠ HAVLÍČEK
ONDŘEJ LAŠTŮVKA
Standby Art Painter VLADIMÍR PEŠEK
Transportation Coordinator KAREL JIRÁŇ
Transportation Captain KAREL MICHÁLEK
Picture Car Coordinator JIŘÍ HRUBEŠ
Assistant Picture Car Coordinator VLADISLAV JARÝ
Picture Car Department Coordinator GABRIELA ŘEZÁČOVÁ
Drivers
VÁCLAV FRÝBERT
JOSEF DYTRYCH
JOSEF MATĔJKA
MAREK JUMAR
ONDŘEJ MODRÝ
DANIEL KUŠKA
PAVEL KOŽÍŠEK
VÍTEK UHLÍŘ
RICHARD WILD
JAN ŠMOLDAS
PETR JUMAR
RADEK BENDA
LIBOR ŠPACHMAN
JIŘÍ JUMBO MAREK
ONDŘEJ ŠVÁB
SAŠA STRAČOVSKÝ
MILOŠ WILD
ZDENĔK TRMAL
PAVEL RADOŠ
DAVID EVROPEJSKÝ
LADISLAV TESÁREK
MILAN JINDRÁK
MILOŠ KOPERNICKÝ
IVAN ZIELINSKÝ
JAROSLAV TROJÁČEK
ADAM HORÁK
PETR JURÁŇ
PETR MARTON
ALEXANDR ULBRT
PETR KUŽEL
BOHUMIL URBAN
RADEK HUSSAR
Caterer JTN CATERING
Set Medic EVA DVOŘÁKOVÁ
Lens Technicians DAN SZARVAS
ŠTĔPÁNKA KLÍMOVÁ
Set Security VAN GROUP
Unit Publicist ALISA BUCKLEY
EPK Field Producer LARRY GARRISON
SECOND UNIT
Second Unit Director OLIVIER SCHNEIDER
First Assistant Director MICHAELA SEIDLOVÁ
Second Unit Cinematographer FLORIAN EMMERICH
First Assistant “A” Camera LADISLAV DUBEN
Second Assistant “A” Camera MARTIN BRYCH
Script Supervisor JIRINA VÁVROVÁ
Sound Editorial Services Provided by FORMOSA GROUP
Supervising ADR Editor CHRIS JARGO
First Assistant Sound Editor PHILIP D. MORRILL
Sound Designers CHRISTOPHER ASSELLS, M.P.S.E.
ANN SCIBELLI, M.P.S.E.
PETER STAUBLI, M.P.S.E.
Sound Effects Editors DANIEL HEGEMAN
JON TITLE, M.P.S.E.
Dialogue Editors JOHN C. STUVER, M.P.S.E.
CHRISTOPHER W. HOGAN, M.P.S.E.
ADR Editors CHRIS WELCH
MIKE HERTLEIN
ADR Assistant TONY R. NEGRETE
Foley Editor CRAIG JAEGER
Foley Artists ELLEN HEUER
ALEX ULLRICH
Foley Mixer STACEY MICHAELS
Audio Engineering DAVID M. YOUNG
DONNIE LITTLE
ADR Mixers TRAVIS MacKAY
WADE BARNETT
ADR Recordist NICHOLAS COCHRAN
Re-Recording Facility NBCUNIVERSAL STUDIOPOST
Re-Recording Mix Technician BILL MEADOWS
Sound Stage Engineers DAVE BERGSTROM
MIKE MORONGELL
DAVE TOURKOW
ADR Voice Casting by THE LOOP SQUAD
Loop Group
STEPHEN J. APOSTOLINA
TERRY AYZMAN
ELYA BASKIN
JESSICA BELKIN
TAMARA V. BELOUSOVA
JIM BOEVEN
SUSAN BOYAJIAN
JULIANNE BUESCHER
PATRICIA A. CONNOLLY
CHRISTOPHER W. COX
DARIN G. DE PAUL
ROBIN ATKIN DOWNES
JOHN GEGENUBER
NICK GRACER
MARK IVANIR
GLEB KAMINER
DAVID KAMINSKY
ALLA A. KOROT
KATERINA KOVA
BORIS KRUTONOG
ARTSIOM KULIK
KONSTANTIN LAVYSH
MATT LINDQUIST
HANS-WERNER SCHOEBER
BEKA SIKHARULIDZE
MARK D. SILVERMAN
ELIZABETH SLAVIN
MARK L. SUSSMAN
SVETLANA TITOVA
ALEX VEADOV
MICHAEL J. VOGELSANG
ILIA VOLOK
KAI C. WULFF
Dolby Sound Consultant BRYAN ARENAS
Digital Intermediate by EFILM
Supervising Digital Colorist YVAN LUCAS
Second Digital Colorist ELODIE ICHTER
Digital Intermediate Producer LOAN PHAN
Color Assistant KATIE JORDAN
Digital Intermediate Editor LISA TUTUNJIAN
Digital Assistant Producer LESLEY NICOLUCCI
Digital Opticals PAT CLANCEY
Visual Effects Project Manager VANESSA GALVEZ
Visual Effects by IMAGE ENGINE
Visual Effects Supervisor CHRIS HARVEY
Compositing Supervisor BERNHARD KIMBACHER
CG Supervisor EDMOND ENGELBRACHT
Visual Effects Executive Producer STEPHEN GARRAD
Visual Effects Production Manager FRANK MACFARLANE
Visual Effects Coordinators ELENA MUSACCHIA
ANNA F. WINTERS
Asset Supervisor BARRY POON
Modelling Lead JEFF TETZLAFF
Modelers TOMOKA MATSUMURA
DEVIN STOUTLEY
Texture Lead JUSTIN HOLT
Texture Artists JORDAN FAST
MUHAMMAD MARRI
LEANNA VAIMAN SCOTT
TIM YANG
Rigging Lead FRED CHAPMAN
Look Development Artist ERIK GRONFELDT
Matchmovers LANIE DEARING
KYUMIN CHO
Animator PATRICIA DE SOUZA
Effects Artist REMI PIERRE
Lighting Lead ROSS WALLIS
Matte Painters GILLIAN GEORGE
SUSAN STEWART
Compositors
STUART BRUZEK CHARMANE CHIILDS
JORDAN FLANAGAN NEIL JIANORAN
TIM JONES SUA KOOK
NICHA KUMKEAW BEN McEWAN
GWEN ZHANG
Visual Effects Editor AYNSLEY BALDWIN
Facilities HOWARD CHEN
COLIN KOZACHUK
IIKKA UITTO
Special Dummies Created by FILMEFEX STUDIO
Supervisor IVAN POHARNOK
Sculptor ZSOLT EGRESSY
Painter CSABA BÖJTHE
Hair SAROLTA VÉGH
Mechanic ATTILA TILINGER
Moldmaker BÁLINT FELEDY
Main Titles by PIC
JARIK VAN SLUIJS PAMELA GREEN
ARPI ALEXANIAN STEPHAN BURLE
JEFF HAN ALEXANDRA USECHE
End Titles by SCARLET LETTERS
Film Laboratory FOTOKEM
Film Scheduler PERRY SUPPA
Color Timer JIM WILLIAMS
Cameras Provided by ARRIFLEX PROVIDED BY VANTAGE
Special Lensing by THALES ANGÉNIEUX
Production Legal Services IRWIN M. RAPPAPORT, P.C.
NEIL O. MEVELLEC
Financing Legal Services MICHAEL BARNES, BARNES LAW
Music and Legal Clearance Services CHRISTINE BERGREN
Post Production Accounting Provided by R.C. BARAL & COMPANY, INC.
Payroll Service Provided by CAST & CREW ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES
Insurance Provided by GALLAGHER ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES
Production Financing Provided by COMERICA BANK
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Additional Music by PHILIPPE BOIX-VIVES
Score Produced by CURTIS ROUSH
Score Mock-up Artist ERIC COLVIN
Orchestrator DOMINIK HAUSER
Music Recorded and Mixed by JASON LAROCCA
Mixed at CLOCKWORK LABS
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Supervising Music Editor CURTIS ROUSH
Music Editor CARL SEALOVE
Music Printed by NANNETTE DAVIS, QIVU GRAPHICS
Music Performed by THE NORTHWEST SINFONIA
Music Conducted by ERIC COLVIN
Solo Violin SIMON JAMES
Solo Viola JOSEPH GOTTESMAN
Solo Cello ERIC HAN
Piano KIM RUSS
Contractor SEATTLEMUSIC, DAVID SABEE
ProTools Engineer KORY KRUCKENBERG
Second Engineer JOHN WINTERS
Scoring Stage Manager JON SCHLUCKEBIER
Crew PAUL HERLIHY
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A PARTISAN’S SONG
Traditional
Arranged by Dimitri Oleg Yachinov
Performed by The Red Army Choir
Courtesy of Silva Screen Music America & Edition FGL
SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN E MINOR, OP. 64
Written by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Performed by the Polish Iuventus Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jerzy Semkow
Courtesy of CD Accord Music Edition and Naxos
By arrangement with Source/Q
SYMPHONY NO. 6 IN B MINOR, OP. 74 ,“PATHETIQUE”
Written by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antoni Wit
Courtesy of Naxos
By arrangement with Source/Q
QUEEN OF SPADES-OP.68-JA VAS LJUBLJU
Written by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Courtesy of APM Music
STENKA RAZIN
Written by Slava Groc
Courtesy of APM Music
Production Services in the Czech Republic provided by STILLKING FILMS
Filmed at BARRANDOV STUDIOS in the Czech Republic
Filmed in the Czech Republic with the support of the Film Production Incentives of the
CZECH CINEMATOGRAPHY FUND
Special Thanks to
MIKAEL WRANNEL
NINA MILERAD
JOSEF FARES
ANN STÖDBERG
MARIO ESPINOSA
JEFF COLVIN, CURTIS S. TAMKIN Jr., COMERICA BANK
CHRISTOPHER SPICER, AKIN GUMP
KURT WOOLNER, GREGORY TRATTNER, SUSAN MUIR, PAULA MANZANEDO-SCHMIT
KONRAD DOWLING
PRAGUE MAYOR’S OFFICE, MR. TOMAS HUDECEK, MAYOR
CITY DISTRICT OF PRAGUE 1, 2 AND 7
PRAGUE PUBLIC TRANSIT COMPANY
EYEWORKS FOR FILM
Historical Trains Provided by HERKULES KHKD, MR. JAROSLAV KRENEK
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