The Stringer
Synopsis
Vadik is an ambitious Moscow teenager struggling to survive the newly fragmented Russia when he falls in love with Helen, a Western news journalist, and vows to go to any lengths to get her. Armed with his video camera, Vadik records, and sometimes even creates anything he thinks could be classified as 'news', including footage of a fake attempted assassination of washed-up politician, Yavorsky. By filming his increasingly desperate publicity stunts, Vadik is adopted by Yavorsky as the only means to revive his flagging career. Vadik is more than willing to help Yavorsky - every futile effort they make to get Yavorsky on TV brings Vadik back in contact with Helen. But does the apprentice stringer understand that his new friends may only want him for what he can do for them?
Details
- Year
- 1999
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 92 mins
- Format
- 35mm Kodak
- Director
- Paul Pawlikowski
- Producer
- Charles Pattinson, George Faber, David M. Thompson
- Director of Photography
- Witold Stok BSC
- Principal Cast
- Anna Friel, Sergei Bodrov Jnr. Vladimir Ilyin, Robert Knepper
- Executive Screen Writers
- Paul Pawlikowski, Gennadi Ostrovsky
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 26th November 2005
