- Direction
- Vladimir Kozlov
- Country
- France
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Documentary
- Original title
- 5000 $ par semaine
- Film presented in Toulouse
1. « Gagarinland », Festival du film Grolandais, Toulouse, 2015.
2. « Joyeux Noël, Vladimir ! » court métrage de 7 mn., Festival du film Grolandais, Toulouse, 2015.
3. « Aleksei Léonov. Le piéton de l’espace », festival aérospatial de l’Image et du Livre « Des Etoiles et des Ailes », Toulouse, 2012.
- Scenario
- Vladimir Kozlov
Vladimir Kozlov
Filmography
1 – « Le Rock-Monologue », 2007, documentaire de 69 min.
Prix du meilleur documentaire de longue durée au Slow film festival, à Eger en Hongrie, 2008.
Prix du meilleur documentaire au festival international « Steps» à Kiev en Ukraine, 2008. Sélectionné aux festivals : FIPA à Biarritz, Mostra de San Paulo, Brésil, Les Traces de Vies à Clermont-Ferrand, France.
2– « Gagarinland », 2010, documentaire de 86 mn.
Sélectionné aux festivals : Lussas, Gindou et « Traces de Vies » à Clermont-Ferrand, international Art House Film Festival de Batumi, Géorgie.
3 – « Aleksei Léonov. Le piéton de l’espace », 2011, documentaire 60 min.
Sélectionné aux festivals : FIGRA – Le Tourquet, « A nous de voir » – Science et Cinéma en 2011 à Oullins, France, du cinéma russe à Honfleur, International Documentary Film Festival « Cronograf », Moldavie.
4 – « Nicolaï Greshny. Une affaire de la famille », 2013, documentaire de 52 min.
Sélectionné aux festivals « Les bobines du sacré », Lyon, 2014, « Niepokalanow », Pologne, 2014, ArtDocFest, Moscou, Russie, 2015, Festival International du Film sur les Métiers d’Art, Montreuil, France, 2018.
Note of intent
Today, Cuba is experiencing a real tourist boom. La Poderosa Tours has been made possible by the reforms introduced by Raùl Castro, whose presidency is due to end in 2018. Born in the USSR, I lived through the collapse of communism and the tearing caused by the change of regime. Through this film, I wish to show the evolution of Cuban politics which allows the stealthy arrival of unfettered capitalism in the “Island of Freedom” where the revolutionary past becomes, gradually, a merchandise.
Synopsis
Three years ago in Havana, Che Guevara’s youngest son, with the backing of foreign investors, opened a private tourist agency La Poderosa (The Powerful), named after Che’s favourite motorbike on which he had been touring all over South America. Ernesto Guevara, a lawyer by training, offers to bring back to life his father’s passion for steel horses. He proposes a motorised tour of the places where El Comandante Che fought, but with all the comfort of a Harley Davidson.
For $5,000 a week.
His business is so prosperous that he recently began offering individual customised tours.
Visual concept
This road movie traces a one-week trip in Che’s footsteps, from one place to another of his revolutionary past, guided by his son Ernesto. I want to introduce in the bikers group a Frenchman with revolutionary convictions who will sometimes ask impertinent questions. I intend to use archive documents to confront Che’s Cuba (1959-1966) with today’s Cuba, the one of his son.
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- Objectives sought in Films in Development
Fund researchs and finding international coproduction partners with distributors.
- Shooting planned date
March – december 2019 to january 2020.
- Planned shooting location
Cuba : La Havane, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Topes de Collantes, Cayo Santa Maria, Santa Clara, Las Terrazas.
- Project's development phase
Writing
- Production
- Prodigima Films
- Producer's biography
Nicolas Baby is one of the two founders of Prodigima Films. He has been a producer for 10 years now. After producing and directing numerous promotional and institutional films, in 2014 he produced a documentary for ARTE called “In the Belly of the City”. He currently devotes himself to the development of contents for television such as documentaries, TV series and short programs.