RUSSIA: Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" is well on its way to becoming the big hit in Moscow Film Festival

Record ID: 721249

  • Title: RUSSIA: Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" is well on its way to becoming the big hit in Moscow Film Festival
  • Date: 29th June 2009
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JUNE28, 2009) (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. FILM DIRECTOR MICHAEL MANN, SAYING: "It has two aims, one is clearly the drama based on character, that is what I do, and the ambition of the film is to locate audience as much as I am able to do within the frame of experience of Dillinger, in other words rather than looking at a life to try and bring you intimately into his experiences rather than making a period film that looks at 1933, that was to be inside 1933 so that on a raining Tuesday night in March in 1933 you feel that you can almost reach out and touch that black car with the rain on it and you feel like if you were there than this is a immediacy and a heightened reality because to be John Dillinger and live that life, the more I understood about him who was unique and exited man, that is why I made this film."
  • Embargoed: 14th July 2009 13:00
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  • Story Text: The 31st Moscow International Film Festival came to an end on Sunday (June 28) with the the Russian premiere of Michael Mann's film "Public Enemies."
    The gangster drama from U.S. director Mann premiered in the Russian capital three days prior to its home release.
    U.S. director Michael Mann said at a press conference in Moscow that he was pleased to have the premiere in Russia and told reporters the reasons behind the movie: "It has two aims, one is clearly the drama based on character, that is what I do, and the ambition of the film is to locate audience as much as I am able to do within the frame of experience of Dillinger, in other words rather than looking at a life to try and bring you intimately into his experiences rather than making a period film that looks at 1933, that was to be inside 1933 so that on a raining Tuesday night in March in 1933 you feel that you can almost reach out and touch that black car with the rain on it and you feel like if you were there than this is a immediacy and a heightened reality because to be John Dillinger and live that life, the more I understood about him who was unique and exited man, that is why I made this film," Michael Mann said to reporters.
    The movie stars Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary depression-era outlaw John Dillinger - the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis, and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public.
    Shrugging off a cold drizzle and disappointing box office receipts, Moscow held its annual film festival to patriotic tales and big screen epics; 16 films from 14 countries were vying for the festival's top honour, the Golden St. George.
    The festival opened in the shadow of comments from one of the country's biggest movie financiers, who said that Russia's film industry needs state support led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to help it cope with the impact of the global economic crisis.
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