The movie "Pain Threshold" was released in public screening
16 october 2019
On October 3, the Illuzion
Theatre hosted the premiere of the film "Pain Threshold" produced by
LOOK FILM and R-Media. The film was presented by its director Andrei Simonov,
producers Albert Ryabyshev and Andrey Ushatsky, and actors Roman Kurtsyn,
Arina Postnikova, Kirill Komarov, Natalia Skomorokhova, Alexander Golubkov, and
Grigory Chaban. Rich in magnificent scenes and extreme situations, the film
electrified the audience till the final titles.
The script was written by
Andrei Simonov in 2013, three years later the shooting of the film began, and
now it finally came out on the screens.
Andrey Simonov, director
of the film "Pain Threshold":
"The project "Pain Threshold" initially was the idea of
the producer. He is a great fan of river
rafting who has passed the steep thresholds in the Altai Mountains multiple
times. And he had a dream to make an adventure film about it to declare the
conflict between the city and the wildlife.
I was interested and wrote the script happily. According to the plot, at first, some Moscow
guys got into trouble in the Altai, but then we realized that it made sense to
strengthen the contrast, so that the guys turned into high class dandies who
were used to the fact their problems were solved quickly and easily. And now
they get into extreme conditions of survival - this is the main story. I think we have a good combination of
thriller and drama.
"I had to conquer a
mountain river. And these are constantly changing conditions: today it is quiet
and calm, tomorrow it is stormy, with rabid boulders and swirls. And actors had
to jump there. Of course, this also had its advantages. The actors were not
sprayed with water and did not simulate the rafting, but really rafted along
the rivers. All their emotions were real. Periodically, there were extreme
situations. At some point, Natalia Skomorokhova got into a rift without serious
safety means because her boat had detached from the one of the cameraman. It
was difficult to dare shooting another double, but Natasha overthrew her
fear. Roma Kurtsyn was eager to do
everything himself and inspired the others to follow him, but we kept them safe
and tried to avoid dangerous situations. There were dangerous tricks even for
stuntmen..."
Andrei Berezkin, trick
maker: "The film has a strong trick
part. For example, the plot set-up: a car with the rushes along the road, a
cyclist comes from the opposite direction, and the car crashes into the glass
of the club, where people sit and listen to Sergei Gorelikov's
performance. We had only two attempts to
shoot it. Of course, at the moment of
the trick, there were stuntmen sitting in the club instead of the ordinary
people who had to run away from their car and, at the same time, not get hurt
by the flying glass. But most of the
shootings took place in the Altai, in mountain rivers and forests, so there's
plenty to see.