Desperate Shareholders

2022 Russian film

Desperate Shareholders

Directed by| Ilya Farfell
Written by|

* Vyacheslav Zub
* Anatoly Molchanov

Produced by|

* Eduard Iloyan (ru)
* Vitaly Shlyappo (ru)
* Denis Zhalinsky
* Aleksey Trotsyuk

Starring|

* Maksim Lagashkin
* Mikhail Trukhin
* Ekaterina Stulova
* Nikita Kologrivyy
* Olga Venikova

Cinematography| Maksim Mikhanyuk
Edited by| Dmitry Smorchkov

Production
company

Yellow, Black and White

Distributed by| Central Partnership

Release date

* April 28, 2022 (2022-04-28) (Russia)

Running time

| 90 minutes
Country| Russia
Language| Russian

Desperate Shareholders (Russian: Отчаянные дольщики, romanized: Otchayannye dolshchiki) is a 2022 Russian crime comedy film directed by Ilya Farfell. The film produced by Yellow, Black and White also starred Maksim Lagashkin, Mikhail Trukhin, Ekaterina Stulova, Nikita Kologrivyy, and Olga Venikova. The film tells about a dishonest developer who gave two married couples foundation pits instead of houses, as a result of which they decided to take hostage the director of the company that built their houses.[1]

Desperate Shareholders was theatrically released on April 28, 2022, by Central Partnership.[2]

## Plot

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In the center of events are two ordinary couples who are tired of renting a house and finally decided to take out a mortgage. However, instead of the promised dream apartment, the families received a wasteland with a foundation pit. Deciding to take matters into their own hands, the main characters go to the developer in the hope of getting a sane answer from him to the question of where their new home is. By an absurd coincidence, the head of a construction company is held hostage by them.[3]

## Cast

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* Maksim Lagashkin [ru] as Oleg Statsky, construction scam[4]
* Mikhail Trukhinn [ru] as Grigory, a shareholder
* Ekaterina Stulova as Inga, Grigory's wife
* Nikita Kologrivyy [ru] as Denis "Den", a shareholder
* Olga Venikova as Alyona, Denis' fiancee
* Aleksandra Florinskaya [ru] as Svetlana Statskaya, Oleg's wife
* Grigory Siyatvinda as Leonid "Lyonya", district police officer
* Kirill Grebenshchikov as Nikolay, the investigator
* Ekaterina Shmakova as a journalist
* Zhannat Kerimbayev as a builder

## Production

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The director was Ilya Farfell, who lived in the USA and Israel for a long time before moving to Russia. Prior to the development of the comedy, the director did not know about the problem of unfair performance of duties by construction companies. Farfell began to study this issue in detail and was surprised that this popular topic, which affected many Russian citizens, had not been shown in the cinema before. The filming process began in June 2021 in Moscow.[5]

## References

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1. ^ Герои Лагашкина дважды наказаны в разных фильмах, близких по тематике
2. ^ ""Отчаянные дольщики" цементируют Максима Лагашкина в трейлере" [Desperate Shareholders cement Maksim Lagashkin in the trailer]. InterMedia (in Russian). April 7, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
3. ^ "Отчаянные дольщики (2022)". afisha.ru (in Russian).
4. ^ * Алихан Исрапилов. Что смотреть в кино на этой неделе: «Операция “Мясной фарш”», «Вивариум» и «Крио». Film.ru, 27 апреля 2022
5. ^ Paly, Violetta (June 7, 2021). "В Москве начались съемки социальной комедии "Отчаянные дольщики"" [Filming of the social comedy Desperate Shareholders has begun in Moscow]. Film Distributor's Bulletin (in Russian). Retrieved April 8, 2022.

## External links

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* Desperate Shareholders at IMDb

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