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OrANGELove

orANGELove (English: orANGELove) also known as Orange Love is a 2007 Ukrainian melodrama, directed by Alan Badoev, about the love between two young people (a Russian-speaking man and a Ukrainian-speaking woman) during the Orange Revolution and about HIV epidemic in Ukraine.

The film was financed by the company "Kyiv-Donbas", and produced by "CineCity Production" and "Radio Active" (USA-Ukraine). The film is one of the three so-called "orange wave" films, which include "The Orange Sky", "Break Through" and "Orange Love".[1][2][3][4]

The film was released in Ukrainian cinema on March 29, 2007.[5][6]

Film's motto — “What do you know about love?”

Synopsis

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In the end of October, 2004, while escaping a heavy rain, two young people jump onto a tram in Kiev. One of them is a male photojournalist, bare-footed in a blood-stained jacket, who is hunting for "new, real emotions", and the other is a bare-footed woman, red-haired, with a cello case behind her back. The love that flared up proved to be stubborn, all-consuming, and all-destroying.

Plot

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The heroes Ukrainian-speaking Katya and Russian-speaking Roman are locked in a strange apartment in the very center of Kyiv. According to the terms of some mystical game, they must not leave the apartment until the death of its owner, who is in a wheelchair. The prize: this apartment and about 200 thousand euros. But autumn love is somehow replaced in an instant by the thought of AIDS.

The one who dictates the rules must die from it. There is a revolution outside the window, and Roman cannot leave the apartment, see what is happening and to take photos. The only connection with the outside world is letters. They are thrown under the door. In one of them are the results of the tests that both heroes took at the very beginning of the film. With the opening of the envelope, the romance evaporates instantly. The heroes find themselves alone with the problem in a closed space.

According to the plot, in one of the letters slipped under their door, the characters receive the results of the medical tests they underwent at the beginning of the film. The news of the diagnosis abruptly shifts the atmosphere: romance gives way to fear and despair. Later, Roman leaves, but he eventually returns to Katya and tells her that he, too, is infected. In reality, he had deliberately infected himself: he cut his own palm and took blood from a sick elderly man—the apartment's owner—who was participating in a mystical game.

In the next letter, the actual test results arrive, refuting Katya's initial diagnosis.

Cast

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Film crew

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Production

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Initially, the film was planned to be a love melodrama about an American of Ukrainian origin who came to Ukraine in the midst of the 2004 elections. The main character was supposed to be played by a fairly well-known Hollywood actor.[7] Later, for unknown reasons, the script was changed and instead of an American, the protagonist of the film became a Russian, for whose role they chose a fairly well-known Russian actor Alexei Chadov, known for several Russian blockbusters, in particular the films “Night Watch” and “9 company”.[8]

In August 2005, a few months before filming began, in an interview with KINO-KOLO, the film's producer Alina Panova promised that two-thirds of the film's dialogue would be in Ukrainian, the rest in Russian and English,[9] but in the final version of the film, almost all the lines were in Russian, and only a small part — in Ukrainian and English. Filming began in October 2005 and lasted only 45 days.[10]

Budget

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In March 2006, UP journalists in their review of Ukrainian films estimated the film's budget at $1 to $5 million.[11] Later, in September 2006, it became known that the budget for the film was $3.6 million and was provided by Donetsk businessmen brothers Alexander and Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky.[12][13]

Awards and nominations

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The film participated in the following festivals and film markets:

  • May 20 and 22, 2006— in film distribution screenings at the Kinorynok u Cannes 2006 (Cannes, France),[14]
  • September 5, 2006— in the competition program of KinoYalta-2006 (Yalta, Ukraine),[15]
  • September 25, 2006— in the competition program of the CIS and Baltic Festival "Kinoshock-2006", where he received the prize "for best director" (Altana, Russia),[16][17]
  • October 26-27, 2006— in the competitive program of Molodist KIFF 2006 (Kyiv, Ukraine),[18]
  • November 16-25, 2006— out-of-competition screening in the "International Discoveries" section at Mannheim-Heidelberg IFF 2006 (Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany)[19]

Box office

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During its screening in Ukraine, which began on March 27, 2007,[5] the film grossed $59.8 thousand in three weeks of release.[20] With its total gross of $59.8 thousand, the film ranked 132nd among highest grossing films of 2007.[21]

In foreign box office, the film also spent 3 weeks in Russia and the CIS, where it grossed a total of $27.6 thousand, and 4 weeks in Taiwan, where it grossed a total of $14.7 thousand. The film's total foreign box office collection — $42.4 thousand.[20]

The film's total worldwide box office was $102 thousand.[20]

Reviews of film critics

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The film received negative reviews from Ukrainian film critics.[22][23][24] In particular, film critic of the magazine "Kino-teatr" Larisa Ivanyshyna noted that the film "Orangelove" is quite "difficult to classify as a [cinema] film, so much of it resembles a television product."[23] After the film's premiere at the Kyiv Film Festival "Molodist" in November 2006, film critic of the Khreshchatyk newspaper Liliana Fesenko noted that "the director [Alan Badoev] failed to break out of the clip format and simply stretched it out for an hour and a half."[24]

Controversies

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Distancing of creators from the Orange Revolution

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On the eve of the theatrical release of their film, the creators tried in various ways to distance themselves from the Orange Revolution. Thus, at the end of 2006, the film director Alan Badoev stated that the film's script was written 5 years ago, that is, long before the events of the Orange Revolution,[25] although Badoev had previously stated that the basis of the script was made by an unnamed American screenwriter under the impression of the Orange Revolution.[7]

The creators used various methods to avoid any association with the Orange Revolution in the eyes of a potential viewer. First, the creators set about changing the title of the film. At the first stages of the film's creation process, its creators explained that the title of the film is spelled as "Orangelove" and is an untranslatable word, that is, in Ukrainian it is spelled as "Оранжлав" (the literal translation of the English words "Orange" and "Love" in Ukrainian would be "Помаранчеве" and "кохання").[26] Later, the creators announced that the title of the film should be written as "orANGELove", since, as the film director emphasized, the main character of the film is Angel (in English Angel) and the first version of the script was called "Angels Live Opposite".[27] Some Ukrainian film critics dubbed the film scandalous precisely because of "syntactic changes in [its] title",[28] probably disapproving of the authors' desire to distance themselves from the theme of the "Orange Revolution" and, accordingly, not to use the word "Orange" in the title of the film.

Later, the creators also decided to postpone the date of the film. As the film's director Alan Badoev confirmed in an interview, the creators specifically postponed the film's release from October 2006 to March 2007 in order to distance themselves from the so-called "orange wave" in new Ukrainian cinema.[29]

Quotes

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"Our angels have already agreed on everything; now it is up to us."
"Perhaps our angels live right across the street…"
"I want to go somewhere where I will hear nothing but your voice."
"Do not ask me for what you do not wish to hear—and I will answer all your questions…"
"Today is my first day without her… I feel ashamed of every breath I take without her… Yet I steal it, again and again… In short, I go on living…"
"If you lack the courage—I have plenty of lust!"
"The important thing isn't how long you live—it's how you live."
"I don't know how this whole story will end, but one thing is certain: we won't forget each other."
"And you can keep the love—if, of course, it actually exists."
"If you want the viewer to feel a little sad, you have to weep over this photograph."
"When there’s too much going on around me—I run…
— From yourself?
— No. Toward myself."
"What does the sea sound like?
— Just like you. Quiet and calm in the morning, then growing stronger, more powerful.
— But you’ve never even been to the sea—why are you feeding me this line?
— Because I’ve seen *you*!

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Orange Cinema": Political Blockbusters or Pre-Election Projects? — Day, November 11, 2005
  2. ^ Orange Cinema // Young Ukraine, 19.11.2005
  3. ^ Political unconscious of Ukrainian cinema // Ukrainian Journal, 12/2007
  4. ^ Olvia Sych. Ukrainian Orange Cinema // "The Path of Victory" No. 15 (2705)
  5. ^ a b Оранжлав на сайті kino-teatr.ua/uk
  6. ^ Alan Badoev's film "Orange Lav" will be released in Ukrainian cinemas on March 29 // Detector Media, March 27, 2007
  7. ^ a b Tarantino to make “Kill Bill-3” about the Orange Revolution // Vgolos, 08/23/2005
  8. ^ Orange Love— an upcoming film about love and revolution // BBC Ukraine, October 14, 2005
  9. ^ Orangelove— KINO-KOLO, No. 27 for August 2005
  10. ^ Film about love during the Maidan will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival // UP, September 5, 2005
  11. ^ "Post-revolutionary outbreak of Ukrainian cinema: review on the eve of the premiere". Ukrainian Truth. March 1, 2006. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ Orange Love Shocked Russians— Obozrevatel, September 27 2006
  13. ^ ”Orange Love” for $3.6 million // Unian, April 27, 2006
  14. ^ "Orangelove" does not participate in any of the Cannes Festival programs — Kino-kolo, April 27, 2006
  15. ^ The International Festival "KinoYalta" Begins — Kino-kolo, September 5, 2006
  16. ^ "ORANGELOVE" was discussed at "Kinoshock" — Kino-kolo, September 25 2006
  17. ^ Anapa: kinoshock from "Oranzhlav" // Dzerkalo tyzhnia, September 29, 2006
  18. ^ Cite error: The named reference Molodist KIFF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  19. ^ Archiv — Mannheim-Heidelberg IFF (in German)
  20. ^ a b c "Orangelove: Foreign Grosses". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved December 3, 2017. (in English)
  21. ^ "2007 Ukraine Yearly Box Office". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved December 3, 2017. (in English)
  22. ^ Oleg Vergelis. I invite you to twilight. Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, May 18, 2007
  23. ^ a b Larysa Ivanyshyna. "Orange love" as a laboratory experiment // Magazine "Kino-teatr", No. 1 (2007)
  24. ^ a b Liliana Fesenko. Colors of "Molodist" The film festival program introduced modern cinema from Germany, France, and Russia and reminded of the century of director Luchino Visconti // Khreshchatyk, November 2, 2006, Thursday No. 162 (2957)
  25. ^ Two from the box: Alan — Cannes-can // Dzerkalo tyzhnia, June 9, 2006
  26. ^ Orange beauty in the American way. The first Ukrainian commercial film with a budget of more than three million will be presented this year in Cannes — Ukraina Moloda, No. 15, January 26, 2006
  27. ^ Angel's Autumn Love — KUT, December 18, 2006
  28. ^ Domestic cinema: search in cinemas — Detector Media, October 29, 2007
  29. ^ Why be, that cannot be missed What films from domestic film producers will be released in 2007  — Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, January 19, 2017
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Cast

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Name Role Notes
Aleksey Chadov Roman (reporter)
Olga Makeeva Katya
Aleksey Vertinsky Gambler
Vyacheslav Burlachko Thug
Ekaterina Kantor Thug's Girlfriend
Andrey Streltsov Conductor
Dmitry Malkov Freckled Guy
Galina Bozhenko Waitress

Crew and Production

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  • Director: Alan Badoev
  • Screenwriters: Alan Badoev, Olga Krzhichevskaya
  • Producers: Vladimir Khorunzhy, Alina Panova
  • Executive Producers: Alexander Konstantinovsky, Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky, Viktor Topolov
  • Co-producers: Roman Kindrachuk, Darko Skulsky
  • Line Producer: Bruce Wayne Gillis
  • Cinematographer: Yaroslav Pilunsky
  • Composer: Željko Marasović
  • Costume Designer: Olga Navrotskaya
  • Production Designer: Olesya Bondar
  • Makeup Artist: Alyona Khoroshko
  • Hair Stylist: Denis Yarotsky
  • PR Specialist: Valeria Bashinskaya

Produced by Orangelove LLC, CineCity Productions, Twinjoint International Film.

The premiere took place on March 27, 2007.
The Russian distributor was "Top Film Distribution" (premiere in Russia: July 5, 2007).

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Category:Ukrainian drama films Category:Films about the Orange Revolution Category:2007 Ukrainian films Category:Films about AIDS

References

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