RHINO

    A film by Oleh Sentsov




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    RHINO
    A film by Oleh Sentsov

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    Bronze Horse Best Film
    Oleh Sentsov

    Best Actor
    Serhii Filimonov

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    Best Actor
    Serhii Filimonov

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    SYNOPSIS

    Starting out as an aggressive delinquent, a young man nicknamed “Rhino” quickly works his way up the criminal hierarchy in 1990’s Ukraine. Rhino has only known power and cruelty, but with nothing left to lose, could he finally find a chance at redemption?

    ABOUT & TEAM

    WRITER AND DIRECTOR
    Oleh Sentsov
    GENRE
    Criminal drama
    COUNTRIES
    Ukraine, Poland, Germany
    RUNTIME
    101 minutes
    GENERAL PRODUCERS
    Denis Ivanov, Oleh Sentsov
    PRODUCERS
    Dariusz Jabłoński, Violetta Kamińska, Izabela Wójcik (Poland)
    Heino Deckert, Tina Börner (Germany)
    DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    Bogumił Godfrejów PSC
    PRODUCTION DESIGNER
    Yuriy Grigorovich
    CASTING
    Anastasiia Chorna
    COSTUME DESIGNER
    Kostiantyn Kravets
    MAKE-UP ARTIST
    Svitlana Polikashkina
    PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER
    Patrick Veigel, bvft
    SOUND DESIGN AND MIX
    Michael Kaczmarek
    EDITING
    Karolina Maciejewska
    COMPOSER
    Andriy Ponomariov
    FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
    Alex Osadchenko

    DIRECTOR

    Oleh Sentsov was born on 13 July 1976 in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine.


    Gamer, his first feature, debuted at the RotterdamInternational Film Festival in 2012. His next project RHINO was awarded as BEST PROJECT and BEST PITCHING at 9th Sofia Meetings 2012. Production of the project was planned for 2014.


    After the November 2013 breakout of the Euromaidan protests, Sentsov became an activist of "AutoMaidan" and during the 2014 Crimean crisis Sentsov was arrested by the FSB, charged with planning terrorist attacks and brought to Moscow. Despite a complete lack of evidence, he was unlawfully sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, giving rise to a global campaign for his release. In 2018, he received the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, before being finally released on September 7, 2019, as part of a prisoner exchange deal between Russia and Ukraine.

    The film Numbers (2020) based on Sentsov's eponymous plat was shown for the first time as part of special screenings dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival.

    CAST

    Serhii Filimonov
    Rhino
    Serhii Filimonov
    Rhino
    Yevhen Chernykov
    Man in the car
    Yevhen Chernykov
    Man in the car
    Yevhen Grygoriev
    Plus
    Yevhen Grygoriev
    Plus
    Alina Zevakova
    Marina
    Alina Zevakova
    Marina

    PRODUCTION

    The film is supported by:

    • the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine
    • the Ukrainian State Film Agency
    • EURIMAGES Fund
    • the Polish Film Institute
    • the German film fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
    RHINO is the second feature film by the Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov. In 2012, the film was already presented at the industry platform of the Sofia International Film Festival, where it received awards for Best Project and Best Pitching. However, work on the film was suspended due to Sentsov's illegal arrest by Russian security services in 2014 and his subsequent imprisonment. Work on the project was resumed after the release of the director in 2019.

    Filming of RHINO took place in Kryvyi Rih, Lviv and Kyiv and wrapped in December 2020.
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