Buddha's Little Finger (film)
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| Directed by | Tony Pemberton |
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| Based on | "Chapayev and Void" by Victor Pelevin |
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| Music by | Delphine Measroch |
| Cinematography | Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | €2.2 millions |
 Screenplay of "Buddha's Little Finger" at Karine Vanasse's Instagram
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Photos of Filming Location at Flickr
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Buddha's Little Finger — English-language feature film directed by Tony Pemberton and starring Toby Kebbell. Screenplay is based on Victor Pelevin's 1996 novel Chapayev and Void, which is known in the US as Buddha's Little Finger and in the UK as Clay Machine Gun. Genre of the film is called as drama,psychological romance,arthouse,thriller. Release in Germany was scheduled on September 1, 2015.
Unemployed Russian poet Pyotr Voyd arrested by KGB during the 1991 Soviet August Coup, by tortures he loses consciousness and appears in 1919 post-revolutionary Russia, where he fights on the same side with the legendary Red cavalry commander Chapaev and his machine-gunner Anka. The strange memory lapses all the time throw him to the bandits' Moscow of nineties, then to the Russian Civil War back and forth, again and again. Pyotr learns how long may raging two winds of changes simultaneously in the head of one and the same person.
In 2006 film was officially selected for the third Berlinale Co-Production Market. As Mikheil Kalatozishvili early produced the film notes in 2008—2009, the filming start is delayed because of financial difficulties on the side of Western partners. In 2012 Tony Pemberton tells, that when Kalatozishvili died they were to get a million dollars from the Russian film funds but finally he wouldn't get grants because he is not Russian.
The translation of Pelevin's novel by Andrew Bromfield for UK has name "The Clay Machine Gun", and for US — "Budda's Little Finger". According to the translator Andreas Tretner he had invented the German name of the book — "Buddhas kleiner Finger"(German), and as "The Clay Machine Gun" was less successful name, Americans had chosen their one. Pemberton's film has the same name.
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