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Thriller - Development 2010

Everybody is crazy on the site “classmates.ru”, a criminal story on one jubilee of classmates, on “skeletons in the cupboard”.

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Countries
- KYRGYZSTAN
- Languages
- ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Writer(s)
- Tilek CHERIKOV, Timur CHERIKOV
- Producer(s)
- Timur CHERIKOV (Green Light Cinema), Tilek CHERIKOV (Green Light Cinema)
- Synopsis
- 1. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS (Treatment)
  (2-3 pages)
  - BEGINNING (exposition, a starting point)
  City secondary school, 10 years ago, a graduate prom night.
  A secondary school, 11th Form, pupils in anticipation of graduation, some of them are sad, others are glad, such as there were, a new chapter in their life starts, as it will be found out later, the last one for some of them. A group of young men from well-to-do families, gay and fey, think that a life is created only for entertainment, they do not think of consequences. Very often they misbehave and manage to get away with everything, the guys gizzard a poor watchman, drive him to despair, bait him, as he is a cripple. The girls vacantly look at what is happening and giggle, but this man keeps his rage and on one remarkable day justice will be restored. One day, having a fair amount of drinks, the young boys overrun all boundaries and give a hard time to a poor watchman, the psyche of the watchman injured even without that is overwrought, and he was forced to leave this school.
  - END OF THE FIRST / BEGINNING OF THE SECOND SCENE
  This is so much the case that everything becomes known to the total teaching staff, legal proceedings threaten to the young men, but owing to one of parents the young boys managed to escape punishment. Well aware of all such rowdiness, a school director succeeds that penalties are collected from parents and all children successfully graduate from school.
  - BASIC EVENTS OF THE SECOND SCENE
  A city secondary school, our times, a classmates’ jubilee.
  Time passed, everybody forgets such incident. Well, such things do happen, children have sown their wilds, became grown-ups, grow wise and it seems like everything is all right, the young boys are friendly, they all work at prestigious jobs and a class jubilee is anticipated. Young boys and girls want to celebrate a 10-year jubilee of their class in the original way at their favorite and native school. They are waited already there.
  In the evening tight-knit classmates gather at school in the assembly hall, they all are beautiful, well-dressed, they are merry and happy, they have easy conversations, music sounds, some pairs leave for different classrooms for different delights. It occurs to some genius that all mobile phones are collected into a box and do not interfere with them during the whole party, so to say, nostalgia for such times when telephones were not pocket ones. Meanwhile one man in black clothes with a mask on his face closes all school doors. Signalization is switched off and a show starts.
  - END OF THE SECOND / BEGINNING OF THE THIRD SCENE (culmination)
  A man in a mask slaughters one after another persons, celebrating a jubilee, who do not suspect anything, not everybody understands what is going on, as before they have a rest but already not in the same quantity. One of person, celebrating a jubilee, comes across with a dead body of a classmate, he is shocked, cannot understand, moreover people have a jag on and cannot adequately respond. He tries to inform everybody on a murder, but in several steps from the assembly hall he is himself no longer alive. One of young girls notices it and makes a fuss, everybody tries chaotically to understand what is going on and look for an exit and telephone sets, but the doors are closed, a box with telephone sets is missing and the windows are grilled. In horrour some people celebrating a jubilee disperse throughout school searching for an exit, thus facilitating a task for a murderer, it is simpler to kill one by one. Only terrible shouts and howling are heard in the corridors and then – silence. One group of people manages to overcome fear; they are united and act reasonably. Meanwhile carnage continues periodically, someone speaks over the school radio, informing all persons celebrating a jubilee that they must pay for everything.
  - THE END
  One of young boys manages to injure a murderer and to get rid of him, moreover, he is wounded himself, a sunrise is approaching, practically all people are perished, only one innocent pair remains. A culmination, a pair manages to get out on the roof, a maniac in a mask runs after them, a young boy is wounded, a young girl carries him on her back, here is a roof edge, no way to run. A pair is in despair, both become weak, a young girl cries and shouts to the maniac – What for?! The maniac slowly approaches and tells his story that some time ago a cripple worked as a watchman at this school, the whole class gave a hard time to a cripple and one day he could not endure and made a suicide, after that his son promised to take the change out of them and this son is standing in front of them.
  A young girl implores to take mercy and to forgive them, as they regret about happened things, but the maniac is unforgiving, he approaches them with a knife, a pair cries in despair and at that moment the maniac falls dead, being shot by a bullet of militia men. People living near school, having heard suspicious sounds, calls militia, but militia men, as usual, arrive at the very end. A pair is assisted in climbing down the roof, militia men are everywhere, an ambulance car as well, everything is over, and people are in a shock of what they see. A pair sits in the ambulance car, both kissing and crying nobody besides them, suddenly a door of the ambulance car is opened, a pair turns around, a woman is looking at them and smiles... She says: You thought that you would get away with everything! A woman throws a bottle with flame liquid inside the car. A pair is burnt alive in the car. Nobody can understand anything in such a mess, what is going on; in panic they try to extinguish a fire in the car. The woman leaves, this is a wife of the watchman, justice has been restored.
  2. CHARACTERISTICS OF CHARACTERS
  Principal characters:
  A school watchman, a quite person, easily hurt, mentally unbalanced.
  A watchman wife. A quite woman.
  A watchman son, an avenger.
  Classmates, 10 years ago, young people, different by nature.
  Classmates, 10 years later, each with a different fortune and different story.
- Partners & financing
- Houseoffilm USA disctribution company
- Production schedule
- April May 2010 preparation period
  June-September 2010 production
  October-November 2010 postproduction
- Beginning of shooting
- Jun 01, 2010