Russian fantastic

[Taltos]

Originally Posted by flynx

Is this a Russian made film or have they sold the rights?

This is a russian made film and the author of the book wrote most of the scenario. Also there is second film out "Dnevnoi dozor" (Daywatch) andthe fourth Dozor book is out so thus could be made into 12 film series

And another piece of information is that soon another Lukjanenko book will has been made into film which is called "Aziris Nuna" (book is actually for young adults or children) and the premiere is at 15.03.2006

Originally Posted by flynx

I remember being much more impressed by the Russian version of Solaris (Stanislav Lem) even with subtitles, than by Hollywood's weak effort with George Cluney.

So you liked Tarkovsky better Have you seen another of his films, called "Stalker" which is adaptation of Strugatsky brothers novel.

[Kettricken]

The DVD is now for sale in the Netherlands... would like to buy it, to see how it compares to the book. I really liked the book, the way he describes there's just a thin line between good and evil.
Taltos, do you know if the series is finished with four books? On the website, I could only find 'nightwatch' and 'daywatch' (probably parts of the site need an update ). Just curious!

[Taltos]

Originally Posted by Kettricken

The DVD is now for sale in the Netherlands... would like to buy it, to see how it compares to the book. I really liked the book, the way he describes there's just a thin line between good and evil.

Well, after seeing the first film, my thoughts were, that the story-writer didn't understand the author. And then I remembered that Lukyanenko wrote at least part of the script , although he is unacknowledged in the credits Still the movie was pretty good. It only shows the events of the first third of the book actually. The second film called "Daywatch" is more distanced from the books, the events don't follow books so much, I can even say that they contradict the books. But as I have read, it's more the way the director wanted the story to run. The second film handles mostly second part of the first book, so the film naming is strange.

Originally Posted by Kettricken

Taltos, do you know if the series is finished with four books? On the website, I could only find 'nightwatch' and 'daywatch' (probably parts of the site need an update ). Just curious!

Well, the main character live on after the fourth book, which is called "Last Watch", with a following sentence on the back cover "Did you really think, that this is going to be the last watch?"

The third book is probably called "Dusk Watch" in english and a third film seems to be in production based on the books with such english title. Whether it will contain the material from the third book ... well we'll have to wait and see

[Milk]

I dont know much about Russian Sci-FI but I recently heard about a book called "We" which was supposed to have been the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984 (or maybe even 1984 plagerized it (?)) Anyone read it? It's something I would probably have to order. American Bookstores dont usually carry books like that-- Barnes and Nobles/Borders/Waldenbooks etc dont have a large Sci-Fi section.

[ChrisBfla]

My wife is from Ukraine and I would love to have her translate some Russian SF for me. We will go hunting in teh bookstores of Kiev this summer.

My own first novel features much of the action in Russia and Ukraine. However, when I asked my wife if she's be willing to translate all 122,000 words for Russian publication her answer was: "Are you kidding me?!"

Chris

[dask]

Originally Posted by ucp

I thought a lot of time about one interesting thing? What west (i.e. english, american...) people know about russian fantastic? What names do you know? What novels do you read?
And your opinion about it.

Last summer I read a short story anthology of Russian SF titled Path Into The Unknown. No editor is listed but it has an introduction by Judith Merril. These were great stories unhurt by translation. At least two of them would have easily appealed to the horror fan. Will undoubtedly read more Russian SF in the future.