John Malkovich has joined the cast of Siberian Education, the film directed by Gabriele Salvatores and based on the first novel of the same name by Nicolai Lilin. The shooting will start in late August.
The production company Cattleya ensured the rights of a new literary event: Siberian Education, a debut book written in Italian by the young Nicolai Lilin and published by Einaudi. A debut that from the start has aroused a strong interest in the Italian press.
In this autobiographical book, the author recalls the crucial stages of a dangerous adolescence, lived at the end of the USSR in the criminal ghetto of Transnistria, between Moldova and Ukraine, where in the ’30s Stalin deported the irreducible Siberian outlaws. A bewildering world, never told before, in which crime is governed by a strict ethical code and honest criminals share the cult of weapons, the hatred of the police and illegal trafficking, without ever violating the sacred code: no drugs and maximum respect for the disabled and elderly.
After Romanzo Criminale (a cult film and tv show) and Acab, Cattleya renews its focus on books of extraordinary narrative power, and this time it does so with an unusual, vivid and thoughtful work.
The film, which has an international profile, will be shot in English in areas near to those described in the novel and the screenplay will be made by Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia (Romanzo Criminale, The Best of Youth).
Riccardo Tozzi, President of Cattleya, said:
“It’s a great novel about modernity. The story of a social group that saves its identity against the tsarism and Stalinism, but loses it with globalization and easy money. A borderline, adventurous and overwhelming case, which speaks to all of us. ”
Einaudi confirms through its managing editor, Ernesto Franco:
“Siberian Education is a book of discovery. The reader gets on the ship, enter an unknown ocean and discovers, just like an explorer, a piece of the world that it didn’t know existed until that moment.”
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