The biggest problem facing the project with the working title Legionaries – Siberian Anabasis at the moment is money. The project is financially quite demanding; the filmmakers estimate the budget at approximately 100 m CZK (3.7 m EUR). The producers are trying a wide range of financing sources including crowdfunding. The film is produced by Jiří Průša and Take One Take and it received funding from the State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic.

The filmmakers are using historical sources and collaboration with historians on the screenplay but the film, according to Nikoleav, will be a fiction feature film. The writer is Miroslav Očšatka and Zdeněk Mahler is the script editor. The shooting is planned for fall 2016, taking place primarily in the Czech Republic.

Credits:

Directed by: Petr Nikolaev
Screenplay: Miroslav Oščatka
Producer: Jiří Pruša
DoP: David Ployhar
More information:
http://www.legiefilm.cz/