Ukrainian film production company ForeFilms begins work on a full-length film adaptation of Vsevolod Nestaiko’s trilogy “Toreadori from Vasyukivka”. The estimated budget of the film is about 2.5 million euros, writes Forbes. The film will be the first adaptation of the book since Ukraine's independence.
Film production ForeFilms, which produced the highest-grossing Ukrainian feature film of 2025, “You Are Space,” is working on a film adaptation of “Toreadors from Vasyukivka.”. The project is at the development stage, and negotiations on rights lasted about six months.
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The copyright holder of the work is the writer’s daughter Elena Maksimenko, with whom the team has been collaborating from the very beginning. According to ForeFilms co-founder Anna Yatsenko, the key issue during the negotiations was the authenticity of the story. According to an optimistic scenario, filming could begin in about a year and a half..
“This will be high-quality children’s content, which we lack so much,” Yatsenko said.
The events of the future film will be transferred from Soviet times to the period of independent Ukraine.. The authors of the idea and directors Roman Krasnoshchek and Anton Chistyakov have been working on the script for several years in collaboration with Maksimenko.
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This will be the debut feature film for both directors.. They have previously produced festival-winning short films, as well as the documentary We're Home, with narration by Stephen Fry.
Producers do not disclose the cost of film rights. At the same time, the film's budget could reach 2.5 million euros due to complex scenes. For comparison, the production of the film “You are Space” cost 800 thousand. Euro.
“The film will have many complex staged scenes, for example, a flood in a village,” noted Anna Yatsenko.
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ForeFilms is a Ukrainian film production company founded in 2020 by Anna and Vladimir Yatsenko. The company worked on the films "