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The Case of Bezpyaty

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About the project

The Case of Bezpyaty is a feature-length crime comedy directed by Valerii Shalyha, the first film adaptation of the classic Ukrainian play A Hundred Thousand by Ivan Karpenko-Karyi. The film was shot in the summer of 2023 in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, and Koziatyn. It features a star cast of Ukrainian actors: Bohdan Beniuk (in the lead role of Herasym Kalytka), Lesia Samaieva, Volodymyr Nikolaienko, Oleksandr Hannochenko, Roman Khalaimov, and others. The film premiered at the 15th Odesa International Film Festival.

This is a classic story, adapted and reimagined in a new way, about human greed, obsession with land, and gullibility. The wealthy peasant Herasym Kalytka dreams of buying up all the surrounding land but catastrophically lacks the money. Wanting to save money and get around the system, he ventures a risky, dishonest deal: he buys 100,000 in counterfeit money from swindlers for 5,000. Instead of the dreamed-of wealth and new land, Kalytka and his crony get bundles of ordinary paper, becoming a victim of his own insatiability.

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