Toxxovo-3: A Vigorous Summer

Documentary/comedy/disaster, 29 min, Color, VHS-C

Logline

Pavel Shlyago (in winter hat and sunglasses) gets back to Toksovo to destroy everything there using the magic power of cinema.

About

The concept of the third part of Toxic Project initially was the same as two previous parts —yet another excursion around Toksovo, just more places of interest (including some of portrayed before, now in summer setting), more scenes and more days to shoot. But everything changed in the midst of the principal photography which took place in summer 2001. Thanks to a host’s single phrase, applied to the hotel discharging waste into the lake, «We have nothing to do with this, except perhaps blow it up». We found it a good reason to add some corky visual effects to black humor and hand-held camera. A few building explosions, a car crash, a plane crash, a train crash, as much CG-fun as no-budget filmmakers could afford.

Also we reached the top of the Big Ski Jump and got into the enclosure with wisent-bison hybrids.

During postproduction of “Toxxovo 3”, we did a peaceful sketch “Autumn in Toksovo”, but it was more a bonus to the epic 3rd part than a separate movie.