Keanu Reeves Stars In SIBERIA – In Theaters And On Demand Friday, July 13

Hitting theaters on Friday, July 13 is Saban Films’ SIBERIA starring Keanu Reeves.

Check out the trailer below.

The film also features Ana Ularu, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Dmitry Chepovetsky, James Gracie, Eugene Lipinski, Rafael Petardi, with Veronica Ferres and Molly Ringwald.

SIBERIA follows Lucas (Reeves), an American diamond merchant, who travels to St. Petersburg to sell rare blue diamonds of questionable origin. As the deal immediately begins to collapse, Lucas travels to Siberia in search of his missing partner and their diamonds, where he quickly falls into a relationship with Katya (Ularu), the owner of a small Siberian café. As Lucas and Katya’s passion builds, so does the treacherous world of the diamond trade from which he is unable to extricate himself. Both collide as Lucas desperately searches for an escape route in a world with no exit.

The film is directed by Matthew Ross (FRANK & LOLA). “I think his film Frank and Lola had great taste and was moving and intimate,” says Reeves. “Working with Matthew has been really a pleasure. He has a vision for the film and has been really responsive to the writing, to the original material, but he’s really taking it in a very romantic emotional direction, which I think is fantastic. He has a real eye in terms of the aesthetics. What I want out of a director is someone with a vision, who can look at what they are seeing, hear what they are hearing, and then give direction. That’s Matthew.”

Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are the film’s composers. Ross first partnered with the two on FRANK & LOLA and he’s known them long before any of them began their careers in feature filmmaking. “I love working with old friends, especially when those old friends happen to be musical geniuses – it was clear when they were playing in rock bands back when we were ‘kids’ and especially now” says Ross. “I’m really proud of the score they composed for SIBERIA. As we did with Frank & Lola, I wanted to create an environment where risktaking wasn’t just encouraged but necessary. And they just killed it. We wanted to go for a Bernard-Herrmann-meets-Tchaikovsky kind of vibe. They took that and ran with it. The music they comnposed has a profound effect on the viewing experience. It doesn’t simply augment the story’s exisiting emotions; it also creates new ones.”

You can also catch the film streaming On Demand.

Photos courtesy of Saban Films.