A difficult, painful, bloody time is war ... With its coming, the world fades, clouds gather and life loses all its colors. And only people, their heroism, devotion to love, homeland and friendship, their stamina save at this time and give hope. The film "Brest Fortress", the actors and roles of which are matched to each other in perfect correspondence, describes the actions of the distant 1941, when the Brest Fortress heroically withstood the ruthless blow of the German invaders.
Producer
The filmography of the director Alexander Kott already has projects on military subjects - this is the comedy “Two drivers drove”, which tells about the events of the first post-war days and the military drama “Convoy PQ-17”, which is based on the story of the tragic fate of a caravan of ships carrying cargo for the Red Army from Reykjavik to Arkhangelsk. The producer Igor Ugolnikov, making sure that the director is not indifferent to the Great Patriotic War, invited Kott to take a director's chair in the Brest Fortress project. Actors and roles of the film were selected already by the creative union of the director and producer.
The basis for the plot
A group of scriptwriters put the material of painstaking research by Sergei Smirnov, adapted for cinema, into the basis of the script for the painting. The writer literally bit by bit collected material, information, met with the survivors, brought together scattered documentary chronicles and eyewitness accounts. Brest Fortress is a film whose actors conveyed a large-scale chronicle to the viewer thanks to the efforts of Sergei Smirnov. The writer, having revived the events of the legendary history of the defense of the Brest Fortress, was awarded an honorary award - the Order of Lenin.
The Brest Fortress, whose actors are famous and beloved by the domestic audience, suppresses with detailed and lengthy scenes of violence, at the same time, each character in the picture is realistic to the dying horror. First of all, children's characters are stunned, although adults are not inferior to them. Frenzied, fanatically devoted to their "great" idea, the Nazis. Citizens of the USSR, capable of not only courage and achievement, but also indifference, betrayal. Such diverse characteristic characters were embodied on the screen by fairly well-known domestic actors. "Brest Fortress" is deservedly considered one of the best films about the Second World War, filmed in our chaotic modernity.
The narrator
The film accurately conveys hostilities on the territory of the fortress, with its game they were able to convey complex emotions (fear, determination, pain and love) wise by experience and debuting actors. Brest Fortress is a film narrated on behalf of Sashka Akimov, played by Alexei Kopashov. The boy is small, but shows adult restraint and prudence, while bribing and opening his hearts to his childish naivety and faith in Victory. In 2011, Alexey after the 9th grade with the rank of vice sergeant entered the theater class of a Moscow secondary school at VTU. In 2012, another heartbreaking film was released with the participation of the young actor "About him."
Acting Ensemble
Brest Fortress is a film whose actors, having demonstrated their professionalism, made the story documented accurately.
The famous lieutenant Andrei Kizhevatov was played by Andrei Merzlikin. In this film, he is not only the head of the 9th frontier post, but also a father who is worried about his daughter with all his heart. Andrei has four children in his life, and there are much more films and TV shows that many love and know - 115. In 2015, the series “Angel Heart”, “Capture”, “Green Carriage” and “Homeland” were released with the participation of Merzlikin the films “Teacher”, “Happiness is”, “Homeland”, “Unit” and “Norway”. His professionalism was noted by all the actors involved in the filming. Brest Fortress is one of the most successful projects in the filmography of Merzlikin.
Pavel Derevyanko in the "Brest Fortress" played the regimental commissar Yefim Fomin. Pavel has played in more than 76 films and series. The first film with the participation of Derevyanko “We drove two drivers” was released in 2001, in the same year two series “Rostov-Papa” and “Fatalists” were released. Also, many people know Pavel from the films "Tumbler" and "Cook" in 2007, "Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel" in 2011, as well as "Super Beavers" in 2015.
Major Peter Gavrilov was played by Alexander Korshunov. Alexander’s acting career began in 1980 with the film “The Key”, followed by “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife”, “I Can't Say Goodbye”, “Serfs”, “The Return of Mukhtar”, “Dove”, “Pechorin”, “Fool”, “ Territory". Actors from the TV series "Brest Fortress" were pleased with the presence of Korshunov on the set of the picture.
Secondary Characters
Evgeny Tsyganov perfectly coped with the role of senior political officer Pochernikov. In his filmography, there are about 50 films. In 2015, the series Crisis of Tender Age, Red Bracelets, Concerned, or Love of Evil, Fartsa, as well as films 8, About Love, Country of OZ, Paradise, and "The Battle of Sevastopol." Eugene is also known from the films “Territory” in 2014, “Icon of the Season” in 2013, “Happy Ending” in 2009 and “Peter FM”; he is respected by domestic film critics and fellow actors. “Brest Fortress” in 2010 was an nontrivial test for the actor, since he simultaneously took part in the filming of the film “And there was no better brother.”
Maxim Kostromykin realistically reincarnated as a mechanic in Kolka . The actor is 36 years old, and he has already played in almost 50 films and series. In 2008, Maxim graduated from VGIK, and in 2004 he played in the TV series "Balzac Age, or All Men Are Their Own ...". Many will know Kostromykin from the films “Four taxi drivers and a dog”, “Vanechka”, “Elsa”, “Everyone will die, but I will stay”, as well as “The Bride at all costs”, “Eye for an eye”, “My boyfriend is an angel”, "Fir-trees 3", "Fir-trees 1914" and "Principle of Talion".
Self-sufficiency of a patriotic blockbuster
Brest Fortress: actors and roles, narrative style, plot intrigue, historically reliable material - everything in the film is like a time capsule in which the creators put a message for posterity. The authors of the film managed to clear the term "patriotism" from all distorted meanings, without undue pathos and vulgarity to show the true heroism and courage of the Soviet people.