When in 2011 the film “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ”, the actors and creators of the film became“ a talk of the town ”: some reproached them for incorrectly placing accents and making an ordinary drug addict out of a legendary man, others were delighted with the material they saw. Who really believe?
Performer of the role of Vysotsky
The script for the film was written by Nikita Vysotsky - one of the sons of the famous actor and poet. Therefore, the facts from the life of Vysotsky, reflected in the picture, were more than true. Another thing, was it necessary to flaunt them? This is the matter of the creators of the picture themselves, their creative solution. But fans of Vysotsky’s talent, of course, were offended by the angle of view from which the life of their idol was considered.
For a long time, the name of the actor who played the role of Vladimir Semenovich was kept secret. According to Nikita Vysotsky himself, even those who worked on the set, including the actors, did not know this.
The thing is that the performer of the role always appeared in public in a special high-tech makeup and was like two drops of water like a character entrusted to him. Under this mask, Sergei Bezrukov, who later turned out to be this mysterious “Mr. X”, was hardly recognized. With the inherent skill of the actor, he transformed not only his psychophysics, but also his voice, so his partners on the stage for a long time wondered who they really were.
Sergei Bezrukov played a lot of outstanding personalities in the movie: Yesenin, Pushkin, Dantes, General Kappel. In the reconstruction of the image of Vysotsky, the actor put a lot of effort: gait, voice, gestures - everything was exactly the same. However, the viewer was distracted by an unnatural “mask”, a make-up on the performer’s face, as well as an unsuccessful script that did not reveal the truth of Vladimir Vysotsky’s nature and revolved only around the “harmful addictions” of the famous actor.
Akinshina as Tatyana Ivleva
Oksana Akinshina is a fairly well-known Russian actress who is famous for her role as a fatal woman. And this time she got a similar role: she embodied on the screen the image of Tatyana Ivleva - Vysotsky's last hobby.
In fact, the prototype of Ivleva is a real person - designer Oksana Afanasyeva. Many of the names of real heroes in the film were changed to fictitious, in order to avoid conflicts with people who are still alive and have the right to privacy.
As for the heroine Akinshina, she appears before us as a young girl who is passionately passionate about her famous friend and ready for everything for him: even to break in the middle of the night, find a dose of morphine and fly to Tashkent by hook or by crook. Thanks to Tatyana, judging by the plot of the film, the desperate doctor Nefedov manages to return Vysotsky “from the other world”.
“Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ”: actors. Ivan Urgant
One of the main characters in the film was played by Ivan Urgant. His hero - Seva Kulagin - combines the character traits of two prototypes at once: actors Ivan Dykhovichny and Vsevolod Abdulov.
In the painting “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ”actors Maxim Leonidov and many others were characters of counter-action - a group of people who tried to use Vysotsky’s talent for profit and practically did not care about his health. The hero of Urgant, together with the heroine Akinshina, on the contrary, tried to save his talented friend from self-destruction, but they practically did not succeed: Vysotsky himself did not want to take care of himself, and continued to stubbornly run forward, taking on unbearable loads - endless concerts, shooting.
“Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ": actors. Maxim Leonidov
Maxim Leonidov in the image of Pavel Leonidov appears before the viewer in the image of a sort of vile villain.
Pavel Leonidov is an impresario of Vysotsky, who was involved in the organization of concerts. Naturally, as an impresario, Leonidov fed “with interest”, so it was in his interests that Vysotsky play as many concerts as possible.
Initially, the tour in Bukhara was canceled, but it was precisely under the onslaught of Leonidov that Vysotsky travels to hot Uzbekistan in the middle of summer, where he experiences clinical death due to high loads and excessive heat.
Panin as a doctor Nefedova
Andrei Panin, who died two years after the film was released, played the role of his personal doctor, Anatoly Nefedov (in reality, Anatoly Fedotov) in the biographical picture about Vysotsky.
It is Anatoly Nefedov who accompanies his friend on that ill-fated trip to Uzbekistan, and then tries to save him at the moment when Vysotsky’s heart stopped. According to the plot of the film, Vysotsky’s heart did not beat for about 8 minutes, which, according to the laws of medical practice, should have meant brain necrosis and final death. But Ivleva manages to bring the hero Panin to life, and he decides to take the last desperate step - an injection of adrenaline in his heart. And here a problem arises: for such a procedure there is no suitable needle. Then Nefedov goes to the experiment and injects adrenaline into the neck. Vysotsky instantly comes to his senses.
In addition to Panin, Bezrukov, Leonidov and Akinshina, such famous actors as Vladimir Menshov, Andrei Smolyakov, Vladimir Ilyin and others starred in the film.