In the 90s. The theme of gang warfare, the confrontation between police and criminals was more relevant than ever for Russian cinema. This is what the 1994 film Russian Transit narrates. Actor Evgeny Sidikhin played the main role in the film. What difficulties did his screen hero face? And which of the performers entered the cast of the project?
The creators of the picture
Victor Titov, a graduate of VGIK, began his directorial career in the 60s. XX century His first short film was released on Mosfilm, Oleg Dal played the main role in the film Soldier and Tsarina.
Titov’s career was not bad: in the 70s he shot the legendary comedy “Hello, I’m your aunt!”, In the 80s - the melodrama “Vacation at his own expense”. In the 90s, the director, like many movie figures, was drawn to crime films. As an experiment, Russian Transit was filmed.
Actor Evgeny Sidikhin received the main role for a reason. In his youth, he was engaged in freestyle wrestling and other martial arts. He was in excellent physical shape, and his biography partially echoed the biography of the protagonist.
Viktor Titov co-authored the script for the film with Otar Dugladze. The music for the film was composed by the leader of the DDT group, Yuri Shevchuk.
Russian Transit: actor Yevgeny Sidikhin and his character Boyarov
Evgeny Sidikhin in the 90s turned into a real star of fighters. There were several reasons for this. Firstly, the actor was in excellent physical shape. Secondly, he was engaged in free-style wrestling and understood in martial arts. Thirdly, Sidikhin spent two years at the epicenter of hostilities in Afghanistan, therefore he looked convincingly in the image of a “warrior”, “defender of the truth”. Evgeni Vladimirovich has the same image in the film Russian Transit.
The actor played a certain Alexander Boyarov - a participant in the Afghan war, a karate, who in the 90s. was forced to work as a bouncer in a nightclub. Once in the club there is an emergency - the regular Boris Bystrov is killed . The culprit of what happened is publicly announced Boyarov.
Alexander is hiding from the police and bandits, trying to prove his innocence. In the end, he has to eliminate everyone who was involved in the murder. The hero himself receives a serious injury, the viewer does not fully understand whether the Boyars survived or not.
Other role performers
The actors of the film “Russian Transit” are pretty famous people.
Anna Samokhina (Don Cesar de Bazan) played the role of Alexander Boyarov's lover. Igor Dmitriev (Cyrano de Bergerac) appeared on the screens in the guise of a murder customer. Andrei Urgant (“Window to Paris”) turned into a nightclub administrator and direct chief of the protagonist.