"The Battle of Sevastopol." Actors of one of the most successful modern Russian films about the war

“The Battle of Sevastopol” is one of the most successful modern Russian films about the war, a powerful, multifaceted, high-quality, historical film project that surpasses Stalingrad in soulfulness and Battalion in organization.

The feat of the brave we sing glory

It is very gratifying to note that the contemporary Russian director Sergei Mokritsky, taking a picture of the Great Patriotic War, found the right approach to the subject and created a worthy film that could not be lost among the military film masterpieces of the Soviet era. According to the acknowledgment of leading film critics, it impresses with the fact that the director, paying tribute to the patriotic message of the project and the immortal exploits of the defenders of the Fatherland, remembered the humanistic assessment of the tragedy. The film “Battle for Sevastopol” (front-end actors: Y. Peresild, E. Tsyganov, O. Vasilkov) has an IMDb rating of 7.20.

Plot

The actors involved in the production embodied the idea of ​​the director of the film “The Battle of Sevastopol” perfectly, despite the fact that the plot is based on part of the real life story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko - crowned with the glory of a woman sniper.

The talent of a well-aimed shooter appeared in Luda at the age of twenty, in peacetime. The treacherous attack of the fascist armada caught the girl in her student years, without five minutes a wife in sunny Odessa, her unique abilities came in handy here. Having reached the front, Pavlichenko instantly became a thunderstorm for the fascist invaders, having eliminated more than three hundred enemy soldiers and officers in a year. Lyudmila was wounded four times, lost her beloved man and friends in the war. In 1942, it was commissioned and became part of the Soviet delegation sent to the United States in order to agitate American citizens and the government to open a second front. Foreign journalists dubbed Pavlichenko "Lady Death."

Unbroken

After the rental, praise was given to the entire film crew of the movie “Battle for Sevastopol”: actors, screenwriters, director, cameraman, artists and montage specialists. Indeed, the film was a success - and not only because the story was based on the story of a real heroine who took part in the defense of Sevastopol. Equally important, the role of the legendary character was played by one of the best actresses of our time - Julia Peresild. How accurately she recreated the image of the real Lyudmila, it is unknown, according to experts, the girl on the archive records seems more cheerful and smiling than the performer in the film showed, but the work on the role was tremendous. The movie heroine turned out to be closed and ruffled, even gloomy, but certainly not empty. After participating in the film “The Battle of Sevastopol”, Julia Peresild was recognized as the owner of an enviable acting talent and named a worthy successor to the traditions of Soviet psychological cinema. According to film experts, her mastery is saturated with sincerity and cordial openness, and her sense of responsibility to the audience is ideally combined with hard work. The filmography of the actress includes more than forty films, including Esenin, Enchanted Land, Prisoner, Five Brides, Parajanov, The Executioner, Lyudmila Gurchenko and many others.

Textured Actors

Of course, one cannot fail to mention other artists involved in the film “The Battle of Sevastopol”. Actors, all without exception - Russian and Ukrainian, playing soldiers and civilians, reincarnated as Americans and our compatriots, showed real professionalism and full dedication. Each character is quite emotional, life is visible in each. In addition to the brilliant Julia Peresild, three actors stand out: Oleg Vasilkov, Nikita Tarasov and Evgeny Tsyganov, who played three significant men in the life of the main character.

Nikita Tarasov had to reincarnate as Boris Chopak, a military doctor. The performer is known to a wide audience in the image of the confectioner-gay Louis from the series “Kitchen”, the film “First Attempt”, the television films “Heavy Sand”, “One Night of Love” and “Life and Adventures of the Bear Jap”.

Oleg Vasilkov played the role of captain, sniper Makarov. The actor has tremendous professional experience, his filmography exceeds 45 film works, although he accidentally got into the cinema from the army, where he took part in the filming of the film “One Hundred Days Before Order”. In most paintings, the performer played minor and episodic roles of heroes with a criminal bias. The popularity came to Vasilkov after the paintings “Convoy” and “Tambourine, drum”.

In the movie “Battle for Sevastopol” Evgeny Tsyganov played the partner of the main character, sniper, captain Leonid Kitsenko. The debut in the cinema of the performer is considered to be the “Collector” tape (2001), since then, combining acting and directing, Tsyganov took part in 50 films. He is known to a wide audience for the films Brest Fortress, Mermaid, Inadequate People, Walk.

Screen First Lady

Producers of the film project invited stately Joan Blackham to the role of Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of US President Franklin Roosevelt. The performer, who tried on the screen hypostasis of the first lady, presented to the audience the bright, textured character, in her own way emotional. The actress perfectly plunged into the provided scenario material, watching her heroine is just pleasure, and feeling every emotion is pleasure.