Director Dinara Asanova was looking for actors in the film "Boys" (1983) right on the streets of Leningrad. “Difficult” teenagers starred in the film. Some of them got to the set from the children's room of the police. What happened to the fate of the actors of the movie "Boys" (1983)?
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Dinara Asanova in Soviet times was known as the director of youth films. In 1974, she shot the film "The Woodpecker Does Not Hurt His Head." This is one of her most successful works. Later the films “Trouble”, “Useless”, “Wife Left”, “Children of Discord”, “What Would You Choose?” Came out. Elena Tsyplakova, Olga Mashnaya, Marina Levtova debuted in her paintings. Asanova helped reveal the talent of Valery Priyemykhova.
One of the actors in the movie "Boys" (1983) is the son of the director Anvar Asanov. He did not act in films anymore. Anvar after the death of his mother became a hermit. Dinara Asanova passed away in 1985, on the set of the painting “The Stranger”.
The film "Boys" (1983): actor and roles
The story of the creation of the film begins in the late seventies. Initially, the script was offered to the director Sergei Solovyov. In the film "Boys" (1983), the actor Valery Priyemykhov played the main role. Solovyov saw Vladimir Vysotsky as the head of the summer labor camp. However, the leadership of Mosfilm did not allow this idea to be implemented.
In the movie "Boys" (1983), the actors played mostly unprofessional. Ordinary teenagers, usually difficult, were involved. The pupils of the sports labor camp were played by Sergey Naumov, Andrey Zykov, Oleg Horev, Alexander Sovkov, Evgeny Nikitin. Olga Mashnaya first starred in the film Asanova in 1980. It was the movie Useless. In the film "Boys" she played the sister of Vova Kireeva. The role of Sinitsyn was the debut for Alexei Poluyan. Below is described in more detail about the actors of the movie "Boys" (1983).
The song "How I Wandered ...", sounded in the film, became popular. In the nineties, it was performed by Yuri Barabash. Asanova initially proposed writing songs for the Okudzhava film, but he refused. The authors of the songs that sound in "Boys" - Victor Bolshakov, Vitaly Chernitsky.
Andrey Zykov
The actor played the role of Vova Kireeva. In 1984, Andrei Zykov starred in the film "Alone and Without a Weapon." Later he was involved in work on a documentary film dedicated to Asanova and her painting "Boys". Nevertheless, Zykov’s cinematic career did not take place. Today he works as a system administrator, lives in St. Petersburg.
Sergey Naumov
The future performer of the role of Sasha Belousov in the film of Dinara Asanova was born in an ordinary Leningrad family. Parents divorced, mother married a second time. The stepfather did not find a common language with Sergey. The boy was identified in a special school. Here he was found by the assistant director of the film "Boys".
Shortly after the release of the film, Naumov went to jail. He did not stay there for long. However, already three months after his release, he was again arrested. Naumov was accused of armed robbery. The former actor was sentenced to seven years in prison. In 2014, Sergey Naumov took part in the filming of the program "Let them talk." According to his confessions, he has no more problems with the law, he is married and has a child.
Oleg Horev
In the film, he played Andrei Zaitsev. Horev dreamed of an acting career. However, after filming the picture "Boys" is no longer acted in films. He worked as a driver, once suffered a serious injury, after which he suffered from epileptic seizures. Oleg Khorev passed away in 2001.
Alexander Sovkov
The role in the film Asanova became for him the first and last. Alexander Sovkov lived in St. Petersburg, worked as a restorer. He died in 2005. The cause of death is a heart attack. He was not even forty.
Alexey Poluyan
The name of this actor is known to many. Unlike most others who played in the film "Boys" of the labor camp pupils, he continued his career in cinema. Until 2002, Poluyan starred mainly in episodes. Fame brought him the scandalous picture "Cargo 200" by Alexei Balabanov. The actor played on the stage of the Leningrad Theater of the Absurd. In recent years, he abused alcohol, which caused the development of pancreatitis. He died in January 2010.
Valery Priyemykhov
The actor played his first role in the movie in 1979, in the film "The Wife Left." Then he starred in such films as “In the mud”, “Simple death”, “Useless”, “My battle crew”. Valery Priyemykhov played his best role in the 1989 film "Cold Summer of the Fifty-third ...". The actor passed away in 2000.