In 2013, TVC hosted the premiere of the comedy series Kill the Thrush. Actors Daniil Spivakovsky and Anna Snatkina played the heroes who made the jump in time and found themselves in the atmosphere of the Civil War of 1917. Can the screen pair get out of the time loop? And how will the heroes be able to return unscathed back to the 21st century?
The creators and the short plot of the picture
Director Dmitry Gerasimov during his career made only 4 films: “If the sky is silent”, “Back to happiness”, “The Beauharnais effect” and “Kill the thrush”.
Actors Daniil Spivakovsky and Anna Snatkina were invited to the main roles not by chance - Gerasimov already collaborated with performers in other projects.
The fantastic comedy “Kill the Thrush” begins with the fact that the unlucky boring realtor Yarik is sent to a provincial town to buy out the building of an old planetarium. In the compartment, he meets a fellow traveler Jeanne, who turns out to be his namesake.
Yaroslav does not even suspect that a prudent intelligence agent with a firm hand and a cold mind is sitting opposite him. By an absurd accident, at the station at the final destination, the namesakes are confused by those who meet: this is how the eccentric Yarik gets into the company of the security forces, and Jeanne is mistaken for the capital's realtor. But this is only the beginning of their joint adventures. Next, the couple will travel through time and will be at the beginning of the 20th century, at the epicenter of the Civil War.
"Kill the Thrush": Daniil Spivakovsky and his character Yarik
Daniil Spivakovsky - GITIS graduate and theater actor. Vladimir Mayakovsky. Spivakovsky began acting in films in 2002. His first role immediately turned out to be the main one: in the melodramatic series “Two Fates”, Daniel played Marika - musician, producer and first husband Svetlana Grigorieva.
Spivakovsky often appears on screens in comedic images. His characters are distinguished by some absurdity and awkwardness. This is the character of Daniel in the comedy "Kill the Thrush."
Actors-performers of the main roles played the exact opposite on the screens: Yarik Drozd (D. Spivakovsky) is completely undeveloped physically, not adapted to life, cannot stand up for himself and is constantly annoying; Zhanna Drozd (A. Snatkina) is able to lay the enemy with one left, knows how to calculate all the moves in advance and stubbornly moves towards her goal. Together, namesakes fall into the past, in 1917 - the time when gangs raged on the territory of Russia and complete anarchy reigned. And in order to survive in such a difficult environment, Yarik and Zhanna will have to try very hard.
Kill the Thrush: actors. Anna Snatkina as Zhanna Drozd
Anna Snatkina is a graduate of VGIK. In her youth, the actress was engaged in gymnastics, but then made a choice in favor of acting and not sports. In this regard, the artist in the 2000s. serious health problems appeared - Anna's lower limbs were paralyzed.
Anna Snatkina completed a rehabilitation course and by the time she finished her studies at VGIK got back on her feet. Since then, the actress has been actively promoting herself in the cinema. It all started with an episodic role in the series "Plot", then there was "Yesenin". Real fame came to the girl after the project "Doomed to become a star." Then the whole country found out who Anna Snatkina was.
“Killing Thrush” is a successful experiment in the career of an actress. Usually she plays in melodramas, but here she managed to fit into the comedy genre. Her heroine, however, walks with an extremely serious face throughout the film. However, the appearance of the assembled special agent Zhanna Drozd favorably shaded the image of the clumsy and funny realtor Yarik.
Other role performers
In the film “Kill the Thrush” you can also see Vadim Kolganov (“The Shuttles”), Alexander Rapoport (“Citizen Nobody”) and Marina Kudelinskaya (“Murka”).