There are plenty of films about how provincial people conquer the Russian capital. Each of them tells the story of an ordinary person who sets off in search of a better life. But not only the characters overcome a lot of difficulties. In addition to them, there is another category of those who once came to Moscow to become a screen star. These are the actors. “City of Temptations” - a domestic series showing all the brilliance and dark sides of our hospitable capital, will be the topic of this article.
Folk drama
The picture was released in 2009. It intertwines several stories of people who decided to change their lifestyle. Everyone knows that Moscow is opening its arms to everyone. However, for each she calls her price. Anyone who conquers the capital full of temptations should be stronger than her. This is described by the “City of Temptations”. The actors of the series are eminent television personalities, whose personalities we will dwell on.
Parallels with your own life
For some of the leading actors, agreeing to play in such a picture is somewhat like a tribute to their own fates. This is because they themselves several years ago moved from provincial towns, dreaming of becoming famous someday throughout the country. Someone has everything ahead, but someone has already succeeded.
Actors, “City of Temptations” for which was not the first, but significant project, are known to the public. Among them - the performer of the main role of Nastya Goncharova - Yanina Studilina. The girl was born in 1985 in Omsk. At the age of fifteen, she graduated from the music school named after Kazarnovsky and entered the theater university in Moscow. Now Ioannina is a sought-after star of domestic cinema. She is constantly busy on the set, her track record includes about thirty works.
A native of Kazakhstan, Nina Yesina came to the capital as a teenager. With the end of GITIS, she began to actively act in films, played in the films “Mom, Don’t Cry!”, “Voronin”, “Everyone Will Die, But I Will Remain.”
The actors, “City of Temptations” for whom recalled the story of their acquaintance with the Russian capital, are not only girls. Anton Eskin, a native of Zarechny, also moved to Moscow after school. Almost immediately, he became the star of the screen. In 2004, he made his debut in the film “An Angel Came to You”. Anton played in a number of successful domestic paintings, and in the “City of Temptations” he got the role of the bandit Scar.
Age and distance do not matter
For this sought-after star of the Russian screen, family relations played an important role. Victoria Tarasova, the half-sister of Marina Kudelinskaya, showed her the life that actors live by her example. The “City of Temptations” for the latter was a fresh reminder of how she decided to enter the theater institute, and therefore went to the capital from her native Smolensk. Unlike Tarasova, who began her creative career earlier, Kudelinskaya began acting in 2005, when she turned 40 years old. During her career, she managed to try on several interesting and vivid images.
Actors of the series “City of Temptations” are not fully listed. Be sure to mention Oksana Kutuzova, born in 1974. After graduating from the Kiev Theater Institute for a long time, she conducted news programs on a leading television channel, and only in 2007 she first played in the series “Love is not show business”. Among her most famous works are the paintings “Contracted Happiness”, “The Bride at Any Cost”, and “Duhless”.
Conquest of the capital: minor actors
“City of Temptations” includes a large list of diverse characters - from provincial girls with naive looks to notorious scammers and bandits. The actors involved in the series are both little-known and famous stars of the screen: Dmitry Nagiyev, Ivan Nikolaev, Dmitry Mityurich, Vitaliy Mikhaltsov, Natalya Tishchenko, Maxim Shchegolev, Vladimir Tyagichev, Natalya Smirnova, Gennady Shnyptev and others.