Student life is the most wonderful memory for many of us. Love experiences, worries about overwhelmed exams, worries about an empty refrigerator when you don't know where to get something for dinner. All taken together are wonderful and disturbing student years, the repetition of which will no longer be.
Director Vladimir Rogovoi in 1978 made a comedy about the life of Soviet youth. The working title "Students and Students" in itself speaks of the plot of the film. It is about the life of students that the film “Balamut” tells, the actors and roles convey amazing features to the viewer of the life of students of institutes of the USSR era with amazing reliability.
Students and female students
The plot of the film “Balamut” is based on the life of the rural guy Pyotr Gorokhov (V. Andreev) in the city, his difficult entrance to the institute and the difficult but fun life of a student. All this in a comedic form is displayed in the picture “Balamut”. Actors and roles matched perfectly.
From a small village in Moscow comes Petya Gorokhov. After graduating from a village school, the guy dreams of raising his own collective farm, in which there are not enough specialists. Peter decided at all costs to enter an economic university, but there was clearly not enough training, especially in English. The case helps - the exam is taken by a former teacher Gorokhova Valentina Nikolaevna Romantsova (E. Simonova).
At one time, she could not stand the rural life, ran away, not having finished schoolchildren before the end of the year. Her former student with poor English preparation is like a dumb rebuke to a young teacher. There were still not enough passing points, but the selection committee was “bribed” by a biography written by a guy simply and heartily. Yes, and rural youth at that time tried to give the opportunity to get higher education. The goal is achieved: Petya Gorokhov - a student of an economic university. But now he is waiting for problems with his studies, with money and, of course, love.
Friends called the newly-minted student a balamut, he was very principled, in any case used to defend his point of view, he never compromised his principles. Having quickly mastered among urban youth, Gorokhov becomes the leader of the local student body.
Vadim Andreev - Balamouth Student
Fell in love with many of the movie “Balamut. The actors and the roles they performed were remembered by the audience for a long time, especially Vadim Andreev in the image of Peter. He fit into the team quickly and easily. Few people know that the actor began his career in the world of art, working as assemblers in the theater. At the same time, the guy studied at VGIK, work gave him the opportunity to eat and live normally.
The actors of the film “Balamut” took the debutant into their friendly company, because the role of Peter Gorokhov for Vadim Andreev was his first movie work. His hero is a simple, kind, hardworking country boy who finds it difficult to understand the habits and lifestyle of Moscow students. He managed to teach his classmates the unwritten laws of true friendship and honor, they rightfully recognized leadership in their student world as a just guy.
Vadim Andreev played many different roles in the movie. They were ordinary country boys, police officers, drivers. Negative characters came across, Andreev successfully coped with the roles of bandits. In 2006, the actor was lucky to begin work on the wonderful, very popular project "Cadetism". In this series, he got the image of Major Vasilyuk. This role has become the "calling card" of a fairly well-known artist.
Balamut: actors and roles
Along with the performer of the main “balamut”, other equally talented actors played. The role of student Ani was played by Natalya Kaznacheeva. As for V. Andreev, for her it was the first work in the cinema. In 1979, Natasha graduated from VGIK, immediately began dubbing. Her career in this field has developed brilliantly, Kaznacheeva was awarded the title “Official Voice of the Rossiya TV Channel.” The husband of the actress A. V. Safonov is an actor and dubbing director, so the spouses work on the same thing.
Actors of the film “Balamut” are almost all young, not counting those who play educators and episodic roles. Among this cheerful youth, actor Nikolai Denisov worked on his hero - Sanya Alekhin.
His career in cinema was quite successful, there were a lot of good work. Denisov is only pursued by a strange pattern: all his heroes are unhappy in love, he always participates in love triangles and leaves them the injured party. So in the film “Balamute” Nikolai plays a charming, handsome, cheerful guy who fell in love with student Anna at first sight, but the girl preferred him to Dmitry Alekseevich, associate professor of the institute (E. Karelsky). Here is such an injustice ...
The film "Balamut" (1978): reviews, reviews
The film "Balamut" was conceived in order to entertain and amuse the audience, the director planned an easy youth comedy. It turned out really fun, the comedy was a success, but besides this, the modern viewer managed to make out a lot of sad stories that make one reflect on life.
The film “Balamut”, the actors and roles of which are almost the same students, is valuable in that it reveals to contemporaries a true and detailed description of the life, study, relationships of both friendly and amorous young students. That era appears before the eyes of moviegoers very clearly and clearly. Those people who were students in the seventies undoubtedly recognized themselves in certain heroes. This means that the film turned out successful, its popularity and in our time is a confirmation of this.
Reading reviews of moviegoers, you can only get acquainted with the positive. Of course, the main character, Pyotr Gorokhov, deserved special attention and recognition. They speak with humor of his zeal in the field work, urban youth barely kept up with him. The audience reacted with sympathy to the unhappy love of Sani Alekhine, because the guy did his best, he sang songs, went to college for her sake, and she refused. In some reviews, even a negative was voiced towards the girl: Sanya is so beautiful, and her lover does not reach his level in appearance. Well, as they say, everyone has their own outlook on life.
The film “Balamut” is liked by the older generation, as they feel nostalgia for the Soviet era, and younger, modern students find a lot in common with “Balamut” students. Time goes on, but there are things that do not change over time and remain the same in all years.