The film "Faster than Rabbits" was released on January 1, 2014. From this article you will learn all about the tape: actors and roles, plot, reviews and reviews.
The motion picture is a comedy, in some ways even parodying horror films. It is based on the performance of the quartet of the same name, which has been going on stage since 2005. The film is already the fourth joint work of Quartet I and director Dmitry Dyachenko.
Quartet And
The Quartet I is a popular comic theater, created in 1993 by graduates of the GITIS pop department. The team staged the first performance “These are just stamps” on the student scene. It consisted of short jokes and stories. Subsequently, the actors created the project “Another Theater”, in which celebrities play. Another member of the quartet is director Sergei Petreikov.
The team has counted four successful films based on performances. The first was “Election Day” (2007), which was well received by the audience, a year later, followed by “Radio Day”, which brought great popularity to the team, and in 2010 and 2011, the audience’s favorite dilogy “What Men Talk About” and “What men still say. ” The fifth film, Faster Than Rabbits, became the New Year premiere of 2014.
Actors and roles. Quartet members
Leonid Barats played in the film the role of Lesha, one of the friends who woke up in an unfamiliar place. Leonid (most often friends and acquaintances for some reason call him Alexei), is an actor, one of the founders of Quartet I, screenwriter, director. He participated in writing the script for the film “Faster than the Rabbits”. Actors write scripts for performances and films on their own.
The second hero with temporary amnesia is called Glory. It was played by Rostislav Chait. The roles of quartet members are often inextricably linked to their real personalities. The characters bear the same names - Slava and Lesha, and just like in life, they are best friends, they know each other from early childhood. We can say that the actors play themselves, caught in an unusual situation. Rostislav Chait - one of the founders of the comedy quartet, actor and screenwriter. He also co-wrote the script for the film.
Camille Larin plays a tipsy traffic police inspector. During his studies, Camille met Lesha and Slava, became one of the founders of the quartet. He participated in writing the script for the film.
Alexander Demidov embodied the image of the transvestite Gena (in the theatrical version, also the administrator Gennady). A man in whose appearance there is nothing feminine looks in a transvestite outfit really comical. Alexander Demidov is not only an actor, but also a screenwriter, producer and television figure. One of the founders of the quartet.
"Faster than rabbits". Actors and roles
Igor Zolotovitsky plays Garik, a business partner of Lesha and Glory, who tricked them with money. Nonna Grishaeva played the role of Garik's wife at the last judgment. Artem Smola played a classmate of Glory and Lesha, a medalist who left to live in the United States 20 years ago.
Ekaterina Kuznetsova played the prostitute Lena (and the secretary in the theatrical version). Grigory Danziger got a lot of roles - a man in a rabbit costume, a drug dealer, an inquisitor, a prosecutor (and an auditor in a theatrical version).
Cameo
In the works of Quartet I, stars often appear in the cameo, that is, in the role of themselves. The movie Faster Than Rabbits was no exception.
Dmitry Dibrov and Valdis Pelsh appeared in the fantasies of heroes in the roles of their hosts “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and “The Draw”.
Vadim and Gleb Samoilov appeared on the pseudo-filming of the clip of the group “Agatha Christie”.
Reviews
The film received very controversial reviews from both viewers and critics. Many expected a certain logical continuation of the film “What Men Talk About,” and the phantasmagoric comedy of the absurd caused surprise and disappointment. Movie search rating is 6.2, IMDb is 6.1.
Plot
The first frames of the film are shown through the eyes of Garik. He talks on the phone, walks over to the car and sits up, after which he faints. In the next scene, the friends Slava and Lesha come to their senses in a strange place. They obviously had a fun night, drank a lot and don't remember anything. At first, the heroes believe that they got into Garik’s house, but he soon announces himself and it turns out that no one knows where they are and how they got there.
Friends begin to explore the room and find themselves in a very strange place - this is a house consisting of many corridors and rooms, without windows and doors. In the rooms they find wreaths, a coffin and a memorial table.
Over time, other perplexed characters also begin to appear - the trance of Gena (Madame Julie), whom the guys found in the club and invited him on a limousine ride, the drunk inspector of the traffic police who caught him on the road, his classmate Edik, who was met at the airport, and the prostitute Lena from an intimate salon.
Together, the heroes are trying to restore the events of last night and understand where they are. Versions arise one after another and gradually the characters come to the conclusion that they died together in an accident. They begin to reflect on their loved ones, life, death and the afterlife.
The last to appear is a man in a rabbit costume, flashed in the memories of heroes. It turns out that this is a drug dealer who sold the company a certain substance, a side effect of which is memory loss, and everyone is in a strange house built by his father. A window and a door appear at the end of the room.
But at this moment the heroes begin to think about inconsistencies of such a version, and Garik realizes that he really died, and everything that happens is as if a memory of his life. All other characters disappear and he, along with the drug dealer, a guide to the afterlife, finds himself at the place of his death, which was caused by a stroke.
Author's ending
The film ends with captions, against which the characters share their impressions of what happened, thoughts and emotions. The last word is pronounced by the deceased Garik.
Theatrical ending
The theater ending includes seven additional minutes, as if continuing the film. Show Garik's office. Glory and Lesha read him a new script - everything that happened earlier turns out to be an idea for a new film. The end with the death of the hero categorically does not like Garik, since the premiere should take place on New Year's Eve and the movie with a bad ending does not fit. Then Slava and Lesha come up with another ending - the film ends with a scene in which the main characters in the office read the script to Garik.
In the last frames, you can see how Garik goes outside and gets into the car. This scene completely repeats the beginning of the film.
Interesting Facts
- After watching the name of the film and the play raises a lot of questions, as the plot is not explained and not mentioned. Actors are often asked what exactly means the phrase “Faster than rabbits” and how it relates to the content of the film. The authors' answer to this question can be called philosophical. They say that we live fast, scurry around, all events rush through, like in a kaleidoscope. But suddenly everything will stop, and it may happen that there’s nothing to look back at.
- Much has been written about death. In particular, the stages of this process are described in the book "On Death and Dying" by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, and are also mentioned by the comedian in the movie "All This Jazz" by Bob Foss. The first stage, rage, is followed by denial, later by trade and depression, and finally, acceptance comes. The heroes of the film go through all these stages, although not always in the same sequence.
- There are two versions of the film, theatrical and author. The theatrical version, which was shown in cinemas, is 7 minutes longer and has a different ending, and the author’s version was released on DVD.
- In the movie Faster Than Rabbits, the actors take part in the filming of the nonexistent clip of the Agatha Christie band. At that time, the team no longer existed for 4 years.