"Country of Oz" is a Russian comedy, which premiered in 2015 as part of the Kinotavr festival. Both beginners and illustrious actors took part in the film, including Yana Troyanova, Gosha Kutsenko, Andrey Ilyenkov, Evgeny Tsyganov, Inna Churikova, Alexander Bashirov and others. All of them appear in completely unexpected and unpredictable images.
Plot
The main character of the film is Lenka Shabadinova, who recently divorced her husband and leads a marginal lifestyle. On New Year's Eve, her friend and part-cousin Ira quarreled with her foreign boyfriend, and he decided to part with her in a strange way - he threw him out of the window. Lying in a snowdrift, Irka decides to call Lena to call for help and avenge her fiery cavalier for abusive behavior.
Having developed a plan, the girls again try to get into the apartment of a foreigner. However, the repeated invasion ends unsuccessfully for Irka. She again falls out of the window and breaks the tailbone. The girl lies in the snow and waits for an ambulance, which is in no hurry to arrive, because on the eve of the most traumatic holiday, many residents of the city need medical help.
In the meantime, Lena is left completely alone in the midst of the festivities and slowly gathers for a new job to accept a shift in the stall. But first, she needs to get to the Peat moss street. However, where this place is located, even the all-knowing Google has no idea. Get to the heroine of the "Country of Oz" help, although for the most part interfere, bystanders. Some of them do not have a heart, others - courage, the third lacks intelligence. They want to find all this somewhere under the tree. Or at least not lose the last in the New Year's turmoil. Shabadinova wants only one thing - to find that unfortunate stall.
At this time, at work, Lenka is waiting for the changer, who in the past worked as a writer. He stays in the company of a friend named Duke - an alcoholic and a former jailer. In a stall on the street Torforez pals philosophize and drink. Liters of alcohol and an abundance of wisdom drive them to madness. One is trying to spoil everything around, and the second is to incinerate. However, this is only the beginning of the adventures of the ordinary Russian woman Lenka, not burdened with high intellect and high salary, but endowed with an incredibly kind heart and the ability to get into comical situations. Who played this colorful heroine in the film "Country of Oz"?
Actors
The unsuccessful Lena was played by Yana Troyanova. This actress is an extraordinary personality. Troyanova graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow Art Theater School, then worked for several years in the theater. In 2007 she made her film debut. And a little later, the actress played the role for which she was awarded the prize at the Kinotavr. The actress performed the main character in the film with a heavy and gloomy plot - “The Top”.
Gosha Kutsenko played a wizard (albeit a rather strange one) in the film "Country of Oz". The actor played the role of an eccentric personality brilliantly. Alexander Bashirov appeared on the screen in the image of a drunken philosopher with a criminal past. Other actors of the film “The Oz Countries”: Andrei Ilyenkov, Evgeny Tsyganov, Svetlana Kamynina. One of the heroines was performed by a star of Soviet and Russian cinema - Inna Churikova.
The above is information about the film "Country of Oz" (cast and plot). The creators of the film as the basis for the plot used the work of Alexander Volkov, written based on Frank Baum’s book “The Wizard of Oz”.
Actors of the 1939 film
The Russian film has nothing in common with this film. The film adaptation of the famous novel, created in the 30s at the MGM studio, is designed for children, which can not be said about the Russian film “Country of Oz”. The actors who performed the roles in the American film-tale are Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Frank Morgan.
“The Wizard of Oz”: Tale Contents
The plot of this picture is known to Russian-speaking readers. Indeed, in our country Volkov’s book, which is the author’s translation of a novel by a foreign writer, has always enjoyed great popularity.
The actors of The Wizard of Oz created a fairy tale story on the screen. The film contains well-known characters: Lumberjack, Scarecrow and Leo, suffering from various phobias. The girl Dorothy and her dog are carried away by a tornado, she finds herself in the distant land of Oz. Actor F. Morgan, a two-time Oscar nominee, played in this film the role of a wizard who helped the heroine return home and her friends to find something without which their life was unbearable.