If you want to watch a multi-part film about the life of criminals, then you can include the series “Bitch War”, the actors of which immerse the audience in the atmosphere of confrontation between prisoners in Soviet prisons of the 40-50s. Who played the main roles in this film and in what troubles his characters get?
Filmmakers
The film “Bitch War”, the director of which also shot the serial episode “Upstream,” “Testament Marriage-3,” and “Drug Traffic,” was released on October 6, 2014.
Nikolai Borts made this film based on the script of Igor Ageev and Anton Zinchenko. Igor Ageev at one time worked on the plot of such tapes as “Gentlemen Officers”, “Gangster Petersburg-4” and “Feast of Neptune”. Anton Zinchenko wrote the scripts for the films "Squad", "Sea Devils. Tornado "and" Brotherhood of the landing. "
Behind the camera, cameraman Alexander Demidov (Flowers of Evil, Razor Blade). The music for the series was written by Vyacheslav Odakhovsky, who had previously worked on musical accompaniment for the films “Temptation” and “Lord Comrades”. Supervised the project of the film company Art Line and Phoenix-Film.
Short story
The plot of the series was based on such a historical phenomenon of the Soviet era as “Bitch War”. Actors of the series of the same name cover the events of this particular era in the frame.
40-50s for Soviet society were not easy. The split occurred in the criminal environment. All prisoners serving time in correctional facilities were divided into two camps: thieves in law and bitches.
Thieves in law continued to strictly follow thieves' law: they did not volunteer for the front, did not cooperate in any way with the authorities, were not going to change their lifestyle and get a normal job after release. The category of “bitches” included other prisoners who fought on the fronts, made contact with government officials and, after their release, planned to change their lifestyle.
After the war, volunteer convicts from the fronts returned to the bunks, and this is where the real confrontation began. The heads of the colonies did not fail to use this conflict to their advantage.
“Bitch War”: actors. Alexey Demidov as Mikhail Matveev
Alexei Demidov is a young actor, a native of Nizhny Novgorod. After school, he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School, then entered SPbGATI, but soon realized that this step was hasty. In 2008, Demidov was admitted to the Taganka Actors Theater. At the same time, Aleksey tried his hand on television: he hosted the program “Good Morning” on “Channel One”, as well as the Sunday project “Glass of Milk”.
On television, Alexei made his debut in 2008 in the series "Red". The character of Demidov Gosh is an open, good-natured and decent person. The actor claims to be very sympathetic to him during the filming.
Then there were the main roles in the series “Comrades Police”, “Fifth floor without an elevator”, “Alien among mine” and “Whisper”.
In 2013, Demidov was invited to the “Bitch War” project. Actors Alexei Demidov and Mikhail Pshenichny played major roles in this series. The creators of the project complemented their male duet with a charming performer of the role of Luba - Karina Andolenko.
“Bitch Wars”: actors and roles. Karina Andolenko as Luba Bartseva
Karina Andolenko has recently turned into a real star of TV shows. Every now and then her face flickers on television.
It all began in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, where the future actress was born. In her youth, she began performing in the theater for the deaf-mute and became involved in this business. It is not easy to play performances in sign language, but Karina did it because her grandfather and grandmother were deaf and dumb and taught her granddaughter their language.
After school, Karina went to enter the Moscow Art Theater School, and she managed to do it. Her career as a movie actress began in 2008 with a cameo in the movie “Crazy Angel”. A year later, the girl was entrusted with the main role in the drama "Roses for Elsa." This was followed by work in the paintings "Rowan Waltz", "Rich Masha", "The Illusion of Hunting", "Back to the USSR", "Thirst" and many others.
In the series "Bitch War" Karina got the main female role - Luba Bartseva.
Mikhail Pshenichny as Leva the Rook
The main actors of the film “Bitch War” are not only Karina Andolenko and Alexei Demidov, but also Mikhail Pshenichny, who played the role of Leva Grach.
Mikhail Pshenichny graduated from Kiev National University of Theater, Film and Television. I.K. Karpenko-Kary and in 2012 moved to Moscow. But he began acting in films back in 2007, having received a cameo role in the Ukrainian series “Former”.
After a series of episodes in the films “A completely different life”, “The Return of Mukhtar-6”, “Cuckoo” and others, the actor was finally lucky: in 2011, he got the main role in the melodrama “Pandora's Box”. Pshenichny also played the main characters in the television films “My Friend’s Bride”, “Two Ivan”, “Captive of Deception”, “Year in Tuscany” and others.
Other role performers
The actors of the series “Bitch Wars” are both Konstantin Yushkevich, who got the role of a thief, and Kirill Boltaev, who played the accomplice of Dried. Konstantin Yushkevich is also known for his roles in the films Sklifosovsky, Gift with Character and Nonformat. And Kirill Boltaev lit up in the projects “MUR. Third Front ”,“ Mockingbird Smile ”and“ Sunstroke ”.
The role of the girlfriend of the thief Loban went to actress Julia Piven (Echelon), the investigator Rais Mikhalev was played by Agrippina Steklova (Raya Knows). Andrei Ivanov (Kadetstvo) played the operative of the MUR Porokhov, and the role of his colleague was played by Alexander Bobrov (Grouse).
Also in the frame you can see Vladimir Antonik (“White clothes”), Valery Afanasyev (“Between us girls”), Valentina Svetlova (“Smiley”, “Everything for you”), Ivan Agapov (“The Fifth Corner”, “Everything for the Better” ") And Natalia Batrak (" Furtseva ").