Today we’ll talk about the movie “The Good Boy” (2016). Actors will be presented next. This is a Russian comedy picture. The tape won the Grand Prix at the Kinotavr Open Film Festival. The director of the film “A Good Boy” is Oksana Karas. The tape also won the Golden Rook prize, taking third place in the audience competition called “Vyborg Account”. The latter was part of the Window to Europe festival. The tape was created by the Russian film companies Art Pictures Studio and 2D Celluloid.
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The plot of the film "The Good Boy" is dedicated to six days from the life of Kolya Smirnov, a ninth grader. The hero
falls in love with a teacher. Someone decides to set fire to a school extension in which new computers are located.
The director’s daughter, Ksyusha, falls in love with Kolya. She decides that it was Kohl who set the school on fire. The boy's father announces the transition for the family to the 12/36 system. She suggests that it takes 12 hours to sleep, then 36 to stay awake. This approach does not allow the boy to sleep and even collect his thoughts.
Main participants
Simon Treskunov appeared in the picture as Kolya Smirnov. It's about a Russian actor. His film debut took place in 2010. Mom took a ten-year-old boy to audition for MTS. Semyon Treskunov successfully passed them. Until that moment, there was a year consisting of futile attempts to participate in various advertising castings. He was offered a role in Vsevolod Benigsen's film “Emergency Condition”.
Mikhail Efremov played the director of the school, Vladimir Anatolyevich Dronov. We are talking about the Soviet and Russian actor, theater director, TV presenter. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Pegova and Dogileva
Director’s wife Maria Dronova and head teacher are the main female roles in the film “A Good Boy” (2016). Actors Irina Pegova and
Tatyana Dogileva embodied these images. They should be discussed in more detail.
Irina Pegova - Russian film and theater actress. Honored Artist. He is a laureate of a theater award called "Golden Mask". Born in the Gorky region.
Tatyana Dogileva - Soviet, as well as Russian film and theater actress, people's artist, film director. Born in the Moscow region. Her parents were workers of a flour mill. She also has an older brother Vladimir.
Other heroes
Kolya's dad
Alexander Smirnov and computer science teacher Stanislav Ilyich also appear in the plot of the film “A Good Boy” (2016). Actors Konstantin Khabensky and Alexander Pal transferred these characters to the screen. Further we will talk about them.
Konstantin Khabensky - Russian film and theater actor, public figure. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Based on the data of the KinoPoisk portal, it is called the most popular in the country.
Alexander Pal - Russian film and theater actor. Winner of the Kinotavr festival. A descendant of Russian Germans who ended up in the Urals due to repression. Originally did not plan to act in films.
Reviews
Now let's see how the audience perceived the film “The Good Boy”. Reviews indicate that the cast is the strength of the picture. Also, the advantages include sound design, visuals and a dance line. There are complaints about the lack of certainty in the plot. Filing the final upset some viewers.
Interesting Facts
Next, we provide some interesting information about the film “The Good Boy” (2016). The actors are already familiar to you. Mikhail Mestetsky independently proposed the theme of the film to producers. Initially, the creators intended to order him a sports drama as a co-author of the script of the film "Legend No. 17". Svetlana Khodchenkova was considered, as the performer of the role of Alisa Denisovna.
Dronov could be played by Mikhail Porechenkov, Vladimir Mashkov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Sergey Puskepalis. Semyon Treskunov first came to the casting of the picture when the boy was 11 years old. These were the third trials in the life of a young man. Then he was still too young to fulfill such a role. Due to funding difficulties, the start of the preparatory period was repeatedly delayed.
By the time investors arrived, the actor had reached the age required by the script. The working title of the picture is "How I overslept everything in the world." One of the venues on which the shooting took place was an abandoned sports school called "Start". It was built in the mid-twentieth century. There was a velodrome on the school grounds, in addition, classes on the development of sailing were held.
They were sold in the Khimki reservoir. Cosmetic repairs were made at the school specifically for filming. Alexander Yatsenko was initially considered as the performer of the role of Stanislav Ilyich. However, he refused to participate in the film for the sake of working on the project "Monk and the Demon." Timothy Tribuntsev was initially considered as the performer of the role of Pope Kolya.
He also decided to refuse for the sake of working on the project “Monk and the Demon”. Alexander Revva was initially considered for the role of Pisun. The producers suggested that Mikhail Mestetsky could take the chair of the project director. However, when the pre-training period passed, this person preferred to realize another own scenario, which was called "Rag Union".
Mestetskiy considered Maxim Sukhanov for the role of Dronov. Three thousand people took part in the online casting for the role of Ksyusha. One hundred applicants were invited for in-person selection.
25 of them participated in the filming, as performers of episodic roles. Anastasia Bogatyreva , a student at Moscow College Oleg Tabakova, won the selection. During the filming of the battle scene, Semyon Treskunov was not supposed to take part in the dance according to the plot, but he could no longer sit still - he rushed to the dance floor.