In 2002, director Alexander Aravin made the adventure film Taiga. Survival Course ”, which was attended by Elena Ksenofontova, Kirill Pletnev and many other famous actors. "Taiga. Survival Course ”was demonstrated at the Flurries Film Festival and even took the Grand Prix there. What is the story of the multi-part tape Aravina?
Guest Actors: Taiga. Survival Course "and the character of Boris Galkin
Boris Galkin played the role of school teacher Sergei Petrovich in Aravin's film. The hero of the actor, among the remaining passengers, flew in a private plane through the taiga to the town of Seversk (Tomsk Region).
However, a dangerous criminal appeared on board, who, threatening with a weapon, demanded that the pilot drop him in the middle of the forest. Trying to fulfill the gangster’s order, the pilot lands a plane and does it very unsuccessfully: the board crashes. Over the course of 12 episodes, surviving people have been trying to save their lives in the difficult conditions of a deserted taiga. That's the actors who faced such a difficult screen task.
"Taiga. Survival course ”became for Boris Galkin about 42nd work in the cinema. The artist is a graduate of the Shchukin school and began acting in the late 60s.
The first main role of Galkin is the character Arkady Emelyanov from the historical drama Sveaborg. The actor also played the central characters in the films “In the Special Attention Zone”, “Citizen Lyosha”, “Waiting for Colonel Shalygin” and “Return Move”.
Elena Ksenofontova as Natasha
Not only Boris Galkin is a recognizable person, other famous actors were involved in the film. "Taiga. Survival Course ”, for example, became another screen work for Elena Ksenofontova. She played the role of Natalia - one of the surviving passengers.
Ksenofontova is a graduate of VGIK. Since 1992, she has acted in films. Since the zero years, he often plays the main roles in serial television films.
The first major role is related to the project “The Best City of the Earth” in 2003. It was a typical 24-episode melodrama, in which Nikolai Chindyaykin, Alexey Gorbunov and Igor Bochkin also starred.
Then the actress played the designer in the drama “Heaven and Earth”, where Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Ekaterina Guseva and Maria Golubkina became her partners on the set.
Among the most famous projects with the participation of Ksenofontova are the films “The Red Chapel”, “Cadets”, “Mother Daughters” and “Heartbreakers”. Usually, the actress plays strong and strong-willed women.
Alexey Shevchenkov as Alexander
The role of the criminal who stole a large sum of money from the Chinese, and then hijacked the plane and involuntarily became the cause of its crash, was played by A. Shevchenkov.
Shevchenkov is not the first to play the role of a criminal - we can say that this is his constant role. Shevchenko began his career mainly as an actor in the episode. But even then the directors did not spoil him with the main roles.
In the 94th St. Petersburg actor was given the main role in the drama Kira Muratova's “Hobbies”. Then his shooting partners were Renata Litvinova and Svetlana Kolenda. The film received two awards at once - “Niku” and the prize of the Vyborg Film Festival.
The next time, the central character Alexey played only in the 2000s in the project "Alchemists", which also starred Yuri Stoyanov, Anna Legchilova and Ilya Oleinikov.
Shevchenkov also got the main roles in the films “Heaven and Earth”, “Team” and “Hunting on the Asphalt”.
Other role performers
The role of another character who completed a survival course in the taiga in the tape of Alexander Aravin was played by Kirill Pletnev.
In 2002, for Pletnev, the role in this film was one of the first in his career. Much later, the artist became the star of the projects "Saboteur" and "Confrontation", and also tried himself as a director and shot the short film "Nastya".
Alexei performed by Pletnev was not in a force majeure situation alone, but with his girlfriend Victoria. She was played by a young actress Ksenia Kuznetsova. Two years after participating in the project Aravina Ksenia met with Kirill Pletnev on the set of "Saboteur". In 2008, she played a cameo role in the historical film "Admiral".
Sergey Veksler appeared on the screen in the image of a successful entrepreneur. However, the money of his hero does not play any role in the wild taiga, so the businessman has to share all the hardships with his comrades in misfortune. Sergey Veksler is also known for the films "Kitchen", "Wanted" and "Flint".