Director Valery Todorovsky - the son of the famous Pyotr Todorovsky - began his career in a difficult time for the country - in 1991. The film "Country of the Deaf", in which the actors told the audience the difficult story of a deaf dancer and her friend hiding from the mafia, became the fourth work of the young director and collected many awards and film awards.
Summary
One of the main heroines of the film - Rita - gets into an unpleasant story: her close friend - Alexey (a fan of playing roulette) - owed a large sum to serious people. When Alexey disappears from the city, the mafia tries to find the debtor through his girlfriend, so Rita is forced to hide.
Quite unexpectedly, a deaf dancer, whose name is Yaya, comes to the aid of a girl. It is not easy for a deaf girl to get a job in life, and perhaps she risks a lot by helping a stranger, but Yaya does not think about it: she secretly takes Rita out of the restaurant where her boyfriend left her as a hostage, and then hides her new girlfriend in the apartment your friend.
To feed themselves, girls have to engage in prostitution. Rita is eager to pay the debt for her lover, and Yaya wants to earn a lot of money and go to a country where only the deaf live.
Whether the girls will ultimately succeed in achieving what they want or whether disappointment alone awaits them, the viewer will find out at the end of the film.
"Land of the Deaf", actors: Dina Korzun
Dina Korzun is from Smolensk. After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater, she got into the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov. For several years, Dina played in such performances as “The Miracle of St. Anthony”, “Thunderstorm”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Midsummer Night's Dream”, etc.
The first role in the movie Dina performed back in 1994, when she played one of the characters in the short film Margarita Podyapolskaya. And in 1998, Korzun got into the project “The Country of the Deaf”. Actors were selected for the film very carefully.
Dina Korzun, who perfectly hears and speaks, had to prepare long and carefully for her difficult role.
The works of the actress did not pass without a trace, and for this work she was awarded the Nika Prize. The film gave the actress not only a high award, but also a friend - Chulpan Khamatova, with whom Korzun established the Give Life charity foundation.
The filmography of Dina Korzun is small, the most notable works were The Theory of Hard Drinking (2002), Cook (2007) and The Brothers Karamazov (2008).
Chulpan Khamatova
Khamatova made her film debut rather briskly: immediately the supporting role and immediately the eminent company in the form of Sergei Garmash, Andrei Yegorov and Yuri Stepanov (“Time of the Dancer”). The second film of the actress was the project "Country of the Deaf."
The actors of the film woke up, as they say, after the premiere of the film by the famous. Chulpan was recognized as one of the most talented actresses of the new generation.
Then the actress’s affairs went like clockwork: a year at least 2-3 films with her participation were released. And although Chulpan Khamatova did not play in big-budget films, which collected millions of rubles at the box office, the performer still became quite famous, getting into the best television projects. Viewers remember her sweet and selfless heroines from The Children of Arbat, The Death of an Empire, Doctor Zhivago, her stiff and vengeful heroine from the series Ashes.
Chulpan - the owner of many regalia, including in 2012, the actress became a national artist of Russia.
Maxim Sukhanov
M. Sukhanov was born in Moscow. The grandfather and grandmother of the future actor were also involved in the acting profession: they played together in the Meyerhold Theater.
In 1985, Sukhanov graduated from the Shchukin Theater School, and he was immediately admitted to the Theater. E. Vakhtangova.
Maxim Sukhanov played in about 30 films. The actor, apparently, is not very drawn to the cinema: his destiny is the theater. In addition to working at the Vakhtangov Theater, he still manages to collaborate with Lenkom, the Theater named after Stanislavsky, as well as with the Theater. V. Mayakovsky.
Sukhanov is considered a capable composer: some of his works sound directly in the plays in which he plays.
In addition to The Land of the Deaf, the actor also has a role in the 2000 melodrama “It Is Not Recommended to Offend Women”. For work in this film, Sukhanov received "Nick."
Nikita Tyunin
The film "Land of the Deaf" did not become a special breakthrough for Nikita: the young man has been playing a movie since 1985, and he made his debut right away in the title role in the film "Long Memory".
In the "Land of the Deaf", Nikita's character is a gambler and a terrible egoist who did not hesitate to leave his girlfriend as a hostage and leave the meeting with creditors, knowing that they will not spare anyone if they do not receive their money.
But in his 1985 film debut, Nikita, on the contrary, acts as the valiant pioneer-hero Volodya Dubinin, who died during the Great Patriotic War. In 1941, at the age of 13, Dubinin became a member of the partisan detachment, which went into the quarries near Kerch and continued to fight the fascist invaders. The boy fought for a year in a partisan detachment on an equal basis with adults, and in the 42nd he witnessed the liberation of Kerch. The hero of Nikita Tyunin was killed during clearance of approaches to the quarries. The film about the young hero was shot by Roman Viktyuk.