“Love in Russian” is a film shot by the master of domestic cinema Yevgeny Matveev and which became one of the first truly successful projects of the Russian film industry. What is this once-popular painting about? Who played the main characters in the film "Love in Russian"? Actors and roles of the film E. Matveeva - the topic of the article.
What is the success of the film?
In the troubled times of the mid-nineties, when after the collapse of the USSR, many people simply gave up on the surrounding devastation, lawlessness and their own powerlessness, the audience especially needed a kind, bright, life-affirming movie that would give them hope for something good in the future, it would allow us to believe that love and kindness will triumph over awakened evil anyway. Such a film for millions of our fellow citizens was the picture "To Love in Russian".
The actors are listed below. But first, you should name one of the creators of the film. Valentin Chernykh is the author of the script. The works of this playwright and writer in the hands of a talented director became successful projects. It is enough to recall the melodrama "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears."
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The plot of the picture, like most films of that period, is not distinguished by special delicacies and intricacy. The difficult everyday life of the post-Soviet period is depicted, when people were forced to fight every day for survival, but did not lose their ability to sincerely and passionately love.
In the center of the story is the story of several families of newly-minted farmers for whom work on the earth has become a saving straw that allows them to support themselves. But this very straw was decided to be taken away by people who, together with the collapse of the country, had lost their conscience, honor and dignity.
main characters
One of the main characters is a former party worker, Mukhin, who moved to the village and decided to start life from scratch. He not only radically changes his occupation, but also leaves his wife for the beautiful peasant Katerina, for the sake of love for which he is even ready to start drinking. In the film "Love in Russian" the actors played outstanding.
Evgeny Matveev - director and leading actor. The popularity of this artist came back in 1957, after the release of the military drama "The House I Live in". Since then, Matveev has become one of the most sought-after actors in Soviet cinema.
Galina Polskikh played the role of the wife of the protagonist in the film "To Love in Russian". Actors Viktor Rakov, Nikita Dzhigurda, Larisa Udovichenko and Olga Egorova played the rest of the heroes of this film story. Each of them, due to his personal circumstances, ended up in a deep province and decided to start life anew.
Further events in the plot of the film "Love in Russian"
The actor who raw the negative character is Georgy Martirosyan. It so happened that this artist is given the roles of officials, those in power, and corrupt officials. In the film, Matveeva Martirosyan played the former deputy prosecutor. But back to the plot.
In the village of Mukhin, he makes acquaintance with the past officer Kurlygin (Dzhigurda) and his wife Tatyana (Udovichenko). Polina (Egorova) and Mikhail (Rakov) also settled nearby. In the struggle for their own happiness and the opportunity to do hard, but their favorite business, they had to deal with the ruthless mafiosi Gavrilov (Martirosyan), who decided to take away land from beginner farmers in order to get there suddenly discovered mineral water.
Complicating the situation is that it is not so easy to deal with a raider by legal means, because behind the criminal authority there are greedy and unprincipled local officials along with corrupt police.
Other actors in the movie "Love in Russian":
- Valentina Titova.
- Nina Agapova.
- Alexander Potapov.
- Nikolai Smorchkov.
- Victor Lazarev.
The film received mixed reviews from critics, many blamed the director for excessive simplicity and straightforwardness, and excessive vulgarity, and a certain understatement of the plot. But ordinary viewers, who saw themselves in the heroes, were delighted with this film.