In 2008, on the TV channel "Russia-1", the premiere of the series dedicated to the fate of a Soviet girl with a rare name Carmen took place. In the film “Paradise apples: Life goes on”: the actors return to this topic, only the lives of several new heroes turned out to be the focus of the scriptwriters. What is the second season of family melodrama about and what difficulties will his characters face?
A brief plot and the creators of the series
The film “Paradise apples: Life continues”, the actors and roles of which were remembered by the audience since the first season, was first shown in 2009 on the TV channel “Ukraine”. A year later, the series began to be broadcast on the RTR and Russia-1 channels.
The plot is now no longer Carmen, who was the heroine in the first part of the picture, but her daughter - Lida. She lives with a drunken mother, so her fate can hardly be called lucky. Once her grandmother comes to the girl and offers to move to Moscow. Lida recklessly refuses, but then she will have to seriously reconsider her decision.
The director of the second season was Anna Lobanova, who also shot the series “Taste of Pomegranate”. The script for the second film was written by Elena Starkova, who was engaged in the violin and for the first season of "Paradise apples." Starkova chose to transfer the action to the city of Abinsk in the Krasnodar Territory, since she herself came from these places. But filmed material in the suburbs, because the Krasnodar region has recently changed dramatically and is not able to convey the surroundings of the Soviet era.
"Paradise apples: Life goes on": actors. Olga Filippova as Carmen
Olga Filippova was born in 1977. After school, she entered the Gnesinka, and from the second year she was accepted into the troupe of the Bat Theater. Since 2000, the actress began her career in cinema.
At first Filippova got inconspicuous roles in such films as “DMB-002” and “Conditioned Reflex”. Then the artist was lucky - she got the main role in the drama of Alexander Hwan "Carmen". Here she had to play a criminal, in which the hero of Igor Petrenko falls in love. For this work, Filippova was awarded a jury diploma at the Stozhary film festival.
After “Carmen,” Olga played only episodic roles for a long time: in her filmography, the films “Cobra. Anti-Terror, Odyssey 1989, Penalty Battalion, and Ambulance. Then there were the projects "Paradise apples" and "Paradise apples: Life goes on."
Actors Filippova and Pashkov, who played lovers in the first season, split up on the screen. The heroine of Olga is slowly "going to the bottom", despite the fact that her daughter is growing up: Carmen Naumova is drunk and does not deal with Lida at all. In the end, the daughter gets married and leaves for another city.
"Paradise apples: Life goes on": actors and roles. Yanina Sokolovskaya as Lida
Yanina Sokolovskaya got the role of a classic exemplary girl in the project: her heroine Lida patiently endures all hardships and, in the end, finds her happiness.
And the picture begins with the viewer watching how Lida is having a difficult life: her mother drinks and leads her drinking buddies to the house; every morning the girl is forced to clean the apartment after another drinking party. However, soon a grandmother from Moscow visits their mother and offers her granddaughter to move. But the exemplary Lidochka cannot leave her mother. She decides to do this only after she meets her lover: the girl will go after him to Moscow.
In the film "Paradise apples: Life goes on," the actors involved are little-known. Sokolovskaya graduated from the Shchukin School and began acting in films in 2002, but she has few main roles. Such projects can literally be counted on the fingers: the series "Paradise apples", the melodrama "Girlfriends" and "Bird cherry color", as well as the touching saga "Rosehip Aroma".
Lyudmila Chursina in the role of teacher Marya Vasilievna
The actors of the film “Paradise apples: Life continues” also accepted the famous Soviet artist Lyudmila Chursina into their collective.
Chursina got the role of a school teacher Marya Vasilievna, whose daughter Varya is growing up. Soon, Barbara gets into an unpleasant story, gives birth to an illegitimate child, and her mother is fired from her job for the immoral behavior of her daughter.
Chursina is known for her participation in such Soviet film hits as: “The Long Road in the Dunes”, “Don Story” and “Ugryum River”. Recently, the actress rarely appears in feature films - more and more often she is invited to long-playing multi-part projects.
Other role performers
The actors of the series “Paradise apples: Life goes on” are Andrei Bilanov, Oleg Kharitonov, and Nelly Pshennaya.
Andrei Bilanov is known to the Russian audience for his roles in the projects “Kremlin cadets” and “Necklace”.
Oleg Kharitonov played in the films Gromov and Made in the USSR. Nelly Pshennaya has been acting in films since 1969: the artist’s career began with the film “Prince Igor”. Nellie can also be seen in the pictures "Office Romance", "Midshipmen, Go!" and Two Fates.