This multi-part film tells about women prisoners who, by the will of fate, exchanged faces. The first channel began broadcasting it in December 2012. The actors of the series "Reflection", which will be discussed in this article, showed viewers a rather fascinating story of the main character, who had to make a rather difficult choice in her life.
Story line. Start
The main character of the painting, Lisa Kruglova, spent eight years of her life in a women's colony. Previously, she was a police major, was able to organize from her subordinates a gang operating in the Primorsky Territory and the areas around it. This went on for several years. But then she was arrested and sentenced to twelve years as an organizer. Her little daughter Polina was identified in an orphanage.
Kruglova behaved approximately in the colony, therefore the head of the prison filed her documents for parole. But just a few months before her release, Lisa fainted. Her friend, who is also a prison doctor, made her a terrible diagnosis - brain cancer. Lisa realized that the days of her life, unfortunately, were numbered ...
So begins the "Reflection" - the series. The actors invited to the shooting are familiar to viewers from their previous work, so it was very interesting to watch their game this time.
Assassin
At the same time, a serial maniac went hunting in Moscow, whose victims are creative children. The investigator for particularly important cases, Dasha Eremina, managed to get on his trail. She was able to catch him at the crime scene and inflicted gunshot wounds on him. However, the maniac survived. Unfortunately, the main evidence of this crime - the knife - was lost, so Daria was in the dock. She was charged with abuse of authority and bodily harm.
Exchange
It just so happened that Yeremina ended up in the same prison where Kruglov was serving his sentence. It was Lisa who came up with the daring and at the same time bold plan. It was she who invited Daria to exchange faces with the help of Valentina, her prison friend and plastic surgeon. Thus, young women will be able to change their lives. Lisa, who has the face of Daria after the operation, will die, and Daria will be released instead of Lisa, automatically becoming Polinka's mother. Now, honest and fair Eremin faces a difficult choice: to remain on her own or to abandon her family, her beliefs and at least bring the maniac’s case to its logical conclusion.
The actors of the series “Reflection”, Polya Polyakova and Olga Pogodina, who played the main female roles, approached their work very responsibly. They embodied on the screen all the possible human qualities inherent in their characters.
Idea of creating this story
How did the creators of the series “Reflection” come to the realization of this twisted plot? Actors and roles are selected very well. And the producers saw the idea in the news, which talked about a similar surgical laboratory in Primorye. Here they seized on her, deciding to come up with a story about how with the help of such surgery two completely different women managed to exchange their appearance. And one after liberation begins to live the life of another.
Actors of the series "Reflection" were shot on the territory of the Mozhaisk women's colony, that is, exactly where there are real prisoners. Therefore, there was an opportunity right on the spot to get advice on the filming process or some details of the script.
Filmed winter in summer
The colony administration gave official permission to shoot, so the series “Reflection” (photo actors and their interviews aroused absolutely sincere interest after the release of the picture) filmed in almost all corners of the colony - both in the punishment cell, the cells, and in the offices of the authorities. The prisoners themselves, of whom there were five thousand people, starred in extras.
Actors of the series "Reflection" starred in the heat. They had to walk in sheepskin coats and warm coats, because the action took place in autumn and winter, when the weather does not indulge in sunny days. Not all artists withstood such torture. Some right in front of the camera passed out.
What else can be said in the end? Everything was done at the highest level by both the creators of the serial film and the actors. The plot is unbroken, the play of artists is talented and sincere. There are moments in the film when sadness covers the viewer, there were others when I wanted to smile.
It is impossible not to note the game of Yuri Nazarov, who played a strict police colonel, but at the same time humane. Elena Kotelnikova (in the story - a prisoner who previously worked as a plastic surgeon) showed her heroine a very beautiful and intelligent woman with a certain sense of humor, thanks to which she was able to adapt to the colony.
In general, each of the acting team tried to make the audience as much as possible imbued with what is happening on the screen. After all, this is not only their work, but also a vocation.