The film "Two Hares" (1961): actors, plot

The film “For Two Hares” (1961), whose actors are remembered and loved by many Soviet viewers, is the comedy of Viktor Ivanov. She was shot at the Dovzhenko film studio. The plot was based on a play written by Mikhail Staritsky.

Comedy plot

Many actors of the film “For Two Hares” (1961) played their best roles in this film. This is noted by viewers and critics.

The plot of the tape is as follows. Svirid Petrovich Golokhvastov, played by Oleg Borisov, is the unlucky owner of a burnt barber. Moreover, he himself is a mot and a dandy, moreover, he is on the verge of bankruptcy. He decides to correct his affairs, successfully marrying. His choice falls on the inconspicuous and not far-off Pronya Prokopovna, for whom the father gives 10,000 rubles of a dowry.

When the wedding is almost agreed upon, Golokhvastov meets a beautiful girl, Galya, on Vladimirskaya Gorka in Kiev, who she immediately falls in love with. He assures his friends that he will marry Prona only for the sake of money, and he will have an affair with a young beauty. Once they are met by the mother of Gali, Seklet Limerikh, who makes Svirid swear that he will take her daughter as his wife, even though Galya herself does not want this.

Having received the blessing of marriage the next day from the parents of Prony, Svirid meets Gali's mother on her way back, who is going to celebrate her birthday. At the festival, she informs all guests that Galya and Golokhvastov are now the bride and groom. Immediately after the engagement, Galya runs away to her beloved Stepan, from whom he is looking for protection.

In the film “For Two Hares,” Golokhvast finally gets confused when it turns out that Gali’s mother is a relative of Prony’s parents. On the wedding day, Svirida Secleta arrives at the church just before the wedding and declares that Golokhvastov cannot marry Prona, because he is engaged to her daughter. A loan shark, which Stepan brought in, appears immediately. He announces to all those gathered that Svirid is bankrupt, and not at all a rich bridegroom, as everyone else believed. Having suffered a fiasco, the main character leaves the battlefield at least a little crumpled by the crowd, but trying to save face.

Oleg Borisov

Oleg Borisov is an actor who played the main role in the film "For Two Hares" (1961). He - in the future, People's Artist of the USSR, became the laureate of two Union State Prizes. He played at the Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater in Kiev, the Pushkin Drama Theater in the capital, the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, and the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.

He made his film debut in 1955 in the film adaptation of the same name by Maxim Gorky's "Mother", playing an underground worker. The film "For Two Hares" with Oleg Borisov was his first real success, after which fame and popularity came to him.

The audience also remembered him in the science fiction drama Leonid Kvinikhidze “The Collapse of Engineer Garin” based on the novel by Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy, where he got the main role, Boris Frumin’s film novel entitled “The School Director’s Diary”, Vitaly Melnikov’s comedy “Marriage”, and Arkady Sirenko’s science fiction drama "Temptation B."

Margarita Krinitsyna

For many actors of the film “After Two Hares” 1961, this work was the first resounding success. This fully applies to Margarita Krinitsyna, who played Pronya Prokopovna.

She is a national artist of Ukraine. Before playing a role in this tape, she played only in Andrei Frolov’s light comedy “Good Morning” and Vladimir Basov’s drama entitled “Case at the Mine” in episodic roles.

True, the comedy “For Two Hares” remained its main successful role. At the same time, many people know her from theatrical works, primarily in the theater-studio of a film actor in Kiev.

In the movie, the actress also starred in Andrei Tutyshkin’s musical comedy "The Wedding in the Robin", the comedy drama by Nikolai Rasheev and Abram Naroditsky "Bumbarash", the comedy by Nikolai Litus and Vitaly Shunko, "Vacation Trip of Sergeant Tsybuli."

Nikolay Yakovchenko

The vivid image in the picture "For Two Hares" was created by the People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Nikolay Yakovchenko. He got the image of the father of Proni Prokopovna - Prokop Sviridovich Serko.

By that time, it was already a famous actor who played in several dozen films. After all, the debut of Yakovchenko on the big screen took place in 1939 in the military-historical film of Alexander Dovzhenko and Yulia Solntseva "Schors". Then he played a fighter.

People’s love for Yakovchenko came after the famous comedy of Anatoly Granik "Maxim Perepelitsa", he got the image of his father Maxim Kondrat.

On the theater stage he shone in the theater of Philipp Khmara, the Kharkov Theater of the Revolution, the Kiev Theater of Musical Comedy, and the Franko Drama Theater .

Natalia Naum

The role of the charming Gali in the film "For Two Hares" was performed by Natalia Naum. At that time, many viewers already knew and loved her, because her debut took place back in 1955 in the drama “Pedagogical Poem” by Alexei Maslyukov and Mechislava Mayevskaya.

She also played Justina in Vladimir Denisenko’s military drama “On the Kiev Direction”, Maria Gritsenko in the drama “Entrant” by Alexei Mishurin, and Valentina Ivanovna, directed by Leonid Bykov, in the military drama “Aty-bats, Soldiers Went ...”.

In 1974 she received the title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.