Actors of the film "Shadow Boxing" in 2005 took part in one of the largest and most spectacular projects of the mid-2000s in Russian cinema. Crime drama directed by Alexei Sidorov gathered full halls.
The plot of the picture
Among the actors of the film "Shadow Boxing" (2005), it is first of all necessary to single out the main actors. These are Denis Nikiforov, as well as Andrei Panin and the incomparable Elena Panova.
In the story, the key character Artem Kolchin is going to win the boxing championship. He is known to fans by the nickname Big White Hope. Ahead is a fight with an American, but a week before her, Artyom meets nurse Vick, whom he falls in love with without memory. During a physical examination, the girl discovers serious vision problems. But inferior to his persuasion and issues permission for the upcoming battle.
But right during the fight, the disease makes itself felt, Artem loses. Moreover, it soon completely fades. His promoter refuses to help him because he did not admit to him problems. The hero remains completely alone, because he grew up in an orphanage, and he does not even have relatives. Vika decides to help him. She asks for money for an operation to return her vision from her former lover, a major drug dealer. During the transfer of money there is a raid. Her lover is being killed. Law enforcement agencies and criminals begin to hunt Vika.
To raise money, Artem and Vika and her teenage brother rob collectors, finding themselves in an even greater alteration.
Denis Nikiforov
Actor in the film "Shadow Boxing" (2005) Denis Nikiforov appears in a key role. On the screen, he appears in the image of an up-and-coming boxer named Artem Kolchin. Nikiforov is a Muscovite, a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School. He played in the studio theater with the famous Oleg Tabakov.
The role in the film "Shadow Boxing" brought him fame. Prior to that, he had only a few small films. After this success in 2005, the actor again appears in the title role in the movie Shadow Boxing 2. In 2011, “Shadow Boxing 3D” was released. Subtitled "Last Round". The project turned out to be very long-playing.
Among his other acting work in films, the biographical series Esenin, the adventure action movie by Gleb Shprigov, The Last Armored Train, and the comedy by David Dodson and Alexander Malyarevsky, The 8 First Dates, should be highlighted.
In recent years, starred in the series "Youth".
Elena Panova
Actors and roles in the film "Shadow Boxing" (2005) were remembered by many viewers. It will be true to say about Elena Panova, who played the nurse Vick Ermakov. Panova herself comes from Arkhangelsk, her father is the famous director of the Arkhangelsk Youth Theater Viktor Panov.
Elena successfully graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, having studied in the creative workshop of Oleg Efremov, played at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.
She performed her first film role in 1997. She got the image of an agent of the secret unit in the little-known film "New Year's story." Popularity came to her in 1999, when she played the main role in the Swiss comedy of Daniel Schmid called "Berezina, or The Last Days of Switzerland." She played the provincial Irina from Elektrostal, who dreams of moving to Switzerland and moving her family there over time.
She has already done several dozen films. The last picture at the moment in which she starred is Dmitry Kiselyov’s historical and adventure drama "Time of the First", where she got the role of Tatyana Belyaeva.
Andrey Panin
In the film “Shadow Boxing” (2005), actor Andrei Panin played the role of promoter of the protagonist Vagit Valiev, who believes in the victory of his ward, even refuses to make the fight negotiable. Then Artem should have lost, but he would have received a good reward. When the boxer suffers defeat, hiding from Valiev a disease revealed on the eve of the match, he turns away from him, leaving him almost to the mercy of fate.
In the film “Shadow Boxing” (2005), the actor, whose photo is in this article, became the most eminent participant in this criminal drama. By that time, he already had the title of Honored Artist of Russia.
His first notable role in the movie was the image of a sailor in the action-packed comedy Maxim Pezhemsky "Mom, Don't Cry." His track record has many film awards. He received the Golden Aries Award for Best Supporting Actor in the dramatic comedy Pavel Lungin's Wedding, and was awarded the Nika Award for Best Supporting Role in Bakhtiyor Khudoynazarov’s film “Chic”.
Posthumously received another award "Nick" for the work of the military drama Alexander Proshkin "Atonement".