"Balzac Age, or All Men Are Their ...": actors and roles

After watching the comedic-melodramatic series “Balzac Age”, the actors and roles remain for a long time in the memory of the viewer. This film can be called a kind of response to the American series Sex and the City, but the directors took practically nothing from the American source, except for the idea of ​​four unmarried women who are trying to find love in the city. But by the way, let us consider the stories of the main characters in a bit more detail.

“Balzac Age, or All Men of Their Own”: actors and roles. Julia Menshova as Vera

The main characters from the series about ladies of Balzac age, commissioned by the NTV television company, have practically nothing to do with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda from the American prototype. In the film “Balzac Age, or All Men Are Own,” the actors transfer us to the realities of Russian women - such as they really are.

The first collective image is terribly “correct”, intelligent Vera Bolshova performed by Yulia Menshova. Faith always does everything according to the rules, well educated and well-read. When conversations between friends come about an intimate life - she is bashfully silent and prefers not to go into details. In a word, the "Turgenev" young lady, who is already over thirty.

Vera’s personal life, despite all the virtues of a woman, does not work out: she brings up her daughter alone, lives in the same apartment with her annoying mother, and if she falls in love with someone, this man will surely turn out to be a scoundrel and a liar.

“Balzac Age, or All Men of Their Own”: actors. Lada Dance as Alla

The second collective image in the series is the active and emancipated Alla Prikhodko performed by Lada Dance.

In the film “Balzac Age, or All Men Are Own,” the actors Lada Dance and Yulia Menshova actually play the exact opposite: Alla has a career, she is an active, stylish woman, who is often looked after by very interesting men. Alla is able to “resolve” any situation - it is not without reason that she works as a lawyer. That's just on the personal front, even with such a "chic" woman, too, everything is not so smooth. Often she calls men "goats", but admits that she cannot live without them.

Lada Dance is not in the full sense of the word an actress - a woman has long been performing on the Russian stage as a singer. So we can assume that in the series about the ladies of Balzac age, she is a debutante.

Alika Smekhova as Sonya

But Alika Smekhova, who played the role of Sonya, was already considered an accomplished actress by the time the filming began. On her account were roles in the films "Life Line", "Dreams of an idiot", "Thin thing", etc.

Actors of the TV series "Balzac Age", as a rule, embody collective images on the screens. Alika Smekhova is no exception. Her Sonya is a typical male hunter. She finds especially wealthy characters, seduces them and marries. And then he takes advantage of the financial benefits of his husbands and awaits their imminent demise (because he prefers mainly elderly grooms). Such a fate absolutely suits Sonya. She has not worked a day in her life and is not going to do this in the future. Being a wife is her profession.

When four friends meet for conversations, Sonya looks the most experienced in matters of the heart. Still: behind her two marriages and so many misalliances! A woman is always ready to explain to her friends that love should remain love and that marriage should be done solely for convenience.

Zhanna Epple as Julia

In the film "Balzac Age", the actors, or rather their screen characters, constantly fall into recognizable situations: what is happening on the screen can easily be seen in ordinary life. So, the heroine of the actress Jeanne Epplet - Julia - is also a very typical life character.

Julia is infantile. We can say that she was a bit stuck in her childhood (this can be seen in her manner of dressing and acting). Until now, Yulichka’s bills are paid by her parents, they tell her that there is something to do, and for a long time they have been unsuccessfully trying to find a groom for their daughter. Julia, like many girls from good families, received a decent education, but did not work a day in her life, like Sonya. But the woman’s personal life is very stormy. True, she is constantly attracted to men with some kind of "fad."

For example, out of thousands of men, she will definitely choose a gay man or a young man obsessed only with girls wearing plaster. She also had novels with men, who are attracted only to TV presenters or girls with abundant vegetation on their bodies.

Vera Alentova and Vladimir Menshov as Vera’s parents

In the TV series “Balzac Age, or All Men Are Own,” actors Vladimir Menshov and Vera Alentova play divorced husband and wife, who have a common daughter, Vera.

Once upon a time, Vera's father left the family for another woman and went to live in Israel. Since then, Verochka almost every day has to listen to her mother’s stories about what her father is a scoundrel. At the end of each scandal, Zinaida Semenovna says that Verochka is very reminiscent of her "dad." From this microclimate in the family, of course, leaves much to be desired.

It is noteworthy that the directors for the roles of all members of the Bolshov family invited a real acting family. Vladimir Menshov in life is really the husband of Vera Alentova, and Julia Menshova is their daughter. The only exception is Angelica Shilova, who on the screen embodies the image of the daughter of Vera Bolshova.

Other role performers

In the series about women of Balzac age, many more stars of Russian cinema and television appeared. Andrei Sokolov, known for his roles in the films Little Faith and Advocate, played "Jean" - the lover of Vera Bolshova. Anatoly Vasiliev (“Crew”) appeared in the image of General Repetskiy - one of Sonya’s husbands. Dmitry Shcherbina, who once played Alexei Berestov in The Young Lady-Peasant, this time appeared in the image of an avid player and first love Alla Prikhodko. Also on the screens you can see Boris Klyuyev (“The collapse of the empire”), Nadezhda Bakhtina (“Star of the Epoch”), Dmitry Maryanov (“Countess de Monsoro”), Grigory Antipenko (“Do not be born beautiful”) and Evgeny Gerchakov (“Wine from dandelions” ").