In 2014, the film âAlex Eightâ by Alexei Uchitel was released. According to critics, this is his best picture. The film is based on the work of the same name by Zakhar Prilepin. The Eight is called a real male movie. What is this movie about? Who played the main roles?
Plot
Winter 1999 A small provincial town. The heroes of the film are young people who recently returned from the army. In their life there are only two ways: to bandits or to the police. After all, factories are closing down, people who worked all their lives at the machine tool were left out of work. What can we say about young guys ... The heroes of the movie "Eight" (the actors will be named below) are arranged in riot police. During working hours, they âcalmâ the rebellious people, who were left without means of subsistence. In free time, they are fighting a local criminal authority.
This fight is becoming tougher because one of the riot policemen, Hera, is in love with Buts' girl (this is the nickname given to the leader of the gang from the movie "Eight"). The actors and the crew managed to recreate the atmosphere of the late nineties as reliably as possible on the screen. The plot in the plot is a conflict between the main characters (Hera, Lykov, Sin and Rustle) with Buts. This criminal authority is a kind of antihero in the movie "Eight." The actor who played it is a star of domestic cinema. But this popular artist will be briefly described later.
Aglaya - Buts's girlfriend - reciprocates the main character. And the conflict escalates into a real war. The relationship of Hera with Aglaia discord the team of riot police. But not for long. After all, nothing can destroy a real male friendship. And finally, they together defeat the leader of the gang, who for so long kept the whole city in fear. Not without the help of Hera and his friends, Butzâs car is under the wheels of the train. Evil is defeated. But this story has no happy ending. Indeed, Aglaya was in the car with Buts, which friends only found out after the brutal reprisal against the bandit.
What is the success of the film?
The combination of elements of the action movie, rude male humor is present in the film "Eight." The actors in the film played both famous and beginners. But the game of each of them harmoniously interwoven with the plot, reflecting the vague, alarming times for Russia. In the last frames of the film is New Year's Eve. The country is meeting a new millennium. Yeltsin speaks on television with his famous New Yearâs speech. The film "Eight" earned a lot of positive reviews. Actors and roles are selected by the director expertly. But the popularity of the film by Alexei Uchitel also lies in the fact that its plot is close to many, it evokes nostalgia for the difficult but bygone years.
Actors of the movie "Eight"
The main character was played by Alexander Mantsygin. In 2011, he played a cameo in the film Burnt by the Sun 2. We can say that the role of Hera for Mantsygin became debut. And it was from her that his acting career began. Later, he played the main role in the film "Golden Transit", also played in the films "Petrovich", "Such work", "Shaman. A new threat. â
Actors of the film "Eight", playing the role of friends of Hera - Alexander Novin, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Artem Bystrov. It is worth telling about each of them in more detail.
Alexander Novin
For the first time, Russian viewers saw the actor on the screen in 2001, in the film "Ugra Gold". Then there were the films âDrillingâ, âInstructorâ. Novin played episodic roles in the films âEscapeâ, âWords to Musicâ, âDostoevskyâ. The filmography of this actor is a long list. But among the roles played by him, it is worth highlighting the role of Latyshev in the detective series "Diamond Hunters". In Eight, the actor played Lykov.
Pavel Vorozhtsov and Artem Bystrov
Vorozhtsov played one of Hera's friends - a young man nicknamed Shorokh. He is also known for the series âLiquidationâ, âCadetsâ, âSwan Paradiseâ. Bystrov until 2014 in the movie played the role of secondary and episodic. Among the paintings in his filmography there are such: "The Village", "Close", "Life and Fate." In the "Eight" Bystrov played the role of riot police, nicknamed Sin - a family man, unlike friends.
Other actors
Who played the head of the criminal group in the movie "Eight"? The actor, whose photo is located below, after the premiere of "9th Company" was associated with the audience with the image of Lyuty - the only surviving hero in the sensational picture of Bondarchuk. Whereas by 2005 there were more than ten works in the actorâs filmography, including the role of a German officer in the series âShtrafbatâ. This is Arthur Smolyaninov. Today he is one of the most sought-after Russian actors. In addition, he plays on the stage of the Sovremennik Theater.
The girl, for which the fight was waged between Buts and the main character not for life but for death, was played by the Lithuanian actress Vilma Kutavichyute. A year before the premiere of "Eight," she played a small role in the film "On the razor's edge." Today in the filmography of the actress more than ten films, most of which are Russian.
The author of the collection "Eight" also played in the film. Zakhar Prilepin appeared on the screen in the image of a taxi driver. Other actors who performed secondary roles are Irina Pegova, Pavel Akimkin, Alexander Bashirov, Julia Peresild.