Roles, film crew and actors of the film "Country OZ"

"Country OZ" - one of the most high-profile Russian films in 2015. The comedy of the well-known art house director Vasily Sigarev received favorable reviews of critics. At the festival "Kinotavr" was awarded the prize "For the best script", as well as the awards of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics "Elephant".

On the big screen, viewers saw the picture in December. In the New Year holiday on the channel TNT released a shortened version of the film, subjected to censorship. In particular, frank scenes and obscene language were cut out.

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The main director of the film Vasily Sigarev is well known to the Russian audience. The first loud work was the picture "Volchok", released in 2009.

This is a psychological drama about the mother and daughter. As they say in the official release: "They both run, constantly, without stops." Mother runs away from her daughter, from her problems in search of a better life. A daughter follows her relentlessly, for she can not think without her. Their life is a series of repeated mistakes, similar to the non-stop spinning of a top.

Three years later he released the film "Live." It is based on three parallel storylines, whose characters face the death of close people. The child loses his father, the girl is the groom, and the middle-aged woman is killed by twin daughters. All this is happening against the backdrop of the problems of the Russian remote places.

"Country OZ" is the third full-length film of the director.

Comedy about Russian reality

According to the plot, the main character is Lena. On New Year's Eve she comes to the metropolis to start a new life. She takes a job in a night stall in a residential area of the city. And the whole movie is trying to get there. Lena reminds the girl Ellie from the novel of the same name of Frank Baum, who on her way meets all the same heroes - Scarecrow, Woodcutter, only everyone with Russian color.

Many actors of the film "The Country of OZ" are well known and known to the Russian public. This is the favorite actress Sigareva Yana Troyanova, as well as Gosha Kutsenko, Alexander Bashirov and Inna Churikova. All of them manage to create bright and memorable images.

The director's wife

The main role is played by Yana Troyanova, the wife of Vasily Sigarev, the performer of the main roles in all his paintings.

Troyanova is a representative of the Sverdlovsk theater school. She was born in 1973, graduated from the Ekaterinburg Theater Institute. Glory to her brought the main role in the movie "Volchok." For this work, she received a prize for the best female role at the festival Kinotavr, and was also nominated for the White Elephant Prize.

Her works in films "Kokoko" Avdotya Smirnova and "Heavenly wives of meadow mare" Alexey Fedorchenko became memorable .

Two years ago, her independent debut as a director took place. All on the same "Kinotavr" she demonstrated her film "Next" in the short film competition.

In the film "The Country of OZ" (2015), the actors and the film crew got ready to match each other. Troyanova plays Lenka Shabadinova - a woman who came to a big city from the wilderness. She bribes the viewer with her naivete, simplicity and straightforwardness. It is because of these qualities, perhaps, her life has not yet developed.

To herself, Iana Troyanova says that she "came to this profession to die." And on this, as well as on other works, it is clear that this is indeed so. She works in full, the viewer trusts her. Many actors of the film "The Country of OZ" work as selflessly, so the picture turned out to be successful.

Sputnik heroine

Lenka Shabadinova at the very beginning of the film meets Roman, the character of Gosha Kutsenko. An absurd, close-minded and dissolute hero. At the same time, it is thanks to him that the picture appears wrapped in a pink romantic wrapper. All because the actors of the film "Country of OZ" (2015), including Kutsenko, play sincerely. This also captivates the viewer.

Kutsenko - one of the most famous artists of modern Russian cinema. He has more than fifty works on his account, but there are not many such memorable ones as in "The Country of OZ".

Old school actors

In the mastodons of Russian cinema, the actors of the old, still Soviet school, can be attributed Inu Churikov. "Country OZ" is a film, the actors of which created very memorable characters. Here also Churikova owns a small role of the second plan, however you always remember it when you start talking about a picture.

At Sigareva she plays a pensioner, the mother of sons of great age, with whom she lives in the same apartment. Somehow New Year's Eve in her balcony, she discovers Lenka Shabadinova, who was there, fleeing from the jealous wife of an accidental acquaintance. With it, she came to the apartment next door. Churikova - her role in the film is designated as "mother of the Divine Warriors" (sons - ardent fans of the World of Tanks) takes Shabadinova for a girl of easy virtue, but does not condemn her. On the contrary, he begins to empathize and empathize.

The memorable image of Churikova and the quotes, which have spread after the premiere of the film to the people, make this work one of its most successful in the last decade. That's how important it is for actors and roles to fit together. The creators of the film "Country of OZ" can confidently say: they succeeded.

Film crew

Not only the actors of the film "Country of OZ", but also the operators, producers, screenwriters and editors worked at the maximum of their capabilities.

The operator was 32-year-old Dmitry Ulyukaev, who already managed to work in a dozen projects. True, before this, it was either short films ("Forgotten", "Near", "You were always there for me"), or films that did not receive prizes at major festivals (Raznoschik, House Without Address, Life Unawares, ).

The producer of the picture was Sofiko Kiknavelidze, who already worked in tandem with Ulyukayev. Scenario Vasily Sigarev wrote together with Andrei Ilyenkov, for whom this work was the first in a big movie.

This team managed to make it so that "Country OZ" - a film, actors and the whole crew of which can not be ashamed of their work.

New Year will not be the same

This is how the picture is positioned on its official website, this is how the actors of the film "Country OZ" react to it. The creators of this uncontrolled New Year's history note that the New Year in our country, like the Russian revolt of Pushkin, is spontaneous and merciless. However, it is in these days that the Russian soul and our national color are manifested in all their glory. This is also happening in the megalopolis, in which the native city of the leading role of Yana Troyanova, Yekaterinburg, is guessed.

While most of the residents slowly and traditionally prepare for the most family holiday for viewing the "Irony of Fate" and cutting olive salad, Lenka Shabadinova should get into a night stall in Torforez street to start a new life in a new job. But she can not even imagine how unexpected and crazy, but at the same time kind and sincere will be this night.

All this is the film "Country OZ". Actors and the roles that they perform will be remembered by spectators for many years to come.