Black comedy of the absurd "depicting the victim." Actors, creators, plot

Immediately after the release of the film of the famous theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, the cinematographic public split into two opposing sides. Fans were delighted with the tragicomic performance, opponents, calling the picture "absurd happening," were perplexed by the comedy-induced ecstasy in the cinematic get-together. Nevertheless, the movie "Representing the Victim" (actors: Yu. Chursin, V. Khayev, M. Basharov, O. Demidova, M. Golub) has 5 nominations for the "Golden Eagle" and "Nika" film awards.

Creators

The play of the most popular playwrights - brothers Oleg and Vladimir Presnyakov - K. Serebrennikov already put in the theater, however, not he alone. Of course, there is a "script" character in the film, but it is blameless.

The hard-hitted theater-goers will certainly find allusions to Sorokin's "Queue", "Hamlet" and "Lessons of Music" by Petrushevskaya. Film fans will see references to Bremen's Freedom of Fassbinder and Aki Kaurismaki's film "Hamlet comes into life".

While filming the film "Representing the Victim", the author did not ruin, but adapted the stage space with all known cinematographic means. Thus, the tape minimizes the action, as is typical of the movie. Stylistics of the film "Representing the victim" (the actors emphasized this fact in a media interview) to some extent predetermines the occupation of the central character.

Plot

To earn money for the existence, a graduate of the University of Valya (actor Yuri Chursin) takes a job in the police for a strange position - during the investigation experiments he depicts the victim of a crime. Practically every day, the investigative operative group of the original captain (performed by Vitaliy Khayev), the lieutenant operator Lyudmila (actress Anna Mikhalkova) and the close associate of Seva (actor Alexander Ilyin) takes the defendants to commit crimes to the scene of the crime in order to restore the full picture of the incident.

Each case brings to the plot of the film a separate mite of insanity: a petashushnik named Karas (Marat Basharov), killing his girlfriend, tried to dismember her, the intelligent neurasthenic Sysoyev (Andrei Fomin) threw out his wife from the window, the hot Caucasian Zakirov (Igor Gasparyan) drowned her lover in Pool, and businessman Verkhushkin (Maxim Konovalov) shot his ex-classmate in a sushi bar. Such charismatic characters embodied in the film "Representing the victim" actors familiar to the domestic audience.

The causative agent of artistic adrenaline

Almost all of the above characters are pretty ordinary people, everyone has their own truth, it's more a matter of grave miserliness demonstrated by the creators of the picture of the environment.

The protagonist, living in a close Moscow apartment with his mother (actress Marina Golub), neighbors with his uncle Peter (performed by Fyodor Dobronravov). Soon adults are going to converge and live together. At night, Vala dreams of nightmares in which his deceased father comes to him and blames his brother-poisoner for his sudden death. One day the guy, returning after another inquiry conducted in a Japanese sushi bar, decides to take revenge on his father's murderer and all those around him, including mother and pregnant girl Olga (actress Elena Morozova). Such an extravagant story was told in the comedy "Representing the victim" actors involved in the work on the project.

Actors' Ensemble

One of the signs of a strong direction is the feeling that all the actors involved in the film are brilliant, and the demonstrated acting skills have a fine aftertaste. Everyone knows that the Russian actor's school has not fallen behind the world standards of the film industry. In this film, the duet of Chursin and Khayev looks more abruptly than Ryan Philip and Jason Statham.

Ex-vahtangovets, and now MKhATovets actor Yuri Chursin in all recognized masterpieces has not yet acted, is widely known to the domestic audience on the television series "Chiromant". The role of the protagonist in "Representing the victim" was for him a full-length debut, an opening. The actor is interesting in every manifestation, he is eccentric, intelligent, ironic.

Vitaly Khayev is amazingly organic in the image of the captain of the police. His culmination obscene dialogue, affecting all the most pressing problems of our society, brought the actor a special popularity. This episode makes the beholder feel that this is really a live movie.

Not less bright

Marat Basharov and Igor Gasparyan are singled out among the actors of the second plan (behind the trajectories of his character - killers from the pool - you watch as hypnotized).

Lyrical and at the same time a fundamental image of police lieutenant Lyudochka adorably embodied on the screen Anna Mikhalkova. Her heroine is in a Baba compassionate, sympathetic, always figuring out the phone relations, deciding personal issues during work.

About Leah Akhedzhakova, who played a Japanese restaurant worker, a special conversation - she is an actress for all time, like Rina Zelena, Faina Ranevskaya.