Reviews: the film "Country of OZ" (2015). Actors of the film, plot, genre

"Country of OZ" (2015) is an amazingly interesting film not only because the creator of "hard festival works" Vasily Sigarev made a truly popular comedy, but because the picture created in the genre of the New Year comedy turned out to be completely infernal.

Gloomy tale

The works of the film screenwriter and director, a bright representative of the "new drama" in the domestic cinema of Vasily Sigarev, leading filmmakers characterize in one word - "hopelessness". The filmmaker became famous for the dramatic play "Plasticine", which tells about interrelated deaths of teenagers and somewhat more joyful ribbons "Live" and "Volchok". Therefore, the appearance of his new work - the ruthless Russian New Year comedy "The Country of Oz" (2015) - a little surprised admirers of the work of the director and experts of the domestic film industry. If you look closely at the name of the project Sigareva, it is easy to note the author's satire, in it the prisoner, - behind all the famous fairy tale country Oz the country is hidden "zero-three". According to a well-known number, it is high time to call emergency ambulance for all its residents. However, the reviews of the film "Country of OZ" are associated with the tale of a girl who, accompanied by a cute dog, went to the Emerald City to seek help from a wizard.

Plot. String

Comedy Sigareva "Country OZ" the plot has a secondary, but intriguing. The main heroine, a resident of the village of Malye Lali Lenka Shabadinova (actress Yana Troyanova), on New Year's Eve from despair gets a job in unfamiliar Yekaterinburg. It's by all means necessary to find the street Torforezov, which is where the new place of work - a stall, for work in which she is promised to pay 15 thousand rubles a month. The driver of the first ride (Evgeny Tsyganov), into which a woman has landed, is in a state of drug intoxication, so she takes the unfortunate person on the opposite lane to unthinkable distances that have nothing to do with the desired destination. At this moment, since the "Country OZ" genre has a comedy, with the heroine happens a lot of incidents and adventures in the spirit of "laughter through tears." For some reason, most of the good domestic comedy films always turn out to be tragicomedies. Perhaps, because this shade was set by AP Chekhov, positioning as a comedy "The Cherry Orchard".

Gallery of characters

Further in the comedy "The Country of OZ" the plot represents a set of related novels. With great difficulty, surviving (the actress got a concussion on the set of this episode) and having reached Ekaterinburg, Elena meets a bard and a poet, a hopeless romantic (Vladimir Simonov), who prefers the virtual world of the surrounding reality. Barely kicked off the adherent of tantric sex, the main heroine of the fate is in the apartment of an elderly woman with cosmetics (Inna Churikova), who lives with three monstrous-like sons - "couch soldiers".

And at this time, potential employers, the characters of Andrei Ilyenkov (writer and screenwriter of the painting) and Alexander Bashirov, on Torforezov Street in a shopping mall were tired of waiting for a new saleswoman. They have already started actively celebrating the approaching holiday, therefore, judging by their drunken dialogues, Lena does not need to hurry to work.

Further continue the brief description of the story line without spoilers is not possible. Separate reviews of the film "The Country of OZ" were dubbed the new "Russian line", the national cinema, but not false. As convincingly demonstrated to the audience of the audience the creators of the picture, laughter, fairy-tale, a miracle, realism and truthfulness do not interfere.

Muza Sigareva - Yana Troyanova

"Country OZ", according to leading domestic film experts, is extremely similar to Gogol's phantasmagoria, the narrative of which is twisted around the main character. The main role in the film of Sigarev is played by his muse and wife Ian Troyanov - one of the best contemporary characteristic Russian actresses. Huge, native to Sigareva with Troyanova, the city of Ekaterinburg gives its naive heroine one obstacle after another, allowing the actress to demonstrate the full range of her skills.

According to Troyanova, she basically does not act in the mainstream and commercial projects, since she does not seek earnings in her profession. The professional level and unique actor's talent of the performer was highly appreciated by film critics, she was awarded several times the prize of "Kinotavr" - for the best female role in the films "Volchok" and "Kokoko", the festival of Russian cinema in Honfleur and was nominated for "Nika" For the best female role in the project "Live." In 2016, the Russian comedy telefilm about the hard fate of the "simple Russian woman", titled "Olga," was aired, Yana Troyanova playing the main role in it.

"Country OZ" revealed to the world its comedic acting potential, than the creators of the series Alexei Nuzhny and Igor Voloshin immediately took advantage of .

Parade of domestic movie stars

It is no coincidence that the reviews of the film "The Country of OZ" are called one of the most stellar projects of our time, indeed, the tape is literally lashed with outstanding and popular artists who gladly fit into unusual and sometimes impersonal roles. During the viewing, the domestic audience will probably find out with difficulty:

• Gosha Kutsenko, whose character, Roman, produces an exceptionally pleasant impression on the general background of the madness in the picture "The Country of OZ". Gosha Kutsenko played a hero, who though somewhat insane, but still giving the main character and viewers a fair amount of optimism.

• Darya Ekamasova and Alisa Khazanov in the image of heroines-prostitutes codenamed Snegurochka No. 1 and No. 2.
• Evgenia Tsyganova as a crazy driver under butyrate.
• Vladimir Simonov, reincarnated as bard of Alexei Poberdin.

A movie star of two centuries

In "The Country of OZ" the viewer will be able to contemplate even the very Inna Churikova, who played the role of the unhappy mother of the Divine Warriors. By the way, a short story with her participation may seem too fantastic, although the tale is clearly not for children. According to rumors, the singer was filmed in the project secretly from her husband Gleb Panfilov. The great actress Inna Churikova, "Country OZ" for which she became the 41st film in the filmography, continues to star in: in 2016 will be released two films with her participation - "The Best Day" and "Forever Forever".

All these and many other brilliant domestic performers, embodying the director's idea, created a New Year comedy of a new level that is not a parody, it is rather a Russian, unrepresentable in any other culture or state, an unceasing ruthless festive frenzy.

Destructive Christmas comedy

"Country OZ" during the premiere show shocked the audience not only by the abundance of abusive words and expressions, although the director managed to enclose a couple of obscene phrases even in the mouth of the venerable Inna Churikova. Rather, the audience was confused by the fact that Sigarev mercilessly and defiantly deconstructed the holy, encroaching on the New Year, which is considered the brightest and most promising holiday. Many townsfolk, focusing on children's impressions, and to this day they perceive it. But as the testimonies testify, the film "The Country of Oz" from the novel to the novel becomes more and more poisonous: if the narrator, bard-perverts, prostitutes and degenerates can still be let go of the authors, the abundance of New Year's jokes in the style of humorous humor caused many For a joke more than once shudder.

Homerically funny

As a result, Sigarev got ridiculously funny and absolutely uncompromising cinema. In the rental of this film, doomed in advance to the success and dragging on the quotes, the Russian censors missed with a squeak. In the author's version, the characters speak such a common language in such a censored language, and in the censored version all the foul language was replaced by "peaks".