"Slave of Love": actors and roles

The painting "The Slave of Love" was the first film by Nikita Mikhalkov, shown abroad and internationally recognized. At home, Nikita Sergeevich's second film was named best among the works of young filmmakers at the Mosfilm studio in 1976. In Tehran, the film was awarded the "Golden Tour Plate" for directing, and in France the painting was awarded a special prize by the jury of the International Film Festival "Young Cinema", held annually in Hyères.

A special atmosphere of Mikhalkov's films

About this wonderful film, which is sometimes called the hymn to the silent cinema, a lot is written mostly about enthusiastic articles. Special words deserve the performing composition of the picture. The actors of the film "The Slave of Love" are perfectly matched. According to the testimony of those who filmed from Mikhalkov, working with him is very interesting. Oleg Tabakov in the interview given after filming in the film about Oblomov, said that he woke up with a joyful thought "I'm shooting!". This unique atmosphere of filming is transmitted through the screen to viewers, and thanks to her films, including her, are saturated with a special atmosphere.

Prototype of the heroine

The picture is based on the fate of the star of the Russian silent cinema of Vera Kholodnaya. For most viewers, the work of this actress, who died at the age of 25, is little known. But the conviction that the film star, whose role was beautifully performed by Elena Solovei, is exactly what should be, a little cutesy, but absolutely believable, sincere and not contrived, immediately took over the spectators who watched the picture "The Slave of Love". The actors who starred in this film are absolutely all good. It is impossible to single out anyone separately - everyone deserves only enthusiastic words.

Starring roles

And it is necessary to note the fact that NS Mikhalkov came already in the production started by the production, in someone else's project, with a completely different idea - the film was conceived as a comedy with a detective background. And what a beautiful retro-drama Nikita Mikhalkov has shot! The film "The Slave of Love," whose actors were well known and popular in the country, made them a star, because this picture, like all the director's works, was an all-Russian event. And what film comes to mind first when it comes to Elena Nightingale?

Highly professional cinema

The film "The Slave of Love", whose actors, as noted above, are exceptionally good all, in the biography of each of them added a few nice pages. It's a pity that every team of the next film Nikita Mikhalkov is not awarded one prize for everyone in the nomination "Best Actor of the Year", as it was with the artists of the picture "12". All the works of this author are very stylistically true, and it's not just the costumes and scenery - the very appearance of the actors sends the audience in those days. After all, Elena Nightingale played beautifully and modern women, but the diva Olga Nikolaevna Voznesenskaya, in the performance of the actress, seemed to be transferred from the "silent cinema".

Actor Konstantin Grigoriev

Konstantin Grigoriev wants to distinguish from the collective of the film "The Slave of Love." Actors and colleagues not only on this film (in the 80's Grigoriev was not just popular - he was one of the most popular performers) evaluate the talent of this man very highly. He was gifted versatile, and at the height of his glory, a tragedy occurred - as a result of a serious injury received in the restaurant, Konstantin Grigoriev became disabled and died in poverty.

In the picture Mikhalkov, he played amazingly the role of Captain Fedotov, the head of counterintelligence, a disgusting scoundrel, in free from torture, the time dragging for the actress Olga Voznesenskaya.

In the films Mikhalkov pass-through roles do not happen

Alexander Kolyagin does not know how to play bad at all, and in Nikita Sergeyevich's films he is simply brilliant - both in the role of landowner Platonov, and in the role of director AA Kolyagin, who shot the "film of love" in the White Guard south. Actors and roles played by them in this picture, the Soviet audience of the late 70's were very familiar, because, as noted above, each film of Nikita Mikhalkov was an event and left no one indifferent. And the rancors already suffocated.

Stars "Slaves of Love"

Yuri Bogatyrev from the very first work of Nikita Sergeevich was, as they say, his actor. In fact, Bogatyrev, unknown to anyone, became a "star" after the tape "His own among strangers, a stranger among his own." He is remarkable in the role of a spoiled actor number 1 "silent film" Vladimir Maksakov. And how good he is in Rodney!

Famous in those years, Radion Nahapetov played very well the operator of Viktor Potocki, who, being a Bolshevik underground worker and being on the "task", does not remain indifferent to Olga Voznesenskaya. Very good Oleg Basilashvili in the role of the producer of the film "The Slave of Love." Actors and roles that they performed, liked that on the screen there were real people, each with their own problems, in general, understandable to all viewers.

Director from God

The film, which rose to a high tragedy (the last shots of Olga Voznesenskaya's death are simply shocking), triumphed across the country's screens. He was looked at several times and quoted. And it is all the more gratifying that the film was considered "aesthetic", that is, "not for everyone". Another interesting fact is that it was shot in record time (three weeks) and at absolutely "ridiculous" money, because the lion's share of the funds released for the picture was already spent by the previous film crew.

Constellation of Russian actors

Much in order for the picture to succeed, the actors did. "The slave of love" is the result of collective labor. Vera Kuznetsova and Inna Ulyanova, Gotlib Roninson and Nikolai Pastukhov, Evgeny Steblov, Alexander Adabashyan and Boris Galkin - who in the country did not know and did not like these fine actors. All those who worked on the film made it a masterpiece, and "Slave of Love" added fame and popularity to its creators. On a high professional level, all episodic roles were played.

Other creators of the painting

It was already noted that the 30-year-old Nikita Mikhalkov did not start the picture from scratch, but replaced in his work on the tape with the name "Unexpected Joys" by Rustam Khamdamov. The script was written by Friedrich Gorenshtein and Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky. The film "The Slave of Love," the actors and roles of which are inextricably linked with popularity, which came after the first days of hire, will not leave anyone indifferent.

Of the team of actors involved in the shooting of "Unexpected Joys", there was only one Elena Solovey, who also performed the role of Olga Voznesenskaya. Music for the film was written by Eduard Artemiev, words to poems and songs that sounded in the film - Natalya Konchalovskaya.