"The Balzac Age, or All Men Are Its ...": actors and roles

After watching the comedic-melodramatic series "Balzac Age" actors and roles for a long time remain in the memory of the viewer. This film can be called a kind of response to the American TV series "Sex and the City", but the directors practically did not take anything from the American source, except for the idea of four unmarried women who are trying to find their love in the big city. But however, let's look at the stories of the main characters in a little more detail.

"Balzac's age, or all his men": actors and roles. Julia Menshova as Vera

The main characters from the series about the ladies of the Balzac age, filmed by the order of the NTV television company, have nothing in common with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda from the American prototype. In the film "Balzac's age, or all of his men" actors take us to the realities of Russian women - such as they really are.

The first collective image is a terribly "correct", intelligent Vera Bolshova performed by Julia Menshova. Faith always does everything according to the rules, well-mannered and well-read. When conversations between friends come about an intimate life - she shames modestly and prefers not to delve into details. In a word, the "Turgenev" young lady, who had already been in her thirties.

Personal life of the Faith, despite all the dignity of a woman, does not add up: she alone brings up her daughter, lives in the same apartment with her annoying mother and if she falls in love with someone, this man will necessarily be a scoundrel and a liar.

"Balzac's age, or all his men": actors. Lada Dance as Allie

The second collective image in the series is an active and emancipated Alla Prikhodko performed by Lada Dance.

In the film "Balzac's age, or all of my men," the actors Lada Dance and Yulia Men'shova actually play the full opposite: Alla has a career, she is an active, stylish woman, often taken care of by even very interesting men. Alla is able to "raze" any situation - no wonder she works as a lawyer. That's only on a personal front, even with such a "chic" women, too, everything is not so smooth. Often she calls men "goats", but admits that without them can not live.

Lada Dance is not in the full sense of the word actress - a woman has been performing on the Russian stage for a long time as a singer. So we can assume that in the series about the ladies of Balzac's age she is a debutante.

Alika Smekhova as Sonya

But Alika Smekhova, who played the role of Sonechka, by the time the shooting began, was already considered an accomplished actress. On her account were roles in the films "Life Line", "Idiot Dreams", "Thin Thing", etc.

Actors of the series "Balzac Age", as a rule, embody on the screens of collective images. Alika Smekhova is no exception. Her Sonya is a typical huntress for men. She finds particularly wealthy characters, seduces them and marries. And then she uses the financial benefits of her husbands and expects them to die soon (because preference is given mostly to the elderly grooms). Such a fate absolutely suits Sonechka. She has not worked a day in her life and is not going to do it in the future. Being a wife is her profession.

When four friends meet for conversations, Sonia looks the most experienced in the affairs of the heart. Still: for her shoulders two marriages and so much misalliances! A woman is always ready to explain to her friends that love must remain love, and it is necessary to get married exclusively by calculation.

Jeanne Epple in the role of Julia

In the film "Balzac's age" actors, or rather their screen characters, constantly fall into recognizable situations: what happens on the screen can easily be seen in everyday life. So, the heroine of the actress Jeanne Epple - Julia - is also a completely typical life character.

Julia - infantile. You can say that she was a bit stuck in her childhood (this is evident in her manner of dressing and behaving). Until now, Yulichka's bills are paid by her parents, they also tell her what to eat, what to do, and have long and unsuccessfully tried to find their groom's daughter. Julia, like many girls from good families, received a decent education, but she did not work a day in her life, just like Sonia. But the woman's private life is very turbulent. True, she is drawn constantly to men with some "punctuated".

For example, of thousands of men, she will necessarily choose a gay or a young man, who is obsessed only with girls who wear gypsum. She also had novels with men, who are attracted only by TV personalities or girls with abundant vegetation on the body.

Vera Alentova and Vladimir Menchov as parents of the Faith

In the series "Balzac's age, or all his men," actors Vladimir Menchov and Vera Alentova play divorced husband and wife, who have a common daughter - Vera.

Once upon a time Vera's father left the family for another woman and went to live in Israel. Since then Verochka almost every day has to listen to her mother's stories about what her father is a scoundrel. In the final of each scandal, Zinaida Semenovna says that Vera is very much like her "daddy". From this, the microclimate in the family, of course, leaves much to be desired.

It is noteworthy that the directors for the role of all members of the Bolshoi family invited a real acting family. Vladimir Menshov in life is indeed the husband of Vera Alentova, and Julia Menshova is their daughter. The only exception is Angelika Shilova, who on the screen embodies the image of Vera Bolshova's daughter.

Other performers of roles

In the series about women of Balzac's age, many more stars of Russian cinema and television appeared. Andrei Sokolov, known for his roles in the films "Little Faith" and "Lawyer", played "Jean" - beloved Vera Bolshova. Anatoly Vasilyev ("Crew") appeared in the image of General Repetzky - one of Sonya's husbands. Dmitry Shcherbina, who once played Alexei Berestov in "The Peasant Girl", this time appeared in the image of an inveterate player and the first love of Alla Prikhodko. Also on the screens you can see Boris Klyuev (The Empire Crash), Nadezhda Bakhtin (Star of the Epoch), Dmitry Marianov (Countess de Monsoro), Grigory Antipenko ("Do not Be Born Beautiful") and Evgeny Gerchakov ("Dandelion Wine" ").