The film "Carnival Night": actors and roles

On the eve of the New Year, many residents of the countries of the former Soviet Union are happy to revise the film "Carnival Night", whose actors, with their inherent fervor and humor, are able to cheer up and set on a festive mood. What is the comedy about Eldar Ryazanov removed, and why do viewers constantly revise it for sixty years?

"Carnival Night": actors and roles. Igor Ilinsky as Ogurtsov

The film begins with the fact that in one of the House of Culture on the eve of the New Year holidays, acting acting director is appointed comrade Ogurtsov.

Ogurtsov - a character very narrow-minded, he absolutely does not understand anything in art, let alone in entertainment. Serafim Ivanovich on the root cuts all the beginnings of the creative team of the Palace of Culture. And then the workers, headed by Lenochka Krylova, announce to Ogurtsov an unofficial boycott: they made a firm decision to do everything so that Serafim Ivanovich could not spoil the holiday. This is the basis of the plot of the film "Carnival Night": actors, or rather their characters, constantly fall into comic situations, trying to resist despotism. Director.

Igor Ilyinsky was well known to the Soviet audience for his comic roles. Best of all, he succeeded in the role of limited officials and bureaucrats. Most of all, the actor is known for the role of Ivan Bivalov in the film "Volga-Volga": "Disgrace! - shouted his character in one of the episodes of the film, - they call me to Moscow, and they have mare excavations! "

"Carnival Night": actors. Lyudmila Gurchenko in the role of Lenochka Krylova

The role of Lena Krylova became a film debut for Lyudmila Gurchenko. True, there was an episodic role in Jan Fried's "The Road of Truth" before, but Gurchenko became really recognizable only after Eldar Ryazanov's film.

Lenochka Krylov, on the plot of "Carnival Night", with all her heart, is rooting for the common cause: to organize a good New Year's holiday for her is a matter of life and death. However, she is not the director of the Palace of Culture, and Ogurtsov "marries" in all the rooms that were prepared by Krylova. Sensing the disaster, the heroine of Gurchenko at his own peril develops an "underground" activity: the creative team of the DC only pretends that it is fulfilling Ogurtsov's assignments, but in fact leaves the program prepared previously unchanged.

For Lyudmila Gurchenko, cooperation with Eldar Ryazanov was a good start to the career: a little later the actress played in such wonderful films as "Station for Two", "Straw Hat", "Old Nags" and others.

Yuri Belov as Grishka Koltsov

In the film "Carnival Night" actors Yuri Belov and Georgy Kulikov play the roles of an electrician and an artist who help Lenochka Krylova in everything. However, the character of Yuri Belov - Grishka Koltsov - does it altogether from altruistic motives: he is secretly in love with Lena and hopes thus to achieve from her reciprocity. Sometimes a young man even goes on a frank blackmail. And in the final picture he still manages to draw the attention of the beauty.

For Yuri Belov shooting in the "Carnival Night" also became fateful: for the first time he was entrusted with the main role, and even in the film, which turned out to be the leader of Soviet hire in 1956. After that, the actor appeared in many more pictures that became classics: in the tape "Burn, My star ", in the comedy of Eldar Ryazanov" The Girl Without an Address ", in the melodrama" Aleshkina Lyubov ", in the" Hussar Ballad "," The Queen of the Gas Station "and in many other paintings.

George Kulikov as Usikov

Young actors of the movie "Carnival Night" later became famous and recognizable personalities. George Kulikov, who appeared in the picture in the image of the artist Usikov, was not less fortunate: throughout his life he played the leading roles in nine films, and in dozens of films he appeared as secondary characters. The actor can be seen in the films "Ordinary Man", "The Girl Without an Address", "The Cranes Are Flying", "Three Rise Against", "Clear Sky" and many others.

The most spectacular scene with George Kulikov's participation in the "Carnival Night" is when the artist Usikov, on behalf of Lenochka Krylova, must "neutralize" the lecturer from the "distribution society". Simple Sergei understands this task in his own way and simply soldered the hero Sergei Filippov. And what happens next on the screen, otherwise you can not name a pun.

Sergey Filippov as a lecturer

The film "Carnival Night", the actors and roles of which are so immersed in the souls of representatives of the audience of various generations, is woven of funny little things that constantly keep the viewer's attention and make him smile.

For example, the recognized master of Soviet cinema, Sergei Filippov appears in the frame for only 5-7 minutes - he plays the same lecturer, who is due on New Year's Eve to read the audience a tedious lecture about the cosmos from the scene. After the artist Usikov treats the mountain-lecturer with a couple of glasses of cognac, Filippov's hero still comes to the scene of the Palace of Culture, swinging and talking. And then follows a whole humorous sketch in the performance of the actor: first, instead of showing the microscope with his gestures, he grabs an imaginary glass and brings it to his lips, and then, waving his briefcase, pronounces a sacramental phrase: "Is there life on Mars? Is there life on Mars? Science is not known. Science is not yet aware of the matter. "

Sergei Filippov can also be seen in Leonid Gaidai's film "Twelve Chairs", where he brilliantly played Kisu Vorobyaninov.

Other performers of roles

Also in the film "Carnival Night" you can see Tamara Nosova ("Hello, I'm your aunt"), actress of operetta Olga Vlasova, Andrei Tutyshkin ("Anna Karenina") and Vladimir Zeldin ("Dance Teacher").

Continuation of the film

In 2006, in honor of the anniversary of the original painting, Eldar Ryazanov made a film-musical "Carnival Night-2". The actors Alain Babenko ("Driver for Faith"), Sergei Bezrukov ("Admiral") and Sergei Makovetsky ("Liquidation") tried to resurrect a long history, but to play it out in new circumstances. Of course, the film did not enjoy such popularity as the original. But, most likely, Eldar Ryazanov and did not expect a deafening success, but just wanted to once again remind the viewer of the once-created masterpiece.