"Country OZ" - one of the most high-profile Russianfilms of 2015. The comedy of the well-known art house director Vasily Sigarev received favorable reviews of critics. At the festival "Kinotavr" was awarded the prize "For the best script", as well as the awards of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics "Elephant".
On the big screen, viewers saw the picture inDecember. In the New Year holiday on the channel TNT released a shortened version of the film, subjected to censorship. In particular, frank scenes and obscene language were cut out.
The main director of the film Vasily Sigarev is well known to the Russian audience. The first loud work was the picture "Volchok", released in 2009.
This is a psychological drama about the mother and daughter.As they say in the official release: "They both run, constantly, without stops." Mother runs away from her daughter, from her problems in search of a better life. The daughter follows her relentlessly, for she can not think without her. Their life is a series of repeated mistakes, similar to the non-stop spinning of a top.
Three years later he released the film "Live."It is based on three parallel storylines, whose characters face the death of close people. The child loses his father, the girl is the groom, and the middle-aged woman dies twins' daughters. All this happens against the backdrop of the problems of the Russian remote places.
"Country OZ" is the third full-length film of the director.
In the story, the main character is Lena.On New Year's Eve she comes to a metropolis to start a new life. She takes a job in a night stall in a residential area of the city. And the whole movie is trying to get there. Lena reminds the girl Ellie from the novel of the same name of Frank Baum, who on her way meets all the same heroes - the Scarecrow, the Woodman, only everyone with Russian color.
Many actors of the film "Country of OZ" are well acquainted andknown to the Russian public. This is Sigarev's favorite actress Yana Troyanova, as well as Gosha Kutsenko, Alexander Bashirov and Inna Churikova. All of them manage to create bright and memorable images.
The main role is played by Yana Troyanova, the wife of Vasily Sigarev, the performer of the main roles in all his paintings.
Troyanova is a representative of Sverdlovsktheatrical school. She was born in 1973, graduated from the Ekaterinburg Theater Institute. Glory to her brought the main role in the film "Volchok." For this work she received a prize for the best female role at the festival "Kinotavr", and was also nominated for the White Elephant Prize.
Memorable became her work in the films "Kokoko" Avdotya Smirnova and "Heavenly wives of meadow Mary" Alexei Fedorchenko.
Two years ago, her independent debut as a director took place. All on the same "Kinotavr" she demonstrated her film "Near" in the short film competition.
In the film "Country OZ" (2015) actors and filmmakersthe group got suited to each other. Troyanova plays Lenka Shabadinova - a woman who came to the big city from the wilderness. She bribes the viewer with her naivete, simplicity and straightforwardness. It is because of these qualities, perhaps, her life has not yet developed.
To herself, Iana Troyanova says that she "came to thisthe profession of dying. "And according to this, as in other works, it is clear that this is really true, she works full-time, the audience trusts her. Many of the actors in the film" The Country of OZ "work as selflessly, so the picture turned out to be successful.
Ленка Шабадинова в самом начале фильма встречает Roman, the character of Gosha Kutsenko. An absurd, close-minded and dissolute hero. At the same time, it is thanks to him that the picture appears wrapped in a pink romantic wrapper. All because the actors of the film "The Country of OZ" (2015), including Kutsenko, play sincerely. This also captivates the viewer.
Kutsenko - one of the most famous artists of modern Russian cinema. He has more than fifty works on his account, but there are not so many memorable ones as in "The Country of OZ".
To the mastodons of Russian cinema, the actors of the old,still Soviet school, can be attributed to Inna Churikova. "Country OZ" is a film, the actors of which created very memorable characters. Here also Churikova owns a small role of the second plan, however you always remember it when you start talking about a picture.
At Sigareva she plays a pensioner, motherold sons, with whom he lives in the same apartment. Somehow New Year's morning in her balcony, she discovers Lenka Shabadinov, who was there, fleeing from the jealous wife of an accidental acquaintance. With it, she came to the apartment next door. Churikova - her role in the film is designated as "the mother of the Divine Warriors" (sons - ardent fans of the World of Tanks) takes Shabadinova for a girl of easy virtue, but does not condemn her. On the contrary, he begins to sympathize and empathize.
A memorable image of Churikova and citations,which split after the premiere of the film into the people, make this work one of its most successful in the last decade. That's how important it is for actors and roles to fit together. The creators of the film "The Country of OZ" can confidently say: they succeeded.
Not only the actors of the film "Country of OZ", but also the operators, producers, writers and editors worked at the maximum of their capabilities.
The operator was 32-year-old Dmitry Ulyukaev, alreadywho managed to work in a dozen projects. True, before this, it was either short films ("Forgotten", "Near", "You were always there for me"), or films that did not receive prizes at major festivals (Peddler, House Without Address, Life Unawares, ).
The producer of the picture was Sofiko Kiknavelidze, who already worked in tandem with Ulyukayev. Scenario Vasily Sigarev wrote together with Andrei Ilyenkov, for whom this work was the first in a big movie.
This team managed to make so that "Country OZ" - a film, actors and the whole crew of which can not be ashamed of their work.
This is how the picture is positioned on its ownofficial website, that's exactly how the actors of the film "Country of OZ" react to her. The creators of this uncontrolled New Year's history note that the New Year in our country, like the Russian revolt of Pushkin, is spontaneous and merciless. However, it is in these days that the Russian soul and our national color are manifested in all their glory. This is also happening in the megalopolis, in which the native city of the leading role of Yana Troyanova, Yekaterinburg, is guessed.
While most of the residents slowly anda well-established tradition is being prepared for the most family holiday watching the “Irony of Fate” and slicing an olivier salad, Lenka Shabadinova must go to a night stand on Torforez Street to start a new life in a new job. But she cannot even imagine how unexpected and insane, but at the same time, this night will be good and sincere.
All this is the film "Country of OZ". Actors and the roles they perform will be remembered by spectators for many years to come.
