For seventy years, the speech of this team fascinates the audience. The famous floating step of dancers, when the impression is created, as if the girls are in place, and the scene rotates under them, is still a thoroughly protected secret of "birch". And such secrets and intrigues in the history of "birch" a lot, because the creative career of the team took place against the background of the most important events in the life of the country and the world.
It is known that the history of the dance collective has long wanted to transfer to the screen, but the leaders of the legendary ensemble did not solve anything. "We have repeatedly received proposals to remove the film or the series, including from foreign studios about our" birch ". We learned a lot of applications, but something was wrong, something embarrassed, "Remember the director of" Berzki "Sergey Azovsky. - But finally, we were offered a scenario that caused our trust, and we decided to start working together. During filming, our choreographers actively participated in the process - put the dances, advised artists. For the first time, we opened the secrets of our costs famous for the whole world, and some of our dancers even received roles in the series. "
The director of the ensemble "Berezka" plays unsurpassed Mikhail Efremov
Events in the series unfold in the middle of the eighties. In the center of the plot - the fate of three birch dancers. So, provincial Varya, which Konstantinova's love plays - an actress, known to the public on the scandalous clip of the Leningrad group, lives in deep poverty with a sick father performed by Evgenia Sidichene. One day, seeing the performance of the "birch" on TV, the girl literally gets dancing. She begins to train itself in his tiny apartment, and then, accumulating some money, goes to the capital to get into the ensemble. Her takes to the "birch", but only a cleaner! However, the girl does not give up and is engaged every day. Gradually, Kryuku, the ensemble Nadezhda Svellov, played by Lydia Vellezhev, understands that the floors of her washes a real nugget! And to see her talent helps Larisa costume, whose image brilliantly created Nina Usatov. The girlfriends of the Heroine of Lyubov Konstantinova played Olga Bobkov and Alena Colim. Three girls are not only in the same ensemble, but also in the same hostel room. And each of them has its own way to a big scene, glory and, of course, love.
Some acting dancers of the "Birch" ensemble took part in the shooting of the series
It is noteworthy that some actors starred in the film turned out to be somehow connected with the legendary "birch". So, Alexei Serebryakov for the first time agreed to remove, not reading the scenario: "My mother-in-law worked in the ensemble" Birch ", and his wife grew up behind the scenes. So I had no options, "the actor admitted. But the father of Mary Poroshina has been a soloist "birch" for many years! The blonde and blue-eyed tenor performed in the breaks between the dances in mini performances, where he performed a song and danced on stage along with the Bear.
Khudruka "Berezki" Nadezhda Svellova, who played Lydia Vellezhev, and Hero Alexei Serebryakova - KGB officer - in the plot sympathize with each other
Already during the shooting, it turned out that the teacher Lydia Velueva in the Schukinsky Institute was Lyudmila Vladimirovna Zavskaya, the niece Khuduk "Birch" Nadezhdina. "I have no task to be like Nadezhdna externally, I try to realize the clue of this person," says the actress. - Nadezhda - a woman of incredible strength and huge kindness, the identity of a rare scale, the pride of the country and time. Work for hope was always in the first place, and for his native team, her heart was sought for days and nights. "
Among the shooting locations of the project was an old mansion in Leontiev Lane. It is there that the dances of "birch" known for the whole world are born, the fractions are littered and the float step is polished. For shooting rehearsals in the mirror hall, artists had to resort to the trick. So that the group and equipment do not fall into the frame created a mobile screen. But New York was removed on the White Square at the Metro Station "Belorusskaya". The heights of the square became American skyscrapers, and everything else was drawn using computer graphics.
Mark Bogatyrev played a soulless official in the "birch" - and did it very convincing
In addition to choreography, the audience, of course, paid attention to the incredible outfits in which Russian beauties came out. So the main characters in the plan of clothing were a real expathere. "I can't even identify some one complex costume. In any case, they all were not easy to me, "says the artist on the costumes of the series Izold Porukhunova. - This applies to all, starting with the search for fabrics and fittings, grids and ending with the fit of the finished product on the actresses. Most costumes and details were made manually. Both numerous embroidery and appliqués and all finishing on blouses, shirts, sundresses, vests. Even Kokoshnikov were made solely manually. " The process of studying costumes and fabrics, as well as the search for the desired fittings, took six weeks, and on tailoring two dozen costumes went about four months.