"A short course of happy life" became the second job in the series for the director Valeria Gai Germanica which last year removed the sensational "school". Valery for some time was without work and came to ask her from the producer of Igor Tolstunova, suddenly appearing at him in front of him in one of the Moscow restaurants. There was also a producer and director Denis Evstigneev at that time. "Uncle, take me to my secretary, because our movie secretaries take off, and the directors are forced to work as secretaries," the girl appealed to him. He gave her his phone number and invited to meet. The next day, Valery decided to call Evustigneev "For the sake of joke." And he appointed her a meeting at Mosfilm and showed the script of the "short course of a happy life." "Saved me from extinction," the scandalous director notes.
The director of the series Valery Guy Germany. Photo: Gennady Avramenko.
Actress Svetlana Hodchenkova He played in the series Sasha, admits that far from the events that occur in the film, and it is impossible to find similarities between her and its heroine. She didn't really want to be filmed in the series, but for samples to the director Valeria Gai Germanic came only because he decided to meet her personally. What about the threshold and stated. The director was surprised: "You will not be removed from us? And right, nothing to do there. " But after that, Svetlana suddenly began to persuade to enter the project. She could not decide for a long time, because the script seemed to her too frank. As a result, it was convinced by producers: "Do not be afraid. We will find the Golden Middle. "
Actress Ksenia Gromova , the performer of the role of Kati, who changes her husband with a neighbor, herself applies sharply to married treason. Considering that everything made later returns back. Before you start to shoot in the TV series, she liked the script immediately, she honestly warned her 72-year-old mom that in the film there will be very frank scenes. What she calmed her down: "I am sure you will do everything talented." He loves his heroine of Ksenia, regrets, but there are no such women who are mired in their home routine. "How is it possible? - she is surprised. - He booked a chicken, she served her husband for dinner and went to watch Zadornov on TV. People almost do not speak for years. After this role, I once again realized that it would never be to lose interest in life. You need to appreciate what you have, and those who are near. "
After the series began announced on television, Alisa Khazanova (She played any) began to call excited friends and acquaintances. After all, the announcement was invented in the form of monologues from the face of each of the main characters. And the heroine Alice in his monologue declares that he does not believe in love. From the side it seemed that the actress was so frankly about the very audience. Familiar surprised: Alice can not say that!
"I am really different in love, despite the debunk illusions and life experience," says Khazanov.
In the series, her heroine dreams to get pregnant. In the life of Alice, the only of the four executors of the main roles, who have children. She grows two daughters eight and five years.
Anna Malya (In the film, her heroine is also called Anya) does not believe that the "short course of a happy life" is a very frank project. Although it admits that she had to cross over himself. Before this work, she never starred nude, and here she also had a frank scene in the soul, in which her heroine is engaged in masturbation. First of all, the actress is recognized, she thought that all this would see her mom. When a provocative episode was shown on TV, the actress was visiting his brother and his wife. "When the scene began, I closed my brother's eyes with my hand, and he repeated his wife: do not say anything, it will come out now!" - remembers the icon.