The director of the series Vitaly Moskalenko says that I really wanted to remove the movie about the movies. When the great director Eisenstein, Pyriev and working moments of the creation of domestic masterpieces "Bramenos Potemkin" appear in the frame, "Merry Guys", "Volga-Volga" and others. The plot of the series is based on documentary facts from the biographies of the actress and the director, who, in turn, were taken from the memories, archives and books Grigory Aleksandrov about the love of Orlova.
"There are several versions of the dating Orlova and Alexandrov. We took the version of Leonid Rockov: he brought them, sending Alexandrov to Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater on the performance of "Pericola" Offenbach. There the director was so shocked by the beauty of the actress, which immediately offered her to play in his comedy "Merry Guys," - explains Moskalenko.
The main roles in the painting got the Oles Suzilovskaya and Anatoly Bele. Other historical characters on the screen embodied no less well-known actors: Sergey Eisenstein played Vitaly Khaev, Joseph Stalin - Yevgeny Knyazev, Leonid Rockov became Nikolai Dobrynin, Fainea Ranevskaya - Julia Rutberg, and Maxim Gorky - Andrei Smolyakov. Sergey Chirkov plays Operator Nielsen, Alexey Vertkov - Scripture Nikolai Erdman, Alexey Fateev - director Ivan Pyryeva, and Roman Magyanov - Actor Igor Ilinsky.
Olesya Suzilovskaya played the role of love Orlova. Frame from the series "Orlova and Alexandrov".
"We had such a professional and talented team that it was only pleasure to work on the set. I can not say that it was easy, but this project is our brainchild, which we adore, inserted a soul and heart into him, "says Olesya Suzilovskaya.
"We with Olesya were easily and gambling. It seems to me that the role of Orlova and Alexandrova very much for us. His character is very close to me. When I was approved, I was very happy. Six months of life dedicated to them: there is everything - both comedy, and tragedy, and love, and the lyrical component. The role is a gift, "continues Anatoly White.
Costumes of the 30-40s of the last century, the artist on the costumes of Regina Khomskaya found on the Czech Studio "Barrands". Suits from the performances of Eisenstein were restored by sketches found in the archives, based on color versions of films. The artist of Mercury Elmira Zotov studied all the nuances of makeup and hairstyles of love Orlova, as a result, a dozen wigs appeared in the heroine. And all of them in the picture all the heroes were forty! Machines for filming provided the Museum of RetroAutomotivers on the Rogozhska Shaft. And Moscow of that era recovered the painting artist Svetlana Sosnina.
The operator-director Ilya Demin admits that the era was very difficult to pass the atmosphere of black and white cinema. Frame from the series "Orlova and Alexandrov".
The work was very complicated - in the 20s and 30s there was also almost no asphalt and cars, and many buildings were not yet built. "We could not shoot against the background of a high-rise in the boiler's embankment - then it did not exist, it is impossible to work with the temple of Christ the Savior - he was already demolished," he remembers Svetlana.
What only did not occur during filming. It was documented that when the scenes of the legendary "battle" Potemkin "were removed in Sevastopol and the crowd to jump into cold water, director Alexandrov, as an Aistenstein Assistant, had to give an example. In the series "Orlova and Alexandrov" instead of Anatoly White from the ship jumped all the same cascaders, but he had to crawl into a frame in wet clothes himself, and repeatedly. And already on the set of episodes dedicated to the "cheerful guys", the actor walked carelessly by barefoot on the cold pebbles, enjoying the November sea surf. As a result, Anatoly White has bothered and lost his voice, so before each shooting double when he needed to shout in the mouthpiece, the actor was squeezed by tea with herbs.
"To convey the atmosphere of cinema that era was not easy. Alexandrov filmed black and white films, but on the set he saw them in color, so we came up with a tricky reception, - the operator-director Ilya Demin shall be divided. - For example, viewers are sitting in the hall at viewing "Spring". But we do not show the screen, and we project the modern digital projector on looking at the film reflection. And on the faces of Stalin and the People's Commissar of Boris Shumyatsky (Boris Khorushensky played) we smile and singing the cliffs and Orlov ... "Nikolai Dobrynin, starring in the role of Rockov, immediately warned that he would not sing in the frame instead of a great tenor, so in Kiev Found a singer whose voice sounds in the film. Julia Rutberg offered the role of Fainain Ranevskaya, first refused to play a talented actress. "It's like signing yourself a death sentence," she says. - But then the director Vitaly Moskalenko and a wonderful film crew convinced me that, from their point of view, I still possess some culture and really a lot about the great actress, that is, not a random person, and therefore I can play the role of this great woman "
The role of Joseph Stalin went to Evgeny Knyazev. Frame from the series "Orlova and Alexandrov".
Special attention to the plot of the series is paid to the attitude of the love of Orlova Joseph Stalin. "We with Tatiana and Vladimir Sotnikov, we admit that he was in love with her," said Vitaly Moskalenko director. However, the grand niece of the actress Nonna Golikova, who was ready to act as a consultant of the film, said that when creating a series, his authors embodied his version of the events on the screen.
"Eighty percent of scenes in the series do not correspond to reality," she says. - In Orlov was in love at all Nemirovich, and his son. Recommended Orlov Alexandrov not cliffs, but an artist Williams. And Stalin actress saw only once in his life. "