The Sergey Ursulak Sergey Ursulak's Multi-Sergey Damer Sergey Ursulak was released in 2015. And immediately fell in love with the audience with their beauty, reliability and scope. Now it is more pleasant to revise this shielding of the raven novel, for which Mikhail Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize. I remembered how the filming of the "quiet dona" took place.
Sergey Ursulak had long dreamed of removing the film on the "quiet Don" and was not enough glad when he had fallen out this opportunity. According to the famous director, the works of such strength and power must be shielded constantly, once every ten years so that every new generation can disclose this great novel for himself. "I was interested in a family: in a narrow sense, the family of Melekhov, in a broad sense - the inhabitants of the Katar farm," says Sergey Ursulak. - We removed the film not about the right point of red or white movement, but about the possibility of happiness. And about how this happiness can be easily and irrevocably destroyed. "
Polina Chernyshova played Axinho
The director invited the young novice actress Polina Chernyshov for the role of Axigny. She studied at the Theater Institute in one course with his youngest daughter Darya. Seeing Polina in one of the student performances, Sergey Ursulak was struck by her talent and approved Chernovashov to the role almost without samples. To his debut work in the film actress came very seriously. And to look as much as possible, even allowed himself to beat almost truly in the scenes, where Aksigni's husband, Stepan, dragged her for his hair and pounded to a half-day.
The image of Gregory Melekhov on the screen embodied actor Evgeny Tkachuk. The most difficult thing on the shooting artist was to get used to the patch nose, but communication with horses, whom Eugene loves, was much easier, after filming in the picture "Life and Adventures of the Japanese Bears" Tkachuk bought three horses, which were filmed in the film. And these horses also starred in the "quiet don". And the entire fee, reversed for shooting in the film, Evgeny spent on the performance of the play in the village of Veshinskaya.
Vintage props helped artists to penetrate the spirit of the time
Requisites for filming collected the whole world. Something was found at collectors and in museums, something brought by local residents, who still preserved the vintage pans, kettles, pots, dishes, tablecloths, harmonica and chests. And one of the locals, the Cossack and grandson of the Cossack himself, even shared with the film crew of the real Cossack silver earring. It can be seen in the left ear of Sergey Makovetsky, which embodied the image of Panthery Prokofievich on the screen.
The actors mastered the skill to stay in the saddle and chopped with checkers
An old props, of course, helped artists to penetrate the spirit of the time. However, Sergey Ursulak wanted the actors live in the frame. Therefore, all performers and not very roles had to learn to talk correctly, dance, walk, laugh, sculpt dumplings, cut watermelons, be baptized. And if the actors mastered the skill to stay in the saddle, chopped with checkers and shoot from rifles and machine guns, actresses needed to study how to milk cows, wear buckets on the rocker and spin.
The role of Natalia Korshunova Ursulak entrusted his youngest daughter Darya
The role of Natalia Korshunova, unloved wife Grigory Melekhova, Ursulak entrusted his youngest daughter Darya. This happened by chance: Dasha simply replaced the narrow-hearted actress on the samples, and his father saw that her daughter had unexpectedly well. Sergei Vladimirovich warned the daughter that he was ready to give her role, but many may not appreciate her game, having considered that she received this work exclusively thanks to his father. But Daria decided and did not fail the father-director, having received very flattering reviews.
The director was looking for a place to shoot for more than a year.
The shooting of the "quiet dona" Ursulak approached very scrupulously. The preparatory period during which was looking for places for filming and built scenery, took more than a year. The main work on the film was conducted in the vicinity of the village of Veshinskaya in the Rostov region, in Mikhail Sholokhov's homeland - there, where the events described in the novel occurred. The team of the artist-director was able to build so many houses that if you collect them all together, a whole village will be. Special attention was paid to the houses of Melekhov and Astakhov: there artists had to work hard and over the inner situation, and over the decoration of the courtyard.