On the First channel filmed the story of the famous children choir of the country.

Viktor Proskurin

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Singer Nikolai Baskov will be removed in one of the roles in the 12-serial film “the Chorus” directed by Alena Rayner. This large-scale musical melodrama film company shoot
“Mars Media” and “AMEDIA Production” for the First channel. The film also busy Olga Volkova, Tatiana Orlova, Yulia Aug, Mikhail Zhigalov, Dmitry Astrakhan, Yuriy Nazarov, Viktor Proskurin, Jan Sexta, as well as young debutants,
play soloists of the children’s choir.

Yuri Nazarov

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The film takes place in 1972
year. After hearing the song, the young singer Robertino Loretti, 12-year-old student from Lyubertsy Jura
starts singing. At first the boy was shy. But with the help of a young music teacher, he managed to audition in the famous children’s choir under the direction of Pavlov (this name will remind the audience of the legendary Director of Children’s choir Union radio and Central television Victor Popov).

Olga Volkova

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Urgent preparation for the festival “Song of the year”, the pressure
officials, intrigues of rivals, the complex relationship between
teachers, children and their parents — about all the difficult aspects of life chorus and tell picture.

”
scripts written over 20 children’s roles with absolutely “not children’s”, says Director and co-writer Alain Rainer. — Since December of last year, we conducted
casting, going to schools, theater studios, music schools and choirs. According to conservative estimates in our auditioned about 3,000 children!
To find the child with appropriate qualities needed to work in the movie, and the
more in the series not just. After all, child actors don’t play and live a particular
the situation in the frame. It’s a very different job than professional artists!”

In
the end of may, we selected forty people, for whom organized a “film camp”:
the boys attended classes in acting and twice a week engaged in choral school.Sveshnikov. “All candidates had this summer to stay in
Moscow: engage, teach harmonies, and their parents were able
to understand whether they are ready to make such sacrifices for their families, because “race” will
for six months,” — says Rainer. In July we re-audition, in which a “Chorus” was
selected 10 children.

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Shooting
the series will last six months and will be held in Moscow, Rostov and
Krasnodar Krai, on the territory of the Russian children’s center
“Eaglet”.

First day of shooting of the film “Glee”

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