Victory Day “StarHit” decided to recall the films devoted to the great Patriotic war and talk about the emotions of the actors who participated in the filming of military paintings. They had to get into character and to feel what people had in wartime.

Today Russians celebrate 71-th anniversary of Victory. Veterans who have suffered all the sorrows and privations of the war, receiving congratulations from children and grandchildren. Victory Day “StarHit” decided to recall the most famous and beloved public films about the great Otechestvennoi hit the screens in the last ten years.

In each picture, dedicated to the events of 1941-1945, the actors had to pass through the emotions of the characters, their life situation and suffering. The stars told us how they managed to grow into the role and remembered their relatives who survived the war.

The price of victory: the stars about how their families survived the war

“Stalingrad“

This film by Fyodor Bondarchuk certainly was a success not only in Russia but also abroad. The film was released in iMAX 3D. This was innovation – in fact before the military drama did not take off. Artur Smolyaninov, who played in the film, has repeatedly said in interviews the important role of the battle of Stalingrad in the great Patriotic war. About that time he had heard from his grandfather.

“There is a sad, even sad experience. The husband of my grandmother’s sisters, uncle Vanya, was Stalingrad. He had damaged his right hand. She had a hook and hung. And here it is me, the boy, still a child, loved a lot of things to tell. But at the time I was five years old, and I didn’t understand much. I asked again in a more adult, I again repeated their stories. And all this military horror in front of me stood up “in full growth”. Of course, me he told. What was he to hide? Besides her grandson,” the actor recalled in an interview.

“Battle for Sevastopol”

The film was released in 2015 and was dedicated to the fate of sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who managed to pass the entire war. She was an example to other soldiers. The Nazis noted the particular cruelty of Pavlichenko. Throughout the war the girl was killed 309 people. Yulia Peresild has played a major role in this film. On the set the actress was not easy, she was in a film a couple of months after the baby is born.

Peresild told about her character. “She was killed by the Nazis, not the people who defended their city. Besides Folk was the sniper, and they have a different perception of the enemy, because he is at a distance. But I played not just the woman, whom the war turned into a robot. Quite the contrary: my heroine goes to war ready for anything, she wants to fight, but then postponed the test, first love, loss, make it a man, a woman, not a soldier,” said Julia in an interview after the film’s release.

“The dawns here are quiet”

The film Renata Davletyarova was a remake of the 1972 film. The film tells about the events of 1942, when Sergeant Vaskov and the five girls, anti-aircraft gunner confront the Nazis and stand up for the Kirov railroad and the white sea-Baltic canal. The role of Zhenya Komelkova sang Zhenya Malakhova. For filming this movie, she had to recover six pounds and dying my hair in red color.

“My grandfather was the same situation as Eugene Komelkova. He shot the entire family during the war. Therefore, some kind of hate and anger and understanding her character I was able to play through the history of his family”, – said Malakhov about how he stayed in character Komelkova.

“Brest fortress”

The picture, published in 2010, tells the defense of the Brest fortress. It was she who took the first blow the Nazis June 22, 1941. In the film, Alexander Kott starring Andrey Merzlikin, Alexey Koposov and Pavel Derevyanko.

Playing the role of Lieutenant Kizhevatov Merzlikin wanted to convey their own understanding of war in this picture. “My grandfather the Pasha was almost the entire war. He was wounded, but survived. Became disabled. As a disabled veteran, a disabled person just. I do not understand how they once lived, how they survived. The comfort that we have now, incomprehensible to the elderly. They lived a lot easier,” the actor recalled in an interview about their relatives.

“The spy”

The film directed by Alexey Andrianov based on the book by Boris Akunin. Deistvie of the film takes place in the spring of 1941. German intelligence is trying to convey to Stalin the wrong information about Hitler’s plans. In the story of the October senior major and Lieutenant Dorin provisothat professionals forarsage espionage. The film starred Fedor Bondarchuk, Anna chipovskaya Danila Kozlovsky.

The role of Dorina Danila Kozlovsky said that his character is straight, rather limited man, an idealist. The Akunin book was filmed in an interesting way.

“At first I took “Spy novel” as a historical detective, decided that the film will be in the same vein, but the Director Andrianov with producer Chumakovym chose a very different, very interesting move. They put an incredible event although it look believable, unrealistic ideal in Moscow. It seemed to come down with joyful paintings socialist realists. There looking into the distance avenues with rows of skyscrapers, a giant Lenin on top of the Palace of Soviets, the airships in the night sky, marching pioneers, the friendship of the Soviet peoples at the people’s Friendship fountain at VDNKH,” said Kozlowski about the film.

Based on the materials Hello.ru, Sobesednik.ru and filmpro.ru.