Arkady Vysotsky wrote a script about a little-known page of the Leningrad blockade.
Kirill Pletnev in the movie “Three days until spring”
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Arkady Vysotsky
The eldest son of Vladimir Vysotsky, Arkady wrote
the script for the movie “Three days until spring”, which “Lenfilm” was directed by
Alexander Kasatkin. Unlike his younger brother Nikita, Arkady not
likes publicity. However, like his father and brother, he bound his life with the movie — at the time he entered the screenwriting Department VGIK,
where she studied on the same course with Renata Litvinova. By the way, Arkady
five children: Vladimir, Natalia, Nikita, Michael and Maria.
Evgeniy Sidikhin in the movie “Three days until spring”
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In the film “Three days till spring” starred Kirill Pletnev, Yelena lotova, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Igor Garbuzov. Dedicated
it is one of the closed pages in the history of the siege of Leningrad — the threat of the epidemic, which
looming in February, 1942 over the city, and so shelling, bombing and
hunger. And the state security officer and the young doctor only has three
the day before the spring to prevent
the disaster…
In the movie “Three days until spring”
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This topic has a special interest to the Director because
his grandfather Boris Kasatkin during the war he served in the anti-plague system. So
the Director was quite “topic”: “my Grandfather told me about the staff of the anti-plague service in question in my picture. These people did a great job, but today we do not know what
the danger has been eliminated — previously information was classified, but now
not as advertised.
In the movie “Three days until spring”
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I’ve been meaning to pay attention
this thread: I want to talk about epidemiologists — the people who prevented
a danger, and we don’t even know about their exploits. I am grateful that
this scenario fell into my hands…”
In the movie “Three days until spring”
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By the way, Kirill Pletnev siege
the topic was also personal: “My grandmother survived in Leningrad, but lost two little kids — brothers
my mom. Returning after evacuation to his hometown, she graduated from
Smolny Institute — worked as a watchman at the Elevator and lived in barracks (former
her apartment is not returned)… Such a difficult fate”
In the movie “Three days until spring”
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While painting
“Three days until spring” is preparing to hire, at “Lenfilm”, already started and
on a second project of the trilogy about the blockade with the working title “Three.” She won’t
a continuation of the first film, but talk about another episode from the life of defenders
heroes of Leningrad.