On the First channel started a series about the chief of intelligence of Stalin.
Konstantin Milovanov in the role of Vlasic
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Olga Pogodina and Konstantin Milovanov in the TV series “Vlasik. Shadow Of Stalin”
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Secret
the diaries of the chief of Stalin’s guard, who miraculously got into the hands of Alexey Pimanova,
formed the basis of the new series “Vlasik. Shadow of Stalin”, which started on
The first channel. This tape Director Alexei Muradov scenario Valeria
Bikeeva and Alexei Pimanova tells the head of security of Stalin. Main
role in the series was performed by Konstantin Livanov, his beloved woman played by Olga Pogodin, and Joseph Stalin — Levan
Mskhiladze.
“Partially
the film is based on the diaries of Nikolai Vlasik, who miraculously survived, says the Pimanov. — Was alive back then Nadezhda Vlasik, his daughter we
filmed for the documentary series “the Kremlin-9”. She lived in a small apartment in the metro
“Belarusian”. Was not rich, was very sick. We gently, very delicately
began to help her…
Frame from the movie “Vlasic. Shadow Of Stalin”
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A few months before her death, she called me and asked
to come. Came, word for word. And she suddenly says: “Alex, go to
closet. There is a suitcase upstairs without a handle, such leatherette”. I
took, opened, you see the scattered notepads, scraps of paper with pencil marks,
swipe on which records were. Ask: “what’s that?” Hope
N. says: “the Diaries of the father”… She’s half a century they did not let anyone and I was
first, who was holding in his hands. The paper was very difficult to decipher because
what Vlasic wrote very sketchy and we had to guess who he has in mind.
Now the diaries are stored in files FSO…
On the set of the TV series “Vlasik. Shadow of Stalin” in the Kremlin
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Vlasic is a symbol of the era: incredible
rise, tremendous power, and then drop, a prison, a GULAG. As said daughter
Vlasik, “he went to the camera brave a General, and turned to the decrepit old man”…
Death of Stalin’s wife, the death of Kirov, the mysteries of repression 30-ies, the rise and fall of
Beria, war, protection of the military of the Kremlin, the evacuation values, the mysterious death of
in captivity, Stalin’s eldest son Yakov, Yalta, Potsdam conference,
the loneliness and illness of Stalin at the end of life, the struggle for power after his death,
— all stages of the life of Nikolai Vlasik and this is our movie…”
Olga Pogodina in the TV series “Vlasik. Shadow Of Stalin”
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A
the episodes filmed in the very places where they occurred 80 years ago. “We worked
in Moscow and Sochi, went to Abkhazia, where Stalin and Beria were cottages says
Director. — In Abkhazia shot attempt
Stalin during boat trips in 1933 in St. Petersburg in Smolny – the murder
Kirov. Traditionally for projects Pimanova much was filming in the Kremlin and
the near (near Moscow) Stalin’s country house. On the scale of our work is the fact that
to shoot at “Mosfilm” has been completely reproduced the interior of the Cabinet Stalin
in the Kremlin and his Kremlin apartment…”
On the set of the TV series “Vlasik. Shadow of Stalin” in hotel “Metropol”
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“I
was lucky to visit those places where I probably never would have been, says Milovanov. Where actually lived and worked those people
we filmed. When I walked these floors, sat in these seats played
Billiards, which is played Vlasic is greatly helped… More helped me
memories of her daughter and the diaries of Vlasic. As I studied the transcripts
performances of my hero on the court.”
“I
play one true love Vlasik — Ah — says Pogodin. She was close to the apex of power — and to Beria and Vlasik. Besides
under the carpet of the warring clans were constantly together foreheads. My
the heroine unwittingly fall into such political trouble, which broke
her life”.
Series
which covers the period from late 20’s to early 50-ies of XX century
talks about a simple guy from a Belarusian village, which was destined to become
one of the most influential people of the era, while remaining “behind the scenes”. Almost
a quarter of a century he was responsible for the personal security of leader of the people. Many of
methods, invented by Vlasic, are still used in the security system of the highest
officials of the state.
Frame from the TV series “Vlasik. Shadow Of Stalin”
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Also on his shoulders most of the household problems of family
Stalin. So, after the death of Stalin’s wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva in the upbringing of children
— Svetlana and Vasily, also said Vlasic. When Vlasik was arrested in December
In 1952, he uttered the prophetic phrase: “Not me, there will be
Stalin!”. Two months later, was followed by a strange death of Stalin, the secret
which historians unravel so far.
In
the series also employed Yulia Melnikova, Ivan Kokorin, Dmitry Aksenov, Victoria
Maslova, Vladislav Vetrov, Daniil Spivakovsky, Adam Bulguchev, Michael
Bogdasarov.
Frame from the movie “Vlasic. Shadow Of Stalin”
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