The actor starred in an interesting historical project.

Lydia velegeva played Hope Svetlov, the prototype of which is the legendary Creator of the ensemble, Nadezhda Nadezhdina. With Mikhail Efremov

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Having been engaged with economic security dance ensemble, Efremov mastered the most popular during the collapse of the USSR the principle “you to me — I to you.” No wonder he has come to the attention of the investigating authorities… fortunately, it was not himself an actor, and his character by Mankulam administrator legendary “Birches”. At the turn of 1980-1990-ies, despite world fame, the band barely survived. “We will tell the stories involved in the world of dance people is pure and greedy, dreaming and cynical, loyal and betraying, but always passionate, going to dream,” saying the film company “Russian”, which removes the series “birch” for channel “Russia”. The film employed many movie stars.

The life of Maria Poroshina associated with the “Birch” is not just a movie

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Maria Poroshina (her character — the mother of one of the main characters) has admitted that participates in the project with excitement: “My father, Mikhail Ivanovich, sang in the ensemble of “birch”. He has a great voice — tenor. At concerts “Birches” between the dances were rooms similar to a mini-performance. In one of them dad sang in a Russian folk costume, and then went to the scene of the bear — and together they danced”. Lydia velegeva at the theatre Institute learned from Lyudmila Stavskaya — niece of the founder of “Birches” hope of Nadezhdino. And Alexey Serebryakov (in the series — curator of the KGB) recalled: “My mother-in-law worked all his life in the “birch” so that his wife grew up behind the scenes of this ensemble.” The series also employed Sergey Shakurov, Nina Usatova, Nadezhda Markina, Evgeniy Sidikhin, mark Bogatyrev.

In the series, in addition to the actors, filmed and participants of the ensemble “birch”

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Overseas was shot in Moscow. Paris by night has been recreated on the embankment of Moscow there was built the scenery of the café, the streets empty of old cars with French plates. The audience will see and America in the 1980s. Suitable for filming I found a place near the metro station “Belorusskaya”. The buildings stretched background, which portrayed the skyscrapers of new York. The plot of Russian actors greeted some street break dancers and trying to repeat the unfamiliar dance.

From Lyubov Konstantinova in the series one of the main roles. With Evgeny Sidihin

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The crew also worked in the cities of the Golden ring. A boat, which runs along the Moscow river, the heroine Lyubov Konstantinova (known for the scandalous video of the band “Leningrad”) will play a big wedding. The main characters — singers “Birches” — play actress. But the dance they were taught by the choreographers of the ensemble with which the filmmakers all-time were in close contact. The movie will be released in 2018 for the 70th anniversary of “Birches”.

Julia Melnikova, Alexei Serebryakov, Olga Bobkova

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