“We can live just fine without foreign prime ministers.” Interview with actor Viktor Dobronravov

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– Did you talk to Larisa Savitskaya? How do you remember it?

– Larisa came to our shoot, but I can not say that we are in close contact. He definitely impressed me as an ordinary person – bright, open, kind. I did not notice the seal of a terrible test in it. Probably, the film is largely about the fact that each of us – any ordinary person – can be saved through faith and love.

– Why do you think it was important that Savitskaya was on the set as a consultant? After all, the story has already been told and studied in detail.

— Of course, it’s important that someone living the story give advice to the screenwriters. Because a fictional screenplay is still fiction equipped with some kind of main idea. Therefore, if there is an opportunity to get a first-hand comment from someone, it is invaluable.

– Tell us about your character – a KGB officer from Moscow Knyazev. What is its purpose in the story?

– This is a man of education, a man of service, subject to a big machine, both bureaucratic and military-political, so to speak. He comes to investigate the reasons for what happened. And of course, he never thought that anyone would survive after such a collision.

Do you know how the plane crash scene was shot?

“There was a lot of focus on filming the crash sequence. I know that a large pavilion was built where this large block was filmed in great detail and over a long period of time. But I didn’t watch it live because I only took part in the scenes of the plane crash investigation.

– How many days did you spend in the Ural taiga, where did you shoot these scenes? What do you remember about working in the forest?

– I have a hard time telling how many days we spent in the taiga because it was a long time ago. We shot in the Perm Territory – with its hospitable, magnificent, magnificent nature. We flew by helicopter across the vast Permian rivers and beautiful forests. That’s why I love cinema – what you can’t do at the cinema you can do in the cinema.

“The shooting took place in the Perm Territory, due to the cutting down of a large forest area in the Amur Region,” said the director of the film, Dmitry Suvorov. But those who recently took a jeep tour to the crash site say it was an “impassable taiga.” Is that the only reason you don’t shoot in the Far East? Perhaps the distance from Moscow also played a role?

— We shot the movie “World Champion”, which takes place in the Philippines, not the Philippines. But that’s okay, I think Filipinos will somehow get out of this. The cinema process is about production, logistics, and the ability to shoot a movie in a particular location. The Amur Territory is still much further away from the Perm Territory. I went to Blagoveshchensk and Vladivostok. Obviously, the refusal to shoot near the actual scene of the accident is associated with the transportation of actors and equipment.

– You said recently that you didn’t take part in Roman Polanski’s movie “The Palace” because you had a hard time navigating around Europe. What role were you supposed to play and how important was it to you?

– I was supposed to take part in one of the few short stories in which Russian men came to an agreement with the ambassador in the conditions of a change of power in the Russian Federation in 2000. I am not upset because I cannot say that this role is very important to me. It would be interesting for me to study abroad – it always attracts. Unfortunately it didn’t work, but that’s okay.

– Later, the media reported that Alexander Petrov will play in the movie. Why don’t they have problems with working abroad?

– I think Sasha had the opportunity to be there without interruptions from the production of the film, so as not to fly an extra 100 times. Due to the fairly wide employment in the Vakhtangov Theater, I do not have such an opportunity – today I have performances in two days, five and six days. It was problematic before – flying two or three planes every day. And things got a lot more difficult when the borders were closed and flights were cancelled.

– How do you assess the state of Russian cinema against the background of the cancellation of foreign premieres?

– We can live just fine without foreign prime ministers. If we were talking about this 15 years ago, maybe there would have been some sort of lack of movies. And now our cinema shoots absolutely all genres, be it children’s film, drama, comedy, horror. Perhaps, after years of living keeping an eye on the West, it’s time to define yourself.

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