Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive

Vysotsky. Thank You for Being Alive
Directed by	Pyotr Buslov
Produced by	Konstantin Ernst, Anatoly Maksimov, Michael Schlicht, Nikita Vysotsky
Screenplay by	Nikita Vysotsky
Starring	Oksana Akinshina Andrey Smolyakov Ivan Urgant Maksim Leonidov Andrey Panin
Cinematography	Igor Grinyakin
Distributed by	Direktsiya Kino
Release dates	December 1, 2011
Running time	1 hour 12 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	$12,000,000 (estimated)
Box office	$27,400,000

Vysotsky. Thank You for Being Alive (Russian: Высоцкий. Спасибо, что живой) - 2011 Russian drama film about Vladimir Vysotsky based on a screenplay by his son Nikita and directed by Petr Buslov. The actor, who played the central role of Vysotsky remained unknown for public and uncredited. Film premiered on December 1, 2011.

Plot summary

Film is based on a true story about a Vysotsky concert tour to Uzbekistan and subsequent clinical death in 1979.

Cast

• Sergey Bezrukov as Vladimir Vysotsky (uncredited), also appearing as Yura, colleague of Vysotsky.

  Nikita Vysotsky voiced of Vladimir Vysotsky

• Oksana Akinshina as Tatiana Ivleva, friend of Vysotsky
• Andrey Smolyakov as Viktor Bekhteev, KGB Colonel in Uzbekistan
• Ivan Urgant as Seva Kulagin, friend of Vysotsky
• Maksim Leonidov as Pavel Leonidov, manager and friend of Vysotsky
• Vladimir Ilyin as KGB Colonel from Moscow
• Andrey Panin as Anatoly Nefedov, personal doctor of Vysotsky
• Dmitri Astrakhan as Leonid Fridman, concert manager in Uzbekistan, who invited Vysotsky
• Anna Ardova as Isabella Yurievna, Director of the House of Culture of Uzbekistan
• Vladimir Menshov as Taganka theater stage director (portrayed Yuriy Lubimov)
• Alla Pokrovskaya as Nina Maksimovna, mother of Vladimir Vysotsky
• Sergey Shakurov as Semyon Vladimirovich, father of Vladimir Vysotsky
• Irina Byakova
• Igor Chernevich
• Furkat Faiziyev
• Shukhrat Irgashev
• Vladimir Kapustin
• Svetlana Kolpakova
• Karim Mirkhadiyev
• Seydulla Moldakhanov
• Yelena Papanova
• Alla Pokrovskaya
• Yuliya Polubinskaya
• Konstantin Strelnikov
• Rashid Tugushev
• Vladimir Zaytsev
• Evgeniy Ermakov
• Sergei Legostaev

Production

A copy of famous Vysotsky automobile Mercedes-Benz W116 in Moscow cinema theater (original car was sold after his death)

• The actor who played Vysotsky spent 4 – 6 hours every day for make-up and about 1 - 1.5 hours to undo the make-up. In some sets Vysotsky was "reconstructed" for the film with the use of CGI.
• In spring 2012 Sergey Bezrukov admitted in a TV talk show that he in fact was the actor who played the role of Vladimir Vysotsky.^[1] Also, for the extended TV version released in January 2013, Bezrukov was credited for the role of Vysotsky.

References

1. Vysotsky: thanks for saying it Kommersant-Online, 04/17/2012

External links

• Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive at the Internet Movie Database
• 'Vysotsky' Becomes Russia's Highest Grossing Movie of 2011 by Vladimir Kozlov at The Hollywood Reporter
• Movie fails to capture life of legendary Vysotsky by Olga Rudenko for Kyiv Post, December 1, 2011
• Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive (full movie - in Russian)