What Men Talk About

What Men Talk About
O chyom govoryat muzhchiny
Directed by Dmitry Dyachenko
Produced by
  • Alexander Nakhimson
  • Sergei Petreykov
  • Rostislav Hait
  • Leonid Baratz
  • Alexander Cekalo
Written by
  • Leonid Baratz
  • Sergei Petreykov
  • Rostislav Chait
Music by Bi-2
Cinematography Yuri Lyubshin
Production
company
Kinokompaniya Kvadrat
Distributed by Central Partnership
Release dates
  • March 4, 2010 (2010-03-04)
Country Russia
Language Russian
Box office US$12.8 million[1]

What Men Talk About (Russian: O chyom govoryat muzhchiny) is a 2010 Russian comedy written and directed by Dmitriy Dyachenko,[2] filmed in the genre of road movie based on the Russian play Conversations middle-aged men have about women, movies and aluminum forks with the participation of the actors of the comic theatre "Quartet". What Men Talk About is the third film adaptation of the theatre "Quartet". After a successful theatrical release, What Men Still Talk About was announced. In April 2010,[3] the film began licensing issued on DVD by The Mystery of Sound.

Plot

What Men Talk About? Of course, women. But also about work, money, cars, football ... but in general about women. And if they have two days when they escape from their offices and families, to get away from all the cares and commitments – two days, eventful and adventurous – you can be sure that this time they will have time to discuss a lot of things ... And More. From these conversations – we know for sure – many women learn about themselves a lot of new things. Four friends are going to go to Odessa for the concert of a famous Russian band ‘B-2’. Two of them, Alexey and Sasha, have problems in the morning: one can not deal with things around the house, the other – cannot get rid of the annoying customers at work. When, finally, they join their other friends who already left, Camille and Slava, they begin to talk about all sorts of things. Thus, the first day on the road passes. They spend the night in a hotel village ‘Beldyazhki’. The next day, the heroes continue to talk about life, passing through Kiev, where they buy paintings by Tishchenko and at the same time discussing modern art. By the end of the movie 4 men get into a car accident, but still make it in time for the concert. "What Men Talk About" – this is the third, and by far, the best film of the cult theater "Quartet". Four middle-aged friends receive an invitation from their friend in Odessa to come to him for his birthday, and at the same time attend a concert of a famous Russian group "B-2". Each of them, like all of us, has a difficulty with time. One has work, the second – has his wife and children, the third – has both work and family, but still, with great a difficulty, they manage to escape for a few days. They sit in the car and go to the long journey. On the road, they have many adventures, many of which can knock a person out of a rut. But when you have people next to you with whom you can talk about everything, all the hardships of life become insignificant ... And real men are known to have a lot of different topics for discussion. Work, parties, money, music, clubs, and of course – women. If a man is still single, he is concerned about the issue – whether to get married. And married ones concern whether they can cheat on their wife.

Cast

  • Leonid Baratz – Lesha
  • Alexander Demidov – Sasha
  • Kamil Larin – Kamil
  • Rostislav Chait – Slava
  • Nonna Grishaeva – Slava’s imaginary wife
  • Yelena Podkaminskaya – Nastya, Lesha’s wife
  • Veronica Amirkhanova – Lisa, Lesha’s eldest daughter
  • Valeria Usable – Eva, Lesha’s youngest daughter
  • Natalia Sigova – Grandma 1
  • Valentine Zubchenko – Grandma 2
  • Maria Bondarenko – Grandma 3
  • Anastasia Pronina – Sasha’s secretary
  • Alexei Agranovich – first customer
  • Artem Resin – the second customer
  • Yekaterina Yevsyukova – Lera, Lesha’s dream girl
  • Sergey Shnyrёv – Lera’s husband
  • Nina Ruslanova – hotel administrator of the hotel ‘Beldyazhki’
  • Sayat Abajyan – driver
  • Constantine Chepurin – meliorator Vyacheslav Gavrilovic
  • Anna Kasatkina-Baratz – meliorator’s wife
  • Artyom Fadeev – Gosha, meliorator’s son
  • Gregory Bagrov – honest husband
  • Helen Doronin – honest husband’s wife
  • Maxim Vitorgan – Romeo
  • lia Pyznar – Juliet
  • Julia Sules – classmate on the Internet
  • Fedor Dobronravov – a man who is in love with a sausage
  • Victor Dobronravov – a waiter in a restaurant
  • Michael Solodovnyk – doorman at the restaurant
  • Sergei Nikonenko – the captain of the ship
  • Maxim Nikitin – captain’s assistant
  • Olga Lezhnev – Lyudochka, passion Glory "from work"
  • Pauline Voinovich – Sveta, Slava’s wife best friend
  • Alexander Zuev – the main fascist
  • Sergey Neudachin – truck driver
  • Anastasia Medvedev – salesmen
  • Elena Ostroverkhova – gallerist
  • Irina Panicheva- Slava’s mistress
  • Gennadiy Skarga – Igor, birthday man in Odessa
  • Igor Hayvaz – Nastia’s lover
  • Jeanna Friske - Herself

Music

The soundtrack to What men talk about [4]

No. Title Length
1. "Scandal"   3:30
2. "River of Love"   4:08
3. "Eternal ghostly counter""   5:11
4. "Fair Bride"   5:27
5. "Black Day"   3:44
6. "Hit home"   7:34
7. "When we become snow"   4:24
8. "Faun Dj"   4:15
9. "Her eyes (from William Shakespeare)""   4:52
10. "Falling Snow"   4:04
11. "Tango"   3:38
12. "Fair Ska"   5:34
13. "David Bowie"   4:55

Release

The Russian premiere took place on March 4, 2010. During the first, the film collected 109 million rubles, thus becoming one of the leaders of the domestic box office. Total film has collected 679.5 million rubbles.

Reception

Julia Ioffe of Slate wrote that film illustrates attitudes about sexual liberation for men in Moscow.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "O chyom govoryat muzhchiny (What Men Talk About) (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
  2. ↑ Blaney, Martin (2013-12-03). "Former Central Partnership president launches Dreamteam". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
  3. ↑ Начинаем подводить итоги
  4. ↑ http://rollingstone.ru/articles/8708 Rolling Stone № 69, апрель 2010 года
  5. ↑ Ioffe, Julia (2010-12-01). "The Cheating Cheaters of Moscow". Slate. Retrieved 2015-04-14.

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