Russian Translation (TV series)
Russian Translation | |
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Also known as | Русский перевод |
Genre | political detective |
Based on | The Journalist (1996) by Andrej Konstantinov |
Written by | Eduard Volodarsky |
Screenplay by | Eduard Volodarsky |
Directed by | Alexander Chernyaev |
Starring | Nikita Zverev Sergey Veksler Sergey Selin Alyona Yakovleva Ramil Sabitov |
Composer | Igor Kornelyuk |
Country of origin | Russia |
Original languages | Russian English Arabic Arabic dialects Hebrew |
No. of episodes | 8 series of 53 minutes each |
Production | |
Executive producers | Alexander Chernjaev Dmitrij Gluschenko consultants: Vladimir Agafonov Vladimir Fisunov |
Camera setup | Dajan Gajtkulov |
Running time | 408 min (8 episodes) |
Original release | |
Network | NTV-Kino for 1TV First channell |
Release | 11 September 20 September 2007 | –
Russian Translation (Russian: Русский перевод) is a 2007 Russian TV miniseries, based on the novel The Journalist by Andrey Konstantinov (1996).[1]
The plot is set in the 1980s and follows
Plot summary
The film story begins in the second half of 1984 the final months of
A hero Andrey Obnorsky (Nikita Zverev), a young student-orientalist from
When he comes by Aeroflot Tu-154M plane in PDRY's capital Aden he feels shocked! He has to understand a local dialectal speech - but they learned only the language of the Quran! He has to survive in this Arabian heat but they say Soviet predecessors - Englishmen - freed their servicemen, who served in Aden, from the penal responsibility for several years because of it.
Above this, Obnorsky has had to be a translator and interpreter in a newly forming elite 7th Airborne brigade of the General Staff of the
Without his own will, Obnorsky occurs in the middle of a dangerous plot with the participation of the
Yet in the Happy Arabia the hero of film will meet his love, and then will find two most loyal friends. Another Arabic language student-interpreter Ilya Novoselov (Andrey Frolov), a cadet from the legendary Moscow VIIJa (the Military Institute - formerly the
After being graduated from the
Finally, his friend Ilya Novoselov commits suicide leaving a very strange letter, and Obnorsky begins his own dangerous investigation which leads him to his old enemy from Adeni times his elder colleague and GRU man Kukarintsev (Pavel Novikov).
Historical accuracy
Despite of his own life experience as a military interpreter/translator with the Soviet military advisors in South Yemen and Libya the author of the novel, Andrey Konstantinov, stresses in the very beginning of his bestseller: any coincidences with real historical persons, places and events are sudden but all the differences from a real historical accuracy are "conforming to the laws of nature". It was really a big and hard task to camouflage a routine lowest ranking serviceman-interpreter every day work and life with a war and detective plot full of danger and adventure making a readable novel for a wide Russian public of the mid-nineties. To hyperbolise and puzzle true facts and change some geography and peoples' names and to generate new unknown "historical facts" to make a novel looking alive. However, despite the author's words he has told in his preface to the story, which were mentioned above, the young generation of Russian readers continue to read this novel.
The book format helps a lot in this switching on every reader's individual fantasy. However the film or series format demanded a return to some kind of remaking of true historical realities and to restore some general distinctive features of that time local environmental and cultural, political, ideological, military, social, native, conversational and many other exotic details, which are easy to be remembered and recognised by those who took part in that or similar events.
Music
The music for the film was composed by
Cast
Russia
- Nikita Zverev as Andrey Obnorsky
- Andrey Frolov as Ilya Novoselov
- Ramil Sabitov as Sindibad, Palestinian officer
- Sergey Selin as major Doroshenko
- Sergey Veksler as colonel Gromov
- Pavel Novikov as Kukarintsev, then Djomin
- Aleksandr Tyutin as KGB-man Tsarkov
- Aleksandr Pashutin as general Sorokin
- Aleksandr Tsurkan as head of translators in Aden Pakhomenko
- Aleksandr Jakovlev as colonel Gritsaljuk
- Alyona Yakovleva as a wife of an artillery advisor
- Tatiana Abramova as secretary Marina
- Viktor Alfyorov as translator Nazrullo Tashkorov
- Mikhail Politseymako as translator Fikret Gusejnov
- Vladimir Epifantsev as translator Vikhrenko
- Aleksandr Makagon as translator Vyrodin
- Sergey Shekhovtsev as colonel Karpukhin
- Anton Eldarov as translator Tsyganov
- Ivan Mokhovikov as translator Gridich
- Konstantin Karasik as driver Gena
- Valery Zhakov as Victor Obnorsky, Andrey's father
- Kirill Pletnyov as investigator Kondrashov
- Maria Antipp as Irina
- Anton Kukushkin as translator Kolokol'chikov
- Denis Yasik as translator Bubentsov
- Roman Nesterenko as military school lecturer
- Aleksandr Ablyazov as colonel Sectris
- Vladimir Goryushin as Strumsky
- Aleksey Oshurkov as our man in Benghazi
- Pavel Smetankin as episode
Azerbaijan
- Polad Fuad Agaragim Ogly as General Abdu Salih[2]
- Fuad Osmanov as major Mansour
- Firdavsi Atakishijev as colonel Isa
References
External links
- Russian Translation TV serial presentation, description and forum - in Russian and English
- A.Cherniaev's interview in IZVESTIA newspaper on March 5, 2007 - in Russian
- The First Channel World Service - Russian Translation release - In Russian
- Yemen Observer - Aden Civil War Recreated in Russian TV Drama
- Andrey Obnorsky on Buzzle.com: Looking For a Good Boy Hero For Russian TV Serials.
- Changing Notions of Realism in Russian Primetime TV Drama and Film, by David MacFadyen (UCLA)
- Film about film.
- Andrey Konstantinov's biography