Actors "Elusive Avengers" received All-Unionfame after the release of the screens of this legendary picture. This film is a Soviet western about the adventures of four teenagers during the Civil War. The action of the film takes place over several years. The trilogy came out in parts, and each of them was devoted to a certain stage in the life of the main characters. This article is devoted to a brief description of film performers.
The image of the main character
Actors "Elusive Avengers" mainlyI remember the viewer precisely as the performers of the roles of fearless teenagers who fought with representatives of the white movement. The undisputed leader in the four is Daniil Shus - a boy who lost his father during the war. He matured early and, due to family tragedy, was forced to take care of his younger sister. In the first part of the trilogy, he avenges his murdered father, in the second he helps his friends to steal a map of the fortified city where the White’s headquarters is located, in the third he seeks the crown of the Russian Empire.
Victor Kosykh
He played the role of Dunka in all three parts.However, this work was not his debut. Prior to that, he had already starred in a number of paintings, including the cult film “Welcome, Or No Trespassing”. In addition, he starred in some other children's films and in "Jumble".
Subsequently, the young man studied at VGIK andHe starred in 57 films, but domestic viewers remembered him primarily as the brave leader of the brave four. In recent years, he worked in the theater "Temp". An interesting fact from the artist’s biography is that he is a master of sports in Sambo and jumping. So, the actors of the "Elusive Avengers" became famous as the performers of the main roles in this Soviet analogue of Westerns.
Mikhail Metelkin
This artist embodied the image on the screenintelligent young man Valery Mescheryakova. His track record has much less work than V. Kosykh. This artist entered the Faculty of Economics and became a press photographer in the military district. He entered the directing department and made several short films. For several decades he was engaged in business and advertising. However, most of all he remembered exactly as a performer Valeka. In the second part, he plays the main role: after all, it is his merit - the abduction of the plan of the fortified city. The success of the second part of the trilogy can be explained by the magnificent duet of Metelkin - Dzhigarkhanyan. The actors of the "Elusive Avengers" perfectly fit into the images of their heroes and thus glorified the famous franchise.
Vasily Vasilyev
He played the role of Yashka-gypsy.The young man also became famous thanks to the film "Elusive Avengers". The actors, whose fate was not always associated with the cinema, became the face of the Soviet screen. An interesting fact about Vasilyev’s biography is that the young man lived in a camp in a large family for up to six years. Vasilyev was a very talented boy by nature: he owned songs, including his own composition, in a beautiful voice and ear. In addition, he worked in a drama circle and led the amateur.
В картине Васильев самостоятельно исполнял все tricks, including the most difficult, when he had to jump from the saddle to the carriage, and from it to the back of a galloping horse. He also performed a number of songs that became real hits. In the picture he himself performed several incendiary gypsy dances. So, he became famous for this work, as well as other actors in the film “The Elusive Avengers”. However, unlike his comrades, Vasiliev did not continue to act in films. He considered other proposals uninteresting and decided to try his hand at the Romen Theater. Then he toured around the country, performing romances, bard songs. Vasilyev graduated from the studio dramatic actor, but no longer starred in the movie.
Valentina Kurdyukova
Она исполнила роль сестры Даньки – Ксанки Щусь.The girl got into the picture because she was a candidate for the master of sports. In the picture she performed several difficult tricks on her own: riding a horse, participated in battle scenes, chases, and fights. But, despite the resounding success, she, like some of the actors in the film The Elusive Avengers, did not continue her cinematic career, married a singer and leads a family home life.
Boris Sichkin
He played the role of the resilient artist Buba.Kastorsky, which, in fact, keeps all the humor of the film. He sang a few songs in the film, which became real hits. In his youth, Sichkin was a professional dancer, graduated from a choreographic school. An interesting fact about his biography is that he was a soloist of the Song and Dance Ensemble. Even before the filming of the legendary trilogy, he became famous as a performer in interludes and the author of short texts for theatrical productions. But the film The Elusive Avengers became a real high point for him. The actors, whose fate was different after the appearance of the cult picture on the screen, immediately became the favorites of the public. Sichkin also became very popular. After that, he appeared in several more films, but in 1979 he left for the United States.
Efim Kopelyan
He embodied the image of the sinister, butextremely charismatic ataman Burnash. The artist is especially good in the first part of the trilogy, where he plays one of the key roles. He began his career by participating in the crowd at the shooting, and then entered the drama school. Kopelyan played in several well-known theatrical productions, and since 1956 became one of the leading performers in the BDT. He created many bright and memorable images of both dramatic and comedy plan. Many people remember him as a voiceover reading the text in the series Seventeen Moments of Spring.
Vladimir Treshchalov
The film "Elusive Avengers", actors and roleswhich are the subject of this review, became a real hit of the mid-1960s. One of the most memorable villains of the trilogy is Sydor, nicknamed Luty, the main opponent of the four in the first part. His role played Treshchalov. He graduated from art school, then served in the army, and from the 1950s began to act in films, while studying at the Moscow Art Theater School. Treshchalov served in several theaters, but with interruptions when, due to various misunderstandings, he was forced to work not by profession. An interesting fact of his biography is that he was a friend of V. Vysotsky, who dedicated one song to him.
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
The success of the first part was repeated “The elusive avengers2 ". The actors who played in this new film are no less famous than those who were involved in the original. One of the main successes can be considered Dzhigarkhanyan, who embodied on the screen the role of the staff captain Ovechkin - one of the most prominent leaders of the fading white movement. This artist has the all-Union glory due to the huge variety of roles in the paintings of the most diverse genre. In addition to working in the cinema, he took part in the sound of cartoons. So, the actors who played in the "Elusive Avengers", became real stars of the Soviet screen.
