2023-10-12 22:00:45
Natalia Romanova
5 hours ago
Scene from the film “Flights in a Dream and in Reality” The author of the script for “Flights in a Dream and in Reality”, Viktor Merezhko, created the image of the design bureau engineer Sergei Makarov specifically for Nikita Mikhalkov. When it came to filming, it turned out that Nikita Sergeevich would have to be content with a cameo role in the eccentric drama.
“Write about me. I always dream that I am standing on a high mountain and then flying down. I wake up, I’m back on earth: alone with all my problems, my wife is swearing that there is no money, the children are screaming.” This is how the director of “Flights” Roman Balayan explained to Viktor Merezhko what he would like to make a new film about.
While working on a story about a reflective 40-year-old man, Merezhko remembered his own brother and mentally tried on the image of the main character on Nikita Mikhalkov. It was he who “wooed” the screenwriter Balayan.
And the director suddenly balked and demanded Oleg Yankovsky, whom he had seen in the social drama “We, the Undersigned.” Of course, Mikhalkov was offended. Even after they specially inserted an episode with filming into “Flights” and gave Nikita a small role as a director. Is it possible to compare?
Nikita Mikhalkov and Oleg Yankovsky in the film “Flights in Dreams and in Reality”
Yankovsky was already engaged – for the main role in the melodrama “In Love of His Own Will.” But he was unable to refuse Balayan’s offer. The artist called this period of his life the “Bermuda Triangle.” I was torn between two film sets. I slept 3-4 hours a day.
Yankovsky really didn’t like the supposed ending of “Flights”: at a picnic, Makarov falls from a tree and is killed. It turned out that Balayan was of the same opinion.
The director came up with a way to change the ending after accidentally seeing haystacks, and between them – boys on bicycles. Roman Gurgenovich sent the main character after the boys: to run and then fall into a haystack.
Oleg Yankovsky in the film “Flying in Dreams and in Reality”
“Flying in dreams and in reality” was accepted by the artistic council with incredible difficulty. But in cinemas the film was watched by more than six million viewers. The film was included in the out-of-competition screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Oleg Yankovsky received his first State Prize for the role of Makarov. He starred with Roman Balayan five more times.
Photo source: still from the film
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