The White Guard (TV series)
| The White Guard | |
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| Genre | Historic drama |
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| Written by | Mikhail Bulgakov |
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| Country of origin | Russia |
| Original language(s) | Russian |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
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| Running time | 65 mins |
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| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 576i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 3 March – 4 March 2012 |
The White Guard is a Russian television series, based on the novel by Bulgakov, The White Guard.
Plot
The film tells the story of the heavy years of civil war in Russia, talking about the fate of the family Turbin caught in the cycle of unfortunate events. The basis for the film's plot is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov: The White Guard.
The protagonist, Alex Turbin - military medic, who had seen and lived through a lot in three years of World War I. He is one of the thousands of officers who, after the revolution faced a difficult choice:
- to continue the violent and ruthless war against the Bolsheviks
- or try to re-organize the military does not, as an ordinary human life.
And the Turbin has to make a choice ...
Cast
- Konstantin Khabensky - Alexei Vasilievich Turbin, a military doctor.
- Mikhail Porechenkov - Victor Myshlaevsky, Lieutenant of Artillery
- Evgeny Dyatlov - Leonid Y. Shervinsky
- Andrey Zibrov - Alexander Bronislavovich Studzinsky
- Yanina Studilina - Anna
- Sergei Brune - Lariosik
- Nikolay Efremov - Nikolay Turbin
- Kseniya Rappoport - Elena Thalberg
- Sergei Garmash - Kozyr-Leshko, Colonel of Petlyura forces
- Yuri Itskov - Vasilisa (Lisovich), a neighbor of Turbin family
- Sergei Makovetsky
- Fyodor Bondarchuk - Shpolyansky, Ensign Futurist
- Alexei Serebryakov - Felix Nay-Tours, colonel of the Hussars
- Maria Lugovaya - Irina Nay-Tours
- Evgeny Stychkin - Second Lieutenant of Artillery Stepanov (Karas)
- Sergei Shakurov - Hetman Skoropadsky
- Sergei Barkovsky - father Alexander, priest
- Alexander Ilyin - Director of High School
- Maria Shukshina
- Alisa Freindlich
- Rowan Atikson
- Kirill Zhandarov - Strashkevich, Ensign
- Artur Smolyaninov - Adjutant Boyko
- Ekaterina Vilkova - Julia Reiss
- Evgeny Efremov - Wolf
- Gosha Kutsenko
- Semyon Lebina - son of Alexei Turbin
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov - Pleshko, Captain
- Yuri Stoyanov - Blokhin, Maj.-Gen.
- Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya
- Alexei Guskov - Malyshev, colonel, commander of mortar squadron
- Ivan I. Krasko - Maxim
- Arthur Vakha
- Igor Vernick - Shchur
- Sergey Trifonov - Bourgeois
- Igor Chernevich - Vladimir R. Thalberg
- Dennis Reyshahrit - cashier in the cinema theater
The Crew
- Written by: Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko, Sergey Snezhkin[1]
- Directed by: Sergei Snezhkin
- Screenplay by Sergei Machilskiy
The film was shot in St. Petersburg and Vyborg (Leningrad Oblast) by help of Lenfilm studios.[2]
Reception
The series has received unanimously negative comments from all sides, the alterations of Bulgakov's novel and the acting skills of the actors being particularly criticised[3]
The Ukrainian Culture Ministry decides not to issue distribution licenses for it as they "show contempt for the Ukrainian language, people and the state," and "some facts are distorted to benefit Russia." [4]
See also
- The Trubin House - Soviet film