Belarusian stars to act in the TV-series based on Tamara Lisitskaya's book
The TV series "Quiet Center" is expected to be released in the end of the year.
Shooting of the TV-series "Quiet Center" based on the novel of Belarusian TV and radio host Tamara Lisitskaya
are about to finish in Minsk. As it turned out, the movie company
"Belarusfilm" suggested putting the novel on screen, and Tamara
Lisitskaya wrote the screen play herself. Belarusian Renata Hrytskova
became the director of the series. Last year she directed psychological
drama "Insight" starring Bogdan Stupka and Iryna Razanava. It is worth
mentioning that both author and director are delighted with each other's
work.
Renata Hrytskova: "It is pure delight to work
with Tamara, as she is very easy to contact, flexible and amazingly
talented. Thus, we always manage to find areas of common interest and we
both are convinced that arguments only inmprove the quality of the
final product".
As it was informed by Tamara Lisitskaya to
the European Radio for Belarus, students of the Academy of Arts acted in
the series together with celebrities.
Tamara Lisitskaya: "Russian
actors Maxim Radugin, Varvara Andreeva, Ukrainian Astap Stupka are
legioners. There are also many Belarusian actors, whom I long observed -
Tamara Mironava, Sviatlana Anikej, and also several students of the
Academy of Arts".
It is interesting that Tamara Lisitskaya
has some acting experience herself, as she was engaged in a TV-series "A
Week in the Women's Baths" of Dzmitry Astrakhan. However, she did not
go for audition for a part in the "Quiet Center". However, we will in
the end see the author in one of the episodes - she will talk to
Belarusian celebrities.
Tamara Lisitskaya: "There will
be a club session with famous people of the Belarusian show-business in
one of the episodes. I made an offer to all of them and everyone
accepted it. Now it's important to clarify whether they have time, so I
cannot tell you exactly who is going to be there".
Tamara
added that only a few weeks are left till the end of shootings. It is
planned to show it to the audience closer to New Year, but no concrete
date has been announced yet, as they don't have agreements with
TV-Channels by now.
Tamara Lisitskaya: "We have several
weeks left for shootings. Then the director will get down to assembling
in October, and sound dubbing will last till December. December and
January - time to show it to the audience. It will be shown on the
Belarusian TV, and we hope it will be also exported to Russia and
Ukraine".
According to Renata Hrytskova, they also plan to
participate in movie festivals with the "Quiet Center", apart from
showing it in the neighbouring countries.
Renata Hrytskova: "Festivals
of TV-movies are totally in our competence, so we will agree to any
invitation, as the invitations usually arrive from them. It is our
business to show a movie, and their business to watch and pick. I think
we can do it".
Let us add, that the events of the 4 series of
"Quiet Center" take place in our times in Minsk. Different people live
in an old quiet house: an unrequired musician, a businessman-emigrant, a
photo model, a former actress who is slowly going insane, an artist
sick in Down's syndrome, a drug addict, a loser of a producer, a cleaner
sick in alcoholism, a local TV-star etc. Each of them has his or her
own story, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, the stories interwine with
each other during the movie, which spices up the plot.
Maxim Radugin and Alesa Kacher as Ihar and Volha
