RassKuziki
Short personal stories by Viktor Bychkov — about cinema, people and the road.
Pomerantsev's Wanderings
"Goodbye, America, oh-oh, where I shall never be…" So I arrive in America, and some very rich American, a real millionaire, invites me over, "to the patio", where there's a whole crowd of people, some very…
About the Saratov accordion, Yesenin and boundless sorrow…
Many years ago I spotted a wonderful Saratov accordion in a department store. It cost a mere twenty-eight roubles. And so, as I was getting ready to travel…
A RassKuzik "out of focus"
We worked ourselves to the bone on the shoot, 14 to 16 hours. Fatigue sometimes led to mishaps. During the bathing scene Alexei Buldakov lost his footing and…
A RassKuzik about the "sprawl", the cow and Pilot
"If you want to live, you'll sprawl even funnier!" A.V. Rogozhkin. Remember the episode with the cow that Кузьмич tries to smuggle to a relative. Everyone "sprawled"…
A RassKuzik about "rare" names
Many people tried to talk Polina and me out of naming our son Dobrynya — what if he won't be able to pronounce his "R" for a long time, and it's not clear what pet name to…
A RassKuzik about the secrets of meditation
In the film "Peculiarities of the National Fishing" there's this episode: night, gamekeeper Кузьмич is meditating, sitting on the riverbank, and over all this tranquillity "hangs…
A RassKuzik about how the shooting day ends when it ends, and life goes on…
True, I confess, one single time we filmed a little tipsy. The shift lasted 14 hours instead of the 12 that an actor is officially supposed to…
A RassKuzik about what a Desert really is
The filming took place on the border of California and the state of Nevada, an hour and a half's drive from Las Vegas. Wild desert. But every few metres there were posts with signs, with something written in…
A RassKuzik about the Three Great Heaps
We usually began filming the movie "Peculiarities of the National Hunt" early — by 8 in the morning work was already in full swing on set. But at exactly 12 o'clock there would ring out…
A RassKuzik about the ugly face of war, a beard and Don Juan
It was late autumn. Everyone was terribly afraid it would snow. But, as if by magic, the snow only fell on the very last day of filming, on the way back to…
A RassKuzik about pebbles, the art of cinematography and human kindness
Early morning. Rogozhkin wants to shoot a scene in which two boats travel on a parallel course and then sharply diverge. The wonderful cameraman Andrei…
Audio Jokes on the set of "The Cuckoo"
Jokes on the set of "The Cuckoo": "They're the Sami — Sami themselves!" Coming soon to cinemas: Alexander Kukushkin, the film "Rogozhka". By the way, Sasha had a very…