Aleksandr Belyavsky

03.10.09

Their voices give them away
Aleksandr Belyavsky, Andrei Myagkov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Serye Volki, Zhestokiy romans (0)
Andrei Myagkov's voice gives him away the moment he opens his mouth in this movie. I recognized him not by the way he looks, but by the way he talks. Same for Nikita Mikhalkov, though in his case I was expecting his appearance from what I read in the YouTube description. It wouldn't have mattered. His voice gives him away. It reminds me of how remarkable it was that Aleksandr Belyavsky could put on a such a different voice to play Leonid Brezhnev in Serye Volki.
03.07.09

My voice can give me away
Aleksandr Belyavsky, Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya, Serye Volki (1)
The Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev character in Serye Volki, played by Aleksandr Belyavsky, has a distinctive voice. It helps me to follow some of the plot, because in the end a secretly recorded conversation of him is turned over to Khrushchev, and I had no trouble remembering whose voice is on it. In the above scene, he's referring to something different -- the fact that he isn't capable of being very convincing if he's the one to call Khrushchev to lure him back to Moscow. I'm not quite sure what to call his voice -- a combination of nasal and raspy? Did ...

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