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Serye Volki

• 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 ...
  
  
• 03.07.09
  Who is the real wolf?
  Serye Volki (3)

  We finished Serye volki tonight. There were no big surprises in the final 30 minutes. The main surprises (to me) had come closer to the midpoint of the film. Back to the role of Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov in all of this. The film made him sound like a reluctant participant in the coup. But Wikipedia says he led the coup. I confess that took an immediate dislike to him based on the Wikipedia information about his career. But how to reconcile those two very different views of his role? There is very little information about this film on the web in English ...
  
  
• 03.06.09
  Gray Wolf
  Rolan Bykov, Serye Volki (2)

  We're about 2/3 of the way through The Gray Wolves (Serye volki). At first I wondered if I had remembered the events of 1964 wrongly. The conspirators were talking about replacing Nikita Khruschev in November, but I thought it had happened before that. I recall that it happened during the presidential campaign, and that it was a final nail in the coffin for Barry Goldwater, whom I was doing as much to support vocally as could be done by a high school junior in rural Minnesota. The media were doing as much as they could to use this coup de etat ...
  
  

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