“Olga” is a series about the life of a family that is far from culture, morality and any values. On the screen are ordinary poor people. The series is billed as a comedy. The main character and head of this “funny” family is Olga, actress Yana Troyanova. The entire cast performed the key roles of the sitcom with talent.
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Performers of key roles:
Viewers saw the first season of the series in September 2016. Then the next two were filmed. In July 2020, they begin creating the 4th season. It will hit screens in December. Actors who embodied the scriptwriters' plans:
- Yana Troyanova
- Vasily Kortukov
- Maxim Kostromykin
- Alina Alekseeva
- Ksenia Surkova
- Sergey Romanovich
- Rosa Khairullina
- Mohammed Abu-Rizik
- Gosha Kutsenko
The main role in the series is played by Yana Troyanova. The actress became known to the general public after her striking work in “Kokoko” by Avdotya Smirnova, “Live” and “Country OZ” by Vasily Sigarev.
Cast
Famous Russian stars starred in the series:
- Yana Troyanova - Olga Terentyeva (“Live”, “Top”, “Kokoko”, “Children”, “Country of OZ”, “Rooster”, “Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari”);
- Vasily Kortukov - Yuri Terentyev (“Prince of Siberia”, “The Phantom of the Opera”, “After the Rain on Thursday”, “The Exes”, “Alien”, “All or Nothing”);
- Alina Alekseeva - Lena (“Eternal Vacation”, “To the End of the World”, “The Baker and the Beauty”, “Year of the Pig”, “New Man”, “New Christmas Trees”, “About Love”);
- Ksenia Surkova - Anya (“Three days of Lieutenant Kravtsov”, “Family Album”, “Crisis of a tender age”, “Temporary difficulties”);
- Sergei Romanovich - Andrey (“Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone”, “Crew”, “Hugging the Sky”, “Returning Home”, “Method”);
- Maxim Kostromykin - Grigory Yusupov (“Yellow Eye of the Tiger”, “Brest Fortress”, “Policeman from Rublyovka”, “Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone”, “Tolya the Robot”);
- Gosha Kutsenko - Volodya (“Yesenin”, “Turkish Gambit”, “Exercises in Beauty”, “Moms”, “Tell the Truth”, “Balkan Frontier”);
- Muhammad Abu Rizik - Timofey (“On the Edge”);
- Rosa Khairullina is Grisha’s grandmother (“Farewell, beloved…”, “Fifth blood group”, “And in our yard”, “Kept women”, “Year of the Pig”).
Yana Troyanova
The 46-year-old actress has two higher educations, the first in philosophy, the second in theater. Yana studied in her homeland, Yekaterinburg. There, in 2005, her artistic career began at the Kolyada and Teatron theaters. A year earlier, Yana met director Vasily Sigarev. He becomes the second husband of the actress. The first major success came in 2009. Troyanova received the Kinotavr prize for best actress in Sigarev’s film “Volchok”.
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Before “Olga,” Yana starred in seven full-length films, worked as a director and screenwriter, and is a guest actress in Oleg Tabakov’s theater. In March 2020, he received the White Elephant Award and began filming Olga.
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Vasily Kortukov
59 years old, supporting actor. He graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and entered on the fifth attempt. He received his first film role at the age of 29, in the comedy “Deja Vu.” The 90s have arrived. The actor, like many at that time, did odd jobs, and even had to work as a carpenter. In the 2000s, with the heyday of the TV series era, he returned to the profession, playing in episodes for more than 10 years, until in 2012 he received an invitation to the comedy “Bitter!”
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The image of the klutz-drinker created by Kortukov captivated both the audience and the directors. Vasily’s role was finally established. And when they chose a father for “Olga,” the choice of director, of course, fell on Kortukov.
Vasily Kortukov (Yuri Gennadievich)
Yuri Gennadievich was a football player in the past, but due to a serious injury he was forced to give up sports.
Gradually the man became addicted to drinking. Despite this, he manages to work as a children's coach.
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Vasily Kortukov, who plays the role of Olga’s dad, is a Russian actor. He became famous after his role in the comedy “Bitter!”
Vasily Kortukov also starred in many TV series, including “Streets of Broken Lanterns”, “Marusya”, “The General’s Granddaughter”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “Homeless”.
Maxim Kostromykin
39 years old, graduated from VGIK in 2006, but played his first role in the film “My Relatives” in 2003. Before being invited to Olga, he starred in more than 50 films and TV series. After the release of the second season of Olga, he was nominated for an award as best supporting actor. Since 2007, he has been working at the Youth Theater in Moscow, raising his daughter.
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Alina Alekseeva
30 years old, single, in 2020 she received a diploma in “Theater and Film Actress,” which she is very proud of. During her student years she starred in small episodes in the TV series “Kitchen” and “Friendship of Peoples”. I tried myself in one show, fascinated by the model and show actress Dita Von Teese. In this field, she managed to interest the leading visual art magazine.
But Alina refused to cooperate. Showing herself off for money was not her plan. She was a guest star in the videos of various groups, such as Biopsychosis, DEFORM, BeZumnye Efforts. And in 2012, Alina performed in the leading role of a mermaid in one of the theatrical productions.
In 2020, the actress was invited to the television series “Eternal Vacation” to play the role of a nurse, as well as to the series “Olga” (Olga’s sister) and “Optimists.”
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Anatomy of the series: "Olga"
Yana Troyanova in the series “Olga”
For the third week now, the series “Olga” has been airing on the TNT channel - a lively sitcom about the difficult life of a single mother with a lot of problems and problematic relatives in the load. The show is already being called the female version of the series “Fizruk”, and the performer of the main role, Yana Troyanova, is enthusiastically singing praises. Let's figure out what kind of series this is.
About what
The plot centers on divorced Olga, who is carrying her daughter and son (from different fathers), an alcoholic father and a sister who is preoccupied with finding a husband. The heroine is a little over 40, she works as a pedicurist in a beauty salon and manages to run the house and, at the very least, manage her personal life. The latter doesn’t go well, because Olga constantly has to solve other people’s problems and make sure that her little world with troubled household members doesn’t collapse into tartar.
The 16-year-old daughter, according to Olga herself, “intends to break her mother’s record by giving birth before 17,” the son defends his right to national self-identification and imitates his father, who returned to his other family in Azerbaijan, the 30-year-old sister is dating married men and is considering to enlarge her breasts in order to achieve great success in this field, and the father of the main character - a former football player and now a physical education teacher - goes from one binge to another.
This is Olga's reality, which she takes for granted. Without despondency, she goes through life and finds an apt word for everyone. The heroine has no illusions about life, but her optimism and kindness have not gone away. Olga continues to dream of a vacation in Turkey, build everyone around her, solve complex issues on the fly and not despair. This is her strength and weakness. However, she has absolutely no time left for herself. But that is until Olga meets a modest provincial guy, Grisha, the driver of the gazelle “Ritual”, who came from Ryazan to work. He is much younger and much more naive than Olga and sees in her not a single mother, but a beautiful lady - and is ready to do everything to force the woman he loves to look at herself with such eyes.
Yana Troyanova in the TV series "Olga"
Heroes and actors
The series “Olga,” directed by Alexei Nazhny and Igor Voloshin, is undoubtedly a benefit performance for 43-year-old actress Yana Troyanova, muse and wife of Vasily Sigarev, who is well known to festival film fans. “Kokoko”, “Top”, last year’s “Oz” - a few years ago Troyanova suddenly burst onto the wide screen and showed herself brilliantly, winning both people’s love and critical acclaim.
Yana often plays “simple Russian women”, who in her performance turn out, in an amazing way, to be completely different and very similar - with these masculine habits, a special dialect, cheerful pressure and the will to live. The secret, in general, is simple: Troyanova herself admits that she chooses only those roles that are close to her, and directors happily rewrite characters for her and, in principle, come up with projects with this particular actress in mind (and we’re not just talking about her husband -director).
It’s interesting that “Olga” is the first series in Troyanova’s career and the first step towards a mass audience. The actress dearly loves her heroine, as well as the whole project:
She is wrong in many ways, but she loves her family very much. Even when she yells at everyone. She's yelling because she's afraid for them. she needs to feed everyone. And if she doesn’t tease them, she’ll go nuts. Olga is a funny woman, but she does it all with a serious face,
- says the actress.
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The rest of the actors - Sergei Romanovich, Ksenia Surkova, Vasily Kortukov and others - also hold their own, creating realistic, easily recognizable images from their characters. All these little words, everyday humor, situations that happen all the time - you believe what is happening on the screen, even if this reality is specific to you and very far away.
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Criticism
That’s why criticism of the series almost entirely consists of laudatory reviews—both ordinary viewers and experts present a united front here.
I read a lot of reviews that the series is about rednecks. And for me it’s about life! Many people live like this, it’s just that not everyone is given the opportunity to look beyond their familiar, prosperous little world and plunge into the world of other people different from you, of whom, by the way, the majority and the creators of the series gave us such an opportunity,
- writes one of the viewers.
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There are, of course, those who are categorically against the series:
If you have a desire to watch a film or series on the topic “primitive forms of life in their natural habitat,” then “Olga” is for you.
Yes, there are a lot of jokes below the belt, yes, the characters are not intellectuals at all, but for Troyanova’s piercing performance, focus on real life and the choice of a strong woman, and not a man, as the engine of the plot - for all this we are ready to forgive “Olga” for its imperfections.
Yana Troyanova in the TV series "Olga"
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Ksenia Surkova
30 years old, graduated from VGIK. Ksenia was entrusted with playing her first film role at the age of 7. After the debut, 7 years also passed until the second film episode in her life happened. Meanwhile, the desire to become an actress grew stronger and after graduation acquired quite tangible features: young Ksenia became a student at VGIK and chose the course of Igor Yasulovich.
In 2009, in Vera Glagoleva’s film “One War”, for the role of Natasha, she was awarded an award at the Amur Spring film festival. After graduating from VGIK, the actress works at the Roshchin and Kazantsev Center for Directing and Drama. Starred in the films: “Everything is for the Better”, “Varenka”, “Both in Sorrow and in Joy”, in the series Efrosinya, in the film “My Dad - Baryshnikov”, etc.
In “Olga” Ksenia plays the main character’s daughter Anna.
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Sergey Romanovich
26 years old, born in Tomsk, graduated from VGIK in 2020. Creative inclinations became visible from childhood. The future actor played in KVN, brokedanced, studied in a choir studio, and went to a theater club.
At the age of 14, he entered the youth project of the Russia channel “Big Eight”. From this moment on, a series of bright events take place in the life of a boy from the Siberian hinterland. The main thing is the invitation to shoot in the film “Tender May”. In 2010, he entered VGIK, taking the course of Igor Yasulovich.
After graduating from university, he receives invitations to TV series and full-length films: “The Box”, “Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone”, “Only Girls in Sports”, “Method”, “The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik”, etc. In 2016, in the TV series “Olga” he plays the boyfriend of Anya, the daughter of the main character.
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What is season 2 of “Olga” about?
The story of an independent woman continues, she still takes care of two children and tries to take care of her father, who is addicted to alcohol. In addition, my sister also haunts me, starting a new relationship every week and running to Olga to cry.
Olya is again faced with a list of problems. There is not much time left before the eldest daughter's baby is born. She has to prepare with all her might to become a real grandmother. Andrei (Anya's boyfriend) ends up behind bars, and the situation cannot be resolved without the participation of the main character.
Everything is not going well on the personal front, Grigory proposes to her, but such steps from the young suitor and the strange actions of his grandmother do not allow her to make a quick decision. As a result, the uncertainty of the main character leads to the fact that Grisha decides to marry someone else, but ultimately abandons this idea.
All the characters have problems, and in order to solve them all, Ole will have to get down to business. In season 2 of the series, viewers can expect a lot of interesting, dramatic and comedic situations that will not leave anyone indifferent.
Rosa Khairullina
57 years old, born in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, actress of the Moscow Art Theater and “Tabakerka”. She is known to moviegoers from the films “Horde”, “Norway”, and from her role as a grandmother in the TV series “Olga”.
The creative inclinations of the future actress were discovered early. At the age of 12, by which time the family had moved to Tatarstan, Rosa enrolled in a theater studio. The girl’s appearance was far from model-like, her parents did not welcome her desire to become an actress, but Rosa did not back down. After graduating from drama school in Kazan, the talented graduate received offers from five theaters, but remained to work at the Kazan Youth Theater.
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In the prime of your career, there are major upheavals in your work and personal life. Relatives, brother and parents suddenly pass away, their apartment is taken away for debts, a terrible fire in the theater leaves the troupe without work. Rosa is alone without housing, work and loved ones, thinking about the irreparable. A priest stopped a young girl on the edge of an abyss. Director K. Bogomolov also helped her. Rosa was accepted into the Tabakerka troupe. Filming began. For her role in "Horde" she was awarded the Nika Award. In 2020, fate sends another gift - a job on TNT in the series “Olga”.
Mohammed Abu-Rizik
15 years old, born and lives in Moscow. The mother is Dagestani by nationality and is raising her son alone. Sociable and creatively gifted, Muhammad has been building a career from a young age. Participates in castings, undergoes screen tests, and appears in commercials. In 2020, Muhammad was approved for the role of the son of the main character Olga in the series of the same name.
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Gosha Kutsenko
52 years old, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School. Currently he works at the Mossovet Theater and is engaged in social and political work. In 2011, he established the Step Together charity foundation to support children with cerebral palsy. He acts a lot and produces. He appeared in the series “Olga” in the third season, in the role of an entrepreneur and admirer of the main character.
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Cavalier from "Country 03"
In the third season, according to the channel’s announcement, Olga will have a new boyfriend - businessman Volodya. He was played by Gosha Kutsenko , with whom the leading actress had already worked in the film “Country 03” directed by Vasily Sigarev.
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Volodya will persistently fight for the woman’s heart, and she will have to decide who is more worthy of attention - the driver of the ritual GAZelle, Grisha ( Maxim Kostromykin ), or this gorgeous bald man in an SUV.
By the way, at the very beginning of their acquaintance, Olga and Volodya find themselves in a very unexpected situation: Volodya is running naked in the snow, and Olga accidentally appears topless in front of him. Isn't this a reason to start a relationship?
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