"Christmas trees" as a decoration: the premiere of the movie with Burak Ozcivit took place in Moscow

Secular premiere of the new series of the main domestic New Year's movie franchise "Yolki" was held in Moscow on December 10. One of the main roles in the 11th part performed by a popular Turkish actor, star of the series "Black Love" and "The Magnificent Century" Burak Ozcivit. This is his debut in Russian cinema. In the cast is also Ruzil Minekayev, known for "The Word of a Patsan", Christina Babushkina, Andrei Rozhkov and others. Among the first viewers of the closed screening in the movie theater "October" were famous guests and correspondents of "Izvestia".

Premiere of the movie "Christmas Trees" with Burak Ozcivit

To paraphrase Zhenya Lukashin from "The Irony of Fate": every year on the eve of December 31, my friends and I go to see "Yolki" - it's a tradition for us. On the eve of 2025, the popular New Year's franchise enters its second decade - the 11th part is released. The first viewers were the guests of the closed social premiere, which took place in the walls of the capital's cinema "October" on December 10.

The red carpet spread out next to Christmas trees hung with gingerbread. But the main decorations of the evening were the actors who played in the movie. The picture consists of several novels about miracles that occur on the eve of the favorite holiday. In the end, the fates of people from different parts of the country will intertwine in an unexpected way, so that a lonely teacher Valentina Mikhailovna received congratulations.

- This year my mother retired and felt that she used to be in the center of life, and suddenly that life was gone. And practically in the second scene of this movie there is a heroine who also retired and is worried about it. We turn that feeling into a story. I don't know how to answer the question of how to do something new and unique in this piece, I just think it's important to try to convey feelings - joy, sadness, loneliness, love. I hope that we managed to touch these deep things, - shared with "Izvestia" during the premiere showrunner and screenwriter of the picture Peter Vnukov.

Another of the novellas is inspired by the fairy tale of Cinderella. And its most unexpected hero was Turkish actor Burak Ozcivit, known to Russian viewers for his roles as Malkochoglu Bali-bey in the TV series "The Magnificent Century" and as Kemal in the sharp drama "Black Love". To the disappointment of fans turdizi, the star at the premiere in Moscow was not, but on the red carpet flaunted his cardboard figure in full height.

"Christmas trees" - the debut of Ozcivit in the Russian movie. And played the actor himself. In the story, an overseas guest in cold Russia risks becoming a victim of the insidious plan of the stepmother of a young girl. For the first - Christina Babushkina, who admitted that she was happy to play a characteristic heroine. For the second - actress Maria Raskina. The actress recalled that one of the joint scenes with the Turkish actor, where she appears in the image of the Snow Maiden, despite the language barrier was born in improvisation.

- The episode with the mop we came up with on the set. It was not in the script. We were running, shooting a take, I fell in this costume of the Snow Maiden, we started laughing, the cast too. I said: "I'm like a grandmother." He said: "What? Grandma?" (Maria repeats with an accent. - Ed.). Then I say, "Mop." And he says, "Oh, mop." He's so fired up, he picked it up somehow! My mom will be at the party today, she is a huge fan of Turkish TV series, she watched both "Magnificent Century" and "Black Love". But personally, I haven't. And that was the difficulty - to play the fanaticism, because I am rarely a fan of anyone. Only if it's from actresses of Soviet cinema. Alisa Freindlich, for example, - said Raskina "Izvestia".

"It was about thirty degrees of heat, and we shot winter"

The friend and assistant of Maria's heroine - a modest courier Damir - was embodied on the screen by Ruzil Minekaev, the star of "The Word of a Patsan". He also had one of the shooting days to work with Burak Ozcivit.

- We could not talk much, but in general I learned something new for me about the system of filming in Turkey. As he said, they shoot five days in a row. We have a three-month block, for example, and you get three months' worth of days. And they have a straight five-day - every day from Monday to Friday you are on the set. And he also asked me to go to Istanbul. I think maybe we'll see each other there someday," Ruzil told Izvestia.

Another feature of Russian film production, habitual, however, for actors - to shoot winter in the summer and vice versa.

- It was about thirty degrees of heat, and we filmed winter. We are in full uniform - in felt boots, hat, jacket, knitted sweater, scarf - said the actor Andrei Rozhkov.

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Novella, where he appears as a provincial, is devoted to the eternal theme of sometimes difficult relationship between fathers and children. His screen son was Victor Khorinyak, whose character - an ambitious careerist who left the parental nest. He began his own life, which would have gone its own way, but he decided to unexpectedly rush to him relatives.

In real life, Rozhkov also likes to surprise his children.

- All my dizzying events are connected with my children. Now they are adults, but until the last moment I tried to impress them somehow. The last time I climbed through the window in the costume of Santa Claus, - he told "Izvestia".

The new "Christmas Trees" has found a new voice. Throughout the ten films of the franchise, the permanent invisible hero of the story was the narrator, who was voiced by Konstantin Khabensky. Now this role has passed to Sergei Burunov.

Among the guests of the premiere were singer Olga Seryabkina, actors Valentina Mazunina, Vladimir Kanukhin, TV and radio host Dmitry Shepelev, screenwriter Andrei Zolotarev and others. In wide distribution "Christmas Trees 11" will be released on December 19, 2024. Distributor - NMG Kinoprokat (part of the National Media Group holding company).