Actress Natalia Surkova talked about her role in the melodrama "The Postman"

The premiere of the melodrama by director and screenwriter Andrey Razenkov "The Postman" will take place at the 47th Moscow International Film Festival on Thursday, April 17. The film will be released on April 24. Actress Natalia Surkova, who played the role of the deserter's mother in the film, told Izvestia about this role.

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The heroine of the film named Valentina, played by Surkova, works at a factory and brings up two children. She is afraid that her youngest son will run away to the front, and does not yet know that her eldest son has become a deserter. Because the local idiot postman brings her and her fellow villagers fake letters from missing and deceased loved ones.

"I've seen a lot of women like that. And I treat them with great respect, love, and tenderness. There was no need to look for a specific prototype for my character. Valentina is a collective image," the actress said.

Surkova stressed that it is natural for a mother to worry about her children. The military situation, when fellow villagers receive funerals, there is no news from one son, and the second wants to go to the front, leads to constant anxiety.

"The amazing thing is, there were such scenes in the film that you need to prepare for in advance.: with tears, with hysteria. Usually you have to work on this for a long time — to imagine something for yourself, to let it pass through you. And here, in every scene, tears just poured out of me," she shared.

Read more in Natalia Surkova's exclusive interview with Izvestia:

"I liked the story—it's magical, romantic and very touching."