Actor Kotlyarsky spoke about the relationship with his family in the TV series "SMERSH"

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, Wink, REN TV, NMG Studio, START and Fora Cinema presented several TV series to the guests in the GUM Showroom, including the continuation of the SMERSH franchise, which the audience has already loved. Izvestia spoke with actor Vladislav Kotlyarsky, who played one of the main roles — senior state security Lieutenant Pavel Romanovich Semenov.

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The actor came to the presentation with his whole family. He was accompanied by his wife Victoria and three daughters. As it turned out, all of them are directly related to the film.

"Using my official position, I attracted everyone to the cinema. One of the novels of SMERSH 3 is called "Moscow. The year is 1944." And coincidentally, my mother and her two younger sisters were seven, five, and one years old in 1944. Exactly the same age as my daughters were at the time of filming. My mother's family lived then on Gorky Street, now Tverskaya. And in our series, my family's storyline appears. My eldest daughter Elina played my mother, and the younger Nicole and Ariana played my aunts," Kotlyarsky said.

The actor's great-grandfather was a military pilot, squadron commander. On his grandmother's birthday, he flew off on a mission and never returned. He went missing. This is also described in SMERSH 3.

"My mother and grandmother, when they watched the movie "Torpedo Bombers", always cried. The film literally shows their lives, and just like my great-grandfather, the hero of this picture died. And every time my children and I come to visit my mother now, she accompanies us, singing "Farewell of the Slavs," the actor confessed.

The plot of the new, third installment of the SMERSH franchise centers on two captains of Soviet counterintelligence ("Death to Spies!") Konstantin Lavrov (Igor Petrenko) and Pavel Semenov (Vladislav Kotlyarsky). Filming of the series took place in Moscow, Moscow region and Kostroma.

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