Motley Twilight

A film with this name (starring Lyudmila Gurchenko) is almost shot, but not completed. ran out of money

When two years ago Goskino offered Lyudmila Gurchenko money for a musical film with her in the title role, she realized that the hero in the film "Colorful Twilight" would be a young musician. The musician is extraordinary. Blind. Blind from birth...

When two years ago Goskino offered Lyudmila Gurchenko money for a musical film with her in the title role, she realized that the hero in the film "Colorful Twilight" would be a young musician. The musician is extraordinary. Blind. Blind from birth with no hope of ever seeing the world (light).

But the magic happened. He saw his light - music! Music came, sounded from grandfather's player. Grandfather put on his favorite records, and the boy suddenly stopped crying and listened, listened, and then crawled up to the piano and started ... playing!

Played everything I heard. With perfect harmonies. He played not only songs, but also choral works, and marches of brass bands.

He listened to the radio and by the age of four he was playing Tchaikovsky's First Concerto by ear.

At the age of four, his grandfather took him from Yeysk, where the boy was born, to Armavir to a special music school for visually impaired and blind children. One of the fragments of Oleg Akkuratov's early performances - that's the name of the boy - is inserted into the film.

Once at Mosfilm, while recording music, Lyudmila Gurchenko asked him: “Oleg, what are you dreaming about?” "I'm dreaming of Grieg."

It was last year. Oleg was preparing for the Second International Piano Competition in memory of Vera Lothar-Shevchenko in Novosibirsk. The only blind among the sighted. And he won this competition! The Grand Prix! The hall applauded the boy from Armavir standing. And next to him for fourteen years now, great women - the director of the special music school Alexandra Kirillovna Kutsenko and teachers-mentors ... It is impossible without outside help. If only to get to the instrument, and there - music! Life, joy, happy tears!

In the film, Oleg is played by a professional young artist Dmitry Kubasov, but we hear the luxurious lyrical baritone of Oleg Akkuratov. And his fingers run over the keys ... and his improvisations ...

Oleg loves jazz since childhood. He is aware of everything that happens in the jazz world. And he asked his teachers to find a jazz teacher. They searched, searched for a long time - found. This is a wonderful jazz musician Mikhail Okun. It was he who introduced Gurchenko to Oleg. Mikhail Okun and Lyudmila Gurchenko recorded the disc "Sad Record" - our songs from different times in jazz. Of course, Oleg also knows this disc - after all, his teacher plays. And he met Gurchenko through music.

One evening the actress and the young man sat down at the piano and sang. They sang as if they had been singing side by side all their lives.

Screenwriter Oleg Antonov transferred much of their communication to the film.

The film is live, there is a lot of music. Here the content is its own, not borrowed, and there is the will to form - the one on which everything in this world rests, the dignity of man, above all.

There are wonderful actors in the film: Vladimir Ilyin, Alexander Shirvindt, Viktor Rakov, Sergey Frolov.

The film has been filmed but not completed. The crisis came and cut off all the promised help of good people.

The state has moved this project forward - that's a lot! Moved. But the film must be finished. The audience needs to see it. This is a film about talented people. (By the way, all the actors in the film sing with their own voices.)

We saved as much as we could. On everything. In the frame of their own car, their dishes, furniture, clothing details ... What's there ... they devastated their entire apartment.

Gurchenko starred and wrote music for the film without any fee.

In short, the usual crisis story; Yes, it’s not the point, but the fact that the film “almost exists”, and at the same time it doesn’t exist, since today there is absolutely nowhere to get money to finish the film and pay the debts for it. What to do?

PS For those who can and want to help the film "Motley Twilight" see the light of day, we publish the following details: Non-profit Foundation for the Promotion of Culture, Art and Architecture "Dante's Boat"

TIN 7704274900/KPP 770401001 R/s. No. 40703810200010000054v JSCB SOYUZ (OJSC), Moscow C/C. No. 0101810400000000122, BIC 044585122 Tel.: 8 495 792-04-71