When the operational alias is forgotten

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Unfortunately, many of the people who created the film "Operational Alias" are no longer alive. At the age of 57 (in 2005), director Igor Talpa, who specializes in good crime dramas and action films, left our world.

He started with a good action-packed four-part mini-series "Tango over the Abyss", continued with "Sarmat", "Return of the Titanic". But in 2003, the director filmed "Operational pseudonym" - a series about a man who has lost his memory, but has not lost anything human. This very main character - a provincial resident of Sergei Lapin - was played by Alexander Dedyushko, who never faked a real man in a rather hackneyed image. The more painful is our audience loss: Alexander died as a result of a car accident in the Vladimir region, it was four years after the premiere on the blue screens of the painting “Operational pseudonym”. He was only 45. How many viewers could he still conquer with his truly masculine charm!

Another Bourne?

The intrigue of the series is that an ordinary person (perhaps slightly, throughoutApparently, “shifted”, it was not for nothing that he once lay in the “psychiatric hospital”) turns out to be a special agent. Of course, this turn of events is not new, it is worth remembering only the ubiquitous Bourne, who identified himself for a long time.

Amnesia - this technique is popular and opens up great opportunities for further developments. But still, despite the seeming banality, what is happening on the screen (and the end of the “dashing” nineties, a difficult time is shown) attracts and makes you watch “Operational pseudonym” one series after another. Lapin receives an offer to work in a bank. Memory is gradually returning to our agent. He finds himself between two fires: on the one hand, FSB officers, on the other, criminal types, who also do not let Sergei out of his sight. The plot picks up pace, but it's just getting started…

Acknowledged masters of cinema

Of course, the central character attracts maximum attention, which is quite logical. But Lapin's entourage was chosen very strong. The roles played by the recognized masters of Russian cinema art - Vladimir Konkin, Lev Durov, Lev Prygunov, may not go down in the annals of history, but they are masters for that, in order to embody images with maximum efficiency.

The charisma of the most intelligent Aristarkh Livanov and Vladimir Verzhbitsky helped them this time as well. Good in the role of "mafia element" Vladimir Episkoposyan, like a fish in water feeling in the shoes of all kinds of reptiles and scum. Igor Volkov, in the guise of an FSB lieutenant colonel, also left a good impression.

What attracts the viewer most of all "Operational pseudonym"? Of course, the spy component. Thanks to the co-author of the script - the famous author-detective Daniil Koretsky - there is no need to be bored. The very essence of what we call male friendship is perfectly shown. It turns out she exists. "Operational pseudonym" is a series that tells about her too. The advantage of the tape is also its short duration, so the viewer simply does not have time to get tired of the characters.