Dmitry Belikov - the character of the movie "Vampire Academy"

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Danila Kozlovsky today is one of the leading actors of Russian cinema. He entered Hollywood in 2013, just at the moment when he finished work in Legend No. 17. A year later, an American film was released with the participation of the artist, where the vampire guardian Dmitry Belikov became his character. How did Kozlovsky manage to get into Hollywood? And what about the movie "Vampire Academy" he starred in?

The creators of the picture

Vampire Academy was directed by Mark Waters in 2014 and is based on the novels by Rachel Mead.

The first book by the writer, which tells about life in the vampire academy, was published in the US in 2007. The novel was a success, so 5 more parts were subsequently released. The work of Rachel Mead abounded with Russian surnames interspersed with the surnames of the southern Slavs. However, the writer specifies the origin of only the guard Dmitry Belikov, indicating that he is Russian and comes from Siberia. Originother heroes unknown.

The screenplay based on the book was written by Daniel Waters, brother of Michael Waters. Director Michael Waters himself has been working in the field of cinema since 1997 and is mainly engaged in the creation of teen films: Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, etc. Don Murphy, who also oversaw the first three parts of the franchise, produced the film Vampire Academy "Transformers".

The film premiered in Russia in February 2014. At the box office, the work of Mark Waters collected only 15 million dollars - two times less than was invested in filming.

Storyline

The main characters of the film are the vampires Rosa and Lissa. In childhood, they were united by one grief: they lost their parents. Since then, the girls have been inseparable. But since Rosa and Lissa are vampires, they have to study at a special vampire academy, which is located in the heart of Montana. The friends decide to run away from there, but they are intercepted by their teacher and mentor - dhampir Dmitry Belikov.

When Vasilisa Dragomir, a representative of the oldest noble vampire family, returns to the academy, strange things begin to happen to her: someone follows her, draws obscene inscriptions on her wall and throws up dead animals. Rosa, who is the protector and guardian of Vasilisa, tries to protect her friend, but she does not always succeed. And only the help of Dmitry Belikov allows you to cope with the pursuers - the hated strigoi (lower vampires) - and return everything to its place.

Zoey Deutch as Rose

Vampire Academy is a film starring young actress Zoey Deutch. At the time of filming, she was only twenty years old.

Zoe was born into a family of an actress and director. Her father mainly directs television series: "Jane Style", "Double", "Harry's Law". Parents noticed artistic abilities in their daughter early, so they enrolled her in a secondary school, where they taught acting at the same time.

The girl really was keenly interested in cinema, so at the age of 16 she turned out to be a debutante: she received one of the main roles in the Disney Channel series called Everything Tip-Top. Zoe did not stop there: in 2011, she appeared in five television films at once - NCIS: Special Forces, Criminal Minds, Major Cupcake, Double and Hallelujah.

In 2013, Zoe made a cameo appearance in the film Beautiful Creatures. After filming in Vampire Academy, the girl was offered the lead role in the film Dirty Grandpa, where she appeared in the frame with Robert De Niro.

The heroine Zoe from the Vampire Academy is a dhampir Rose Hathaway. Dhampirs are a special caste of vampires, designed to protect crowned persons. Rosa is assigned to her friend Lissa as a guard. In addition to thinking about how to protect her ward from the strigoi, Rosa is also worried about falling in love with her mentor Dmitry Belikov.

Dmitry Belikov ("Vampire Academy"): character biography

According to the plot of the film, Dmitry is a mentor of young dhampirs who works in a vampireacademy. He comes from Siberia, but for some reason lives in America.

Dmitry Belikov is dedicated to his work and honestly fulfills his duty. He catches the escaped Lissa and Rosa and returns them to the academy. When he begins to train Rosa, mutual feelings arise between the heroes. But Dmitry does not dare to have a relationship with Rosa because of the big age difference. In the film, Belikov repeatedly saved the girls, but the romantic line remained undeveloped. However, in the work of Rachel Mead between Dmitry and Rosa, an affair nevertheless begins in the third book of the series.

The role of the Russian vampire was given to the famous Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky.

Danila Kozlovsky and his career

In the Hollywood piggy bank of Danila Kozlovsky, only the hero Dmitry Belikov is listed. The actor considers this role to be his debut at the Dream Factory. But you can't call Kozlovsky a newbie in Russian cinema.

In 2008, the actor broke into the lists of the country's first celebrities after his participation in the military film "We are from the future." In this project, Vladimir Yaglych, Ekaterina Klimova and Daniil Strakhov became his partners on the set. After the premiere, the press only talked about the new rising star. The first facts and gossip from the life of the artist immediately surfaced: allegedly, while studying at SPbGATI, Kozlovsky met with Elizaveta Boyarskaya, but the couple broke up because the girl considered Danila an unpromising groom. The tabloid press wrote notes that the young manmarried his colleague - Urszula Malka - and made a career in spite of the former.

Whether this is true, no one knows. And Danila continued to confidently move up the career ladder. The next hit with his participation was the drama "Duhless". The role of Max Andreev made the actor literally "a hero of our time." The started business was completed by the biopic "Legend No. 17".

Today Danila Kozlovsky remains a sought-after artist. A promising film with his participation - "The Crew" has already been released on the screens, the release of "Viking" is expected in the near future.

Danila Kozlovsky - Dmitry Belikov: the story of how the actor got into a vampire movie

Not every Russian actor, even a very talented one, gets into a Hollywood movie. After Dmitry Belikov, played by Kozlovsky, won the hearts of young viewers around the world (and the film was intended mainly for a teenage audience), journalists bombarded the actor with questions about how he managed to get into the project.

Danila admitted that everything here is decided not only by perseverance, but also by chance. He tried to get into a serious Hollywood film before the Vampire Academy and even went to audition in London, but nothing happened. And he was enrolled in the cast of Mark Waters' film without even coming to Los Angeles. Danila recorded his samples on camera and sent them to the director. Soon he was contacted, and then it was only a matter of formalities.

During filming, everyone was friendly to the actor. Danila was especially enthusiastic about his young partner Zoey Deutsch, saying that she was not only talented, butalso a wonderful cheerful person.

Other role players

Vampire Academy is a film also starring Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace), Lucy Fry (Unearthly Surfing) and Sami Gale (Blue Bloods).