Drama "American Daughter": actors, roles, fate of the main characters

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

One of the first films that brought all-Russian fame to Vladimir Mashkov was Karen Shakhnazarov's drama "American Daughter", the actors of which played on the screens the touching relationship between father and child. What is the "s alt" of this picture and who else took part in it from the artists?

"American Daughter": actors and roles. Vladimir Mashkov as Alexei

Vladimir Mashkov began his acting career in the difficult 90s. But even during this period he did not sit without work. It was in the 90s that he managed to make a big breakthrough in creative terms, starring in such hits as "Moscow Nights", "Limita" and, of course, "American Daughter".

Actors Mashkov and Shukshina in this project played a divorced married couple. Olga left her husband, musician Alexei, because she did not consider him a promising man. But Lesha was hurt not even by this, but by the fact that the woman took his little daughter with her to the USA. For her, he goes to the States.

It turns out that little Ann doesn't mind living with her dad. However, make it legalway does not appear to be the case. Then Alexei kidnaps his daughter by mutual agreement and goes with her to the Mexican border. They fail to reach their destination because the girl falls ill. You have to surrender to the authorities. But in the end, little Ann kidnaps her father from an American prison and intends to transport him to Russia.

The film "American Daughter": actors and roles. Alison Whitbeck as Ann

Alison Whitbeck, who starred in Shakhnazarov's drama, is a real American. The girl was born in the city of Pleasanton and accidentally got into the cast of the film "American Daughter".

Actors Mashkov and Whitbeck played father and daughter, once separated. Ann's mother remarried, now to a we althy American. However, when her real father appears in their house, she reaches out to him. Ann understands that it will be good for her to live with Alexei, so she decides to take a desperate step and runs away with him. Since the hero of Mashkov does not know English, Ann practically becomes his translator.

In the finale, it turns out that the father and daughter made a mistake with the direction and arrived in the wrong city they planned to get to. They are no longer destined to get to the desired point - the police find them. But at the first opportunity, Ann escapes from her mother and kidnaps her father from prison by helicopter in order to fly with him to their historical homeland.

Maria Shukshina as Olga Varakina

In the film "American Daughter" actorsdid a great job: their characters want to empathize.

Meanwhile, actress Maria Shukshina played an atypical role in Shakhnazarov's film - a bitchy and rather pragmatic woman. She, without blinking an eye, separates her daughter from her own father. Then he finds himself a we althy couple in the person of the American Archie. When Alexey comes to see Ann in the USA, Shukshina's heroine puts up various obstacles. And even when the police have already caught Alexei, she is trying to blackmail him and force him to abandon his daughter.

Maria Shukshina came to the acting profession quite late. She starred in American Daughter when she was already 28 years old. At that time, she had only three film works in her arsenal: in the films "Stoves and Benches", "Birds over the City" and "Eternal Husband". Much later, Shukshina became the star of the series "Dear Masha Berezina", "Brezhnev", "The Adventures of a Magician" and "Own Alien".

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Archie

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan is an old-timer of Russian cinema. He began his career in the 60s. and has been filming continuously ever since, sometimes in two or three projects a year. The filmography of the artist consists of approximately 120 paintings. They also include American Daughter.

The actors in this project were famous. But there were only four significant roles. Dzhigarkhanyan got a character named Archie - a certain respectable businessman who married Olga and took her with her daughter toAmerica.

The film "American Daughter", whose actors showed a very touching story, was supposedly based on real events that occurred in the life of director Karen Shakhnazarov. The only difference is that the director did not have to serve time in an American colony, like the main character Alexei.