The movie “Boomer” was released in 2003.
Photo: frame of the film.
After the release of the TV series “Brigade” (2002), which made a splash in society, the action film “Boomer” (2003) by Pyotr Buslov was called an abridged copy or even a kind of sequel to the criminal saga. from Alexei. Sidorov. In fact, there were similarities: the same style, the same theme, the same language, the same four main characters, and even the actor Vladimir Vdovichenkov as a bridge between the two projects. And yet “Boomer” became a self-contained, vivid and profound artistic statement: Critics noted the finely drawn characters and non-trivial imagery of cars as an allegorical social cross-section of Russia in the 2000s. The viewer appreciated “Boomer” for its merits: the picture became the box office leader after its release and won film awards. And KP.RU tells how the fate of the actors of the action movie developed, which was released on the big screens 20 years ago.
Vladimir Vdovichenkov (Cat)
Vladimir Vdovichenkov (Cat)
Photo: frame of the film.
In “Boomer” Vdovichenkov was already, in fact, a star, after the “Brigade”. And he did not change much for the image of Kostya “Cat”. The same strong, self-confident and aggressive fighter (like Phil in the Sidorov series). He served for a short time at the Moscow City Hall Theater, and since 2002 – at the Mayakovsky Theater. He played in many popular films and TV series with the best directors of the country: “Taras Bulba”, “Demons”, “Once Upon a Time in Rostov”, “Salyut-7”, “White Guard”, “Optimists”, etc. . In 2010 he got into a highway scandal, like Boomer’s Dimon, by not sharing the road with the 23-year-old son of the head of the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. As a result of the skirmish, he was shot in the body and face with a traumatic pistol. The conflict was silenced. In 2012 he became an Honored Artist of Russia.
Vladimir Vdovichenkov with his wife.
Photo: Boris KUDRYAVOV
The fourth marriage is married to actress Elena Lyadova, with whom he had an affair, being married, on the set of the film “Leviathan”. From previous wives, the artist has a son Leonid (30 years old) and a daughter Veronica (17 years old). In August he will celebrate his 52nd birthday.
Andrey Merzlikin (Scalded)
Andrey Merzlikin (Scalded)
Photo: frame of the film.
A heartbreaking scene with a cry of “Dimoooon!” In the end, the image became a meme and went viral on the net even 20 years after Boomer’s premiere. And that is the mark of quality. Dimon himself, aka Scalded, played by Andrei Merzlikin, ended badly: in the second part of Boomer (he’s not bad, despite criticism), he will pay for the betrayal of his friends. But for the actor himself, who played the role of the bandit, everything is perfect. Every year he has about a dozen projects – films and series (“Blind Man’s Buff”, “Inhabited Island”, “Burnt by the Sun”, “Boris Godunov”, “One”, “Sea Buckthorn Summer”, “Territory” , etc.), performances ( “Forest”, “Kalina Krasnaya”), as well as law enforcement awards and festivals. In 2018 he became an Honored Artist of Russia.
Andrey Merzlikin with his family.
Photo: Mikhail FROLOV
The secret of success and stability in Andrey’s life and career is simple. He is a Christian who goes to church and tries to live carefully and according to the commandments, without repeating the mistakes made by the characters he played. Merzlikin periodically participates in church services, he is happily married to his wife Anna, who gave him 4 children: Fedor (16 years old), Seraphim (14 years old), Evdokia (12 years old) and Makar (7 years old). On March 24, the artist turned 50 years old.
Sergei Gorobchenko (Rama)
Sergei Gorobchenko (Rama)
Photo: frame of the film.
Sergei Gorobchenko
Photo: Boris KUDRYAVOV
Lovelace and the great man Petya, nicknamed Rama, an image created by Sergey Gorobchenko. Perhaps this is still the best role of the actor Ural, who left the famous “Lenkom” for filming in “Boomer”. He played a hundred roles in films and TV shows, but there are not so many notable ones among them (Minnesota, The Brothers Karamazov, Molodezhka). But Sergei was lucky in love. True, unlike Merzlikin, not from the very beginning: with a classmate, actress Alexandra Florinskaya, Gorobchenko did not live long, although she gave birth to a son Gleb (25 years old), left for Italy after a divorce. . But the second wife, the daughter of the Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov * Polina, gave birth to Gorobchenko as many as seven: Alexander, Peter, Ivan, Anna, Sofia, Ekaterina and Polina. Despite the betrayal of his mother-in-law who escaped from Russia, the actor prays for him as a true Christian. This year, Sergei will be 51 years old.
Maxim Konovalov (Killa)
Maxim Konovalov (Killa)
Photo: frame of the film.
The most reckless of the criminal quartet – Lech, nicknamed Killa – is the fruit of the work of Maxim Konovalov, the youngest (47 years old) and modest, if we take professional achievements, of the Boomer heroes. The artist, similar to Savely Kramarov, played many episodic roles (“Daddy’s Daughters”, “Soldiers”, “Hot News”, “Voronins”), but, as in the case of Gorobchenko, it was the work on the image of Buslov that which became the most notable. He starred in the sketch show “Unreal Story.” In 2021, he starred in the comedy “BOOMERang”, where there are references to the canonical action movie, and then in the series “Restaurant by Concepts”, where he again joined his Bumer colleagues Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Vladimir Sychev (as well as as Brigade actor Dmitry Dyuzhev). The second wife, Svetlana, gave birth to Maxim’s daughters Irina and Maria, as well as his son from him Mikhail: the boy survived a clinical death after anaphylactic shock, as a result of which he was damaged brain. Misha could not speak for a long time, there were developmental delays, but the family, with the help of qualified doctors, was able to cope with all the disorders.
Maxim Konovalov with his daughters
Photo: Mikhail FROLOV
* recognized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as a foreign agent
