Melodrama "If you are not with me": actors, roles, short story

The fashion for "gypsy" melodrama has lasted for more than a decade: first there was "Yesenia", then "Tabor goes to heaven", in 2000 - "Carmelita". The theme of the unhappy love of a gypsy girl was decided by the creators of the film "If you are not with me". Actors once again played on the screens of well-known story. What obstacles on the way to happiness came up in front of the heroine of the melodrama of Igor Zhemuzhukhin?

"If you are not with me": actors. Cecil Sverdlova as Zarina

The main character of the melodrama of Igor Zhemzhukhin is the gypsy Zarina. She is young and charming, any gypsy from the camp is ready to take her as a wife. But Zarina does not respond to anyone. If someone tries to press on it, it gives a worthy rebuff.

One day the girl meets a Moscow doctor of Slavic origin and falls in love. The couple sees only one way out of the situation - Zarina decides to run away with Alexei to Moscow. This is how the film "If you are not with me" takes place.

Actors Cecil Sverdlov and Mikhail Pshenichny played those most in love. For Cecil, the image of Zarina became the third main role in the cinema. Before that, the girl played the central characters in the series "Aroma of the dogrose" and "New Year's marriage."

Cecile does not specify who she is by nationality. However, a girl was born in France, so she wears such an unusual name. Only in her teens Sverdlova returned with her parents to their historical homeland. Since 2004, the actress is actively acting in films.

"If you are not with me": actors and roles. Mikhail Pshenichny as Alexei Sedov

Mikhail Pshenichny is a native of the city of Kiev. In the capital of Ukraine he graduated from the profile university. Karpenko-Kariy and spent several years in a dramatic theater located on the left bank of the Dnieper.

In the movie Pshenichny began filming in 2007. At first these were episodic roles in Ukrainian projects. Then Michael began to win a role in the Russian series like "Return of Mukhtar" or "Kostoprav". The first major role for the artist was the role of Max in the melodrama "Pandora's Box". In 2013, Pshenichny was invited to the main role in the project "If you are not with me."

Actors Pshenichny and Sverdlov embodied on the screen the image of passionately enamored young people who are ready for the sake of relations to go against the traditions of their peoples. In the final pictures, Alexei and Zarina manage to convince everyone of the sincerity of their feelings and win the right to a wedding and a joint life.

Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya in the role of Shanita

The actors of the movie "If you are not with me" are not mostly Roma by nationality. But Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya is an exception.

The actress has served for many years in the troupe of Roma gypsy theater "Roman". In the movie, a woman is removed from 1970. The most famous films with her participation are "Eternal Call", "Tabor Goes to Heaven", "Carnival" and "Queen Margot".

In 2005, Zhemchuzhskaya appeared on the screens in the form of Papushi in the soap opera The Talisman of Love. And in 2009 the artist of the theater "Roman" was invited to continue the "Carmelita" for the role of the witch Rosa.

In the melodramatic series of Igor Zhemzhukhin, Catherine Zhemchuzhnaya played Zarina's grandmother.

Other performers of roles

In the movie "If you are not with me" the role of the gypsy baron was given to Sergei Erdenko, an actor of the theater "Roman". The performer can also be seen in the tapes "Pantsir" and "Gypsy Aza". He also wrote music for the project of Igor Zhemuzhukhin.

The role of an unscrupulous and arrogant businessman went to Sergei Komarov ("Shuttles"). According to the plot, his hero imposes Zarina on her feelings, so there are constant conflicts between them.

The son of a gypsy baron, who is also crazy about a beautiful gypsy, was played by Alexei Nesterenko ("The Princess from the North"). Also in the picture you can see Larisa Luzhin ("Smile of fate"), Ilya Alekseev ("I'm sorry") and Vladimir Korenev ("Orlova and Alexandrov").