On December 1, 2011 the film by director Pavel Buslov “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive”, the scriptwriter of the film was the poet's son Nikita Vysotsky. Despite the fact that the picture was filmed in cinemas, for many it remains a secret who played Vysotsky himself in this film.
Initially, the role was supposed to be given to the son of Vladimir Semenovich, and concurrently the screenwriter of the film, Nikita Vysotsky. Nikita Vladimirovich, especially for this role, dropped extra pounds, caught up with muscles, "cubes" on his stomach and learned to play the seven-string guitar. He was the first person to try makeup on. The make-up artists' work took 6 hours. Subsequently, this idea was abandoned, because, according to Vysotsky Jr. himself, he and his father have different textures and psychophysics. According to the authors of the film, the secret of the name of the actor who played Vysotsky is a kind of move. Inertia, when the name of the artist is known, can interfere with the perception of the picture, as well as the background of the artist himself. Both the actor and the film crew made a unanimous decision not to reveal the secret of the name yet. According to the authors of the film, they were not faced with the task of making a double of Vladimir Semenovich, it was necessary to create the image of the poet. But without appearance and voice, Vysotsky does not exist, so the image turned out to be as close as possible. All participants in the process are confident that the name of the actor will be revealed in the near future. The poet's son believes that the performer accomplished an actor's and human feat. None of the actors who starred in the film, and the crew did not know who played Vysotsky. In the film, the poet is played by a character created using silicone-plastic makeup and computer technology. Controversy over the name of the actor who played the poet continued throughout the premiere. On the Internet, many sites voted for the artists approved for this role. Someone voted for Vdovichenkov, someone - for Bezrukov or Nikita Vysotsky. Now it became known that Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky in the movie “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive”was played by Sergei Bezrukov.
