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A couple of years ago, the name of Yuri Dudya was known only to fans of sports and the Sports.ru Internet portal, in which Yuri served as editor-in-chief. Dud became widely popular after he started a channel on the YouTube video platform, titling the channel with the funny “vDud”.
At the beginning of 2019, the channel has a total of 506 views and almost 114 million subscribers. The main feature of the interview is the absence of television censorship.
The guests talk about their attitude to the current political system, express their opinion about Putin and Russian corrupt officials, and then Yuri can ask rather provocative and personal questions.
10 Alexander Pal
Many people know Alexander Pal by his role as a gopnik in the film “Bitter”, and although his character was secondary, Pal’s bright game and charisma did not go unnoticed by directors and producers, who eagerly began to call Alexander in their films to play serious roles.
The interview will appeal to those who like to listen to stories in the format of gatherings with their best friend. Alexander is a simple and pleasant young man, he shared stories from his own life with Yuri.
He talked about the difficulties of studying in the theater, about how he was ashamed to carry out teaching assignments at rehearsals. He talked about the complexities of acting, working with Karimov and his most embarrassing role.
9. Yuri Bykov
Yuri Bykov is a well-known Russian director who made such serious films as The Fool, The Plant, The Major, To Live, and even directed the series Method, in which Konstantin Khabensky played the main role.
Yuri makes films for the “thinking Russian youth”, watching them for entertainment and passing time will not work – Bykov’s films are gloomy and realistically cruel.
In an interview, Bykov will reflect on “why a Russian person doesn’t give a damn about anything,” will name Balabanov’s best film, tell his opinion about “Brother” and share how they filmed the scene with gouging out the eyes in the series “Method”.
The interview received few views by the standards of the VDud channel. It is not bad, just, unfortunately, too few people in Russia know about such a great director and his films.
8. Alexey Serebryakov
Serebryakov is a famous Russian and Canadian theater and film actor who starred in almost 140 films.
In the interview, Alexey will talk a lot about his life abroad, talk about the difference between Russians and Americans. It will touch upon many questions about the mentality, civil society and negative traits of the Russian people.
But Alexey and Yuri will also talk about personal topics: about Serebryakov’s earnings, about his adopted children, about whether it was scary to decide on adoption.
7. Alexander Tsekalo
Alexander Tsekalo has many roles: he is both a TV presenter and a showman, an actor, singer, producer, screenwriter, director – in general, everyone knows the name of this person. Therefore, it is not surprising that an interview with him gained almost 5 million views.
Alexander is not only a very interesting, but also an endearing guest: his voice is calm, his behavior is very cultured, and his speech is well delivered.
Tsekalo will mainly talk about work: about the Gogol series, about the selection of actors for the main roles, about the prototypes of real maniacs in the Method series, about the sale of the Russian series to the Netflix channel.
The most difficult part of the interview is the story about the capture of Nord-Ost by terrorists, about the victims and the search for the missing in the morgues.
6. Vladimir Pozner
Well-known Russian and American journalist. He is the host of the author’s program “Pozner” on the federal Russian channel. The interview on the Vdud channel received 8,3 million views.
At the time of the interview, Vladimir Pozner was 83 years old, but his great age did not in any way affect the reasonable thoughts of the journalist and his travels. In an interview, Posner will say that he does not sit still and over the past 7 days he has visited 4 cities. Of course, given the image and profession of Posner, the interview will revolve around journalism, Channel One, politics, Navalny and money.
But we strongly recommend devoting an hour to this interview, because Posner’s pleasant and competent speech, his interesting thoughts will capture the attention of the viewer, and you will definitely not regret watching it.
5. Sergey Burunov
Famous theater, film and voice actor. The interview has 9,3 million views and a huge amount of positive feedback from the viewers of the video. Again a pleasant and calm guest, with a measured speech and interesting stories from life. Burunov will tell about the theater and filming, about the times when there were no roles, and, accordingly, there was no money. About how dubbing actors work, about Sasha Bortich and Alexander Petrov.
Burunov belongs to the category of actors of the humorous genre who are very serious and even depressive people in life. Therefore, it is not surprising that in an interview the actor will talk about his trips to a psychotherapist, about the death of his mother and about a trip to sick children.
4. Ilya Naishuller
Ilya is a musician, actor, screenwriter, best known in wide circles as the director of the series “Barvikha”, the film “Hardcore” and clips of the Leningrad group. The interview received few views on the channel compared to other videos – only 3,3 million.
In the interview, the guest and Dud mainly discuss the work of Naishuller and representatives of Russian cinema. They talk about prices in the film industry, Tarantino’s best films, the Oscars, drugs and gay movies.
3. Konstantin Khabensky
Konstantin Khabensky is an Honored and People’s Artist of the Russian Federation who needs no introduction, because every Russian-speaking person knows this actor.
The interview on the channel has almost 9,5 million views, and if you haven’t watched it yet, we highly recommend it! Konstantin is a very interesting and versatile person, in an interview he talked a lot not only about his work in cinema and theater, but also touched on personal topics: relationships with a child, the death of his wife, getting out of depression and speculated on political issues. Khabensky also talked about his roles in successful films: about the role of Viktor Sluzhkin in The Geographer Drank His Globe Away, about the role of Meglin in The Method, about his kiss with Angelina Jolie and working with Brad Pitt.
2. Alexey Balabanov
The great Soviet and Russian director, who died in 2013 from heart failure. Alexey gave the world the films “Cargo 200”, “Brother”, “Brother 2”, “About freaks and people”, “Morphine” and many others.
Yuri interviews Alexei’s wife, his friends, colleagues and son. Throughout his life, the director was a rather closed person, rarely gave interviews and spoke publicly. That’s why Dudya’s team did a great job and shot a 2-hour film about the life, work and personality of the great Russian director.
1. Sergey Bodrov
Sergei Bodrov is a Russian actor who died in 2002 at the age of 30. The actor went missing under an avalanche along with the film crew of the film The Messenger. The dead were searched for several months, and the parents of the victims and a group of volunteers continued the search until 2004.
The film-memory of Bodrov became a new format for interviews on the Vdud channel, after which Yuri’s team made films about Tabakov, Balabanov and the Russian Woodstock.
Yuri interviewed the father of the actor, Oleg Menshikov, members of the film crew of the film “The Messenger” and colleagues of Sergei Bodrov.
The interview lasts an hour, it is calm, but at the same time very emotional. Still, listening to a father who lost his beloved son, and a film crew that left the filming a little earlier on that ill-fated day is really emotionally difficult.