A couple of years ago, the name of Yuri Dudy was known only to fans of sports and the Sports.ru Internet portal, in which Yuri served as chief editor. Dud became widely popular after he started a channel on the YouTube video platform, dubbing the channel a funny “vDud”.
At the beginning of 2019, the channel totals 506 114 728 views and almost 5 million subscribers. The main feature of the interview is the lack 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 Paly for his role as a gopnik in the film “Bitterly,” and although his character was secondary, the vivid play and charisma of Paly did not go unnoticed by the directors and producers, who eagerly began to call Alexander into their films for 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 in communication, he shared with Yuri stories from his own life.
He talked about the difficulties of teaching in the theater, about how ashamed he was to carry out teaching tasks at rehearsals. He talked about the difficulties of acting, working with Karimov and about his most shameful role.
9. Yuri Bykov
Yuri Bykov is a well-known Russian director who shot such serious films as “The Fool”, “Factory”, “Major”, “Live” and even directed the series “Method”, in which Konstantin Khabensky played the main role.
Yuri makes films for “thinking Russian youth”, watching them for the sake of entertainment and passing the time will not work - Bykov's films are gloomy and realistic-cruel.
In an interview, Bykov will ponder “why a Russian person has a damn thing”, name Balabanov’s best film, tell his opinion about “Brother” and share how the scene was shot with goggled eyes in the TV series “Method”.
The interview has collected few views by the standards of the vDud channel. It's not bad, just, unfortunately, too few people in Russia know about such a great director and his films.
8. Alexey Serebryakov
Serebryakov is a well-known Russian and Canadian film and theater actor, who starred in almost 140 films.
In an interview, Alexey will talk a lot about his life abroad, talk about the difference between Russians and Americans. He will touch on many questions about the mentality, civil society and the negative traits of the Russian people.
But Alexey and Yuri will also talk about personal topics: about Serebryakov’s earnings, about his adoptive children, about whether it was scary to decide on adoption.
7. Alexander Tsekalo
Alexander Tsekalo has a lot of roles: he is a TV presenter, and showman, 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 very interesting, but also has a guest to himself: his voice is calm, his behavior is very cultural, and his speech is excellently 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 series Method, about the sale of the Russian series to the Netflix channel.
The most difficult part of the interview is the story of the seizure of the Nord-Ost by terrorists, the victims and the search for the missing from the morgues.
6. Vladimir Pozner
Well-known Russian and American journalist. He is the lead author of the Pozner program on the federal Russian channel. The interview on the vDud channel gained 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 journalist’s rational thoughts and 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 that you devote 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 actor of theater, cinema and voice acting. The interview has 9.3 million views and a huge number of positive reviews from viewers of the video. Again a pleasant and calm guest, with a measured speech and interesting stories from life.
Burunov will talk about the theater and filming in films, 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 depressed people in life. Therefore, it is not surprising that in an interview the actor will tell 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 the videos of the group “Leningrad”. The interview received few views on the channel relative 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, about the best films of Tarantino, the Oscars, drugs and gays in the movies.
3. Konstantin Khabensky
Konstantin Khabensky - Honored and People's Artist of the Russian Federation, who does not need to be introduced, because every Russian-speaking person knows this actor.
The channel’s interview has nearly 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 the interview he talked a lot not only about his work in the cinema and theater, but also touched on personal topics: relations with the child, death of his wife, way out of depression and reasoned about political issues.
Khabensky also talked about his roles in successful films: about the role of Viktor Sluzhkin in “Geographer drank the globe,” about the role of Meglin in “Method”, about his kiss with Angelina Jolie and work with Brad Pitt.
2. Alexey Balabanov
The great Soviet and Russian director who died in 2013 from heart failure. Alex gave the world the films “Cargo 200”, “Brother”, “Brother 2”, “About Freaks and People”, “Morphine” and many others.
Yuri interviews the wife of Alexei, his friends, colleagues and son. Throughout his life, the director was a fairly private person, rarely gave interviews and spoke publicly. Therefore, the Dude team did a great job and made a 2-hour film about the life, work and personality of the great Russian director.
1. Sergey Bodrov
Sergey 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 victims were searched for several months, and the parents of the victims and a group of volunteers continued the search until 2004.
The memory film about Bodrov became the new interview format on the Vdud channel, after which Yuri’s team made films about Tabakov, Balabanov and Russian Woodstock.
Yuri interviewed the father of the actor, Oleg Menshikov, members of the crew of the film "The Messenger" and colleagues Sergei Bodrov.
The interview lasts an hour, it is calm, but at the same time very emotional. Still, listening to a father who has lost his beloved son, and the film crew that left that shooting a little earlier that day is really emotionally difficult.