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Video: Two star mothers of actress Daria Drozdovskaya: Why Alla Budnitskaya raised her friend's daughter
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
July 5 marks 84 years of the famous actress Alla Budnitskaya. Probably the first person to wish her a happy birthday will be her adopted daughter, actress Daria Drozdovskaya. For 43 years she has been calling her her mother, although she was born into the family of another movie star - Mikaela Drozdovskaya. How it happened that the actress's daughter was raised by her friend, why Daria calls them both her mothers, and for which she is grateful to fate - further in the review.
Carefree childhood
From childhood, Daria seemed to many to be a real darling of fate: her mother, Mikaela Drozdovskaya, was a famous Soviet actress, and her father, Vadim Smolensky, was a prominent scientist, doctor of medical sciences, and a cardiologist. Her childhood years were absolutely happy, Daria grew up in a creative atmosphere - after premieres at the House of Cinema and performances at the Actor Theater, her mother's friends, famous artists, often gathered with them.
Mikaela Drozdovskaya was a real star not only on the screens, but also behind the scenes. A housekeeper and two nannies helped her solve everyday problems, while she received guests, her father often washed the diapers himself and put his daughters to bed, and the mother was for Daria and her older sister a fairytale creature, a magical princess. Dasha admitted that she was dying with delight, watching her. She was called one of the most beautiful Soviet actresses. Her name thundered throughout the Union in the second half of the 1950s. and for the next 20 years it was known to everyone. The most striking film works of Mikaela Drozdovskaya were the roles in the films Behind the Window of a Department Store, Volunteers, Running, Burn, Burn, My Star, and Mimino.
Family grief
Fate gave the actress only 41 years old. Her life was cut short in 1978 by an absurd accident. She went to shoot in Ordzhonikidze. The actors were accommodated in an unheated room at the sports base. At night, to keep warm, Michaela turned on the lighting fixtures - two movie projectors. The blanket slid onto one of them and caught fire. The actress received severe burns, the doctors fought for her life for a whole week, but could not save her.
Dasha at that time was only 8 years old. Upon learning of the tragedy, her godmother, mother's friend, actress Alla Budnitskaya came to them. She recalled: "". A year later, her father married another woman, and Dasha lived with their family for about a year. Why she could not live there longer, Dasha never told, confining herself to a short comment: "".
Second mother
Alla Budnitskaya was the same age as Dasha's mother and her closest friend. She also began acting in the second half of the 1950s, and although she got mostly episodes in the cinema, the whole Union knew her too - she played the wife of the main character, the weather forecast leader in the film "Station for Two", a doctor in "Crime talent”, the mother of the main characters of“Primorsky Boulevard”and others. Her professional life was very successful, but in her personal life she had a chance to go through a drama. Back in her student years, Alla married classmate Alexander Orlov, together they lived happily all their lives, but they had no children. At the age of 25, the actress got into a car accident, underwent several operations and, as a result, was forever deprived of the opportunity to have children.
Alla Budnitskaya always loved her goddaughter like her own daughter, and often took her to her when Michaela left for the shooting. Later, Alla said that her friend seemed to have a presentiment of her departure and, 3 months before the tragedy, asked her to take care of her daughter if something happened to her. With Dasha, they were always very close, and when Budnitskaya realized that she was uncomfortable living with her father's new family, she took her to her without hesitation. Dasha continued to communicate with her father and kept warm relations with him, but at the same time admitted: "".
Daria always called her godmother her second mother and once confessed: "".
In the footsteps of two mothers
At the age of 5, Daria Drozdovskaya played her first role in a movie, from childhood she dreamed of following in her mother's footsteps, from the 9th grade she studied in a theater studio. But her first attempt to enter theater universities was unsuccessful, and for a whole year Daria studied with Alla Pokrovskaya, who undertook to prepare her for admission. As a result, she went to GITIS and the Shchukin school and chose the latter. Her classmates were Irina Lachina and Vladislav Galkin, who later became famous actors.
Daria Drozdovskaya completed her studies in 1993, but during this period a crisis began in the cinema, and at first she worked on television, where she hosted her own show about cinema, and her name became known to the audience in the 2000s. Wide popularity was brought to her by her first leading role in the film "Three Half Graces", where her partners on the set were Alena Khmelnitskaya, Tatiana Vasilyeva, Mikhail Efremov, Yuri Stoyanov, Evgenia Dmitrieva, Fedor Bondarchuk and Bogdan Stupka. After that, Daria continued to act in films and TV series. One of her last works were roles in the TV series "Hotel Eleon" and "Ivanovs-Ivanovs".
Despite all the tests passed, Daria Drozdovskaya considers herself a darling of fate and a doubly happy person - because she received love from both of her mothers. Even after parting with her husband, producer and TV presenter Alexander Oleinikov, with whom they spent 17 years in a civil marriage, the actress does not grumble about her fate - she is grateful to him for the years he has lived and two children, a son and a daughter. Life taught her not to feel sorry for herself and to appreciate the gifts that fate gave her so generously.
Probably, Daria also learned this from her second mother, who also had to go through many difficulties: What events divided the life of Alla Budnitskaya into "before" and "after".
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