Video: Renata Litvinova - 54: What viewers don't know about one of the most mysterious and extravagant actresses
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
January 12 marks the 54th anniversary of the famous actress, director, screenwriter, TV presenter, Honored Artist of Russia Renata Litvinova. Someone considers her one of the most interesting and extraordinary figures in modern cinema, to someone she seems too closed, aloof and cultivating her own oddities, someone is annoyed by her mannerism and eccentricity, but she leaves almost no one indifferent. Litvinova makes herself talk about herself even when she is silent herself. What secrets and experiences are hidden behind this silence?
Renata Litvinova does not like to remember her childhood. When she was one year old, her father left the family, and later she saw him only a few times. If her friends came to visit, she hung up a man's cap or coat in the hallway so that they thought that she had a father. When she turned 17, he was gone. Renata's mother (named after her father's brother, a Tatar by nationality) worked as a surgeon, but at the same time was a passionate admirer of cinema. She often took her daughter with her to movie theaters in the evening and eventually infected her with her movie addiction.
On September 1, she prefers to give up work and rest, because this date still evokes negative associations in her. Recently, the actress admitted that she hated school - she could neither accept the system itself, nor find a common language with her peers. Then Renata was the tallest in the class, which is why classmates teased her with the Ostankino TV tower. The time of study for her is associated with loneliness and hopelessness, in one of the interviews the actress stated that all that she was taught at school was to wash the floor. She kept herself apart, collected postcards with photographs of famous artists and fell in love with the heroes of the books. Renata seemed strange, withdrawn and detached to her classmates.
Acquaintances who communicated with her during her student days claim that Litvinova did not immediately develop a specific manner of speech and behavior - while studying at the scriptwriting department of VGIK, she "spied" these features from her friend Azhar. Renata did not deny this, but did not confirm either: "". Be that as it may, it was during this period that she found her own unique style and that recognizable image in which viewers are used to seeing her on screens. The head of her course, Isai Kuznetsov, said that her manners and gestures at first seemed unnatural to everyone, but in the process of communicating with her it became clear that this was her natural way of behaving.
The acting profession and directing have always been much more for her than just work - in this Litvinova finds salvation from depression and a way out of the crisis. The artist admits that during the most difficult periods for her, she writes plays and prose. Few people know that it was she who was the author of the story "Possess and Belong", based on which Valery Todorovsky shot the film "Country of the Deaf", which was called one of the brightest film events of the late 1990s. Litvinova writes scripts not only for films, but also for clips - according to her script, the clip of the group "Agatha Christie" for the song "Sailor" was shot.
She is called one of the most stylish and vibrant artists, but she herself is rarely satisfied with her own appearance. In one interview, Litvinova admitted that she prefers not to re-watch films with her participation, because she is sure that she does not work well in the frame. In addition, Renata doubted her acting skills for a long time. She says: "". She still likes to be on the other side of the camera better.
She began to act in high school, but Litvinova made her debut not as an actress, but as a model. Then she starred in a commercial and received her first fee - 20 rubles. She appeared on the big screen as an actress at the age of 27 thanks to the director Kira Muratova, who more than once called Renata Litvinova her muse and willingly filmed her in her films. It was Muratova who convinced her that her appearance was cinematic and that she should not refuse the directors' offers, as she often did.
Muratova spoke about the actress: "". When Muratova passed away in 2018, Litvinova admitted: "".
Most of all, the artist does not like questions about her personal life and prefers to remain silent on this topic, which gives rise to a lot of rumors. Of course, most often she hears questions about Zemfira and invariably answers them that the singer is her “lifelong companion” and “lifetime genius”. Together they have already released several projects - Litvinova as a director, Zemfira as a composer. About her and the artist Georgy Rubchinskiy Renata says: "".
Art has become for her both a way of existence and self-expression, and the meaning of life. Litvinova has repeatedly said that she can watch films from morning till night and at the same time feel absolutely happy. But a bad movie can make her unhappy. Once the artist said: "".
When she was gone, they said that a whole era in cinema went with her: Post in memory of Kira Muratova.
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