Why Nikita Khrushchev banned the filming of the legendary actor Pavel Kadochnikov

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

His acting fate could be the envy of many colleagues. Pavel Kadochnikov embodied many vivid images on the screen, became the owner of three Stalin Prizes, earned many titles and awards. But there was a period in the life of the actor when they stopped filming him on the unspoken order of Nikita Khrushchev himself. And even in this situation, Pavel Kadochnikov did not give up. True, as a result of a nervous shock, he was forced to shut up for a whole year.

Reincarnation Master

Today it is difficult to imagine this, but his life could have turned out completely differently, and instead of a great actor, the world could recognize the no less great artist Pavel Kadochnikov. As a child, thanks to his mother, he became seriously interested in painting. When the family returned from the village of Bikbard in the Urals after the end of the Civil War, Pavel entered a fine arts studio, intending to become a professional artist. But his father's illness forced him to leave his studies and get a job at the factory as an apprentice locksmith.

In his free time, Pavel Kadochnikov studied in an art studio, and there, by a happy coincidence, the head of the theater group invited him to perform ditties in his production. Since then, he also began to study in a theatrical collective, later entered the College of Performing Arts, began to play in the theater.

The skill with which Pavel Kadochnikov reincarnated into his heroes simply could not but admire. Even his own father did not recognize him in theatrical performances, and Sergei Eisenstein, after filming in the film "Ivan the Terrible", where the actor played two roles at once, presented him with his photo with the caption "Dear Werewolf Pavel, with incredible ease passing kilometers of winding paths."

Pavel Kadochnikov was very demanding of himself in his profession. No matter how difficult the shooting was, he performed all the tricks on his own. The actor always worked in full force and was ready for any sacrifices in order to feel his character. During the filming of "The Story of a Real Man", where Kadochnikov played the role of the legendary Alexei Maresyev, Pavel Petrovich stuffed his boots with hard spruce cones, walked like that all day, and once he had to literally pour blood out of his shoes.

After the release of the film "The Exploit of the Scout" during the banquet, Joseph Stalin himself called the actor a real Chekist and asked what he could do for him. Pavel Kadochnikov was not at a loss and asked to write these words on paper. Soon he received a letter on stamped paper, which read: “Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov, artist of the Lenfilm film studio, is being awarded the honorary title of Major of all branches of the USSR. Stalin. Voroshilov ". For many years the actor constantly carried this "security certificate" with him.

Never gave up

Fans in the literal sense of the word did not give him a pass. Naturally, there were those who tried in every possible way to attract attention, despite the fact that the actor had been married for many years to the actress Rosalia Kotovich, whom he had met in his student years.

This woman was the artist's real guardian angel. She tirelessly took care of her husband, created all the conditions for his creativity, protected him from those “friends” who did not know the measure of drinking alcohol. The couple raised their common son together, and for some time now the eldest son of the artist, who was born in Kadochnikov's first marriage with Tatyana Nikitina in his youth.

Pavel Petrovich was actually a unique person. For the sake of filming the film "Tiger Tamer", he mastered the performance of stunts on a motorcycle, believing that a real actor should be able to do everything himself and always be in good physical shape.

Pavel Kadochnikov throughout his life swam in the ice-hole in winter, while he did not limit himself to a simple dipping, but swam under the ice. There was a case when he dived deeply and swam too far from the hole, and after that he could not quickly navigate and got lost. The ability to concentrate quickly allowed him not to panic, but to gather his will into a fist and find the right direction, despite the onset of convulsions.

The actor's popularity was incredible, the audience idolized him, he received many state awards and bathed in popular love. But in an instant everything was cut off. One day, the actor received a call from the editorial office of one of the central newspapers and asked how he felt about reforming education.

Pavel Kadochnikov sincerely replied that he considered the reform to be a real nonsense and even asked what idiot was its author. The main "reformer" was Nikita Khrushchev, who, quite naturally, was given the words of the legendary artist almost literally. After that, the studios received an unspoken order not to film Pavel Petrovich.

The actor was so acutely worried about what had happened that he lost his voice. The doctor, whom Kadochnikov turned to, offered to carry out the operation, but at the same time warned him: after it, he would have to be silent for a whole year. The actor agreed. For 12 months, he kept his vow of silence, not allowing himself to say a single word. However, for the sake of the profession, he was ready and not for such sacrifices.

A year later, he was able to return to the profession, but the actor began to fully act in films after filming in Nikita Mikhalkov's film "An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano". In the future, Pavel Kadochnikov received many offers from directors, but did not accept everything.

Fate has repeatedly tested the actor for strength. He survived the tragic death of his youngest son Peter, who died as a result of a craniocerebral injury received when falling from a tree, three years later he buried his eldest son Constantine, who had a heart attack. Pavel Petrovich was saved from melancholy only by work, and even by the care and love of the faithful Rosalia Ivanovna. She was next to the actor until the very last minute of his life, which ended in 1988 due to heart failure.

They were very different, Pavel Kadochnikov and Rosalia Kotovich. Pavel's academic lag and Rosalia's Komsomol commitment to pick up an unsuccessful student united them. And then they played Lelya and Kupava in a student performance, writing the first page of their half-century-long story of happiness. They called him the Soviet Jean Mare, and he felt like the very Lel who found his Kupava.