The joys and sorrows of Marina Shimanskaya: How was the fate of Captain Lyuba from the film "Take care of women"

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

It seemed that everything in the life of this actress is going very well: successful admission to GITIS, then work in the famous "Snuffbox", filming. The charming Katrin in the film "Flying Hussar Squadron" and the serious Lyuba, the captain of the tugboat from the film "Take care of the women" became the actress's calling cards. But in the early 1990s, Marina Shimanskaya stopped going on the stage and acting in films. Where did the popular actress disappear and how is she living today?

At the beginning of the path

Marina Shimanskaya was born and raised in Saratov, from childhood she was fond of painting and even intended to become an artist. After graduating from school, for the company with a friend, she decided to audition at the Saratov Theater School, where she was enrolled. During her studies, she was seriously carried away by the profession, but soon with another friend she went to Moscow to enter GITIS. And again she did it with ease.

Already in her student years, she began to act in films, despite the ban of the head of the course, Oleg Tabakov. However, she was constantly in conflict with Oleg Pavlovich, over and without. Only many years later, the actress admits that the cause of conflicts and disagreements was most often her youthful maximalism and partly a lack of life experience. However, after graduating from GITIS, Oleg Tabakov invited the actress to his theater.

Everyone called her a beauty, an unearthly creature, and even compared her to a German doll. The actress was terribly annoyed by this, she wanted to be appreciated not by her external data, but by her professional qualities. She wanted to appear smart and independent.

Once Marina Shimanskaya was invited to audition, where she met a young actor Algis Arlauskas. Both of them very shortsightedly began to criticize the proposed scenario, as a result of which both were not approved for the role. But between the two actors, a romantic relationship began very quickly.

Happy marriage

They were both very similar and very different at the same time. Marina Shimanskaya's father is a Polish aristocrat who fell under the skating rink of Stalin's repressions and lost his family and first wife with a child. The mother of Algis Arlauskas is the Spaniard Carmen, who was brought up in the Soviet Union. She did not have the opportunity to return to Spain because of her convictions, but she sincerely believed that someday her son would fulfill her dream.

Marina and Algis a year later were already husband and wife. Marina did not change her surname in honor of her father, but in honor of her mother she named her daughter Olga, who was born in 1981. After another 9 years, a son, Alexander, was born in the family.

When Algis's mother died, he made a film in memory of her about children from Spain who, by the will of fate, ended up in the Soviet Union. The Spaniards then saw the work of Arlauskas and offered him to shoot a sequel. The result is the series "To Live and Die in Russia". Algis then went with his daughter to work in Bilbao, his mother's hometown. Marina and her son stayed in Moscow, worked in three theaters.

Later she had to take her son to her parents in Saratov. And one day the actress realized: this could not go on. She stood backstage in a crinoline and snow-white gloves, somewhere in Spain her husband and daughter missed her, and little Sasha was waiting in Saratov. The very next day Marina made the decision to leave to her husband in Spain. Because the home is where your loved ones and relatives are.

Second homeland

At first, Marina, and the whole family, was difficult. They lived in an old and damp house, inherited by the family from their own grandmother Algis. Marina heated the stove with coal until four in the morning so that the children could wake up in a warm room in the morning.

The husband was enthusiastically engaged in work, she - at home and children. The children grew up, and the spouses had their own business: they opened an acting school in Bilbao and began to teach students what they themselves could do best.

Daughter Olga, ironically, won a grant to study in Russia, left for Moscow, where she met her husband, gave birth to her daughter Anna and stayed forever in the capital of Russia. She and her husband Nikita Tikhonov-Rau shoot documentaries and feel like the right people. Son Alexander is not going to leave Spain yet, he studies here, meets a girl, plans his future life.

It seemed that the life of Marina Shimanskaya was happy, but after 35 years of marriage, her husband Algis Arlauskas left for another woman.

Life after love

Then it seemed to Marina: her world had collapsed. She had to learn to live with the thought that the loved one is no longer in her life. As there is no other woman whom she once called her friend.

Marina Mechislavovna tried to find solace in alcohol, fortunately, she realized in time the destructiveness of this path. Now she dreams only of how to finally find peace of mind and stop living this difficult situation again.

She and her husband maintain normal relations, because they have to intersect at work at the School, discuss the affairs of the children. But Marina Shimanskaya is still not easy to talk about parting with Algis.

However, the students to whom she teaches acting do not leave her time for depression. She will definitely be able to become happy again, it only takes a little time.

For the husband of Marina Shimanskaya Algis Arlauskas, the shooting became fateful in the comedy by Leonid Gaidai "Sportloto-82". The film was very popular and in the year of its release it became the highest grossing film: then it was watched by about 50 million viewers, although critics called the movie a failure. The young actors who played the main roles in the film: Svetlana Amanova, Denis Kmit and Algis Arlauskas, became incredibly popular.