Video: Forever young: 5 film idols of Soviet teenagers who died too early
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Everything in their life happened too early and too fast: the first success in the cinema, and the adoration of the audience, and the all-Union fame, and the sudden death at the peak of popularity. Perhaps they could have played dozens more roles, but they remained in the memory of the audience as young heroes of fairy tales and films for teenagers: Malchish-Plohish, Kolya Gerasimov, Kai, handsome from "Scarecrow" and Romka from "You Never Dreamed of".
Sergei Tikhonov managed to play only 3 roles in the cinema, but they were so bright that he immediately became a favorite of the public. His film debut took place at the age of 12 in the film "Business People". A year later, he consolidated his success by playing the Bad Boy in the film adaptation of the tale of Arkady Gaidar. The young actor was so charming that the audience remembered more than the goodies. In 1967, Tikhonov played his third role - a bully named Iron in the film "Dubravka".
It seemed that the young actor had a bright future and a successful film career. But after leaving school, he failed the exams at VGIK and went into the army. After the service, he did not go anywhere. They said that Tikhonov got in touch with bad company, got carried away with horse racing, constantly disappeared at the hippodrome and got into big debts. He was always very reckless, and this played a cruel joke with him. In April 1972, 21-year-old Sergei Tikhonov died after being run over by a tram. It was rumored that this was not an accident at all. Director of "The Tale of the Boy-Kibalchish" Evgeny Sherstobitov said: "".
Yan Puzyrevsky had everything to make a successful film career: outstanding talent, attractive appearance, success with the audience. By the age of 20, he had already played 15 movie roles. Yan graduated from the Shchukin School, worked at the Moscow Youth Theater and the Taganka Theater. He played his first major role in a movie at the age of 15, and his most striking work was the role of Kai in "Secrets of the Snow Queen". The actor married early, the couple had a son. But when the child was one and a half years old, the couple decided to divorce. Once, when Jan was visiting his son in his wife's apartment, he suddenly took him in his arms, jumped over the balcony railings and flew down. The wife only had time to hear that before the jump he shouted: "Forgive me, son!" The apartment was on the 12th floor, and only thanks to a happy coincidence, the child survived, clinging to the branches of a tree. 26-year-old Yan Puzyrevsky crashed to death. His acquaintances said that after what happened in the 1990s. idle in the cinema, the actor began to earn money at a construction site, became addicted to drinking and lost control over himself.
Alexey Fomkin's film career began with filming in Yeralash. At that time he was 13 years old, and after another 3 years incredible popularity suddenly fell upon him - after he played the role of Kolya Gerasimov in the film "Guest from the Future". After serving in the army in 1989, the actor was admitted to the Moscow Art Theater, but after 3 months he was fired for drunkenness and constant absenteeism. Fomkin got a job at a construction site as a painter, but he did not work there for a long time either - after alcohol addiction came drug addiction. Trying to get rid of her, he left Moscow for the village of Bezvodnoye, where his grandmother lived, then married and moved to Vladimir. But the alcohol problem continued. Once, after a noisy party on February 23, 1996, Alexei Fomkin fell asleep and did not notice that a fire had started in the apartment. Everyone managed to run out and escape, except for him. He was only 26 years old.
Dmitry Egorov, the son of actress Natalia Kustinskaya and diplomat Oleg Volkov, played only one role in the movie. After his parents divorced and his mother married cosmonaut Boris Yegorov, Dima became his adopted son. The audience remembered him for the role of Dima Somov in the movie "Scarecrow", where his partner on the set was Christina Orbakaite. In 1991 Egorov graduated from the Faculty of Economics of MGIMO and got married. The couple had a son, but he died a few months later. The wife began to drink, and after her Dmitry became addicted to alcohol. Soon they divorced, more and more often quarrels happened with their mother. In 2002, 32-year-old Yegorov went out for a walk and never returned. As indicated in the death certificate, he died of heart failure, but his mother claims that his temple was punctured.
Here comes life Nikita Mikhailovsky cut short the disease - he died of leukemia. He made his film debut at the age of 7, and his most stellar role - Romka in the film "You never dreamed of …" - played at 16. The actor married early, became a father at 22, continued to act in films. But in the fight against a terrible disease, the doctors were powerless, and the idol of the youth of the 1980s passed away at the age of 27.
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