Video: Art as ministry: 5 actors who returned to cinema after intending to retire to a convent
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The acting profession has never been considered a godly deed, because it would seem that it is absolutely impossible to reconcile faith and acting. Because of this, some actors left the cinema and devoted their lives to serving God. But there are those few among them who have tried to combine the incompatible. Not finding the strength to renounce worldly life forever, they returned to the stage and set. But only they did it not for the sake of fame, money, recognition and adoration of fans.
Probably, journalists did not write about anyone so much as about the actor Ivan Okhlobystin and his spiritual quest. His adherence to Orthodoxy became known back in the late 1990s, when he began to host the religious television program Canon. And in 2001, at the peak of his popularity in cinema, he was ordained a priest in the Tashkent diocese. However, his wife had a hard time enduring the local hot climate, and after 7 months of service, the family returned to Moscow, where Fr. John served in the church. At the same time, he hosted a religious radio show and directed the Lives of the Saints series of films. Although he never intended to go to a monastery, the intention to devote his life to God led to his refusal to act in films.
But in 2009, Fr. John turned to Patriarch Kirill with a request to release him from service "because of internal contradictions." Then he was sure that in a few years he would return to church, but so far this has not happened. Ivan Okhlobystin is actively acting in films. The actor explains his decision by the fact that he needs to take care of his big family - he has 2 sons and 4 daughters.
The theater and film actor, People's Artist of Russia, leading actor of the Bolshoi Drama Theater Valery Ivchenko, in whose filmography about 40 roles, was remembered by the audience for the films "From the Life of a Zemstvo Doctor", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Rock and Roll for Princesses" and on the TV series "Mole-2", "Brezhnev" and "House on the Embankment". He never hid the fact that he did not take cinema seriously. The theater remained in the first place for him, but even there he often refused roles if they contradicted his moral principles - so, from the role of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which many of his colleagues dream of, he refused because of the too bloody nature of the tragedy. Ivchenko does not like publicity and rarely communicates with journalists. “”, - he says.
In his youth he was a staunch member of the Komsomol and a party member, and in adulthood he came to faith. He even seriously thought about leaving for a monastery, but his confessor dissuaded him from this decision. In the theater, Valery Ivchenko pays primary attention to its educational, educational and moral functions. He says: "" When asked how he manages to combine faith and acting, Ivchenko replies: "".
A colleague and friend of Valery Ivchenko, the famous theater and film actor Alexei Petrenko, also came to faith long ago. In his filmography - more than 100 roles, harm them - legendary work in the films "The Tale of How Tsar Peter Got Married", "Marriage", "Cruel Romance", "Prisoner of the Castle If", "Idiot", "Doctor Zhivago", "12", etc. After 30 years, even during the Soviet era, he began to go to church, and in the late 1980s. decided to leave the acting profession and become a monk.
He was restrained from this step by an incident told to him by a friend who was about to leave for a monastery: "".
The famous actress Yekaterina Vasilyeva, known to the audience for the films "Straw Hat", "An Ordinary Miracle", "Magicians" and others, suffered from alcohol addiction for some time, and religion became a real salvation for her. In 1993, she decided to leave the profession, became a novice in the monastery of Yaroslavl, but did not dare to take monastic vows. The confessor dissuaded her from this: "".
Since the early 2000s. the actress again actively began acting in films and in TV series, but about each role she consults with her confessor and agrees to shoot only after she receives his blessing: "". According to Ekaterina Vasilyeva, only now she feels absolutely happy: "".
For many years, the audience's favorite Irina Muravyova has been talking about her desire to leave cinema and theater and go to a monastery. She said that she could not get rid of the feeling of emptiness inside until she found salvation in faith. After that, she found the meaning of life. Although her repertoire has long included only classical plays, the actress admits that she is ashamed of her profession: “”.
Some artists made a different choice and never returned to the profession: 7 Soviet actors who retired from cinema, linking their lives with religion.
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