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Video: How the role of Peter I played a cruel joke with actor Dmitry Zolotukhin: 30 years of oblivion for the best actor of the early 1980s
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
All-Union glory to this actor was brought by the role of Peter I in the dilogy "Youth of Peter" and "At the beginning of glorious deeds." Even if she remained the only one in his filmography, this would be enough to forever enter the history of Russian cinema, because Dmitry Zolotukhin was called one of the best performers of the role of Peter and was recognized as the best actor in 1981. However, this resounding success was short-lived: late 1980s he had to pause in his film career, which dragged on for 30 years. In his personal life, Fortune was also fickle: he became the first love of actress Marina Golub, but after parting with her, he remained lonely for many years.
Acting family
The most frequent question that was asked to this actor concerned his relationship with the famous actor Valery Zolotukhin. And Dmitry is already tired of talking about the fact that in fact they are not connected by any kind of family ties, because the actors are just namesakes. And he had blood ties with another artist - the actor of the Moscow Art Theater and the Maly Theater, the movie star of the 1960s-1970s, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Lev Zolotukhin, who was his father. Dmitry's mother also performed on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, but at the same time in his youth he did not dream at all to follow in the footsteps of his parents.
The actor admitted: "M." After graduating from an English school, Dmitry was going to enter the Institute of Asia and Africa to study oriental studies, but once his father said that they were ready to arrange an audition for Dmitry at the Moscow Art Theater. Without understanding why, he went there and successfully passed the entrance tests at the Moscow Art Theater School.
Fateful and fateful role
A year after completing his studies, Zolotukhin got a role that glorified him throughout the Union - the main character in Sergei Gerasimov's film "The Youth of Peter" and "At the Beginning of Glorious Things." This debut work brought him tremendous success: he was recognized as the best actor in 1981 according to the results of a poll among readers of the magazine "Soviet Screen" and received the State Prize of the RSFSR named after V. I. brothers Vasiliev. In the same image, Zolotukhin starred in the television series Young Russia. His Peter was woven from contradictions - bold and decisive, at the same time gentle and condescending - and at the same time looked solid in nature. The merit of the actor was considered not only the portrait resemblance to Peter, but also a believable portrayal of his character.
The actor said: "".
After that, the directors bombarded him with new proposals: Zolotukhin played the main roles in the films Vasily Buslaev, Come Free, Know Ours!, Lermontov, starred in the films Black Eyes and Youth of Bambi. Critics predicted a brilliant film career for him, but the image of Peter played not only a fateful, but also a fatal role in his life: in none of the following works did the actor manage to come even a hundredth part closer to the success of his debut film, moreover, getting into this image was so precise, vivid and convincing that both the directors and the audience simply refused to represent him in other roles. In addition, the start of his acting career fell on times of crisis for cinema, and soon Dmitry was left without work.
30 years of inactivity
In the late 1980s. Zolotukhin graduated from the directing department of VGIK and decided to try his hand at this profession. He explained his decision as follows: "".
His luck also turned away from him for several decades: after 1987 Dmitry Zolotukhin did not act in films for 30 years, his directorial work - the drama "Christians" and the musical film "Zone Lube" - were not very popular, and he began to doubt in the correctness of the chosen path. At the same time, he did not consider it possible for himself to knock the thresholds and remind of himself, because he did not suffer from lack of demand and admitted to himself that theater and cinema are not his vocation. He said: "".
40 years of solitude
Little is known about the actor's personal life - Zolotukhin rarely gives interviews and avoids these topics in them. It is only known that his first love was a classmate, actress Marina Golub, who was then also just beginning her career in the profession. Their relationship was serious, the couple even planned a wedding. But then Marina learned that she was expecting a child. At that time, she was not ready to become a mother - she was still a student, and the head of the course warned all the girls that without hesitation he would expel all those who, during their studies, decide to arrange their personal lives. In addition, Marina was afraid that a long pause at the very beginning of her career would ruin her acting career, and decided to terminate the pregnancy. Because of this, their relationship soured, and the young people broke up. Since then, the actor has never married again, has not talked about novels, he has no children.
Today Dmitry Zolotukhin works in the field of digital television, produces film and video production. In 2016, after a 30-year hiatus, he again appeared on the screens in an episode of the new version of The Crew, and 2 years later he starred in the military drama Invincible. However, this is where his film career ended - after 2018 he did not appear on the screens. Peter the Great set the bar so high for him that it turned out to be problematic to reach it again. Zolotukhin never found his place in the new cinema, which seems to him too far from the values that dominated it 30 years ago: "".
Her premature departure shocked many, including Dmitry Zolotukhin: Why relatives did not believe in the accidental death of Marina Golub.
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