Table of contents:
- Peasant surname and famous creative family
- First film roles
- Cranes are Flying
- The prototype of Uncle Stepa
- Ambiguous Gosh
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4 years ago, on June 15, 2017, the life of one of the most famous Soviet actors, the favorite of millions of spectators, the irresistible Gosha from the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears", People's Artist of the USSR Alexei Batalov ended. The first success came to him much earlier than filming in this film, after all, back in the late 1950s. they started talking about him in Cannes, and his name was known even before he started acting in films! For what the actor did not like his most famous hero, and why "Uncle Stepa" Mikhalkov looked like him like two drops of water - further in the review.
Peasant surname and famous creative family
In this family, everyone was extraordinary people, creative and talented. The ancestor of the acting dynasty was Alexei's uncle, Nikolai Batalov, who came from a peasant family, from the age of 17 he performed on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater under the leadership of Konstantin Stanislavsky. At the age of 19, he began acting in silent films, and the film "Mother" with his participation became the sixth in the list of the best films in world cinema. Almost 30 years later, his nephew, Alexei Batalov, played the same role in the film of the same name. At the age of 32, Nikolai played the main role in the first Soviet sound film "A Way to Life". His younger brother Vladimir, Alexei's father, also became a theater and film actor, but was better known as Stanislavsky's assistant and director-teacher of the Mosfilm film studio.
Alexey's mother, Nina Olshevskaya, the daughter of the chief forester of the Vladimir province and the Polish aristocrat, Countess Ponyatovskaya, was also Stanislavsky's student and performed on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, but in episodic roles and crowd scenes. Later she moved to the Theater of the Red Army, but even there they did not trust her the main roles. Her talent was revealed to a greater extent in directing and pedagogy: during the war in evacuation, Olshevskaya became the founder of the Bugulma Russian Theater, on the stage of which her son Alexei first appeared in front of the audience at the age of 14, and after returning to the Red Army Theater she taught acting skills to young artists. Anna Akhmatova was a close friend of Nina Olshevskaya, and she often visited their house, and at one time she even lived with them, and Alexei in childhood was sure that she was his “adoptive grandmother”.
Nina Olshevskaya's hometown was Vladimir, and later she moved to Moscow. Alexey Batalov said: "". Alexei's parents divorced when he was 5 years old, and his stepfather, writer-satirist, screenwriter and cartoonist Viktor Ardov, was involved in his upbringing. It was he who supported his stepson when he decided to risk his career at the Moscow Art Theater and write a letter of resignation due to the fact that he was invited to act at the Lenfilm film studio.
First film roles
The audience hardly remembered the first appearance of Alexei Batalov on the screens - it was an episode in a film about the partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, his name was not even mentioned in the credits. He got on the set at the age of 16 not thanks to famous relatives - once the employees of the film studio came to their class, and the main condition for filming in the cinema was not only artistry, but also good academic performance. Batalov immediately pulled himself up in his studies and got his first film role. Parents reacted to his debut with all the severity of professionals: "" After that, he did not act in films for 10 years.
Batalov entered the Moscow Art Theater School only the second time. Parents could petition for their son, but it was important for him to succeed on his own. At the age of 26, the actor got his first leading role in a movie in the film "Big Family" by Joseph Kheifits. This director became his godfather in cinema and later filmed him in his films "The Rumyantsev Case", "My Dear Man", "The Lady with the Dog", "The Day of Happiness", "In the City of S.". In those days, Kheifits saw in him what others did not see. Batalov said: "".
The film "The Lady with the Dog" was consulted by an elderly noblewoman who remembered the pre-revolutionary era. Seeing Batalov's gait, she said with displeasure: "". The annoyed actor tried to correct his gait, but nothing came of it. And when they arrived at the shooting in Yalta, an old boatman approached Batalov and said: "".
Cranes are Flying
Loud fame and recognition came to Batalova in the late 1950s, when he, together with Tatyana Samoilova, starred in the film "The Cranes Are Flying", which was awarded the main prize - "Palme d'Or" - at the Cannes Film Festival. Nobody knew that on the set of this film the actor was seriously injured: in one of the scenes he had to fall into the river during a fight. Batalov collapsed right on the tree trunks and branches sticking out of the water and severely injured his face. He was given several stitches, and he mentally said goodbye to the acting profession. Fortunately, the cuts healed quickly, and after a month Batalov was able to return to the set. And his film career took off after an international triumph.
The prototype of Uncle Stepa
The first wife of the actor was Irina Rotova, with whom they lived in the same yard and met at the age of 16. As soon as they came of age, they registered a marriage. But he did not last long - Batalov said that the mother-in-law was very unhappy with him and constantly told her daughter that the actor was a frivolous profession and not suitable for family life. But with his father-in-law, cartoonist Konstantin Rotov, Alexei has an excellent relationship.
Batalov admitted: "" The daughter of Irina Rota and Alexei Batalov Nadezhda said: "".
Ambiguous Gosh
Despite the incredible success in cinema and a large number of leading roles, most of the audience remembered Alexei Batalov as Gosha from the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears." His hero was adored, millions of spectators were looking for men like him. But the actor himself did not share these enthusiasm and so reasoned about his character: "".
His family life was not cloudless: What Alexey Batalov could not forgive himself until the end of his days.
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