No coincidences in the fate of Alla Budnitskaya: What events divided the life of the actress into "before" and "after"

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

She was called one of the most beautiful Soviet actresses. She starred in cult films ("Station for Two", "Garage", "Primorsky Boulevard", "Criminal Talent"), but all the laurels went to her colleagues, because all her life she played supporting roles. But even in them, Alla Budnitskaya was magnificent and created vivid memorable images. Having played about 80 roles, she continues to act in her 83 years today. But at the age of 25 it seemed to her that her life was over, because then an event happened that forever changed her fate.

Alla dreamed of becoming an actress since childhood, and the case helped her to establish herself in this decision: when she was in her senior class, she, along with other students, was invited to star in the extras of the film "Certificate of Maturity". The director found her face interesting, and he decided to shoot it in close-up. Alla took this as a sign of fate and decided to enter a theater university. Later, there will be many more such non-accidental accidents in her life.

The first attempt was unsuccessful: in two theatrical universities, where she applied, she was not accepted. Then Budnitskaya entered the Institute of Foreign Languages and studied there for 3 years, until another happy accident happened. Once, at the bus stop, a woman approached her, who turned out to be the wife of actor Anatoly Kuznetsov and a student of the directing department of VGIK, and said that the selection committee regretted their decision, that the teachers remembered the bright applicant and considered their refusal a mistake. She invited Alla to come to the entrance exams again. And she was accepted immediately after the first round of exams.

While still a student, she began acting in films and performing on the stage. In the first films, the episodes with her participation were so tiny that her name was not even mentioned in the credits. And when Budnitskaya graduated from VGIK and her acting career took off, an event happened that forever divided her life into "before" and "after". At the age of 25, the actress got into a car accident, experienced clinical death and underwent several operations. The most terrible consequence was that Alla was deprived of the opportunity to have children. After that, she decided to undergo a baptismal ceremony.

Then it seemed to her that her life was over. Even during her studies, Budnitskaya married a student of VGIK Alexander Orlov, but they did not have children. And she was afraid that her husband would leave her, having learned that they would never become parents. Then both did not suspect that fate was preparing for them one more "non-accidental accident."

Alla Budnitskaya possesses one valuable quality that is very rare in the acting competitive environment - the ability to be friends. Friendship has always been for her not a word, but an action, because the actress has always had close friends. One of them, actress Mikaela Drozdovskaya, invited her to become the godmother of her daughter Dasha. Once, when Michaela was leaving on a film expedition, she suddenly asked Alla to take care of her daughter if something happened to her. It was very cold in the house where Drozdovskaya lived during the filming, and she decided to turn on the heater for the night. Because of this, a fire broke out, and the actress died. Her daughter was then only 8 years old, she had a natural father, but he soon started a new family, and Dasha was uncomfortable in her. And then Alla Budnitskaya and her husband decided to take the girl with them and raised her like their own daughter. After school, Dasha graduated from the Shchukin School and also became an actress.

Budnitskaya's acting career cannot be called unsuccessful, but at the same time it can hardly be said that her talent was fully revealed in the cinema. She almost never got the main roles, although her husband was a director and periodically filmed his wife in his films. But the images of the second plan she turned out to be so bright that the audience remembered her even after a two-minute appearance on the screens. So, in the film "Station for Two", everyone probably paid attention to the spectacular TV presenter from the weather forecast, the wife of the protagonist, because of whom he was put on trial.

In the early 1990s. Alla Budnitskaya, like many of her colleagues, was left without work. I had to leave the theater, the movie was not filmed. And then the skills acquired in her youth came in handy. When she was in the 9th grade, her parents divorced, Alla and her mother moved to a communal apartment, their financial situation was very difficult. Then her mother started sewing to order. Her clients were many famous artists, her sisters Vertinsky dressed, she sewed a dress in which Alla Pugacheva performed at the Golden Orpheus. Alla watched her mother work and learned to sew and knit herself. And her father's sisters shared with her the secrets of Jewish cuisine.

In the 1990s. she had to remember everything she was taught in childhood: the actress sewed and knitted outfits to order, which she saw in fashion magazines. And later there was another "non-accidental accident" - a classmate invited her to open a restaurant. In an institution called "At Granny's" for 4, 5 years, Budnitskaya was listed as the general director, and in fact performed administrative and household duties, and even cooked food herself. Every morning at 7 o'clock she went to the market, chose food, went to a restaurant, cooked, trained the staff. This experience came in handy for Budnitskaya when she was invited to work on television, where she hosted the programs "From the Life of a Woman", "Culinary Tricks", "Home of Alla Budnitskaya".

Her knowledge of German and French languages, which she learned at the institute, also came in handy. When in the early 1990s. foreign directors began to come to Mosfilm in search of actors who knew foreign languages, it turned out that there were very few of them. Sergei Yursky and Alla Budnitskaya then received several offers and began filming abroad. And in the 2000s, the actress again began to appear in many domestic films and TV shows.

For more than 20 years, the actress has been living outside the city, coming to Moscow only for rehearsals and filming. They built a country house together with their friend Leah Akhedzhakova. They became friends during the filming of the movie "Garage" and for the summer, their families often rented a village house. And then they decided to start building their own house together. It took 4 years, but the house turned out to be large and cozy. Since the days of "Garage" they have been friends with Svetlana Nemolyaeva, and since then the actresses have been celebrating all the holidays together.

Fans do not get tired of being amazed that even in adulthood, Alla Budnitskaya looks no less impressive than in her youth, and retains amazing physical shape. The secret of her beauty is simple. "" - says the actress. And Alla Budnitskaya can be called a real beauty! Today the actress is sure: there are no accidents in life, and she called one of the chapters in her book "Tasty Memories" "Accident is fate." In her life, there really were many accidents, both happy and unfortunate, and they all taught her the main thing: not to resist circumstances, but to derive benefit and life experience from them.

Once Alla Budnitskaya was told that she would not have children, and fate gave her not only a daughter, but also grandchildren. And Daria inherited her talent equally from her own and from her godmother: The tragic fate of Mikaela Drozdovskaya.