Exotic, absurd, cute, wayward: the most beautiful princesses of Soviet cinema

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

Probably, in our time, every little girl dreams of becoming a princess. Some actresses managed to realize this dream, albeit for a short time and only in the cinema, in those days when princesses could only be seen in fairy tales. The most beautiful princesses from Soviet films - further in the review.

Actress Ninel Myshkova often starred in fairy tales - her appearance perfectly matched the images of Russian folklore beauties. One of the most famous was her role as Ilmen the princess in the film "Sadko" in 1952.

The most exotic and sophisticated princess of Soviet cinema was Dodo Chogovadze, who played the main role - Princess Budur - in the film "Aladdin's Magic Lamp" in 1966. At that time she was only 14 years old, and she added a year when the director asked her about her age … After all, a year before that she had not been approved for the role of Bela in "A Hero of Our Time" due to the fact that the actress was only 13! But she coped with the role of Princess Budur brilliantly.

And one of the most beautiful princesses can be called the Swan Princess from "The Tale of Tsar Saltan". In 1966, this role became a film debut for the Bolshoi Ballet soloist Ksenia Ryabinkina, in the future - the mother of the actor Yevgeny Stychkin. Seeing her in this role, the famous Indian actor and director Raj Kapoor invited her to the lead role in his film "My Name is Clown". After the incredible popularity of the film in India, her photo was printed on souvenirs, and in the USSR she became restricted to travel abroad.

Irina Gubanova played an unusual role of the tomboy princess in 1966 in the film "The Snow Queen". This is one of the most wayward, but also the kindest film princesses - she helped Gerda in her search for Kai. And Marina Neyelova in the film "The Old, Old Tale" played two roles at once - the capricious princess and the meek daughter of the innkeeper.

The role of the absurd princess went to the St. Petersburg actress Liana Zhvania. In the film adaptation of S. Marshak's fairy tale "Twelve Months", her tyrant princess so convincingly demands to get snowdrops in January and deliver them to the palace that, despite more than 2 dozen roles played by the actress, the audience still associates her primarily with this way.

Alexander Abdulov once admitted in an interview that during the filming of the film "An Ordinary Miracle" all the men on the set were in love with the leading role, Evgenia Simonova. Her beauty cannot be called catchy, but the actress has created such an attractive and touching image that it is impossible to look away from this princess.

The most famous role in the cinema of the Soviet ballerina and actress Natalia Trubnikova was the role of Princess Melisenta in the film "June 31" in 1978. According to her, after this role she turned into a "screen test actress" - she was not approved for the role, assuming that she will soon go abroad. After the premiere, the film lay on the shelf for 7 years due to the fact that the performer of one of the main roles, dancer of the Bolshoi Theater Alexander Godunov asked for political asylum in the United States.

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