Video: Zhanna Bolotova - 78: What is sad about the heroine of a bygone era, to whom Bulat Okudzhava dedicated songs
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
October 19 marks the 78th anniversary of the star of Soviet cinema of the 1960-1970s, People's Artist of the RSFSR Zhanna Bolotova. She has not appeared on screens for a long time - back in the 1980s. the actress decided to leave the cinema. The times when fans lost their heads from her, and Bulat Okudzhava dedicated his songs to her, remained for her in the distant past. As well as that happy era, with which she was never able to say goodbye …
She was often asked whether she had ancestors among the nobles - the aristocratic refined features of Zhanna Bolotova suggested that she was a heroine of another era. In fact, her ancestors were from peasants, and she herself grew up in Siberia. Later, her family moved to Moscow. Probably, Jeanne's aristocratic manners appeared as a result of upbringing - her father was a military man, a Hero of the Soviet Union, who after the war became a diplomat. Zhanna got to the set quite by accident - just once on the street she ran into a crowd of people who wanted to star in the extras of Sergei Gerasimov's film. The director's assistant drew attention to the 15-year-old beauty and offered her a role in another film - "The House I Live In". When she first saw herself on the screens, she was terribly worried: "" And only 30 years later, when she again watched this film, she suddenly thought: "" True, this time this girl already seemed completely alien to her.
When Bolotova entered VGIK, she was already a movie star - her first film was watched by 27 million viewers. Sergei Gerasimov, in whose course she was enrolled, said that he was ready to consider her debut role as the first round of exams. But the girl did not have star fever - among so many beautiful students, she seemed to herself the most ordinary. But the directors did not think so and bombarded the actress with new proposals. Her classmate Nikolai Gubenko was also fascinated by the young beauty. True, he did not manage to achieve her location right away - Zhanna married the artist Nikolai Dvigubsky. But this marriage broke up a year later, and Gubenko realized that this time he could not miss his happiness. After 7 years of civil marriage, they signed and never parted again.
Zhanna Bolotova has always had many fans. One of them was Bulat Okudzhava. He was already 36 years old, he had a wife and a son, the whole country sang his songs, and he lost his head from a freshman student. Zhanna did not reciprocate to him, but thanks to this unrequited love 4 wonderful songs were born: "Old jacket", "On the Smolensk road", "Oh, what amazing nights!.." ("On duty in April"), "Little woman".
These lines were full of tenderness and sadness:
Nikolai Gubenko said more than once: "". He became a director, filmed his wife in almost all of his films, was the last Minister of Culture of the USSR. But for him and for his wife, the family always remained in the first place. Zhanna Bolotova admits: "".
The actress has shone on screens for 30 years. But in the 1980s. Zhanna Bolotova decided to leave the cinema. She continued to receive offers from directors, but she said that she did not like the scripts and the quality of the proposed films. In addition, the actress did not want the audience to see her aging: "".
Today the actress lives away from the hustle and bustle, in a country house. She does not attend social events and rarely agrees to interviews. Zhanna Bolotova explains this by the fact that she has long been out of the profession and is unlikely to be able to maintain a dialogue about cinema. "", - the actress admits.
Her husband, the director, hasn't made new films for over 20 years either. Both admit that they still remain Soviet people and have never been able to come to terms with the new era. Just as in her youth Bolotova looked like a heroine of the 19th century, she still feels like a person of the past century. "" - says the actress.
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