Video: Anastasia Vertinskaya - 75: What was behind the scenes Assol and Gutiere
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
December 19 marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most beautiful Russian actresses, the star of Soviet cinema of the 1960s-1970s, People's Artist of the RSFSR Anastasia Vertinskaya. For more than 20 years, she has not appeared in films and rarely appears in public. The audience remembered her in the images of Assol and Gutiere, and she herself hated her heroines from "Scarlet Sails" and "Amphibian Man" and in life she was not at all the same as on the screens …
Probably, both talent and beauty were inherited by her: her father, Alexander Vertinsky, was a famous artist - poet, chansonnier and actor, her mother, Lydia Tsirgvava, acted in films and was engaged in painting. They gave their daughters Anastasia and Marianna an excellent education: the girls studied music, studied art and foreign languages in depth.
At the age of 17, incredible popularity fell upon Anastasia Vertinskaya - after the release of the films "Scarlet Sails" and "Amphibian Man", where she played the main roles. True, she absolutely did not understand the excitement around her person - she did not consider herself an actress and thought that she got on the set quite by accident, because she entered the Shchukin School already being the star of Scarlet Sails.
Later, she said that her Assol was not at all close to her - she herself was not a romantic heroine, she did not look for princes and did not believe in scarlet sails. Vertinskaya did not like her first roles - she said that they were akin to children's photographs: touching, but ridiculous! Until now, she feels annoyed when she is thanked for these roles: "". She named Ophelia her first serious role in the film "Hamlet", which she played at the age of 19. It was after this picture, which received a special prize of the Venice Festival, that Anastasia Vertinskaya began to be called abroad “Vivien Leigh of the Soviet screen”.
The early fame did not please her at all - after her too obsessive fans began to pursue her everywhere, the actress tried to avoid appearances in public. Years later, Vertinskaya confessed: "". She has not yet managed to overcome the fear of the crowd, so the actress really does not like to be in rooms where there are a lot of people.
Anastasia Vertinskaya continued to act in films until the 1980s, and then appeared on the screens less and less. In the late 1980s. she was invited to teach acting at Oxford. Knowledge of English helped her to cope with this task brilliantly. In addition, she taught at the Chekhov School in Paris and the European Film School in Switzerland.
In the late 1990s. she decided to leave the acting profession forever. Even her loved ones were shocked by this decision. Vertinskaya explained her choice as follows: "".
In 1991, Vertinskaya established and headed the Russian Actors Charity Fund, which provided assistance to poor and sick artists. Another passion was cooking - she helped her son Stepan Mikhalkov develop menus for his restaurants. And Anastasia calls the main business of her life work on restoring her father's creative heritage: she releases discs with his songs, publishes poems and memoirs, restores unknown recordings of Alexander Vertinsky.
The actress does not consider herself lonely: despite the fact that after marriages with Nikita Mikhalkov and Alexander Gradsky and a long relationship with Oleg Efremov, she never married, she considers her son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren to be her family. And he says that only one who has emptiness inside can feel like a lonely person.
Vertinskaya leads a secluded life that she has always dreamed of. And at the same time declares: "".
Anastasia Vertinskaya never regretted that her acting fate was not very successful - after a powerful start, there were practically no such bright roles in the future. But the actress does not see this as a tragedy. She says: "". It remains only to congratulate the actress on her anniversary and wish her to be in harmony with herself and remain in the same great shape, which she has not lost for many decades!
Even less is heard of her sister today. In the shadow of her sister and father: How was the fate of Marianna Vertinskaya.
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