Table of contents:
- Tatiana Samoilova: a very deep inner world
- Ekaterina Savinova: how milk can drive you to madness
- Margarita Nazarova: tigers are dangerous even when they don't attack
- Valentina Serova: depression because of her tyrant husband
Video: 4 famous Soviet film actresses who ended up in a madhouse
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the Soviet Union, it was not allowed to discuss too much the personal life of actors and actresses - bad form. From newspapers and magazines, viewers mainly learned about the creative plans of their idols, a little about childhood and family. And no information about mental disorders in any way! But they happened to actresses in the same way as in any country in the world.
Tatiana Samoilova: a very deep inner world
Beautiful, demanded, famous - it seemed that Samoilova's life should be all right. However, the actress was prone to nervous breakdowns. They showed up in a very strange way. When Tatiana's brother was severely wounded - they stabbed his chest with a knife - and he was in the hospital, she fell into a stupor. When I came to my brother's room, I looked without blinking and clearly did not understand what was happening. I returned home - sat down and did not move for several hours.
The actress had to be placed in a psychiatric clinic, and later she returned there more than once again and again. Relatives suddenly discovered that Samoilova had withdrawn into herself, into some very distant country inside, and they had to take her back for treatment. They were ashamed of her illness and lied to others that Samoilova was treating either tuberculosis or its complications. The load on the set, troubles with men - anything became the cause of an attack, and there was no way to stop it, to cure it to the end. Nevertheless, the actress managed to build a career and lived for a long time.
Ekaterina Savinova: how milk can drive you to madness
A young, charming graduate of VGIK with a slightly non-standard beauty, Ekaterina Savinova first drew attention to herself in the film "Kuban Cossacks" directed by Pyryev. Alas, Pyryev was known for harassing young actresses and for those who did not lie under him, he wrote out a "wolf ticket". He was famous and very influential, so he ruined other people's careers and lives easily, in passing, out of petty vindictiveness - and after all, such a famous director could spin novels left and right without coercion. Apparently, he did not like it - without coercion. I liked to feel the power or even my own villainy.
For a long time Savinova toiled, practically put out of the profession, and was interrupted by tiny episodes. Finally, her husband, film director Yevgeny Tashkov, decided to fix the matter, and on purpose for Ekaterina he created first the script, and then the film "Come tomorrow …", where Savinova played a young singer named Frosya Burlakova. The shooting was difficult. Moscow was not allowed to film; the whole film crew had to go to Odessa. They tried to ban the film itself, allegedly because of Savinova's mediocrity.
After the film, the love of the people and glory came to Catherine, but this did not affect her career. She continued to be blacklisted. The deterioration in health also affected: the actress drank raw milk before filming and fell ill with brucellosis. Schizophrenia became a complication of an already serious illness. In the end, the exhausted Savinova threw herself under the train.
Perhaps Elena Mayorova also committed suicide (“You never dreamed of”, “Lonely hostels are provided”). In general, she talked a lot about suicide during her lifetime - most likely, the actress suffered from chronic depression. Her death was more than strange: the dress caught fire. It seemed to many that it was an act of self-immolation. These thoughts were suggested by Mayorova's behavior shortly before her death.
Margarita Nazarova: tigers are dangerous even when they don't attack
Strictly speaking, Margarita was a tiger tamer, but they asked for autographs on the streets like the star of the movie "Striped Flight". They were also called by the name of the heroine: Marianne. This was not the first experience of filming Nazarova in a movie. In the film "Tiger Tamer" she was an understudy for Lyudmila Kasatkina, an understudy for another actress and acted in the film "Dangerous Trails".
Margarita's favorite, the kindest tiger Pursh, cut open and injured her with his paw - tore the temporal artery; he, like any cat, was clearly trying to pick up a bow. With this bow, Margarita covered the scar left by the awkward movement of the paw of another tigress, Rada. Nazarova's life was saved, but as a complication from the injury, the actress developed constant headaches and obsessive states began to develop. In addition, the death of her husband led to a nervous breakdown. Nevertheless, Nazarova lived to a ripe old age.
Injuries and nervous breakdown were not the only test in Nazarova's life. During the war, she was hijacked to Germany and, realizing that she could sing and dance, was assigned to work in a cabaret. When Soviet soldiers burst into the cabaret in 1945, Nazarova shouted loudly from the stage: "Guys, I'm Russian!" She was sure that otherwise she would have been shot - she heard how one of the soldiers, in jest or in all seriousness, suggested it.
Valentina Serova: depression because of her tyrant husband
The star of the films "Girl with Character" and "Hearts of Four" suffered from chronic depression, which was only aggravated by alcoholism. Most likely, the depression was basically organic, but, without a doubt, the severity of the condition was seriously influenced by the death of her beloved husband and the despotic nature of her second husband, Konstantin Simonov. He not only did not let Serova leave the family with a man whom she dearly fell in love with - his namesake Marshal Rokossovsky, but literally forced her to send her teenage son to a boarding school away. Naturally, when Serova's depression and alcoholism intensified because of this, Simonov left her.
In old age, Valentina was very supported by Rimma Markova. Valentina practically did not work, having lost her place in the theater and unclaimed in the cinema, she was very untidy, but kind and shy. She died under unclear circumstances, and everything of value was taken out of her apartment.
Other Soviet actis also suffered from a combination of alcoholism and depression, for example, Tatyana Dogileva, Izolda Izvitskaya and Kunna Ignatova, and, according to some reports, they were literally accustomed to alcohol by their beloved men - perhaps out of envy. Each of them was in a relationship with lesser known actors.
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