Video: Life as an eccentric tragicomedy: the "non-Soviet" face of Lyubov Polishchuk
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
May 21 would have turned 67 years of the most talented actress Lyubov Polishchuk, but for 10 years now she has not been among the living. Despite her outstanding acting skills and striking appearance, for many years she was on the black lists among those who could not be filmed in the main roles. Why did Lyubov Polishchuk fall out of favor and why was she unable to fully realize her creative potential?
Lyubov Polishchuk was born in Omsk, her father was a builder on the railway, her mother was a seamstress. As a child, she dreamed of a stage, but in a different role - a ballerina, not an actress. Therefore, from an early age, she was actively involved in dance and music. After leaving school, Lyuba set off to conquer the capital. In GITIS and the school. She did not enter Shchukin, but she was admitted to the All-Russian creative workshop of pop art at the vocal department. After graduation, she and her husband Valery Makarov left for Omsk and for some time acted as an artist of the spoken genre, and later began working in the theater.
In the 1970s, Lyubov Polishchuk began acting in films in episodic roles. Kinotriumph of the actress took place in 1976, in the film "Twelve Chairs" by M. Zakharov. This role became both iconic and fatal for her: it was after this film that all-Union popularity came to her, but during the filming she received a serious spinal injury. When the hero of Andrei Mironov in the dance "dropped" the heroine, she fell on the cement floor - the props forgot to put mats on the floor. Tango was removed only from the 14th take. After these filming, the back pain became permanent.
The iron will and strong character, which helped her to cope with the disease and work further, played a cruel joke in her creative career. As a result of disagreements with the leadership of "Mosfilm", the actress was not invited to the main roles, until the end of the 1980s. The wording of one of the officials involved in her disgrace sounded both as a sentence and as a compliment at the same time: "a non-Soviet person." Very often Polishchuk was called "Soviet Sophia Loren".
Lyubov Polishchuk's acting talent was fully revealed in comedic roles, it was in this role that she was remembered by millions of viewers. She played in 89 films, including Babylon XX, The Mystery of the Blackbirds, Sorry If You Can, Intergirl, Womanizer, My Sailor and others.
The son of the actress Alexei Makarov says: “She was not absolutely happy - I know that for sure. Mom all her life was very worried due to the fact that she was extremely little in demand in the cinema. In my deep conviction, as an actress with fantastic potential and talents in the cinema, she realized a maximum of fifteen percent. By and large, she has always been called the episode actress. This is very insulting … If her life was transferred to film, it would turn out to be an eccentric tragicomedy. Mom, with all her Sophiloren's appearance, was not afraid to be a clown, she was not afraid to play characteristic, ridiculous, funny roles, for which the audience fell in love with her."
A malignant tumor of the spine became the reason for her premature leaving. Her last film was the TV series My Fair Nanny, in which she played one of the main roles. At that time, she had to work in a corset that supported the spine, overcoming severe pain. The news of the deadly illness of the actress shocked everyone. The media actively discussed the version according to which the unfortunate injury during the filming of "The Twelve Chairs" became the cause of sarcoma. However, after that, Polishchuk injured her spine again, having got into an accident in 2000. Anyway, at the 58th year, the actress's life was cut short.
Lyubov Polishchuk was one of the most beautiful and extravagant women in Soviet cinema and was certainly one of the 25 Russian theater and film actresses who drove men crazy with just one look
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