Video: The reincarnation of Alexandra Yakovleva: why the star of "Crew" and "Sorcerers" left the cinema
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
July 2 marks 59 years Alexandra Yakovleva - the actress who played the main roles in the films "Crew", "Wizards" and "The Man from Boulevard des Capuchins" … At the peak of her fame, Yakovleva decided to leave the cinema and took up management activities. For what reasons did the all-Union favorite suddenly abandon her film career, and why now she does not like to remember her acting past?
The grandmother, who was involved in the upbringing of Alexandra, from childhood prepared her for the acting profession: the girl attended a music school and a choreographic studio, and after school she entered the theater institute in Leningrad. Her film debut cannot be called anything other than luck: by sheer coincidence, she auditioned for the role of flight attendant Tamara in A. Mitta's film The Crew.
Already approved for this role, E. Proklova unexpectedly refused, fearing for her career at the Moscow Art Theater, and the director decided to take a risk, replacing her with an inexperienced student. The success of the film was simply overwhelming, the whole Union fell in love with a 20-year-old beauty who dared to take on erotic scenes, which were very frank at that time.
On the eve of 1982, the next film, which became a classic of Soviet cinema, was released on the screens - "The Sorcerers". For a long time, director Bromberg did not manage to find a heroine who could equally well play both the sweet Alyonushka and the witch Alena Igorevna. When he saw Yakovleva, he said: "This witch will definitely play!"
Bromberg later recalled: “We tried many good and beautiful actresses for the role of Alena. Lena Tsyplakova was charming, but she lacked demonism. Abdulov offered Proklov, we saw lyricism in her, but still there was a lack of witchcraft. When the actress Alexandra Yakovleva appeared on the audition, she listened to me for about five minutes and said harshly: "Let me show it." And she began to audition quite confidently. I looked and thought: "Well, if not a witch, then the devil will definitely be here." And she was extraordinarily good, very similar to Nicole Kidman! Abdulov also liked Yakovleva. So their duet started playing. But with another partner, Valentin Gaft, who played Sataneev, Alexandra's relationship did not work out."
In 1993, at the peak of her fame, Alexander Yakovlev unexpectedly decides to leave the cinema. She explains this by the fact that in the 1990s. funding for film projects stopped, filming stopped, film studios were closed. “It was not me who quit the movie, we were all dumped in the 90s,” says the actress. In 1993, her grandmother died, and Yakovleva turned to the mayor of Kaliningrad for help in organizing the funeral. Subsequently, he invited her to take the post of vice-mayor responsible for culture and tourism. In this position, Yakovleva worked until 1997.
Her managerial career has been as fast and successful as her acting career. Yakovleva's track record is impressive: the head of the quality and personnel management service at the St. Petersburg airport "Pulkovo", deputy. Head of the Oktyabrskaya Railway for Quality Management and Marketing, Deputy. of the General Directorate of high-speed communication of JSC Russian Railways. In recent years, having returned to Kaliningrad, he is the head of the Prigorodnaya Railway Company and seriously intends to run for governor. “I am a completely different person now,” says Alexandra Yakovleva. - I remember that person as a complete stranger. This is not me, this is not my life."
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