Behind the scenes of the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet ": How did the fate of the actresses who played the main roles

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Since the release of the screens film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet …" 45 years have passed, but it still not only has not lost its popularity, but also became the basis for a remake in 2015. In the early 1970s. the young actresses who played the main roles in this film became known throughout the Union, but later they parted ways. About the fate of the actresses after filming - further in the review.

In 1969, the magazine Yunost published Boris Vasiliev's story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", two years later they staged a play based on it, and in 1972 the film of the same name by Stanislav Rostotsky was released. In the first year it was watched by 66 million viewers, who recognized it as one of the best films about the war. Perhaps one of the reasons for this success was the fact that the director himself went through the war. Once, after being wounded, the nurse Anya Chegunova carried him out of the battlefield, and the director has long matured the idea of making a film about a woman in war. In the role of anti-aircraft gunners, he deliberately approved debutantes, who are not yet known to a wide audience, and therefore make them believe in the veracity of their screen images.

The role of Rita Osyanina, the only heroine who managed to be married and give birth to a child, went to Irina Shevchuk. At that time, the actress was a student at VGIK, she was not yet familiar with the roles of his wife and mother in life, and her personal drama helped her play the tragic fate of the heroine: at that time she had a difficult relationship with actor Talgat Nigmatulin. But later she connected her life with the composer Alexander Afanasyev and almost 10 years after filming the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet …" gave birth to a daughter, who also became an actress. In the future, Irina Shevchuk continued her film career and took up social activities. She became the general director of the Kinoshock festival and vice-president of the Guild of Russian Cinema Actors.

The role of the bright beauty Zhenya Komelkova went to Olga Ostroumova. At that time, she already had the experience of filming, with Rostotsky, she starred in the film "We'll Live Until Monday." Her further destiny was very successful: she played about 90 roles in films, in 1993 she received the title of People's Artist of Russia, became a laureate of numerous prizes and awards. In 1996, after 23 years of marriage with director Mikhail Levitin, she married actor Valentin Gaft, their union is called one of the most harmonious in the acting environment, and Olga Ostroumova is still considered one of the most beautiful actresses in Russian cinema.

Elena Drapeko dreamed of the role of Zhenya Komelkova, but was approved for the role of Liza Brichkina. Since the director decided that she should be a girl from the Vologda hinterland, she learned to “okat” on the set so that she could not get rid of this habit for a long time later. In the future, her fate was associated not only with cinema, but also with politics: Elena Drapeko became a State Duma deputy and defended her Ph. D. thesis in sociology. She was a member of the board of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, a member of the council of the Women of St. Petersburg movement, chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Spiritual Heritage movement. She says about her heroine: "".

Many graduates of provincial theater schools auditioned for the role of anti-aircraft heroines, but out of thousands of applicants, only Irina Dolganova from Saratov was chosen. She played the role of Sonya Gurvich in the film, who was as modest, quiet and in love with literature as herself. The actress never dreamed of a film career, and after filming she linked her life with the theater and left Moscow, although she was offered to stay at the film studio. Gorky. Today she lives and works in Nizhny Novgorod, continuing to perform on the stage of the theater.

For the actress Ekaterina Markova, the role in this film was the first and almost became the last. The shooting of the film took place in conditions close to combat. The pyrotechnics did not calculate the power of the idle charge, and the actress's tunic was torn to shreds, and she flew off and hit her head. After filming the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet …" the actress worked for 12 years at the Sovremennik Theater, and then decided to drastically change her life, graduated from the Literary Institute and left the theater. Today she is better known as a writer and screenwriter. Almost all her life, Ekaterina Markova lived in a happy family union with actor Georgy Taratorkin.

According to the unanimous opinion of viewers and critics, the painting "The Dawns Here Are Quiet …" is included in 10 Soviet films about the Great Patriotic War that you need to show your children.