How "The Meeting Place" That "Can't Be Changed" Changed the Fates of Film Actresses

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

2 years ago, on June 14, 2018, the famous actor and director Stanislav Govorukhin passed away. One of his most famous works was the legendary film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed". Of course, Vladimir Vysotsky, Vladimir Konkin and Alexander Belyavsky became its main stars. In addition, Sergey Yursky, Zinovy Gerdt, Viktor Pavlov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Leonid Kuravlev starred in it. The director put together such a brilliant male cast in the film that the female characters were somehow lost against their background. But in this film the first beauties of Soviet cinema were filmed, whose fates could become a plot for another film …

Varya Sinichkina - Natalia Danilova

The role of the beloved Volodya Sharapov went to the young actress Natalia Danilova. She acted in films from the age of 13, but before "The Meeting Place" she had no bright roles. By that time, she managed to graduate from LGITMiK and began performing on the stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. M. Gorky. If the director decided on the performers of the main male roles quickly enough, the situation with the female characters was more complicated. 12 actresses were cast for the role of Sergeant Sinichkina. Vysotsky persuaded Govorukhin to give this role to Marina Vlady, but the artistic council was categorically against her candidacy - the girlfriend of a valiant fighter against bandits should have been played not by a foreigner, but by a Soviet citizen with an impeccable reputation. The choice fell on Natalia Danilova.

Filming in the film was not easy for her, because not long before that, the actress experienced a personal tragedy. Due to the misdiagnosis, the doctors prescribed her a course of treatment with hormonal drugs. The actress was pregnant, and the hormones damaged the baby's health, which caused the pregnancy to be terminated. After that, Danilova could no longer have children. And in the film there was an episode where her heroine adopts a foundling. The actress could not hold back tears at the sight of the baby, and the shooting had to be stopped. Vysotsky helped Danilova to cope with the emotions that washed over her, to whom she told about her drama.

The role of Vary Sinichkina brought the young actress all-Union popularity, in honor of her heroine, mothers named their daughters. After that Danilova starred a lot, but "Meeting Place" remained the pinnacle of her film career. In the 1990s. she was left without work, and at that time she even had to hand over things to a thrift shop in order to survive. Only in the early 2000s, she was able to return to the profession.

Verka-milliner - Lyudmila Davydova

The role of the mistress of the "raspberry" in Maryina Roshcha Verka the milliner went to Lyudmila Davydova (nee Shlyakhtur). She began acting in films while still studying at VGIK, and by the time of filming with Govorukhin she was already a famous actress - her popularity was brought to her by the role of Natalia in the television series of her husband, film director Valery Uskov "Shadows disappear at noon". And “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” was another of her creative victories.

The actress got married 4 times, but all her marriages broke up and brought her some disappointments, and in none of them she managed to become a mother, which is why Davydova often fell into depression. Her creative destiny, too, could not be called happy - the success achieved in her youth, she did not manage to repeat in the future. The actress continued to act in films until the late 1980s, but she was not offered leading roles.

In the 1990s.she admitted to herself that she would never be able to realize herself either as an actress or as a mother. Because of this, her mental health deteriorated, and Davydova was forced to turn to specialists and undergo treatment in a psychiatric clinic. Obviously, they could not help her there - after being discharged, she closed in on herself and stopped communicating with everyone. It seemed to her that only a lonely old age could await her ahead. December 25, 1996 57-year-old actress killed herself.

Svetlana Volokushina - Ekaterina Gradova

The role of the charming swindler, the friend of the "runner" Svetlana Volokushina was played by Ekaterina Gradova, an actress who had been recognized by the entire Union 6 years earlier in the form of radio operator Kat from "Seventeen Moments of Spring". She was also known as the wife of Andrei Mironov, in marriage with whom they had a daughter, Maria, who continued the acting dynasty.

The actress herself did not have a high opinion of her work in the film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" - she stated that she did not like this role very much and did not even remember the name of her heroine. This film was the last in the film career of the 33-year-old actress. Soon after filming, she decided to drastically change her life and leave the acting profession forever. After a serious illness, the actress found solace in religion. Gradova took a course at the St. Tikhon Theological Institute and began teaching Bible classes in grammar schools and schools, as well as lessons in a film club at the All-Russian Children's Orthodox Movement.

Claudia - Valeria Zaklunnaya

The mistress of the leader of the Humpbacked gang - Claudia - was played by Valeria Zaklunnaya. Her parents were from Ukraine and Valeria grew up in Kiev. She did not come to the acting profession right away - at first the girl worked as a draftsman-designer at an enterprise at the Kiev Research Institute "Quant". But once the teacher of the theater studio, in which Valeria studied, advised her to come to a review organized by the commission of the Moscow Moscow Art Theater School, and the girl was recommended to enter a theater university.

After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, Zaklunnaya returned to Kiev, where she performed on the stage of the Academic Russian Drama Theater. Lesia Ukrainka. In the late 1960s. she began acting in films, and in the 1970s. played all her most famous roles - these were the films "Sibiryachka", "Earthly Love", "Late Berry", "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed." Govorukhin lured her into his film fraudulently, promising the main role. But when she read the script, she saw only a few lines of her character. The director was not taken aback: "". The actress continued to act until the 1990s. She was married three times, but she had no children. In 2016, Valeria Zaklunnaya passed away at the age of 74.

Anna Dyachkova - Tatiana Tkach

Fox's girlfriend Anna Dyakova was played by Tatiana Tkach. At that time she was 35 years old, and she was a real movie star - millions of viewers remembered her in the image of Zukhra, the beloved wife of Abdullah from "White Sun of the Desert". She was then promised a big role, and although in the end she was reduced to a minimum, this work brought her all-Union fame.

After the role of Fox's friend, the queen of the underworld, a spectacular domineering woman, she was often offered similar images - adventurers and criminals, but with age she managed to try herself in diverse roles. Tatiana Tkach's acting career was very successful - she played more than 70 roles in films and received the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. And today she still remains a sought-after actress. Tatyana Tkach was married twice and gave birth to two children.

Larisa Udovichenko in this film wanted to play the role of the policeman Vary Sinichkina, but later she herself gave up this image: What Larisa Udovichenko tries not to remember.