Video: Minutes of glory and oblivion: through whose fault did the star of Soviet cinema Zinaida Kiriyenko disappear from the screens for a long time
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
July 9 marks 84 years of theater and film actress, singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR Zinaida Kirienko … Her creative takeoff was rapid: fame came to her after one of the first works - the role of Natalia, the wife of Grigory Melekhov, in "Quiet Don" … And the films "The Fate of a Man" and "Cossacks" consolidated their success. By the mid-1960s. Zinaida Kirienko has become one of the most famous and sought-after actresses. And suddenly suddenly disappeared from the screens. Only 10 years later, the actress was able to return to the cinema, although she did not speak about the reasons for the prolonged creative pause for many years.
Ida (as her parents called her) dreamed of becoming an actress from the age of five, so she had no doubts about her choice of profession. True, she entered VGIK the second time, but she got on the course to Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova, acquaintance with whom was fateful for her. When she was asked why she wants to become an actress, the girl answered without hesitation: “I want to be an actress in order to give my soul so that people will experience the same with my heroines as it was with me. And so that I help people with my participation, my stay in art."
Even in her first year, she got a role in the film "Hope". As it turned out, Gerasimov was eyeing the young actress, planning to invite her to a larger project - "Quiet Don". So Zinaida got the role of Natalia Melekhova. True, on the set there was a scandal: the day before, the sister persuaded the actress to dye her hair, and when the director saw Natalia Melekhova with dyed hair, he attacked Kirienko with shouts. The actress burst into tears and said in response that in this case she would no longer play a movie and would go home. Filming continued, and the director never raised his voice at her again. Zinaida was in love with Sergei Gerasimov, but he reined in her - in response to a declaration of love, he advised to be more restrained in feelings.
At the time of the end of VGIK, Zinaida Kirienko was already an all-Union famous actress with five main roles in her creative baggage. After "The Fate of a Man", "The Tale of Fiery Years", "Cossacks" fans followed her in droves. But fame and beauty played a cruel joke on her: once one of the high-ranking officials fell in love with her, whose last name she still does not name. The actress refused to become his mistress, and in retaliation for this he did everything to make the audience forget about Zinaida Kirienko for many years. For about 10 years she did not act in films.
The actress reacted to the forced downtime in a philosophical way, without tears, complaints and curses. This time she devoted to the theater, solo performances on stage (she had good vocal abilities) and her family. While filming the film "Cossacks" Zinaida met a guy from the crowd Valery Tarasevsky. At that time she was 27, and he was only 17, but nevertheless, two months after they met, they decided to get married and never parted again, until Tarasevsky's death in 2004. They had two sons who did not become to connect their destiny with the acting profession.
Kirienko was able to return to the screens only in 1974, when Evgeny Matveev ventured to invite the disgraced actress to the film "Earthly Love" for the role of Efrosinya. The return was triumphant, after 3 years she starred in the sequel to the film - "Destiny", this role was followed by others. She was again in demand and popular, but in the 1990s. a crisis broke out, and the actress was again unemployed. In 1996, she played in the film "Love in Russian-2", in 2002 - in "Letters to Elsa", then there were several more series, but she did not manage to reach the previous heights.
Post-Soviet cinema does not inspire her, she believes that earlier films “carried some kind of moral ideals, but now the screen is filled with bandits and confused people. Apparently, the time is now - freedom of conscience and freedom from conscience. Zinaida Kirienko has not acted in films for a long time, but the audience does not forget about her. The actress is a frequent guest on television and talk shows, leads a fairly active lifestyle and looks much younger than her years. She considers the secret of her beauty and youth that she never held grudges against anyone, did not chase after money, lived in love and harmony and did not exchange herself for casual relationships.
She considers herself happy - after all, everything she dreamed about has come true, and in real life she had to suffer much less than on the screen, because her fate, unlike movie heroines, was very successful.
Zinaida Kirienko is called one of the most beautiful Russian film actresses who drove men crazy with just one glance
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