Alexander Orlov and Alla Budnitskaya: The uneasy happiness of a director and an actress who knows how to knit blouses and run a restaurant

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

Alla Budnitskaya and Alexander Orlov have been together for almost 60 years. She is open and open to communication, she can talk for hours about her family and spouse. He is shy, reserved and very reticent. There were joys and sorrows in their lives, but Alla Zinovievna and Alexander Sergeevich coped with all the trials destined for them with honor, and managed to preserve the most important thing in life: the warmth of their feelings and home.

Their personal virgin soil raised

Alla Budnitskaya dreamed of becoming an actress since childhood. Even when her grandmother told her that her appearance was completely unartistic, the girl did not hang her nose, answering that she would definitely fit for the role of Baba Yaga. By the end of school, the ugly duckling turned into a beautiful swan, and Alla went to enroll in VGIK. The failure upset her very much, but the girl decided not to waste time, and immediately successfully passed the exams in foreign languages.

In her third year, she accidentally met on the street Alya Lyapidevskaya, a student of the directing department of VGIK. She told Budnitskaya that the teachers extremely regret her failure in the exams. And Allochka again rushed towards her dream. And this time she became a student at VGIK, getting on the course of Grigory Kozintsev.

The pretty student was invariably popular with men, and she also liked the boy from the camera department. Alla made friends with classmate Sasha Orlov and even entrusted her heartfelt secrets to him.

And then they were sent to the virgin lands as part of a student construction brigade, to the front line of the battle for the harvest. During the day they worked in the field almost to exhaustion, and in the evening they first drove through the surrounding villages with concerts, and then went to a village club to watch a movie they had brought.

Allochka in an impromptu cinema was sitting next to Sasha, they wrapped themselves in quilted jackets and presented themselves at the Kansk Film Festival. She is Simone Signoret and he is Yves Montand. So, in the quiet of rural romance, their love was born. In the third year, Alla Budnitskaya and Alexander Orlov became husband and wife.

Broken hopes

He then only tried himself in directing, but never appointed Alla to the role just because she was his wife. She could get a role in his picture if he was sure that she was suitable for the role. Alla knew this and herself did not ask him for roles.

They were young and in a hurry to live. They changed three communal apartments before being able to buy a cooperative apartment with the help of the actress's dad. Yet they rejoiced in their happiness. They dreamed of having children in their house. And then Alla got into a terrible car accident, suffered clinical death, then several operations. And forever lost the opportunity to have children.

Then it seemed to her that life had already ended. She thought that her beloved Sasha would not be able to live in a family without kids, because he loved them so much. But Orlov did not even think about leaving his wife.

Daughter Dasha

Alla Budnitskaya has a special gift. She knows how to be friends. She does not have many friends, but they are all loyal, reliable and sincere. One of her friends was Mikaela Drozdovskaya. Alla Zinovievna became the godmother of her youngest daughter Daria. The baby called Alla mom and loved her very much.

Shortly before Mikaela left for the shooting in Ordzhonikidze, a friend suddenly asked not to leave Dasha, if suddenly something happened to her. At that moment, Alla just waved her hand at her friend: why suddenly such thoughts. And a couple of months later, Mikaela Drozdovskaya died after a fire that happened in the hotel where she lived.

At first, Nika and Dasha, the daughters of the deceased actress, lived with her dad, cardiologist Vadim Smolensky. But when he married a second time, the girls' relationship with their second wife did not work out. Dasha asked her mother to take her to her. And Alla took Daria with the consent of her father. Nika went to live with another mother's friend.

So Vera and Sasha had a daughter, and later she gave them grandchildren - Sasha and Dasha. Daria Drozdovskaya is very fond of her adoptive parents and says that as a result of the tragedy, she pulled out her lucky ticket.

In sorrow and in joy

Colleagues and friends of Alla Budnitskaya and Alexander Orlova characterize their marriage as ideal. Alla Zinovievna herself believes: there are no ideal and cloudless relationships. The main thing in any quarrel is not to deepen it, but to find the necessary compromise. She gladly talks about her family, about the books that she and Sasha read, about their life and home.

Alexander Sergeevich does not like to talk about his wife. Once during an interview, he said: “How can you talk about who is a part of yourself. It is not modest . And left.

There was something to tell. In the difficult 90s, when the cinema was not filmed at all, many artists lost their jobs, and with it the meaning in life. Alla did not give up. At first, she knitted women's blouses, which friends sold in Paris for $ 100, unthinkable at that time.

Later, Alla's friend and classmate suggested that she make a restaurant. And she became the general director of the Grandmother's restaurant. She just created it from scratch. I thought over the design, ordered furniture, taught the cooks myself and stood at the stove.

The restaurant enjoyed unprecedented popularity among the stars, and it was impossible to get there without an appointment. This work not only helped the whole family survive, but also contributed to Alla's return to the screens as a TV presenter.

At the restaurant, Alla Zinovievna was noticed and invited to broadcast on television. She gladly returned to the profession.

Alla Budnitskaya believes that a woman's strength lies not in her weakness, but in her strength. And also - in a smile. It is impossible to live with a person who is always dissatisfied. She always looks great and always smiles. Even when it's hard.

When asked about the secret of family happiness, she replies that she was just lucky with her husband and character.

The best friend of Alla Budnitskaya is Liya Akhedzhakova, with whom they built one house for two. And in this house I also found my happiness.