How were the fates of the beautiful actresses from the film "Pirates of the XX century": American model, rival Gundareva and professor

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

On March 29, Stanislav Govorukhin could have turned 85 years old, but 3 years ago he passed away. He was known not only as a filmmaker, but also as a screenwriter for films that have become iconic. First of all, this applies to the highest-grossing film of the 1980s, "Pirates of the Twentieth Century". He owed his success in many respects to the actors who played the main male roles - Nikolai Eremenko and Talgat Nigmatulin, but wonderful actresses about whom the audience practically knew nothing about. For some of them, "Pirates" became almost the only creative peak, after which they radically changed their profile of activities.

Dilorom Kambarova - Maa Islander

The film career of the exotic beauty, who played the role of the islander Maa in "Pirates of the XX century", the Uzbek actress Dilorom Kambarova, lasted only 20 years. She began acting in films at the age of 14. The director of the film "Without Fear" Ali Khamraev noticed her among the schoolgirls who were vacationing in the pioneer camp, and invited her to audition. He explained his choice as follows: "".

Already in his next film a year later, Khamraev entrusted the young debutante with the main role. He called her "the actress of one take", who knew how to instantly enter the image. After school, Kambarova decided to get an acting education, graduated from the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute and became an actress at the Uzbekfilm film studio. Later, Dilorom moved to Moscow and continued her studies at VGIK in the acting workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova.

On the set of "Pirates of the XX century" 22-year-old Dilorom got, while still a student at VGIK. By that time, she already had a pretty solid filmography - about 15 works, but most viewers remembered her in the image of the islander Maa, who helped Soviet sailors to deal with pirates.

After that, the actress starred in the films "Triptych", "Chance", "Dream Seller" and several supporting roles, but "Pirates of the XX century" remained her brightest and most famous film work. In 1985 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR. Kambarova continued to act in films until the early 1990s, but during the crisis she was left without work.

The actress was married to director Vladimir Khotinenko, their daughter Polina was born, but this marriage soon fell apart. By that time, Kambarova had managed to change her profile of activities and tried her hand at being a model. After a divorce from her husband, the actress decided to emigrate to the United States with her daughter. There she settled in Seattle and successfully continued her career as a fashion model. Now Kambarova is 63 years old, she still lives in America, but there is no information about how her professional and personal life has developed.

Natalia Horokhorina - Masha the barmaid

The role of the barmaid Masha went to Natalya Horokhorina, a 25-year-old graduate of the Schepkin Theater School. By that time, she had played 6 episodic roles in films, and the first resounding popularity was brought to her by "Pirates of the XX century". Filming in this film opened her way to big cinema and became the beginning of her successful film career, but at the same time ruined her personal life. The actress spoke about this only years later.

During her studies, Natalya married Viktor Koreshkov, a student at the Schepkinsky School. By the time she was filming for Pirates, she had been married for 3 years. As soon as the young beauty appeared on the set, Nikolay Eremenko, Talgat Nigmatulin, and other men from the film crew began to show her attentions. But she remained indifferent to their courtship - all her thoughts were about her husband, in separation from whom she was very bored. She was haunted by bad feelings, and in between filming, the actress rushed home. The wife was not at home, and when he came, he told her from the doorway that he had begun a relationship with his theater colleague Natalya Gundareva, and that he wanted to part with his wife. Later, the actress regretted that they so hastily made the decision to divorce, because his marriage with Gundareva was not happy and lasted only 2 years.

Returning to the shooting of "Pirates", the actress could hardly hold back her tears, but she did not tell any of her colleagues about her misfortune. She was so worried that she lost a lot of weight, and her heroine by the end of the film on the screens was simply unrecognizable. But she allowed herself to cry only when she was alone - the actress remembered the installation that the teacher gave her at the school for the rest of her life: "".

After the film was released, incredible popularity fell on the young actress - she was stopped in the streets, asked for an autograph. Other directors drew attention to Khorokhorin, in the 1980s. she starred a lot, but the main roles were not offered to her. When in the 1990s. there was no work either in the cinema or in the theater, Natalya starred in advertising, and in the 2000s. returned to the screens and to the theater stage.

Although she still did not get the main roles in the cinema, her acting career cannot be called unsuccessful, because in the filmography of the 66-year-old actress there are already more than 120 works! But her personal life was not so happy. For the second time, the actress married a surgeon, with whom she had been married for 12 years. They had a daughter, but when she was 10 years old, her parents divorced. Since then, the actress has never married.

Maya Eglite - ship librarian Aina

The role of the ship's librarian Aina, the beloved hero of Nikolai Eremenko, was played by 25-year-old Latvian actress Maya Eglite. She was born and raised in Riga, and by the time of filming she had graduated from the theater department of the Latvian State Conservatory and began performing on the stage of the State Theater for Young Spectators. At the age of 19, Maya began acting in films and a year before filming in "Pirates" she played one of her brightest film roles in the film "Theater". She married the actor of the Youth Theater Enrico Avots, and during the filming of "Pirates", ironically, just like Horohorina, she learned about her husband's infidelity, and their marriage broke up. The actress never married again.

Her acting career lasted only 13 years, her last role she played in 1986, after which she left the theater and changed her profile: for almost 15 years Eglite worked as an announcer on television. In the 1990s. She tried real estate business and later took up teaching - lecturing on healthy lifestyles and nutrition. She became the director of the Latvian Institute of Environment and Health and the chairman of the board of the Latvian Green Cross, and then - a professor at the Riga University. P. Stradynia.

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