Video: The Fading Star of Viktor Perevalov: How Ivanushka from "Marya the Master" became a loader
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On February 17, actor Viktor Perevalov would have turned 71, but for 10 years he has not been among the living. In his filmography there are more than 60 works, but most of the audience remembered him for the roles that he played as a teenager - in the films "Mary the Master", "Republic of ShKID", "I Loved You", "Old, Old Tale". It so happened that in his mature years he had to take a long pause in his film career, and when, in the early 2000s. he returned to the screens, he was destined to play only a few roles, after which he passed away under mysterious circumstances …
Viktor Perevalov was born in 1949 in Leningrad, his parents and older brothers miraculously survived the blockade, and his childhood fell on the hungry post-war years. No one in the family had anything to do with art, and Vitya himself got on the set quite by accident. Once, together with other first-graders, the teacher took him on an excursion to the Palace of Pioneers. The assistant director Vladimir Bychkov, who was looking for young actors for the short film "Tambu Lambu", just came there. His attention was immediately attracted by a funny 8-year-old boy with huge blue eyes, and he was approved for the lead role without audition. So Vitya Perevalov made his film debut.
After that, new proposals from directors came to him every year, and at the age of 10 Vitya became famous throughout the Union - he played Maryin's son Ivanushka in Alexander Row's movie fairy tale "Mary the Artisan". For the young actor, this role became a ticket to a big movie. In the same year, he starred in the film "Sombrero", in 1960-1961. came out pictures with his participation "Baltic Sky" and "Old Resident".
Vitya's classmates were in high esteem - he spent them without tickets for the morning screenings at the Iskra cinema, where all the supervisors knew him. But with the teachers it was more difficult. Due to the constant employment on the set, he missed school classes and fell behind in school. His mother had to quit her job and accompany her son on film expeditions. As a result, the teachers sounded the alarm and put the parents of the poor student with a choice: either cinema or school. For several years, the filming had to be paused.
However, all this time Vitya only dreamed of returning to the set - he simply could not imagine his future without an acting profession. And after the 8th grade, he himself went to the Lenfilm film studio to audition for the Republic of ShKID. In 1966, 3 films with his participation were released at once: "Long and Happy Life", "Land of Fathers" and "Republic of ShKID". His life was again spent in hotels, where he barely reached, falling off his feet from fatigue. His main trump card was a bright appearance: blond hair, wide eyes, a naive look, a disarming childish smile. He looked like an eternal child even when he grew up. At the age of 18, Perevalov played an eighth grader in the film "I Loved You", and the next year appeared on the screens in the image of the Prince-Chimney Sweep in the film "An Old, Old Tale".
After that, Victor served in the army, and then returned to the cinema. But for a grown-up boy with a teenager's face, there were fewer and fewer roles. Perevalov said: "". He was offered only episodes - inconspicuous militiamen, soldiers, laboratory assistants, drivers, etc. In the 1970s. His most striking roles were the main role in the film "Between Heaven and Earth" and a policeman in the detective story "Tavern on Pyatnitskaya".
In the early 1980s. Perevalov played in only four films, and in two of them his name was not even mentioned in the credits. And after 1982, there was a long pause in his film career. Due to his lack of demand, Passes began to drink. Later he said: "".
At that time, Perevalov already had a family, a daughter was growing up, and it was time to think not about his own film career, but about the well-being of loved ones. For 20 years, the actor took on any job - he was a loader in a liquor store, and a roofer, and an electrician in the subway, and then saved up for a car, took up a private driver, worked as a courier. Years later, Perevalov lamented: "".
Only in 2005, 56-year-old Viktor Perevalov managed to return to the set - director Igor Apasyan entrusted him with the main role, a village drunkard philosopher nicknamed Ecclesiastes in the tragicomedy "Graffiti". After that, the actor's life began to improve, he was again invited to act, they began to recognize again, but these gifts of fate turned out to be farewell.
For 5 years, Viktor Perevalov managed to star in 13 films. In the summer of 2010, he went to shoot in Moscow - and suddenly unexpectedly returned ahead of time. Then there was a strong heat, and the 61-year-old actor could hardly endure it. When I felt really bad, I decided to return home. On July 5, 2010, he had a heart attack and Perevalov died. His wife blamed the film crew for the incident - she did not understand why the actor was put on a train instead of being immediately sent to the hospital. And Perevalov's colleagues claimed that on the set he started drinking and insisted that he be given a return ticket. The circumstances of his departure are still unclear.
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