The zigzags of Tatyana Drubich's fate: Why is the movie star of the 1980s. disappeared from screens

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

Her entire film career is a chain of happy accidents and fateful coincidences. She herself never dreamed of an acting career, and even after becoming one of the most popular movie stars of the 1980s thanks to director Sergei Solovyov, she still did not consider herself an actress. Her takeoff was rapid, and then just as suddenly she disappeared from the screens. What one of the most mysterious Russian actresses is doing today, and what she calls the main business of her life - further in the review.

It seems that no one knows practically anything about her, except for herself. Even about her age, there were different versions: for a long time, different sources indicated that she was born in 1959, until the actress herself admitted that in fact her year of birth was 1960. But even knowing the exact date, looking at Tatyana Drubich, it is very difficult to believe that this year she will celebrate her 60th birthday.

For the first time, Tatyana Drubich got on the set at the age of 11 - she got one of the roles in Inna Tumanyan's film "Fifteenth Spring". And 2 years later, a fateful meeting took place, which determined the whole future life of Tatyana: director Sergei Soloviev chose her from hundreds of other schoolgirls for the main role in his film “One Hundred Days After Childhood”. True, at first she did not make any impression on him: the girl sat in the corner, not interested in what was happening, and then directly stated that she was not eager to act in films. However, the entire film crew liked it exactly, and the director succumbed to persuasion.

And on the set there was some kind of magic that none of them could explain. Later Soloviev said: "". Soloviev considered her main talent to be the absence of falsehood, which compensated for the lack of acting experience and education. And this feature of the young actress was appreciated by both viewers and critics. For this work, Tatiana Drubich was awarded the Silver Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

Since then, it was simply impossible to imagine Solovyov's films without Drubich. Nevertheless, she herself continued to doubt the choice of the further path: "". Tatiana graduated from the Medical Dental Institute named after V. I. N. Semashko and became an endocrinologist. For several years she worked in a Moscow polyclinic, but at the same time she continued to act in films, and not only with Solovyov.

When they met, she was 13 years old, and he was 28, he was married and raised a son. But very soon the director realized that this girl had become more than a muse for him. After 9 years they got married, but this marriage lasted only 6 years. But their cinematic novel lasted almost all his life - the connection that Solovyov felt during the filming of their first joint film turned out to be even more lasting than love. Later, Tatyana admitted that her husband had a huge impact on her formation, not only as an actress, but also as a person - she saw a lot in life through his eyes.

Their daughter Anna claims that the parents divorced, but in fact they never parted: "".

In raising their daughter, both Drubich and Soloviev adhered to the main principle: not to set global tasks for her and to provide freedom of choice. Anna Solovyova graduated from the Higher School of Music in Munich and became a composer. She has written music for several of her father's films. In 2013Anna moved to America, where she continues to write music for films. Later, Tatyana Drubich had another daughter, Maria. The actress never called her father's name.

1987 became a landmark for Tatiana Drubich. At that time, Soloviev was still her husband and persuaded his wife to play the main role in his film "Assa", and although she agreed, she could not think about anything else on the set, except that because of this she missed appointments at the clinic, and was very afraid that she would be fired. In the same year, along with Assa, Stanislav Govorukhin filmed a detective story based on the work of Agatha Christie on the Crimean coast, which was later called the first Soviet thriller, and Drubich also played one of the main roles there. These two works brought her incredible popularity, and the film "Assa" became a cult film for young people in the late 1980s.

But even after this success, Drubich continued to call herself "an actress by mistake." Soloviev really revealed her acting potential and lit her star, but other directors also recognized her talent: Tatiana starred with Pavel Chukhrai, Roman Balayan, Ivan Dykhovichny, Eldar Ryazanov. When Ryazanov filmed Drubich in the film "Hello, fools!", He admired her naturalness, calmness and attentiveness. The director believed that her medical education gave her significant advantages: she accurately understood the physical and mental state of her colleagues from one appearance, and at the same time instantly determined the character and the desired approach to him.

Later, Tatyana Drubich tried her hand at other activities: in the 1990s. she opened the nightclub "Assembly Hall", but it did not last long. After that, Drubich headed the Moscow office of a German medical firm, and then founded her own pharmaceutical company in Germany. In the 2000s. she again appeared on the screens in the films "About Love", "2-Assa-2", "Anna Karenina", "The Last Fairy Tale of Rita". After 2011, she did not act in film. Today Tatyana Drubich is actively involved in charitable activities: she cooperates with Chulpan Khamatova, who helps children with leukemia, and is co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Vera Moscow charity fund for hospice assistance.

Most of all, Drubich does not like when she is asked questions about her personal life and about who she still considers herself to be - an actress, a doctor, a business woman or someone else. "", - says Tatiana.

This film became fateful not only for Tatiana Drubich: Assa 32 years later.