The film "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha": actors and the history of the film

In 1967, the screens came out the picture "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha." The actors who performed the main roles in this film are an incredibly talented and early-departed Oleg Dal and graduate of the Shchukin school Galina Figlovskaya. The history of the film is the topic of the article.

Plot

What does the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha" tell about? " Actors Dahl and Figlovskaya recreated on the screen lyrical images. The film takes place in the last days of the war. Kolyshkin is a soldier, a young dreamy person from an intelligent Moscow family. Zhenya Zemlyanikina is a tough, strong-willed girl, a sergeant of the Guards. He falls in love with her at first sight. And she does not take him seriously at first. And only then in the girl are born to an unusual, strange young man feelings. But it happens too late.

The Victory Day is coming. The events of the painting "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha" are being transferred to Berlin. " Actors played extremely penetrating recent episodes of this lyrical story. Kolyshkin and Zemlyanikina could be happy. After all, the war is over. But in the house in which the headquarters is located, the girl is killed by a German soldier.

History of creation

Vladimir Motyl is the director of the painting "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha." Actors for the main roles they were approved after a long search. How was the picture created? It is known that Bulat Okudzhava is the co-author of the script for the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha." Actors and roles were partially determined at the initial stage of the painting.

In the creative career of Motyl before the work on this film a small crisis was formed. And suddenly the director heard that in the domestic cinema there are no good and patriotic comedies on the military theme. The omission of his colleagues, Vladimir Motyl decided to use. And he turned to Okudzhava for help, because he highly appreciated the work of this poet and writer. The story of an intelligent and dreamy guy, caught up in the war, according to Motyl, it was difficult to create without him. In addition, Okudzhava fought, in contrast to the director of the film "Zhenya, Zhenya," Katyusha. "

Actors and roles

The photo of the performer of the main role is presented in the article. Oleg Dal was an artist incredibly gifted. But, as you know, he suffered from alcohol dependence. At the time of the start of filming, he was expelled from all theaters precisely for this reason. Which, however, did not stop Dal from appearing for samples with a very independent look.

Already at the stage of writing the script Motyl decided that it was this actor who will play the main character in the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka, Katyusha." Reviews of the film are extremely positive. And they belong to both the spectators of the seventies, and to contemporary admirers of Soviet cinema. And this is a great merit of Oleg Dal. Later, Vladimir Motyl often denied rumors that the actor was a drunken alcoholic. In the work he laid out to the maximum. And I never took pictures.

Find an actress for the role of Zhenya Zemlyanikina was not an easy task. Vladimir Motyl and Bulat Okudzhava initially decided that the heroine should be bright, attractive, but with some feminine rudeness. The director was offered Natalia Kustinskaya's candidacy. However, he immediately rejected it. To find the actress for the main role Motyl helped teachers Shchukinsky school.

It is noteworthy that after graduating from a theatrical high school, Figlovskaya did not work by profession. She decided that her acting career did not take place, she worked as an engineer in a closed institution and was very surprised by the proposal of a famous director to play the main female role in his film.

Other roles

The role of Zakhar Kosykh was performed by Mikhail Kokshenov. Behind this actor, then, the image of a simple guy was fixed, the vocabulary of which is abundantly present in the phraseology of the people's speech. By the way, after filming Okudzhava gave the actor one of his books, calling Kokshenov "a well-disguised intellectual".

In the filming of the picture also participated:

1. George Shtil.
2. Mark Bernes.
3. Pavel Morozenko.
4. Bernd Schneider.

Interesting Facts

When the work on the script was over, the leaders of Mosfilm, whose decisions depended on the fate of this or that picture, closed the film. In the film of Vladimir Motyl, there was a tragic end. And this in the Soviet cinema of those years was unacceptable. The director had to bypass several instances before he received permission to shoot the film. Helped him in this Lev Kulidzhanov, allowing to indicate his name in the credits.