“A Street Full of Surprises”, the 1957 film is a Soviet color comedy directed by Sergei Sidelev. During the rental, the movie was seen by 34 million viewers. This is an example of a good comedy. We offer once again to recall the actors and plot of the picture.
Actors of the film "The Street is full of surprises"
Leonid Kharitonov starred in the title role. His photo can be seen below.
The main character of the film is a young sergeant of the Soviet police - Vasily Shaneshkin. Played this character in the film "The Street is full of surprises" Leonid Kharitonov - Honored Artist of the RSFSR, a famous actor of theater and cinema. Kharitonov gained fame thanks to his roles in the films "Soldier Ivan Brovkin", "Ivan Brovkin on the virgin lands" and the same "Street is full of surprises."
At one time he was one of the most popular actors of the 1950s. Kharitonov died quite early, in the fifty-eighth year of his life. It happened in 1987. In the last years of his life, he was seriously ill, suffered two strokes. The day the third stroke occurred, the actor died.
George Chernovolenko
Another key figure in the film was Ivan Vodnev, the very unfortunate cashier whom young Shaneshkin accidentally arrested instead of the real offender. The role of the cashier was played by Georgy Chernovolenko - a Soviet actor who devoted his life to cinema and theater, is an honored artist of the RSFSR.
The voice of the actor can still be heard today in the cartoon "The Little Humpbacked Horse" - he voiced a reader, a short story. During his life he managed to play in more than 30 Soviet films. He died in 1971.
Jemma Osmolovskaya
Jemma Osmolovskaya - the actress of the film "The Street is full of surprises", played a key female role in it - Katya Vodnev's daughter, who was supposed to have a wedding.
An interesting fact from the life of the actress is that she met her first husband just on the set of the film, and it turned out to be Leonid Kharitov. The actors of the film “A Street Full of Surprises” did not live long in marriage and divorced. However, they still had a common son - Alexey. Since then, Gemma managed to marry the actor Peter Podyapolsky for the second time.
In 2017, in one of his interviews, Peter said that Gemma is fighting cancer. With her son, she developed a rather complicated relationship, so the husband is now caring for the actress only. The actress worked in the theater for more than 40 years, but at RAMT they said that they were not obliged to help her, and the Guild of Movie Actors no longer remembered the existence of such a talent as Jemma Osmolovskaya.
Olga Porudolinskaya
Another important female role was played by one of the many actors in the film "The street is full of surprises" Olga Porudolinskaya. In the film, the woman embodied the heroine Nadezhda Pavlovna - the wife of Vodnev.
In life, Olga was an actress of the Leningrad Comedy Theater, and, as her contemporaries recalled, the comedic roles of Porudolinskaya were given well, and you could look at her forever. In addition to her outstanding roles in the theater, the audience managed to remember the roles in the films "The Tale of the newlyweds", "Train of Mercy!" and the movie opera "Eugene Onegin." Like many colleagues in the film, she has already passed away. The honored artist of the USSR Olga Porudolinskaya did not become in 1978.
Also involved were such actors in the film "The Street is full of surprises," such as Jacob Rhodes (chief accountant), Vera Karpova, Evgeny Leonov, Alexander Orlov and many others.