Nigmatulin Talgat Kadyrovich - a famous Soviet actor. He became famous not only for his roles in popular Soviet films, but also for his death as a result of joining the sect. Controversy and speculation around his death have not subsided to this day.
Place and date of birth
Talgat Nigmatulin was born on March 5, 1949. His mother was an ethnic Uzbek, and his father was a Tatar. As a child, he lived in the city of Kyzyl-Kiya, but it is still unknown whether he was born there or moved with his family from Tashkent. The actor himself insisted on the latest version.
The biography of Talgat Nigmatulin was rich in difficulties at the beginning of the boy's life. His father, who worked as a miner, died early, and it was difficult for his mother to raise two sons. Talgat tried to earn money on his own. At a young age, he got a job as a utility worker in factories and workshops, but despite all the efforts, the work of the mother as the principal of the school and the boyâs hard work, he had to go to the orphanage because of his familyâs poverty.
Growing up
The difficult young life of Talgat Nigmatulin made the boy introverted and shy. He was often ill, spoke Russian poorly, and the effects of rickets suffered in early childhood were reflected in his appearance. Curved and weak, he did not find a common language with his peers and could not play active games, since for him they could result in serious injuries.
The turning point came when the girl refused him a dance. Offended, tired of crying, Talgat Nigmatulin promised himself to change. He took up ballroom dancing, sports and martial arts. Changing outwardly, he did not forget about the inner world, he read a lot and mastered the Russian language. In the latter he was helped by copying two volumes of War and Peace by hand. Thanks to his zeal, Talgat learned to speak correctly, beautifully and literally.
University admission
The next goal of Talgat Nigmatulin was to enter the Institute of Cinematography. At the end of school, he went to enter Moscow, but at first he was forced to fail. Then he began to study at the circus school and at the same time received a wrestling rank, becoming the champion of Uzbekistan. At the USSR championship, he took sixth place.
Athletic, agile, talented, with a memorable appearance, which can be clearly seen in the photo, Talgat Nigmatulin did not go unnoticed in the Mosfilm film concern, and at the age of 18 he got his first role in the feature film âThe Ballad of the Commissionerâ.
However, this luck did not turn out for him in the best way. The actor played the bastard, and he succeeded so well that in the future he was seen only in the roles of villains. This did not correspond at all to his hopes for the future, but Talgat entered VGIK and graduated from it in 1971.
Further creativity
The films of Talgat Nigmatulin following the âBallad of the Commissionerâ were shot by the Uzbekfilm film studio. In addition to his acting career, he was engaged in other creative work, namely, he wrote short stories and poems. This hobby was so close to him that he spent almost all his free time writing.
A talented person is talented in everything, and some of his works were published, preparations were underway for the publication of the first prose book. His poems also found application, one of them formed the basis of the famous song âRussian Birchesâ.
Honored screenwriter and professor of VGIK Adelsha Agishev appreciated the talent and diligence of Talgat Nigmatulin and advised him to take a course of screenwriters and directors, which was recruited by the legendary Soviet and Lithuanian film director and playwright Vytautas alakeviÄius. The actor followed the advice and completed courses in 1978. In the future, he often expressed gratitude to the director in an interview.
The most famous roles
As Talgat gained experience in acting, his roles became increasingly significant. He had good relations with other film industry workers, and soon he had the chance to play a role in the first Soviet action film called âPirates of the 20th Centuryâ. Talgat and his friend Nikolai Eremenko went all out on set. They independently performed all the tricks, without transferring them to the shoulders of understudies and stuntmen, received injuries that reminded themselves of themselves after a few years.
But the released picture was a huge success. Over 10 years, 120 million viewers watched it, 90 million of them saw the tape in the rental year. To get to the action movie, spectators took turns, some went to it many times. Nigmatulin has become a karate star for children.
In subsequent films, Talgat Nigmatulin played both major and minor roles. Regardless of this, he tried to make the image of his character convincing and voluminous.
So, he reincarnated as the captain of the reconnaissance schooner "Kiyoshi", who turned out to be a participant in the espionage campaign, in the film "The Right to Shot". He played the Indian Joe who committed the murder in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn." The wanted criminal, nicknamed Jolly, he was in the two-part film "State Border", a Japanese suicide bomber in the film "Order: Cross the Border." He played the main role of an orphan in the two-part crime drama âWolf Pitâ, and was the captain of the criminal investigation department in âConfrontationâ.
Spouses of the actor
The personal life in the biography of Talgat Nigmatulin is also saturated. His first affair began while studying at the institute, where he met Irina Shevchuk as a young student. Their happiness was cloudless for about two years, after which a series of partings began. The dreamy Talgat ceased to find a common language with Irina, and they finally parted even before graduation. Now Shevchuk is an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and always warmly recalls her great novel. She believes that a difficult relationship helped her to play the role of Rita Osyanina in the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" and to better feel her tragic fate.
Obviously, the biography and personal life of Talgat Nigmatulin was associated with talented people like him. After his graduation, his first wife was the singer and music teacher Larisa Kandalova. Future spouses met in Tashkent at a meeting with mutual friends. Actor Talgat Nigmatulin was already quite well known for his role as Ismail in the episode "The Seventh Bullet." The young man impressed Larisa, they started dating, then got married, and in 1976 their daughter Ursula was born.
However, after a while, Larisa felt that the amorous husband was not ready for marriage, and the family broke up. Nigmatulin began to live with an 18-year-old girl whom he met while he was still married. The new love of Halim Khasanov endured the complex nature of her husband. She forgave his whims when, on a winter night, from behind a slammed door, she had to climb the icy drainpipe to get into the apartment, since Talgat was scared to do it. It was with this woman, who loved him for his openness and goodwill, that the actor lived the longest, in 1980 they had a son, Said, but after 7 years their informal relationship still ceased. Halima believed that the separation was at the insistence of the âspiritual brothersâ from the sect, which Talgat had already fallen into by that time.
Meanwhile, a new woman, film actress Venus Ibragimova, with whom they worked together on the set of "Provincial Novel", entered the personal life of Talgat Nigmatulin. When they got married, Venus, whose real name is Cholpan, was only 19 years old, she was 14 years younger than Talgat. However, the man beautifully and boldly made her an offer, having come for her in full of flowers "Moskvich".
The couple lived happily, although they rarely saw each other, in between filming. Venus became the mother of the youngest of the children of Talgat Nigmatulin. The couple named their daughter Linda, born in 1983, in honor of two celebrities at once - the wife of Bruce Lee, whom Talgat admired, and the member of the Wings group, Linda McCartney, whose fan was Venus.
Sect entry
The terrible death of Talgat Nigmatulin was preceded by his entry into the sect in the early 1980s. It was founded by 30-year-old Abay Borubaev, posing as a scientist, and 50-year-old healer and psychic Mirza Kimbatbaev. The latter was a very colorful character, walked the streets with a staff, was dressed in a cap and a long robe with beads, badges, bells and rings. Before meeting with Abai, he asked for alms.
It is now known that they were just crooks and charlatans, and in the 70s pilgrims went to them, their imaginary abilities were studied in scientific books. In addition, the religious group was very popular among creative people, it included actors, journalists, writers and artists.
The direction of the sect resembled something in between the school of Zen Buddhism and esotericism, its followers called their teachings "The Fourth Way." Its founders deftly avoided uncomfortable questions. For example, in response to requests to Mirza to show the miracle of telekinesis and to overturn the object with his eyes, he pushed his finger and laughed with the words "Is it really impossible?"
For entry into the sect, a whole rite existed. The new arrivals had to bathe naked in a certain font in Mirzaâs house. Moreover, men and women did it at the same time. Then it was necessary to pass the initiation and prove unquestioning obedience to the spiritual teachers. To do this, the candidates put on rags and went to beg. Everything collected was given to Mirza and Abai.
The approach to donations from the sect was peculiar. The adherents asked for money allegedly as a joke. But threats betrayed a more serious approach to business. As a result, all sectarians contributed to the common cause, but this was considered voluntary contributions.
Rapprochement with Abay and Mirza
Talgat went through all this. His relatives did not understand such a hobby, they considered him too self-sufficient person for this. Perhaps the reason was the actorâs craving for eastern philosophy, one way or another, he entered into a sect and came close to the people standing in its head.
More dreaming of becoming a director than an actor, Talgat finally found the means to produce the film Echo (also known as Farewell). The picture was positioned as a high-east-psychological drama. The plot told of a soldier who after the war was the only one who returned to his village. Upon learning that no one had survived except him, he did not want to live in his village.
Officially, the picture had a duration of only 10 minutes, although there is a version that initially it lasted at least an hour. The main roles in it were played by Borubaev and Kimbatbaev. The first was in the role of a soldier, the second played his father. Neither friends nor the filmmaking environment understood the film and accepted it coldly enough. Now the tape has been taken from everywhere, it is not possible to find it.
Cause of death
The affairs of the sect went well until 1985, when some of its followers decided to renounce the teachings and leave the religious group, having founded their movement. Abay was extremely dissatisfied with this state of affairs, he decided to visit the rebellious and force to receive money from them for such a betrayal. To do this, he decided to take Nigmatulin with him, but Talgat did not want to take part in the crime, and for this they decided to punish him.
In the capital of Lithuania, on the night of February 10, Nigmatulin was in the apartment of the 33-year-old artist Kalinauskas, where five young people (the majority were 18-19 years old) beat him with fists and legs for 10 hours so hard that the actor received injuries to internal organs incompatible with life. Apparently, he did not resist beating.
Talgat was still alive when his mutilated body, on which there were 119 injuries (22 of them on his head) was found in the bathroom. He died at noon on February 11 on the way to the hospital. The participants in the murder themselves called an ambulance, they tried to claim that they had found the actor beaten on the street, but the fright and inconsistencies in the testimony quickly revealed lies.
The fate of criminals
The criminals did not evade punishment. Borubaev was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Some sources claim that in court he stated that he had committed the murder of a famous person in order to become famous. But many believe that even if these words were spoken, it was only under pressure. Abay was the son of powerful parents, and all roads and any career were open to him. In addition, they claimed that he confessed to the murder of a man, but claimed that he did not want this. In any case, Borubaev ended up in prison and died of tuberculosis there. Although there is a version that Abayâs influential parents rescued his son from prison and falsified his death.
The second founder of the sect, Kimbatbaev, served 10 years and was released. He continued to engage in extrasensory perception and healing, again tried to lead the sect, gathering his students and recruiting new adherents, but soon died of cirrhosis of the liver.
Other vigilantees, including the famous karate trainer Vladimir Pestretsov, who got into a sect after curing Mirzaâs eczema, received prison sentences of less than 10 years. At the trial, they stated that Nigmatulin was their idol, and they raised a hand against him because they were in a state of hypnosis.
Funeral and memory
After the death of Talgat Nigmatulin, his body was cremated in Lithuania and buried in Uzbekistan. Many years have passed since then, but memories of this man are still alive. Some superstitiously believe that the role in the movie âWolf Pitâ predetermined the fate of Talgat Nigmatulin. The terrible death of the actor at the hands of the leader of the sect is very reminiscent of the plot of the picture, where his character was killed by a mentor.
Some argue that the actor converted to Orthodoxy shortly before his death. Nevertheless, the tombstone depicts not a cross, but Muslim symbols.
In honor of the actor, one of the streets of his hometown was given his name, and almost 20 years after his death, Nikolai Glinsky made a film entitled "An Angel Came to You". The painting was dedicated to the personal biography of Talgat Nigmatulin and his talent. The main role was played by Uzbek and Russian actors Farhad Makhmudov.
In 1987, Leonid Slovin wrote a story in documents entitled "Obsession." It describes the murder of actor Sabir Insakov, but the plot clearly shows the biography of Talgat Nigmatulin.
Journalistic Investigations
Even many years after the death of the actor, interest in his biography does not subside. In the circumstances of the death of Nigmatulin, there is one mystery. Many are tormented by the question of why the actor did not even try to protect his life, because he knew how to fight. Moreover, when the police arrived in the middle of the night as a result of his cries, Talgat hid in the bathroom and sat quietly, thereby not betraying the crime that had been committed.
This riddle led journalists to a certain Arkady, one of the sectâs participants and Mirzaâs direct pupil. According to his version, the murder was unintentional, and only Talgat himself can be considered the culprit of death. Arkady made such conclusions by talking with the teacher and the âGodbrothers.â
According to him, the murder did not occur at all due to the fact that Nigmatulin refused to participate in racketeering. In fact, the actor wanted to commit suicide and used sect members for this. He infuriated Abay Borubaev, misled him and literally forced him to attack himself.
Interestingly, as part of the teachings of the sect, beating a student with his teacher was a kind of reward. After that, the man allegedly enlightened and embarked on the true path. Arkady thought that his teacher simply overdid it, raising a student. His cries of "Mom" and "Help" in the absence of resistance were taken as a joke, and the death of the actor was simply an accident.
He justified not only the leaders of the sect, but also the rest of the killers. Allegedly, they perceived the whole situation as a brawl with a recognized master, and the lack of protection became for them a manifestation of the willpower of the karate.
Household version
Subsequently, it turned out that there was another version of the murder, domestic. It was distributed among prosecutors. According to her, Nigmatulin was not going to refuse to participate in the attack on those who were going to break ties with the sect. Moreover, in a hurry to disassemble, he was late for the plane and he had to use his movie star name and persuade airport workers to delay the flight.
Talgat had a fight, it started in the apartment, but then moved to the street. At this time, the wife of one of the opponents of the sect seized Nigmatulin's cap and ran to distract the attackers on her husband. Since it was February, the actor wanted to take his thing and while he was running after it, the fight ended not in favor of Abay.
In the eyes of the founder of the sect, what happened looked like a betrayal. He did not believe in Nigmatulin's story, and because of the drunk alcohol and anger from failure, he decided to punish the student. So the order was given to beat the traitor. Talgat was shocked by what was happening and did not resist to show humility.
He was beaten with bare hands and legs, as they themselves considered it a punishment, but not murder. In heavy boots there was only Abay, whose blow fell on the actorâs temple, after which he could no longer resist, even if he wanted to.
The opinion of friends and relatives
Of course, the version of the members of the sect was ridiculous and even offensive to the actorâs family. Even if the killing was unintentional, it is difficult to blame Talgat for it.
The household version also did not seem convincing to them, since friends could not believe that Nigmatulin could go for racketeering even under the influence of his "godbrothers".
Whatever the circumstances of what happened that winter night, the movie world lost a talented actor. But the memory of him lives in the hearts of his loved ones, friends and spectators.