The film “Military Field Romance” by Pyotr Todorovsky was included in the program of the 34th Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar. The story told in this picture by wonderful actors is perhaps familiar to every layman, and this makes me even more empathetic to the main characters. What is it about in the tape and who played the main roles in it?
N. Burlyaev in the role of Alexander Netuzhilin
Nikolai Burlyaev started acting in films early: as a teenager, he appeared in Andrei Konchalovsky’s thesis “Boy and Pigeon,” which, incidentally, won the “Bronze Lion of St.” at the Venice Short Film Festival Mark". Then, at the age of 14, Nikolai Burlyaev became an actor at the Mossovet Theater: on the big stage, he played Vasya Zabrodin in Leningradsky Prospekt. At the same time, the young talent continued to act in films: Burlyaev played the main roles in the films "Boy and Girl" and "Mom Married."
Usually, when the "star" children grow up, they are quickly forgotten. This did not happen with Nikolai: throughout his life he actively starred and played many major roles, such as, for example, in the films Legend, The Player, Poshekhonskaya Antiquity, Camila and others.
In the drama of Pyotr Todorovsky, “A Military Field Romance”, Burlyaev plays the soldier Alexander Netuzhilin, who was at the front during the Great Patriotic War and was in love with nurse Lyuba. Many years later, he meets his lover by chance on the street, and his old feelings return to Netuzhilin, despite the fact that Alexander has been hopelessly married for a long time. As a result, a classic love triangle is tied between the main characters of the picture.
Natalya Andreichenko as Luba Antipova
Natalia effectively appeared in the cinema in the late 70s, playing a major role in the drama Andrei Konchalovsky "Sibiriada." Incredibly beautiful, you can say, passionate Natalya Andreichenko quickly turned into a star of Soviet cinema: “The Merchant and the Poet”, “Do not Change Horses at the Crossroads”, “Courage”, “Wedding Night” - everywhere Andreichenko played the main characters, whom they adored and before whom men bowed.
In the “Military Field Romance” Natalia got the role of the nurse Lyuba Antipova, the beloved of the protagonist. Lyuba always preferred influential men, therefore she did not pay any attention to the feelings of a simple soldier Alexander Netuzhilin, but she was spinning an affair with the battalion commander Mironov. However, her common-law husband died, and Lyuba had to raise their common child alone. From a flowering flirty beauty, a nurse turned into a smoked pies seller. And although Alexander’s love, after many years, helps the heroine Andreichenko to feel happy again, later she marries not Netuzhilin, but another promising boyfriend.
“Field novel”: actors. Inna Churikova
Inna Churikova - one of the most charismatic actresses of the XX century. What is only her Marfushechka from the fairy tale “Frost”! And the barmaid from the film “Cooking”, the blond Zhuzy from “The Elusive Avengers” and the baroness Yakobin from Mark Zakharov’s film “The Same Munchausen” ?!
In the picture of Pyotr Todorovsky's “Field War Romance”, the actors
Inna Churikova and Nikolai Burlyaev played a married couple. The heroine Churikova - teacher Vera Nikolaevna - became the wife of Netuzhilin when he returned from the front. They lived pretty well in general. But when Lyuba Antipova reappears on the horizon, Alexander is not good at hiding his connection with the former nurse.
Vera Nikolaevna knows about her husband’s adventures and, of course, deeply worries about this tragedy. But she is in no hurry to break up relations, is not satisfied with tantrums and, in general, appears before the audience as a rather wise woman.
For the embodiment of this image on the screens, Inna Churikova received the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Victor Proskurin as Novikov
In the drama "Field novel" the actors starred quite famous. For example, Viktor Proskurin, who played the role of Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee Novikov, is well known to the audience for the roles of Genka Lyapishev from the movie "Big Change" and Pyotr Molchanov from the military drama "Time Chose Us."
The actor also played constable Jack in the film The House that Swift Built, Hermann in The Queen of Spades, Tadeusz Sholto in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, and Vozhevatov in Cruel Romance.
V. Shilovsky as Grisha
The famous Soviet actor Vsevolod Shilovsky in the film Todorovsky played Grigory - the new boyfriend of Lyuba Antipova, whom she would later marry.
Shilovsky does not often play the main roles - basically, he is familiar to viewers from episodic roles in many good films. For example, the actor played Obnoskin in the television movie “Stepanchikovo Village and Its Inhabitants,” the tungus in the historical film “Siberia,” Semyon Kholin in the detective, “Connoisseurs are Investigating,” Evgeny Shevchenko in “Syndicate-2,” the photographer Pasha in the film “Beloved Woman of Mechanics” Gavrilova. "
Other role performers
What other artists were involved in the filming of the drama War Field Romance?
Actors Zinovy ​​Gerdt (Golden Calf) and Elena Kozelkova (Poirot Failure) played a married couple working in a movie theater.
Alexander Martynov, the star of the films Conscience, Punching Man and The Right to Shot, played the very battalion commander Mironov, from whom Lyuba Antipova gave birth to a child.
Also in the film you can see Natalia Chenchik (“A Gift of Fate”), Ekaterina Yudina (“I’m going out to look for you”, “Without a statute of limitations”), Olga Anokhin (“The Siberian Barber”, “The Last Reproduction”), Yuri Dubrovin (“Yesenin” , “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers”), Vladimir Yuryev (“Petty Officer”, “Cuckold”) and Alexei Vanin (“Kalina Krasnaya”, “Vivat, Midshipmen!”).