“First Married” - 1979 Soviet melodrama. The main role in the film was played by Evgenia Glushenko. In 1980, the actress was awarded the Best Actress Award at the All-Union Film Festival. Who else is involved in this film? What is told in the melodrama “First Married”? Actors, roles, the plot of the picture - all this will be discussed in the article.
Movie Summary
The main character of the film “First Married” is Tonya Bolotnikova. The plot of the picture covers a twenty-year period in the life of a woman. Once Tonya studied at a technical school. She lived in a dorm room, in which besides her four more girls huddled. But Tone College was not able to finish. At twenty, not being married, she gave birth to a daughter. So Tonya Bolotnikova became a single mother.
Without education, Tonya was forced to take up any work. She painted the windows in the house of culture, worked as a postman, a cleaner. All that a young woman earned, she spent on a child. Tonya could get married, but the child was against. And the woman sacrificed everything for the sake of her beloved baby.
But Tamara’s daughter grew up selfish, stupid, and didn’t appreciate these victims, and when she got married she completely kicked her mother out of the house.
Suffering from hopeless loneliness, Tonya started a correspondence with a lonely man and once came to visit him. This man lived in a remote village, a year and a half before meeting Tonya he was widowed and now he was looking for a girlfriend for life. His name was Yefim Puryshev. When he met Tonya, he realized that he had found the person with whom he would like to spend the rest of his life. So Tonya Bolotnikova got married for the first time.
Actors
“First Married” - a motion picture created based on the eponymous work of Pavel Nilin. He, in collaboration with Joseph Heifitz, wrote the script. Who played in the movie "First Married"? Actors of supporting roles:
- Nikolay Muravyov.
- Sergey Ivanov.
- Galina Volkova.
- Fedor Balakirev.
- Nikolay Karamyshev.
- Elena Solovyova.
Evgenia Glushenko, as already mentioned, played the role of Tony Bolotnikova. The filmography of the actress has many works. Glushenko played her most striking roles (during the Soviet period) in the films “In love with her own will”, “First married”.
Actor Nikolai Volkov Jr. played the role of Yefim. Valentina Telichkina and Svetlana Smirnova also played in the film. The first played the role of the best friend of the main character, an active and punchy woman. Smirnova acted as Tamara. And finally, the husband of Tony’s daughter was played by Igor Starygin.
Nikolay Volkov
The actor in the film "First Married" voiced by Alexander Demyanenko. Nikolai Volkov is the son of an artist who in 1956 performed the role of the Old Man Hottabych in the famous children's film. But he did not stay in the shadow of his father. In the filmography of Volkov Jr., several dozen roles. Among them is Erwin Keen in the famous series Seventeen Moments of Spring. The actor passed away in 2003.
Svetlana Smirnova
Before filming the movie "First Married", the actress played several roles in the movie. In 2005, Smirnova received the title of People's Artist of Russia. Among her works is the role of Marmeladov’s wife in the film adaptation of the novel Crime and Punishment (2007), participation in the filming of the series Streets of Broken Lights.
Igor Starygin
In the film "First Married", this actor played Valery Perevozchikova - a young man who since childhood dreams of becoming an actor, but who does not have a hint of talent. Hero Starygin arrives in Moscow, participates in extras, in vain tries to break into the world of cinema. He has no housing or residence permit, and that is probably why he will marry Tamar. Carriers settles in Tony’s apartment, does not work, but every day it becomes more and more irritable, as if everyone around him, including the landlady of the apartment, is to blame for his incorrigibility.
Igor Starygin at the beginning of the filming of the film "First Married" was already quite an accomplished artist. He became famous in 1968 after the painting "We'll Live Till Monday". And a year before the creation of the film, which is discussed in this article, Starygin played his most famous role - the role of Aramis. The filmography of the actor 38 works. The latter is the role of Aramis in The Return of the Musketeers. Igor Starygin passed away in 2009.
It’s worth a few more words to say about the leading woman in the film “First Married”. Eugene has worked at the Maly Theater for over thirty years. She is the winner of numerous awards. Glushenko’s latest film work at the moment is the role of Nastena’s mother-in-law in the film adaptation of Rasputin’s novel “Live and Remember.”