Alexandra Zavyalova is an actress whose name was widely known in the 60s. This beautiful woman was pleased to be photographed by both Soviet magazines and foreign ones. The directors offered Zavyalova exclusively leading roles. And then it all ended in one day and the artist disappeared from the screens forever. Why?
Alexander Zavyalov: biography. early years
Alexandra was born in February 1936 in the Tambov region. Almost nothing is known about her childhood, about the hobbies of the future actress. It is only known that in 1958 Alexandra Zavyalova graduated from the Leningrad Theater Institute and moved to Brest to work for distribution to the local theater. However, the young actress with an exotic appearance showed herself very well at the thesis “Marriage” and she regularly received offers about filming a movie.
Alexandra refused for a long time, because she wanted to focus only on her work in the theater. But in 1959, the actress could not resist and for the first time gave her consent to the shooting.
1959 films
Alexandra Zavyalova made her debut in the film “Song of Koltsov”, where she immediately got the main role.
In the center of the plot of the picture is a biography of the famous Russian poet Alexei Koltsov, or rather a segment of life that fits in the 30s. XIX century. Koltsov’s biography is noteworthy in that the poet devoted almost his entire life to entrepreneurship, continuing his family business (which is not typical for writers). The only outlet for Alexei was poetry and love for the serf girl, which was played by Alexander Zavyalova. But fate separated the main characters, Koltsov soon married an unloved woman, and after some time he died at the age of 33.
Immediately after the role of Dunya, the fatal beauty with tarry black hair was offered another major role in the drama People on the Bridge. The heroine of Zavyalova is the demolitionist Lena. A woman is bold, beautiful, with a certain past (the heroine has
an illegitimate child). It attracts the attention of a young son (Oleg Tabakov), the head of the construction of the bridge (Vasily Merkuryev). This connection is becoming
a byword. The heroine Zavyalova turns into an evil genius for the intelligent Bulygin family. In the finale of the picture, Lena dies, saving the lives of other people.
I must say that after the role of the temperamental Lena, the role of a “troubled” woman was assigned to the actress. And all her subsequent heroines were no less strong, attractive, but in some sense dangerous.
Films of the 1960s
Alexandra Zavyalova in the 60s was very popular. Largely due to the role of Zinka from the melodrama Aleshkina Love. Then the actress’s partner on the set was Leonid Bykov (“Only old people go into battle”). He played the very Alyoshka, who was crazy about the switchman Zinaida. Zavyalova in one of her few interviews recalled that the actor’s wife was very jealous of her and was constantly present on the set.
Still not to be jealous: the photos of Alexandra Zavyalova showed off not only on the covers of the Soviet Screen, but even in the American Life magazine. American journalists called the actress Soviet
Greta Garbo, and Russian directors offered the artist exclusively leading roles.
In the 60s, films with the participation of Zavyalova came out such films as “Wait for letters” by Yu. Karasik, “Bread and Roses” by F. Filippov, “Fro” R. Esadze and many other paintings. The actress was invited to dinner parties at the US Embassy and entrusted her with the honorable mission of meeting foreign guests arriving at Soviet cultural events.
Recent film projects in the career of an actress
However, it was precisely the artist’s close contact with foreigners, as well as the interest that foreign media showed in her, played a fateful role in Alexandra’s fate.
In the 65s, the KGB began regularly calling Zavyalova for interrogation. A little later, the special services forbade the director of Lenfilm to film the actress in their paintings. But Alexandra Zavyalova did not despair and continued to cooperate with other film companies.
In the 70s. the artist played her last role in the movie - Pistimey Morozova. This image has become one of the most colorful in Soviet cinema. The real name of Pistimea is Serafima Klychkova. She is the heiress of a wealthy family who is forced to hide under a false name in the Siberian taiga.
In the film, the heroine Zavyalova demonized, because about the aristocrats in Soviet times they spoke either in any way, or badly. The artist tossed another “firewood into the fire”, masterfully performing her work, and on the screen in front of the viewer appeared the embodiment of evil. Given the label of "unreliability", which already prevailed over Alexandra, nothing good could be expected. The worst fears were justified: after the role of Pistimeya Zavyalova, they blocked the way to any Soviet cinema.
Alexandra Zavyalova: personal life
The only official husband of the actress is the artist Dmitry Buchkin. From him, Zavyalova had a daughter, Tatyana.
Alexandra Zavyalova is an actress with an unforgettable appearance. And it was beauty that played a cruel joke with a woman. In 1964, in Odessa, she met an American billionaire and accepted his courtship. Subsequently, the American was accused of espionage and expelled from the country, Zavyalova was forced to divorce Buchkin and was first questioned by the KGB.
After the path to the cinema for the actress was blocked, she gave birth to a second child and began to lead a secluded lifestyle. Since then, little is known about Alexander.