In the film "The First Trolleybus" the actors who played the main roles were remembered by Soviet viewers for a long time. Their images turned out to be bright and non-standard. The melodrama itself directed by Isidor Annensky was released in 1963.
The plot of the picture
After the film "The First Trolleybus", the actors noted that this is a sincere and cheerful film dedicated to the everyday life of factory workers. It is noteworthy that many young and aspiring actors played in it, which later became famous throughout the Soviet Union.
The action of the tape takes place in a coastal city in the south of the USSR. Young factory workers every morning get to work on the first trolley bus. Its driver is a young and attractive girl named Svetlana. During trips, conversations are constantly established between her and the passengers, as a result, she finds true friends among them.
Svetlana’s relatives urgently persuade her to quit this unpromising job to enter the institute. But when she succumbs to them, she immediately begins to feel how deprived of her lack of attention to those who needed her daily.
Irina Gubanova
In the movie "First Trolleybus" the actors and the roles they performed deserved the most flattering reviews. Irina Gubanova appears in the key image of Svetlana, the driver of the trolley bus.
By 1963, when this film was released, she had already played in several tapes. For example, in Eldar Ryazanov’s lyrical comedy “A Girl Without an Address”, Roman Tikhomirov’s drama “The Queen of Spades”, and an adventure film by Grigory Nikulin entitled “713th Asks for a Landing”.
Later in her career there were many more vivid roles until she became the wife of a major official, Alexander Orshansky, whose work was related to art, and moved from Leningrad to Moscow. This happened at the end of the 60s.
Viewers can remember her from the epic Sergei Bondarchuk. In “War and Peace”, she played Sonya, and also participated in the comedy tale of Gennady Kazan “The Snow Queen”, the melodrama of Jan Fried “The Green Carriage”.
Alexander Demyanenko
In the film "First Trolleybus" actor Alexander Demyanenko played one of his first roles. He played the factory worker Sergey. At that time, Demyanenko was one of the most popular in that cast, because he had already managed to play the main role in the lyrical comedy Frunze Dovlatyan, co-authored with Lev Mirsky, "Dima Gorin's Career".
Real popularity came to him after the brilliantly created image of Shurik in a series of comedies by Leonid Gaidai, which viewers still enjoy watching. In this image, Demyanenko remained in the memory of many forever.
In his career, there were many dramatic roles ("The Gloomy River", "Privalov Millions", "The Green Van"), but most remembered him as a comedian.
Oleg Dal
The audience loved the actors and the roles of the First Trolleybus. Photos of the characters can be seen in our article. One of his first roles on the Soviet screen was played in the future by the legendary Oleg Dal.
His film debut took place a year earlier in the drama of Alexander Zarha. It was called "My Little Brother." This is a film adaptation of the story of Vasily Aksenov "Star Ticket". Then he tried to get a role in the epic "War and Peace", like Irina Gubanova. But the test for the young Nikolai Rostov did not pass. Since 1963, his film career went uphill. At first, he was entrusted with a key role in the action-packed detective story of Leonid Agranovich, entitled “The Man in Doubt,” also played the memorable character Senya in the film “The Last Trolleybus”.
It should be noted that Oleg Dal himself, in the first place, considered himself a theater actor. For more than ten years he played on the stage of the Sovremennik Theater, collaborated with the Leningrad Komsomol Theater, the Maly Theater in the capital , and the Malaya Bronnaya Theater.
In the movie, he was glorified by the roles of the military tragicomedy Vladimir Motyl, dedicated to the war with the Nazis, "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha", the drama of Naum Birman about the same period - "Chronicle of the Dive Bomber", the psychological drama by Vitaly Melnikov based on Vampilov's play "Vacation in September" But many people remember him precisely in the film “The First Trolleybus.” The actor in this tape played a bright and outstanding character.
Mikhail Kononov
It should be noted that Mikhail Kononov is among the actors of the Soviet film "The First Trolleybus". The roles that the artists performed then provided many with a brilliant creative career in the future.
Kononov played Kolya Chumakova. Before that, he only appeared in films in the famous comedy of Yevgeny Tashkov “Come Tomorrow,” but he played a bus passenger there. His name was not even indicated in the credits. In the future, he received many departmental and professional awards.
He is a graduate of the school named after Shchepkin. By the way, his classmate was Oleg Dal, as well as famous film actors Vitaly Solomin and Viktor Pavlov. He began working at the Academic Maly Theater, but because of the scandal during the preparation of the play “The Examiner”, Gogol went to the Gorky film studio.
The fame was brought to him by the main role in the adventure comedy of Vitaly Melnikov "The Head of Chukotka". In 1966, flashed in the philosophical drama of Andrei Tarkovsky, "Andrei Rublev."