Svetlana Fomicheva is a famous Soviet actress of Moldavian descent. He has the title of Honored Artist of Russia and People's Artist of Moldova. The popularity came to her after playing the main role in the melodrama of Emil Lotyanu "Tabor goes to heaven." The picture was shown in more than a hundred countries.
Actress Biography
It is noteworthy that the majority know Svetlana Fomicheva under her stage name Svetlana Toma. As a rule, the stress in the surname is put on the first syllable, although the actress herself insists that the pseudonym comes from the name of her grandmother of French descent, so she must be pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable.
Svetlana Fomicheva was born in Chisinau in 1947. Her father was from the Lipetsk region. Andrei Vasilievich headed the Pravda collective farm, which was located in the Beltsy district of the Moldavian SSR. The mother of the heroine of our article, Edes Sukhaya, took part in the communist underground in Bessarabia in the 1930s. She had a whole warehouse of prohibited literature at home.
Svetlana's parents met when Andrei studied at the Agricultural Institute in Chisinau, and Edes worked there as a secretary.
Creative career
Svetlana Fomicheva (Toma) after school in the target direction entered the Institute of Theater, Music and Culture in Leningrad. She graduated from the acting department. She also had a diploma from the Musical Arts Institute in Chisinau.
Her debut on the big screen took place in the little-known film "Red Glades" in 1965.
Success
Success for Svetlana Tom, whose photo is in this article, came in 1972, when she starred in the drama of Emil Loteanu “Lautara”. She played the role of Ramina.
This is a romantic story about Lautaras - wandering Moldavian musicians. The main characters of the picture from childhood were in love with each other, but fate parted them as soon as Tom and Lyanka grew up.
Toma continued to play the violin, having traveled all over Moldova, carrying the memory of Lyanka through his whole life. Just before his death, he met an old gypsy who was once his coveted lover. But even after so many years, he recognized his love.
In this film, you can see Svetlana Tom in his youth.
"Tabor goes to heaven"
In 1976, the heroine of our article plays a major role in another film to Lotyanu, “The Camp Goes to Heaven.” This film becomes the main hit of the Soviet film distribution.
At the heart of the story, which is told in the tape, is the story of Maxim Gorky "Makar Chudra" about the love of horse thief Loiko Zobar to the gypsy Rada. Events unfold at the beginning of the 20th century in a gypsy camp in the territory of Transcarpathia.
Rada and Loiko love each other, but they are sure that family life is a fetter that will rob them of their independence. They first met when the Council healed the wounded Loiko. The next time they saw each other in the camp of old Nur.
The landowner Antal Siladi, who lives nearby, also falls in love with Rada. He gets to know her while walking around the city, but the proud girl, with all her strength, rejects his love, for which the master curses her.
Meanwhile, the successful horse thief Loiko steals the white mare, as Rada wanted. By this, he incurs the wrath of the authorities, who organize a pogrom in a gypsy camp. Father is forced to issue Loyko to the gendarmes. Shortly before this, he sent his friend Talimon to Balint to collect the debt. Balint declares that they agreed on the arrival of Loiko himself at the estate, then the servant stabs the gypsy with a pitchfork at the stable.
The local authorities sentenced Loiko to death, but he himself managed to escape from his own execution, having lost his loyal friend Bubul, who at the last moment came to his aid. Konokrad goes in pursuit of the camp of Rada, which has left its place of residence. He gives the mare a gypsy, young people have fun on the river bank. At night, the girl drinks gypsy with grape juice.
In the final of the painting, Loiko, despite the prediction of the old gypsy, is declared to be a Rada camp, accompanied by another friend of hers named Aralambi. He asks the blacksmith Makar Chudra to become a matchmaker. Fulfilling the condition set by the girl, he kneels before her, which is the highest form of humiliation among gypsies. Loiko does this with all his might, and then kills Radu, kneels in front of her body again. The girl’s father, the soldier Danilo, who saw his daughter killed, deprives a knife and a gypsy horse-thief.
Actress career
In addition to this role, actress Svetlana Toma played in a large number of other cult films with famous directors.
In the play “Living Corpse” by Vladimir Vengerov, she played the gypsy Masha (voiced by Lyudmila Gurchenko), in the social drama by Valery Akhadov, the family affairs of the Gayurovs, the director of the village school Aisha Safarovna, and in the melodrama Emil Lotyanu “My Tender and Tender Beast”, the gypsy Tina in the melodramatic comedy of Jan Fried “Pious Marta” - the younger sister of Dona Marta, Dona Lucia, in the fantastic parable of Vladimir Basov Sr. “Mercedes Seven Cries in the Ocean”, in the 5-episode biographical drama “Anna Pavlova” - the mother of the protagonist.
In the early 90s, Svetlana Fomicheva had her own big concert program, she toured the country with entreprises. In 1999, she was noted in the project of Victor Merezhko "Singing Theater and Cinema Stars", where she performed in the form of a performer of retro compositions.
She continued to act in films in the 2000s, but much less frequently. As a rule, she began to agree to roles in the series. In the 100-series melodrama "The Thief" played Hope, in "Poor Nastya" - Sychikha, in the sitcom "Love, Children and the Plant ..." - Aunt Tom, in the melodramatic thriller Nikolai Lebedev "Phonogram of Passion" - Vita’s mother.
Among her recent works at the moment, it should be noted the role of the teacher in the aunt's house of Aunt Lena in the film "9 Days and One Morning", Galina Georgievna in the film "Djinn".
Personal life
The personal life of Svetlana Tom came out saturated. Her first husband, classmate Oleg Lachin, died in 1972. The year before, they had a daughter, Irina, who also became an actress, performs under the name of her father.
In the track record of Irina Lachina, the television series "Secrets of Palace Coups", "Philip Bay", "Heavy Sand", "Sea Patrol". In the drama of Evgeny Serov, "Hydraulics", she played a major role, in the episodes appeared "Legend No. 17" and "Crew" by Nikolai Lebedev. The actress also became the granddaughter of the heroine of our article, Maria Budrina.
The second time, Svetlana married in 2000 the playwright Andrei Vishnevsky. In 2005, they parted.
Her aunt (mother's sister) Sala Sukhaya, who was an activist of the underground communist movement in pre-war Bessarabia, is well known. In 1933 she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She served time in the Romanian prison "Doftana", known as the "Romanian Bastille". In the 50-60s she became an editor, worked in the publishing house of political literature in the USSR.
Actress Awards
Tom has many awards and bonuses. In addition to the titles already listed, in 2018 she was awarded the Order of Friendship for the development of domestic art and culture.