In 1967, the picture “Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” was released. The actors who played the main roles in this film are Oleg Dal, an incredibly talented and early deceased, and Galina Figlovskaya, a graduate of the Shchukin school . The history of the creation of the film is the topic of the article.
Plot
What is the film “Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” about? Actors Dahl and Figlovskaya recreated on-screen lyrical images. The film takes place in the last days of the war. Kolyshkin is a soldier, a young, dreamy man from an intelligent Moscow family. Zhenya Zemlyanikina is a tough, strong-willed girl, a sergeant of the guard. He falls in love with her at first sight. And at first she does not take him seriously. And only then in the girl are born feelings for an unusual, strange young man. But this happens too late.
Victory Day is coming. The events of the painting “Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” are transferred to Berlin. The actors played extremely soulfully the last episodes of this lyrical story. Kolyshkin and Zemlyanikina could be happy. After all, the war is over. But in the house in which the headquarters is located, the girl is killed by a German soldier.
History of creation
Vladimir Motyl - director of the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha." Actors for the main roles were approved by him after a long search. How was the picture created? It is known that Bulat Okudzhava is the co-author of the script for the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha." Actors and roles were partially identified at the initial stage of creating the picture.
In the career of Motyl before the start of work on this film, a small crisis formed. And suddenly the director heard that in the domestic cinema there are no good and patriotic comedies on a military theme. Vladimir Motyl decided to take advantage of the omission of his colleagues. And he turned to Okudzhava for help, because he highly appreciated the work of this poet and writer. The story of an intelligent and dreamy guy who found himself in the war, according to Motyl, it was difficult to create without him. In addition, Okudzhava fought, unlike the director of the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka, Katyusha."
Actors and roles
A photo of the lead actor is presented in the article. Oleg Dal was an incredibly gifted artist. But, as you know, he suffered from alcohol addiction. At the time of filming, he was expelled from all theaters precisely for this reason. Which, however, did not stop Dahl from attending the test with a very independent appearance.
Already at the stage of writing the script, Motyl decided that this particular actor would play the main character in the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka, Katyusha." Reviews about the film are extremely positive. And they belong to both viewers of the seventies and modern admirers of Soviet cinema. And this is a considerable merit of Oleg Dahl. Later, Vladimir Motyl repeatedly denied rumors that the actor was a drunken alcoholic. In work, he gave all his best. And I never broke the shooting.
Finding an actress for the role of Zhenya Zemlyanikina turned out to be a difficult task. Vladimir Motyl and Bulat Okudzhava initially decided that the heroine should be bright, attractive, but possessing some feminine rudeness. The director was nominated by Natalia Kustinskaya. However, he immediately rejected it. Find the actress for the main role Motyl helped teachers of the Shchukin school.
It is noteworthy that after graduating from the theater university Figlovskaya did not work by profession. She decided that her acting career did not take place, worked as an engineer in a closed institution and was very surprised by the offer of the famous director to play the main female role in his film.
Other roles
The role of Zakhar Kosykh was performed by Mikhail Kokshenov. For this actor, the image of a simple guy was already entrenched, in the vocabulary of which there are an abundance of phraseological units of folk speech. By the way, after filming the film, Okudzhava presented the artist with one of his books, calling Kokshenov "a well-disguised intellectual."
In the filming of the picture also took part:
- George Shtil.
- Mark Bernes.
- Pavel Morozenko.
- Bernd Schneider.
Interesting Facts
When work on the script was completed, the leaders of Mosfilm, on whose decisions the fate of a particular picture depended, the film was closed. In the film of Vladimir Motyl there was a tragic end. And this was unacceptable in Soviet cinema of those years. The director had to go around several instances before he received permission to shoot the film. Lev Kulidzhanov helped him in this , allowing him to indicate his name in the credits.