Olga Volkova - theater and film actress. She played many roles in Ryazanov’s films and other works of domestic filmmakers. Olga Volkova is an actress whose role did not allow her to play a single main character. But it is the great artists of small roles who usually win the greatest audience love.
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Olga Volkova, whose biography began in the city on the Neva in 1939, worked for most of her life in the theaters of St. Petersburg. At first it was the Youth Theater. Then comedy theater. Until 1996, Olga Volkova played on the stage of the BDT. Among her theatrical works, roles in such performances as “The Meek”, “Pickwick Club”, “At the Bottom”.
Olga Volkova is an actress who made her film debut in 1958. It is impossible to say at least a few words about each role of this artist in the framework of one article. After all, there are more than one hundred and fifty. In addition, recently, Olga Volkova has been actively acting in TV shows. The films in which she embodied the most vivid, catchy images on the screen are as follows:
- "Station for two."
- "Did you call the snow maiden?"
- "Forgotten melody for flute."
- "The promised heaven."
- "Totalitarian novel."
“Station for two”
Olga Volkova is an actress who can appear in the film for just a few minutes. But this exit of hers will be remembered by the audience, perhaps more than the play of the leading actors. The plot of the picture “Station for two” is a lyrical story recreated on the screen by the stars of Russian cinema: L. Gurchenko, O. Basilashvili, N. Mikhalkov. But even against the background of a brilliant acting ensemble, the small role of the restaurant waitress, which was performed by Volkova, was not lost, did not fade.
"Did you call the snow maiden?"
On the eve of the New Year, everyone hopes for a miracle. Not only a child, but also an adult. In this film, Olga Volkova played the role of a lonely woman who, trying to create a festive mood on New Year's Eve, calls Santa Claus and Snegurochka to the house.
“Forgotten melody for flute”
Not all of us manage to know true love. Especially if a person is an important official who has laid his life on the altar of a meaningless career. The main character of the film, played by Leonid Filatov, once falls in love with a nurse working in his organization. An affair begins. Only a few weeks later, he and she understand that their relationship is not an accidental affair.
But falling in love with officials is not permissible. This negatively affects the production process, the main components of which are: the signing of documents, the control of participants in amateur performances and, finally, the holding of meetings. Colleagues are trying to return the hero Filatov to the bosom of the family. Among these activists is Surov, a very colorful lady played by Olga Volkova.
The Promised Heaven
In 1991, Ryazanov created in the movie variations on the theme "Humiliated and Offended." The roles were played by the best actors of domestic cinema. Each of the heroes is a person with a broken fate. Volkova played in the film "Promised Heaven" Katya Ivanova - a woman who was once loved by an employee of the state apparatus. The only native person in the life of this heroine is a son. However, he drives his mother out of the house, preferring to drink in the company of his cohabitant.
"Totalitarian novel"
The picture takes place in the late sixties. The protagonist is a young Muscovite who, after an unsuccessful game of dissidents, goes to the backwater to his aunt in order to hide from the persecution of employees of the Lubyanka. Here he meets a woman, a worker of cultural enlightenment. Between them lies a huge chasm, which does not interfere with the plot of this novel.
The authors of the script called him totalitarian, because the heroes are constantly being monitored. Olga Volkova played the role of the aunt of the protagonist in this film. This woman has long understood: in order to live in this country, you must first be silent.