In the first moments, when you recall this actress, her roles in the “Big Break”, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, “Old Nags”, “Rodne”, “Can't Be”, “Mrs. Mary”, “Nameless Star” flash before her eyes , "Elder Son" and many other paintings loved by the audience with the participation of this great woman. We are talking about Svetlana Kryuchkova, whose filmography includes several dozen (almost 90) interesting and, perhaps most importantly, high-quality film works.
Post-war childhood. Parents
She is truly an extraordinary and very strong woman. The life of this talented actress is most incomprehensibly connected with the number 3: Svetlana Kryuchkova - an actress whose filmography, perhaps well-known to most viewers, entered the theater university three times, got married the same way and three times was on a thin hair between life and death. But she managed to endure moments of oblivion and poverty, the loss of loved ones. Kryuchkova remained positive and strong, mischievous, as in childhood, and an unusually creative person.
Her parents met during the Great Patriotic War. Mom was from the Pomors - the northern people. She was a very kind person, but, at the same time, very restrained. She played the guitar beautifully and sang. She was an employee of the Chisinau Statistical Office. Nikolai Kryuchkov - dad - was born in a small village located on the lands of the Gomel region. He was quite tough and aggressive - this is the duty of the profession. The man went through the entire Finnish war, served as an investigator of the NKVD, during the war he was a major in the SMERSH detachment. He left the service only when they began to expose the cult of Stalin.
Until now, Svetlana Nikolaevna recalls her father with an unceasing trembling in his voice. He raised his children very strictly, in military discipline. He could wake his three children - Sveta, Maya and Volodya - in the middle of the night, so that they would tell him the lessons learned.
Three attempts
The father did not share the desire of the youngest daughter to "go to the artist." Actress Svetlana Kryuchkova, whose biography and filmography has been of interest to fans of her talent for many years, recalled that at that difficult moment for her, her mother supported her. It was thanks to her that the girl in 1967 left to conquer the famous Sliver. Then the competition for the place left 240 people. Sveta managed to get through to the finals, but here she lost to a girl who later did not become an actress. Kryuchkova was very upset and returned to Chisinau, but the next year she tried again. And again, failure. And again - at the final stage.
Svetlana Kryuchkova, whose filmography is a significant layer in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema, this time did not return to her father's house.
At first, she lived with friends, then even went hungry, wandering around the train stations. Accidentally got a job as a fitter at the ZIL plant. There, in the utility room, she spent the night. But living conditions and physical activity turned out to be an excessive punishment for the girl and an excessive burden. Therefore, after some time, she returned home.
Svetlana decided to try her luck again in 1969. She had some free time, and the girl looked into the Moscow Art Theater School, where then they recruited applicants. This time everything worked out and Kryuchkova became a student, enrolling in the course of Vasily Markov, famous for his role as Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Nelly and Zinulya
Svetlana Kryuchkova, whose filmography is familiar to everyone who loves a good movie, made her debut while still a university student. Then, in 1971, she starred in the episode of the tape "Reserve Officer". But fame and popular love for her came a little later, in 1972, when the multi-part film "The Big Change" was released.
In it, the novice actress played Nelli Ledneva, who works at the factory during the day, and studies in the evening school in the evenings. According to the scenario, the girl is in love, but unrequitedly, with a new teacher - Nestor Petrovich, who, after failing in the graduate school exam, goes to this school to work and becomes a 9-A class teacher. Together with Nellie, her father is studying in the classroom - Stepan Semenovich Lednev, a very touching and kind person. But the presence of the pope is often embarrassing for a girl.
Work in this film instantly made the aspiring actress famous, despite the fact that her role was not the main one. And all thanks to the talent of Svetlana Kryuchkova. The filmography, the main roles played by her, as well as the roles of the secondary plan - all this suggests that she was recognized not only by the audience, but also by the directors.
But her main role was in one of the stories of Leonid Gaidai’s trilogy “It Can't Be!” - "Funny adventure". It speaks of the intricacies of extramarital affairs: the lover’s husband is her friend’s lover, and the communal lover’s neighbor is his wife’s lover. Kryuchkova played the artist’s mistress - Zinulya (Nikolai’s wife) - a bright and emotional young lady who, when everything was open, did not want to leave her comfortable one-room apartment and move to a communal apartment to Anatoly Barygin-Amursky, a large father.
"Mrs. Maria"
No one will doubt that the truly talented actress is Svetlana Kryuchkova. Where she starred, many viewers know. And though they did not watch all her film works, they probably could not miss this film.
Almost 40 years ago, the phrase uttered by the heroine Kryuchkova - Mrs. Maria - in the film of the same name directed by Natalya Troshchenko: “Talk to me, empty rail.” Yes, this is a film about the war, but it passes somehow outskirts, visible from afar. We can say that this tape is a psychological drama.
A neat little town with a recognizable look on the western edge of the country. On the hill are red-star tombstones of wood similar to each other; the field around the old castle, which the Nazis mined before the retreat; each time, the orphanages run out to meet army trucks passing by, hoping to get to know someone or be recognized as soldiers; a postman with sad eyes delivering funeral leaves ...
It was in this town that the acquaintance of the young and beautiful Polish merchant Mary (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and the joker soldier with a rustic village face (George Burkov) met. He is trying to look after Maria, who has attracted him, but all his efforts are shattered about her mocking intransigence. Yes, they defiantly walk along the streets of the town and even take pictures “for memory”. But Mary turns away and looks away with annoyance.
Throughout the war, Mary lives, fenced off from misfortune by common sense, she thwarts every attempt by indifferent eyes to break through to her conscience. And at first the viewer thinks that even Ivan - a soldier - can’t change anything in her soul, because the girl tried to freeze all her good feelings with her self-preservation instinct. But then there are subtle signs that the spiritual gimmick begins.
In this film, love is an inner need, a transformative power. Maria can not understand the new movements of her soul. She joins the great grief of the people, feels that the sympathy and respect of people is addressed to her and the crust of egoism is gradually melting.
At the end of the film, her request to the photographer to “turn” them with Ivan in that single photograph facing each other sounds a certain recognition.
Nina is a man who has lost his roots
“Relatives” is another film included in the “golden fund” of Soviet cinema, and in which the magnificent Svetlana Kryuchkova played. Filmography (all the main roles of the actress can be called masterpieces with confidence) she would not be complete without mentioning this picture. Despite the fact that the script was written for Nonna Mordyukova, Svetlana Nikolaevna managed to show her heroine a real, bright, a little hysterical, but so loving her mother and granddaughter.
The heroine of Mordyukova - Maria Konovalova - comes from the village to the city to visit her daughter (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and granddaughter (Fedor Stukov). But in the apartment of the daughter she finds a strange situation: the son-in-law left the family, at the daughter of the barbarian with some married man, nobody pays special attention to the granddaughter, and the girl does what she pleases.
With her rustic simplicity, Maria wants to establish the life and family relationships of her daughter, bringing this a lot of grief to loved ones.
Nina, performed by Svetlana Kryuchkova, is a man who has lost her roots: she escaped from the village, but did not stick to city life. She perceives a new life as real, and everything tinsel that is in it - as true and reasonable. All this cripples her as a person.
The crisis (and even the collapse) of the institution of the family, caused by tectonic social shifts, was menacingly outlined in Mikhalkov's Rodn. The final picture is all the more powerful: Maria and her granddaughter are catching up with Maria leaving the city on the railroad ties. All three freeze in an embrace, cry at the same time from mutual insults, remorse and love for each other, which makes them a family, no matter what.
"Bury Me Behind the Baseboard"
Another main role of the great Russian actress is Nina Antonovna Savelyeva, the grandmother of the eight-year-old boy Sasha (Nina's prototype is Lidia Sanaeva). Kryuchkova played a domineering woman, in some ways even tough. But she, nevertheless, loves her grandson very much and does not allow her daughter to educate him. That's because Nina Antonovna is sure: her daughter will not make Sasha happy. In her heart, she very much hopes that her daughter will not return for the boy (her daughter has a second family, her new husband is Sasha's stepfather).
At first, everything is going well, Sasha is satisfied, but over time, changes are taking place. Yes, grandmother cherishes and cherishes her grandson, trying to protect him from bad companies. But then peaceful custody develops into tyranny. Now, Sasha is forbidden to do what grandmother does not like. Frequent scandals between grandmother and mother lead to the fact that not childish thoughts appear in the boy’s head: he thinks that it would be better for him to die or live alone.
The same, always chatting Eliza
Another, though not the main, but very memorable role played by the brilliant Svetlana Kryuchkova (her filmography is truly unique in its diversity), is the role of Eliza Barrymore in the famous "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson."
The director did not have the slightest doubt about who would play the one whose unfortunate convict brother was shaking with fear in the swamp and in the end, along with the Cocker Spaniel Snuppy, was the victim of an ominous dog, Mrs. Eliza Barrymore, the wife of John Barrymore, Sir Henry's housekeeper. They chose Svetlana Kryuchkova, who at that moment was pregnant with her first son - Mitya.
At first, the actress wanted to abandon this role, because the character cried and wandered around the house with red eyes from tears. She was afraid that she might lose the long-awaited child. At that time, her husband, Yuri Veksler, was in a hospital with a heart attack. And the role of Svetlana had to cry almost constantly. And this strong woman chose a paradoxical path: when she uttered a text, she began to smile and laugh. “So the killer Selden is your brother?” Kryuchkova: “Yes, sir!” - smiles and begins to tell a story, which was partially invented by Alexander Adabashyan, who played her on-screen husband, - butler Barrymore: “It was a real angel, he just got into a bad company ...”
"Old nags"
Another interesting role was again the main one in the comedy of Eldar Ryazanov's “Old Nags”. The actress played Masha, in the past - a railroad worker, and now - a saleswoman of pies.
From the first frames of the film, the viewer can not tear himself away from the screen, admiring the fireworks of fidelity, kindness, liveliness, decency, humanism of the heroes of the film performed by the wonderful actresses of our cinema - Svetlana Kryuchkova, Leah Akhedzhakova, Lyudmila Gurchenko and Irina Kupchenko. Despite the difficult nineties, their characters managed to maintain decency, mutual understanding, and true friendship. Each of them has preserved human dignity.
These four friends who work in different organizations and are engaged in amateur activities together have one dream: to perform at the Variety Theater. They understand that this is unrealistic, but who can stop them from dreaming?
10 years pass, in the yard - the "nineties." Each of them has changed life, they survive as they can. An apartment was taken away from Lyuba (Liya Akhedzhakova), allegedly providing other housing, which in fact turned out to be a guard at the cemetery, also rented only for a month. Girlfriends team up to punish the offender Luba and return her apartment.
Personal life: husband first
Actress Svetlana Kryuchkova, filmography, the personal life of which does not cease to interest the townsfolk, got married three times and always - for love.
The first time she got married, being quite young - then Sveta was a third-year student. Parents agreed, but her father forbade her to change her last name. Her husband was a budding actor and poet Mikhail Starodub. The young man often allowed himself to tell his wife disgusting, calling her mediocrity and horror. Their union lasted four years. By the way, thanks to Starodub, she got into the “Big Break”: initially, Mikhail was invited to play the role of Ganji. But fate was such that it was Svetlana who played in this picture.
Husbands giving her sons
The meeting with the second husband took place on the samples of the film "Elder Son". She fell in love almost immediately. The cameraman Yuri Veksler was ten years older than her, and he lived in Leningrad. But Sveta left for the city on the Neva, quitting her beloved Moscow Art Theater. Very soon, the young actress realized that she was in an “interesting position”. Her pregnancy coincided in time with her husband's heart attack. Therefore, the expectant mother had to spend time and health on trips to the hospital to Yura and try to quickly finish the repair of the apartment so inappropriately started.
Kryuchkova then received very severe stress and she herself was hospitalized. Doctors diagnosed with the threat of miscarriage. Her first-born was born in August 1981, the birth was difficult, Svetlana's health was shaken. But already in 1983 she was on the set.
This marriage broke up 14 years after its conclusion. As the actress said, she and Yuri simply did not agree on the characters.
Her third husband was a man who has nothing to do with cinematography. It was Alexander Molodtsov, an employee of the restaurant, where Kryuchkova with her son and Larisa Guzeeva went for a cup of coffee. While the ladies were talking about their "female", little Mitya frankly missed, considering the interior of the room. A young man came up to the little boy, took his hand and gave him a tour of the restaurant. And then Mitya introduced his mother to his new friend. Sveta and Sasha got married just a few months later. And in 1990 they had Sasha Kryuchkov.
The actress always with unchanging warmth and love speaks about her boys, saying that she never managed to instill in them resourcefulness, cunning and the ability to adapt. Her sons are the last to think about themselves.