One little girl dreamed of becoming a ballerina, she dreamed of dancing in a white tutu in Swan Lake, and everyone was watching her with light fluttering movements. This girl - Natalya Arinbasarova - soon became famous throughout the world. As a child, she did hours for hours in front of an old cabinet with a darkened mirror and sewed bundles of curtains for herself. Natalia was born into a military family, a Kazakh nationality, and a Polish refugee. There were many children in the family, and my mother worked all day around the house. The family wandered from one garrison to another, until finally settled in their native Alma-Ata.
Ballet
Natalia Arinbasarova, whose biography was just beginning, was able to get into the choreographic school. Her dream was fulfilled: a year later she was on the list of the most gifted children. Ahead was a brilliant future and training at a choreographic school at the Bolshoi Theater.
Another medical examination took away Natalia’s crystal dream: the diagnosis of “heart disease” sounded like a sentence. She understood that she would no longer be able to practice ballet professionally. The school did not yet know about the diagnosis, and the girl tried in every possible way to avoid the mandatory annual medical examination. Once, due to a confusion with her names, she got on the set to Andrei Konchalovsky. She was immediately approved for a role in the movie "First Teacher."
First role
The first meeting of the director and the future movie star took place under curious circumstances, because Konchalovsky initially chose a completely different girl, and they forgot to write the name in the school and in a hurry decided that Arinbasarova was chosen. When Natalya entered Konchalovsky, he looked perplexedly at the girl wrapped in a huge drape coat and wrapped in a scarf. Having examined closer the impeccable young beauty of the future ballerina, he immediately decided to take samples and was amazed at how confidently Natalya stood in front of the camera. However, the girl had exams ahead, and after the tests no one called her for a month, she almost got sick of filming when a telegram arrived calling her to shoot in Frunze.
Natalya refused, which caused such violent anger at Konchalovsky that he called her and swore terribly. As a responsible person, Arinbasarova realized that she was letting the director down and went to Frunze. At first, everything got on her nerves, as the make-up artists and the director, calling the girl too clean, began to sculpt the image of a village orphan. First of all, she was cut off her hair, smeared in glycerin and earth, dressed in frank rags. Looking at herself in the mirror, the girl barely restrained her tears. When she saw the first footage, she was struck by the beauty that could not spoil the short disheveled hair and hair cuts.
Star
Thus was born the star of Soviet cinema Arinbasarova Natalia Utevlevna. The debut was so successful that the girl was awarded the Venice Film Festival, beating Jane Fonda and Bibi Anderson. Leaving the ballet school, Natalia entered VGIK. From the first year she began to actively act in films. The brightest and most successful work of those years was Jamilya based on the story of Chingiz Aitmatov.
The directors felt: filming Arinbasarova even in an episodic role, they doomed their films to success. There was something in her that fascinated the audience. On the set, she acted like a real professional. She could play the same scene ad infinitum until a small masterpiece came out. Being very young, she somehow felt the sixth sense of what her heroine should become, how she should move or speak. Her appearance spoke for itself, and the directors liked to shoot her close-up. The usual look of the actress was much more eloquent than any dialogue. Natalia Arinbasarova, whose photo instantly flew around the world and made her famous, continued to work on herself. Like all ballet, she possessed amazing tenacity and hard work.
Years of becoming an actress
At VGIK, Natalia got into the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov, who from the very beginning favored the young star. He even shot it in his film “By the Lake,” introducing a new character for Natalya specifically in the script. She played her dream in the movie: she was assigned the role of a young ballerina, and the heroine of Arinbasarova was forever remembered by Soviet moviegoers.
Natalya Arinbasarova, whose nationality is Kazakh by her father, considers herself more of a European woman thanks to her metropolitan education, but sometimes her explosive oriental character makes itself felt.
Andrey Konchalovsky
By the way, she played the ballerina, already being a mother, because right after the filming of “The First Teacher”, actress Natalya Arinbasarova married Andrei Konchalovsky. A year later, became the mother of Yegor. Unfortunately, family life with the director did not work out. The fact is that Konchalovsky was from the very beginning aimed at going abroad and creating there. In those days, this was possible only after marriage to a foreigner, and Natalia and her son did not fit into the grandiose plans of her husband.
Despite the divorce, Natalya Arinbasarova and Konchalovsky remained good friends, she was always grateful to him for bringing her to the cinema and making her famous. In addition, Andrei was very attentive to his son Yegor and made possible his training in Cambridge and Oxford. The natural talent inherited from both parents helped him become a famous director.
Daughter Katya
Thanks to her amazing beauty, Natalia Arinbasarova, whose personal life was the subject of attention of the entire "cinema" party, very soon married a famous artist and cameraman Dvigubsky. They had a daughter, Katya, who later also became a director, despite the fact that she graduated from VGIK, and she was promised a brilliant career as a romantic actress. The girl was amazingly talented, she wrote several scripts, starred a lot and she acted as a director.
In 1999, the daughter of Natalya Arinbasarova, Katya, wrote a biographical book, which she dedicated to her mother. The book "Lunar Roads" became a bestseller, barely seeing the light, the fate of a Kazakh girl who dreamed of ballet and blown up all the ideas about Soviet cinema overnight was debutingly written, making her debut in "The First Teacher". Natalia Arinbasarova, whose children received a brilliant education abroad, followed in the footsteps of her parents and went into the film business, proud of Yegor and Katya.
Third marriage
The marriage with Dvigubsky, who was at first very happy, cracked a few years later. Natalya broke up with her second husband, connecting her fate with the director Eldor Urazbaev. The new spouse had her own children, and Natalya did everything to make them feel love and comfort in her father's house. At first it was difficult for her, but very soon she was able to win the love of her spouse's children. Their relationship continued even when the couple broke up.
Arinbasarova with great love recalls all her marriages, she says that all husbands were very respectful of her profession, helped in self-improvement and were always there in difficult times. She, as a wise oriental woman, was always interesting to her spouses, she never closed herself in family life.
Konchalovsky was very kind to Katya, he even helped her, paying part of the amount for studying abroad. At first, Katya had small problems with her own father, since the girl required attention and suffered at first because of her parents' divorce. Katya considers Eldor to be his real father, putting her on her feet and giving her an excellent upbringing. Eldor was always there in difficult times, he helped with advice.
Strong woman
When Natalya broke up with Dvigubsky, or rather, he left the family, all the cares fell on the fragile shoulders of the actress. She not only earned money, but was a strict mother and earner of everything scarce. Left alone with two children, she worked with a vengeance. There was no one to sit with Katya; I had to send her to a French boarding school for two years. Both mother and daughter were terribly worried about this fact, but there was no other way. Later, Dvigubsky left for his native France and got married there, and after many years committed suicide in his workshop. This was an absolute shock for Natalia and her daughter. The worst thing was that nothing foreshadowed such a tragedy, no one could explain this fatal act.
Late work
Arinbasarova continued to work in the cinema. She starred in a huge number of paintings by famous Russian directors. Basically, these were typical roles, however, the actress's true talent could make them unforgettable and unique. The only atypical and characteristic image went to her in the Pankratov-Black movie “The Nippel System.” Natalya played the role of an alcoholic, which made her incredibly happy, as she could imagine the facets of her talent in a new light. She lived in the role for a long time, went to the nearest store and watched the life of the declassed elements, noticed how they talk, what they are dressed in. Of course, the role turned out to be interesting, especially since the film was shot during the difficult period of Gorbachev’s Prohibition. Many episodic roles also brought first glory, as in the film "Russian Roulette", where it was remembered by the audience as a fragile karate girl.
Happiness
The creative life of the actress is in full swing, she is constantly in sight, in demand by the directors. Natalia Arinbasarova, whose biography as a child made a sharp turn, is not afraid of change, she is alien to digging in the past, she is happy every moment, next to her everyone becomes warm and comfortable.
Very interesting was the work in the epic Mansurov's "Saga of the Ancient Bulgars." Natalia performs a lot, gives creative evenings, where she talks about her achievements and life situations. She is an excellent storyteller, and viewers love such biographical stories, especially since the actress was close to many of the leading figures in Russian cinema. She herself says that in her youth she really wanted to play in Shakespeare, she imagined herself Ophelia or Juliet, but it did not work out, apparently, because of the textured appearance. As her former mother-in-law, the mother of Andrei Konchalovsky, called “pure Gauguin”.
Lovely family
Arinbasarova is philosophical about her age and the fact that now she is removed much less, because it is impossible to get everything, but she is insanely happy as a grandmother, adores her granddaughter and often tinkers with her, helping her son and daughter-in-law in raising a child. Arinbasarova Natalia Utevlevna - a happy person who has taken place, she is surrounded by her children and loved ones. The actress is not afraid to age, she just has no time.