For more than five decades, the Soviet melodrama āIt Was in Penkovā has not left the screens. The actors, whose photos are now in front of you, played the main roles in this film, their faces are probably familiar to all moviegoers.
The film was shot based on the story of
S. Antonov, she still has not lost the love of the audience. The film premiered in 1958. The shooting took place in a small village in the suburbs, the actors, together with the director
Stanislav Rostotsky , lived there, they even went in the same clothes as they were shot. Local residents eventually got used to them as the heroes of the film and forgot who they really are. It is in such an atmosphere that real masterpieces of cinema are created.
Short movie description
You can not remain indifferent, watching the events that unfold in the film "It was in Penkov." The actors displayed a love story on the screen, and love, as everyone knows, very often brings not only happiness, but also suffering. The plot is based on a love triangle. A tractor driver Matvey Morozov lives in a small village, and the chairmanās daughter is in love with him. At this time, the city beauty Tonya arrives in the village. Since that time, the life of Matthew and his bride has changed.
Spectators for the first time see the main character Matvey when he rides on a train, returning home from prison. Under the sound of wheels, he begins to recall all those events that led him to "places not so distant." In his native village, Morozov was considered the first guy in the village. He worked for ten, but also liked to play tricks. So much so that the local chairman did not already know what to do with him.
Once Matvey argued with the local leader Zephirov, whose tractor is more powerful, as a result, the collective farm equipment broke down. Morozov took all the blame on himself, now he faces a prison, but the chairmanās daughter Larisa intervened. The young people signed secretly, and the chairman had no choice but to bail the guy, because his son-in-law is now, after all.
Everything would be fine, but agronomist Tonya does not give rest to her young husband. She, trying to reason Matvey, imperceptibly fell in love with him, and he, having forgotten about his wife, only thinks about the city beauty. Larissa, burning with jealousy, at the instigation of the local healer Alevtina, decides to poison the homeowner. Having learned about this insidious plan, Morozov hurries to the instigator to punish her for giving the poison potion to his wife so that she mixes it with Toneās tea.
As a result, Matvey is in prison, Larisa is expecting a baby, and Tonya blames herself for everything that happened, although she did not accept Morozovās offer to run away together and did not want to ruin his family. Now the prison term is behind, and in front of his native village, the faithful wife Larisa with her son and Antonina. What will be the fate of these people?
āIt was Penkovā: actors and roles
- Vyacheslav Tikhonov - Matvey Morozov (tractor driver).
- Maya Menglet - Tonya Glechikova (agronomist and livestock specialist, granddaughter of Glechikov).
- Svetlana Druzhinina - Larisa (Matvey's wife).
- Vladimir Ratomsky - Ivan Savich (chairman, Larisa's father).
- Valentina Telegina - Alevtina Vlasyevna (moonshiner).
- Anatoly Kubatsky - Vasily Glechikov (Tony's grandfather).
- Evgenia Melnikova - Daria Morozova (mother of Matvey).
- Yuri Medvedev - Vasily Zefirov.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
The whole crew was selected with knowledge of the matter, this largely contributed to the success of the film "It was in Penkovo." The actors did their best and completely got used to the images of their heroes. The role of Matvey Morozov was performed by the young handsome Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Few people know that at first they invited Sergei Gurzo, but at the last minute the director preferred Vyacheslav.
Tikhonova did not want to approve the artistic council as a tractor driver, since the sophisticated beauty of the actor did not fit the image of a village hard worker. But Matvey in spirit is close to Vyacheslav, Tikhonov comes from a simple family, after school he studied at a vocational school and stood at a lathe.
For filming, the actor had to change his appearance. His hair lightened a little and his eyebrows fused on the bridge of his nose were shaved. It was believed that such eyebrows were not typical of a simple guy from the village. For Tikhonov this is the seventh film work, after it there were many films with his participation, but the role of Matvey remained for Vyacheslav the best.
Svetlana Druzhinina: from a ballerina to presidency daughters
Very beautiful actresses were approved for the main roles in the film "It Was in Penkov." The actors were happy to work with such girls as Svetlana Druzhinina and Maya Menglet. The artists happened to depict rivals in the plot of the film, although in life they got along well with each other.
It is interesting that Tikhonovās wife, Nonna Mordyukova, claimed the role of Matveyās wife. Another beauty was also invited to the test - Lyudmila Khityaeva. Everyone was surprised that the director chose the beginning actress Svetlana Druzhinina. Rostotsky was not mistaken, the Actress played a very realistic jealous wife, who at any cost is ready to fight for her love. There were even rumors that Tikhonov and Druzhinina had a real affair, but the actors refute this.
Svetlana at that time only studied for one year on an acting course, before that she graduated from ballet school, because of which she had a gait characteristic of ballerinas. As the actress herself recalls, on the set of the film it was very difficult for her to get used to walking, like normal people, the director threatened to beat with legs with sticks, if she did not change her mind, this was, of course, said as a joke.
The starring role of Maya Menglet
The actors of the film āIt was in Penkovā warmly welcomed the debutant Maya Menglet, who played the role of Antonina, into their collective. The director again surprised everyone by choosing a girl who had never before acted in films. Many actresses tried her place, including Rostotskyās wife Nina Menshikova, but in Maya Stanislav saw exactly the image of Tony that he wanted to show the audience.
The director was right, Menglet coped with her task, for her this role became a triumph. After the premiere of "It Was in Penkov", the unknown actress who was not known was awakened by the famous. She was recognized on the streets, her portraits were on posters, and her photographs were sold at kiosks.
"It was in Penkov": supporting actors
The success of each film depends not only on the main characters, actors of a secondary plan are also of great importance. In every picture, a villain should always be present. In our case, such is the village healer and the underground moonshiner Alevtina. Play this character happened to Valentina Telegin. It was her heroine who incited Larisa to poison Tonya. After all, she herself wanted Antonina to disappear from the village, this active Komsomol member, having achieved the construction of a new club, ditched Alevtina her entire business, finding a more worthy lesson for young people than drinking vodka in her hut.
Because of Alevtina, Matvey was sentenced to prison, but if, for example, Zefirov (Yu. Medvedev) had been right and cowardly in his place, then there would have been no business in the village of Penkovo. Zefirova even the chairman himself calls the collective farm weed. The guy seems to be in the forefront as well, but none of his fellow villagers evokes sympathy for his law-abiding personality. Due to the fact that the director, as it were, taunts the editorial of the collective farm, the film āIt Was in Penkovā was not released for a long time, but in the end the film received approval from above, and the audience enjoyed watching this touching love story.