This article tells about films with Nonna Mordyukova, the great Soviet and Russian actress, who was honored for the honor of inviting the best domestic directors to her projects.
The famous artist V. Ya. Wulf called her an actress with tremendous talent, who can brilliantly play any role - from dramatic to comedic. According to Wolfe, she always managed to clearly convey to the viewer what the director intended.
The owner of many awards and prizes, Nonna Mordyukova, films with which are also interesting today for a new generation of viewers, for a whole era, personified the strength and highest professionalism of the leading Soviet cinema.
The fact that the Russian public respected and appreciated her greatly is already indicated by the fact that some of the phrases said by her and her heroines have already become winged today (“When I drink, I’m so ... You know, I’m becoming so bad!”, “Our people don’t take a taxi to the bakery!”, “Modestly, but with style!”). The directors also appreciated it: Nikita Mikhalkov, confident that only she could play the main character Maria Konovalova in his drama Rodney, did everything possible so that the actress would not leave this project. "Relatives" immediately gained national love, largely thanks to the expressive and voluminous game of Nonna Mordyukova. During the rental in the USSR, this picture was watched by 15 million viewers. About her and other films with Mordyukova will be discussed below.
General information about the actress
Nonna Viktorovna Mordyukova is a Soviet and Russian actress. In the track record of the native of the Ukrainian village Konstantinovka 55 cinematic works. The debut for the actress was the role of Ulyana Gromova in the 1948 film "The Young Guard". For this work, the actress was awarded the Stalin Prize of the first degree in the field of literature and art.
short biography
Nonna Viktorovna was born in the town of Konstantinovka on November 25, 1925. She studied at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, from the walls of which she left in 1950. A year later, she becomes an actress in the Studio Theater of the film actor.
In 1972 and in 1974 she was named the magazine “Soviet Screen” by the best actress.
In 1974 he received the title People's Artist of the USSR.
Pictures, genres, communications
Films with the participation of Nonna Mordyukova represent the following movie genres:
- Biography: "Ballad of Bering and his friends."
- Military: "Quagmire", "War and Peace."
- Documentary: "Leonid Gaidai: from the funny to the great."
- History: “Two days of anxiety”, “Viburnum grove”.
- Short film: "Vanka", "The Suffering of a Young Hercules".
- Melodrama: “Burn, burn, my star”, “Alien relatives”, “Everything starts from the road”, “Station for two”.
- Musical: “Lev Gurych Sinichkin”.
- Family: Diamond Hand.
- Action: "Two days of anxiety."
- Drama: “Forbidden Zone”, “Daughter”, “Relatives”.
- Comedy: Thirty Three, Incognito from St. Petersburg, Shirley-Myrli.
- Music: "Mom."
She starred with such famous actors as Leonid Kuravlev, Oleg Tabakov, Nikolai Rybnikov, Inna Makarova, Maria Vinogradova, Mikhail Kokshenov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Evgeny Mironov, Evgeny Leonov, Lev Durov, Sergey Nikonenko and others.
She worked in the projects of directors Sergey Bondarchuk, Leonid Gaidai, Konstantin Voinov, Eduard Bocharov.
In the movie she played a widow, surgeon, guardian, foreman, neighbor, theater prima, liaison officer, dormitory commandant, empress, and house manager.
Significant Major Roles
The film with Mordyukova "Young Guard" was directed by Sergei Gerasimov. The picture, based on the work of the same name by Alexander Fadeev, was first presented to the viewer in the fall of 1948. The main characters of this military tape are the young residents of the city of Krasnodon occupied by the German invaders, waging a desperate struggle with the hated enemy.
“A Simple Story” is a Soviet film with Mordyuka, released on large screens in 1960. Here, the viewer is invited to follow the fate of the early widowed woman Alexandra Potapova, who was once entrusted to head the collective farm. A picture of the drama genre was watched by about 47 million viewers. She is one of the most visited projects of Soviet cinema.
In 1971, she played Fedosya Ugryumova in the film "Russian Field", where her heroine tries to regain her lost happiness after her beloved man left her for another woman.
In 1978, Nonna Mordyukova in the movie of the genre the military drama "Quagmire" portrayed Matrena Bystrov. The film examines the fate of a woman who lost almost all her loved ones in the war.
In 1981, the director Nikita Mikhalkov made a film based on the script of Victor Merezhko "Relatives." The star cast gathered in this picture: Nonna Mordyukova, Yuri Bogatyrev, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Ivan Bortnik. The heroine of Nonna Mordyukova, a straightforward woman of simple customs from the province, comes to a big city to reconcile her daughter and her husband.
In 1999, the actress played her last big role - Polina Yurieva in the film "Mom". This is a story about an elderly woman who spent fifteen years in prison and is trying to rescue her eldest son from a psychiatric hospital with her children.
The legendary actress died in Moscow on July 6, 2008 after a long illness.
Nonna Mordyukova, according to the editorial board of the British encyclopedia "Who is Who", is one of the most outstanding actresses of the XX century.