Films with Alice Freundlich in the title role are appreciated and loved by all, without exception, fans of domestic cinema. On the account of this Soviet and Russian actress, several dozen roles, the most striking of which almost immediately entered the golden cinema fund. In this article we will talk about the most striking and memorable works of the People's Artist of the USSR.
Professional career
Films with Alice Freundlich in the title role without difficulty will be remembered by any fan of Soviet and Russian cinema. The heroine of our article was born in Leningrad in 1934.
The actress graduated from the Ostrovsky Leningrad Theater Institute. After that, she worked at the Komissarzhevskaya Theater.
She made her debut on the big screen in 1955 in the drama “Unfinished Tale” by Friedrich Ermler about the talented shipbuilder Yuri Ershov, who was paralyzed after an accident. She played a cameo role, which was not even indicated in the credits.
"Be in love..."
The first film with Alice Freundlich in the title role was released in 1968. It was a drama by Mikhail Kalik "To Love ...".
The picture is composed of four short stories, each of which begins with an epigraph from Song of Songs. The heroine of our article played the key role of the girl Ani in the second short story.
It tells about a young man Sergei, who parted with his girlfriend on a winter evening, going home on foot through the snowy Leningrad. At the monument to Peter I, he sees a girl in the form of a Blizzard, whom he invites to a dance. On the tram, he meets the crying conductress Anya, who is trying to calm him down, and then goes off to see him home.
In this film, with Alice Freundlich in the title role, she played a girl who was abandoned by a young man, having been forced to have an abortion. Sergei in a fit of rage breaks her portrait, convincing to forget it in any way.
"Family happiness"
After the first success, many drew attention to the actress. Films with the participation of Alice Freindlich began to appear regularly on the screens.
In 1969, she starred in the comedy almanac of Sergei Solovyov, Andrei Ladynin and Alexander Shein, "Family Happiness." Again this is a picture consisting of four short stories.
The heroine of our article plays the bored mistress Anna Semenovna Kapitonova in the short story "There is nothing to do". She appears in the image of a bored summer resident who flirts with the teacher of her children. When the husband catches them with a kiss, he remains surprisingly cool. In fact, he long ago realized that his wife was naive and stupid, and therefore does not attach any significance to this episode.
In jest, he still offers the student to duel or to ensure the happiness of this woman. The romantic young man agrees to a duel, Anna Semenovna’s husband needs to make great efforts to dissuade him from this rash act.
"Anna and the Commander"
In the melodrama of Eugene Hrynyuk "Anna and the Commander" she plays the wife of the protagonist.
At the center of the story is the playwright Vadim Petrovich, who plans to write a script about the famous scientist who died during the test.
The playwright meets his wife, making many surprising discoveries for himself, which as a result prompt him to devote the script to a married couple, as romantic relationships turn out to be more important and interesting than all his works.
"Love affair at work"
This film with Alice Freindlich in the title role in 1978 became one of the most striking paintings of the year. Lyrical comedy of Eldar Ryazanov "Office Romance" has become one of the most famous paintings with this actress.
The film tells about the relationship between the 40-year-old Anatoly Novoseltsev, who works as a senior statistician in a large institution, and the director of this organization Lyudmila Kalugina, which is played by Freindlich.
She appears before the viewer as a real “cracker,” a lonely and unhappy woman in her personal life who has no friends, since one of them took her beloved man many years ago. She devotes herself to work, the first coming to work and leaving home the very last. This is a business woman who deliberately suppressed the feminine within herself.
Everything changes when a divorced man literally breaks into her life, who alone brings up two sons. He is not self-confident and shy, but it is he who manages to melt the heart of the boss.
"Old Fashioned Comedy"
In 1978, together with Igor Vladimirov, the heroine of our article plays the main role in the melodrama of Tatyana Berezantseva and Era Savelyeva "Old-Fashioned Comedy". The film with Alice Freindlich tells about the meeting of the chief doctor of a sanatorium in the Baltic with his patient, which ends in an ugly conflict.
The head doctor reports to the patient due to a violation of the regime, the woman is with character. She begins to object to the doctor, which is what he liked. After some time, their relationship is improving, the man decides to invite her to a restaurant.
At the end of the picture, the heroine Freindlich is going to leave home, but realizes that she will never be able to leave this man.
"Dangerous age"
In 1981, Freindlich appeared in the title role in Alexander Proshkin’s tragicomedy “Dangerous Age”. This is a story about the Rodimtsev spouses who have been married for about 20 years, only after realizing that there is no mutual understanding between them. The only solution to this problem seems to them the exchange of apartments and the upcoming divorce. In reality, everything is much more complicated. They have a growing teenage son who does not withstand the difficult situation at home and leaves for another city to enter a naval school. In addition, family drama prevents each spouse from focusing on work, they get divorced.
Freundlich’s husband is played by Juozas Budraitis. In the film, he is a talented perfumer taster, who is invited as a rare specialist to identify the spirits of a woman who committed a crime. In the process of identification, the suspect injures his nose, after which he loses the ability to recognize odors.
Only a chance meeting with his ex-wife surprisingly returns him his unique ability.
"Large"
Freundlich has not yet completed her career, although she is already 83 years old. In 2017, a film about ballet with Alice Freindlich was released. This is a drama by Valery Todorovsky "The Big One".
In this tape, the famous actress got the image of Galina Mikhailovna Beletskaya. In the picture, several time plans are replaced one after another. The audience watches the first years of the heroine at the ballet academy, the preparations for the final performance after eight years of hard work and the career at the Bolshoi Theater, which began after the triumphal release.
Already in the early 2000s, in this ballet film with Alice Freindlich, a drunken dancer Pototsky noticed a surprisingly dancing girl Julia on the street of a small provincial town. He brings her to Moscow to the famous Soviet ballerina Beletskaya, who now has become an equally famous teacher working in the ballet academy.
During her studies, Julia, who turns out to be a difficult teenager with several drives to the police, draws close to Beletskaya. The famous ballerina even gives her her earrings with diamonds, taking her word from her that she will never sell them and will not show anyone, but will wear them for the first time when, like the donor, she will dance on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater.
This is a fascinating story about the ascent of a simple provincial girl onto the stage of the country's most famous theater. The key role is played by her famous mentor, which Freindlich plays.