“Sailor from Comet” is a Soviet-era musical comedy film directed by Isidor Annensky. Modern experts often attribute the film to the review genre, which is similar to a musical. The difference between these two directions is only that the musical numbers in the revue structure are sometimes completely unrelated to the plot, as in the movie Sailor from the Comet, whose actors and roles became popular in 1958. This year the picture was released.
Plot
The film "Sailor from" Comet ", the actors and roles in which are selected very organically, has a standard plot for comedies of the Soviet era. The main character is Sergey Chaykin. On the screen, his image was embodied by Gleb Romanov. According to the plot, a talented young sailor falls in love with a beauty, a Komsomol member, a student, an athlete Elena Shuvalova (Tatyana Bestaeva). But another equally worthy young man claims the girl’s heart - the director of the House of Sailors Vadim Aleksandrovich, who is about to leave with her in the capital to participate in the World Festival of Talented Youth.
Thanks to his outstanding talent, Sergei manages not only after a few comic misunderstandings to establish relations with an impregnable beauty, but also become famous throughout the country. It was such a design of the director that actors and roles conveyed to the viewer. “The sailor from“ Comet ”presented a real hit to the domestic audience - the creation of the composer O. Feltsman“ The Black Sea ”, which is still performed by pop singers.
Acting Ensemble
Despite the unpretentious plot, the film was watched by about 45 million viewers. Everyone liked the actors and roles. “A sailor from the Comet became the leader of the 1958 film distribution. At the same time, the actor’s ensemble of the tape included only one major movie star - Nikolai Kryuchkov, who played a minor role as the boatswain Korney Petrovich Barabash.
Perhaps the artists involved in the work on this project, and lost to many of the galaxy of domestic legendary masters of the stage, spectators' favorites. But they literally became symbols of the pre-war era, an ideal embodiment of the dictates of that historical period, playing in the comedy Sailor from the Comet. The actors and roles of the film became an integral part of the cinema reality of Soviet cinema.
Nikolay Kryuchkov - boatswain
The participant of the film adaptations of the canonical works of K. Simonov (“In the Name of the Motherland”, “A Guy from Our City”), A. Korneychuk (“Front”), and after that the unprecedentedly popular comedy “Heavenly Slow-moving” - Nikolai Kryuchkov - really became the most experienced artist in the ensemble of the film "Sailor from" Comet ". Actors and roles were selected each other with the direct participation of Isidore Annensky. It was he who personally invited Kryuchkov to shoot as a wise, honored veteran of Soviet cinema. The director appreciated him for the naturalness of his reactions, his ability to completely merge with the situation being played out, and the ultimate organics.
Gleb Romanov - Sergey Tchaikin
Gleb Romanov is a universal actor. He reasonably and freely existed in the cinema world of the USSR era, later his already mature skill acquired depth and psychological accuracy. The artist had a chic voice range, impeccable plastic, knew how to play the accordion and sang songs in 17 languages of the world. He was remembered by the domestic audience for his impeccable game in the musical comedy Sailor from the Comet.
The actors and roles of the film did not go unnoticed, but the main character and his performer became the favorite of the beautiful half of the audience of the USSR. Romanov created on the screen the image of a simple guy, with an open soul, quite similar to an ordinary spectator. This recreated "direct resemblance" became the main advantage of the hero. It is for this similarity of the actor that the viewer fell in love with faithful love.
Tatyana Bestaeva - Lena Shuvalova
For a long time, Tatyana Bestaeva was called one of the most beautiful actresses in the USSR. The directors to a greater extent offered Bestaeva the roles of dudes, self-confident heroines, and foreign women. The actress led a truly bohemian lifestyle, had a lot of eminent and influential fans, among whom at one time Gerard Depardieu was listed . For many years Bestaeva was Lyudmila Gurchenko's best friend.
The film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Sergei Parajanov brought the actress extraordinary popularity, especially in foreign countries, in which she played the role of the Palagna. Nevertheless, the Soviet audience will definitely recognize Lenochka in T. Bestaeva from the comedy Sailor from the Comet, the actors and the roles of the film still cause warm nostalgic associations among the audience of the elderly.