Vasily Ordynsky - Soviet actor, director and screenwriter. The most famous works are the films “A Man Was Born”, “Peers”, as well as the film adaptations of the works of Russian classics “First Love” and “Walking through the Agony”.
Biography
Vasily Ordynsky was born in 1923 in Kostroma. He dreamed of becoming an actor since childhood. But after graduating from school, they failed to enter the theater university: the war began. In August 1941, Vasily Ordynsky was at the front. But he was soon sent to a military school. Received the rank of officer, reached Berlin. And only in 1948 was demobilized.
During the war years, Vasily Ordynsky did not abandon his youthful dream of cinema. But now he didn’t want to play films, but to create them, so he entered VGIK at the directing department. Teachers of the Horde were Gerasimov and Makarova.
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In the movie, the hero of this article made his debut in 1954 with the movie "Trouble". Then there was the painting "The Secret of Beauty." Fame Ordynsky brought the film "Man was born." As a leading singer, the director saw his wife - young Lyudmila Gurchenko. But the artistic council did not approve her candidacy. The role of Nadezhda Smirnova took Olga Bgan. Beginning artist Lyudmila Gurchenko voiced the main character.
Films
In 1959, the melodrama Peers was released. The film tells about the fate of three girls. Sveta, Tanya and Kira have been friends since childhood, but after graduation, each of them goes her own way. Kira enters the theater university. Tanya - to a medical institute. Sveta is a frivolous person. She fails entrance exams and spends most of her time in a circle of dubious personalities. The film was played by the beginning actress Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina at that time. The picture of Ordynsky is also notable for the fact that it was in it that Vladimir Vysotsky made his debut. The star of the Taganka Theater got a cameo role not indicated in the credits.
Ordynsky Vasily is a director who created films in the spirit of socialist realism. In 1960, a picture was released to support the Khrushchev’s anti-religious campaign. The roles in the film "Clouds over Borsky" were performed by Nikita Mikhalkov, Inna Churikova and other actors.
The first film about the war in the work of the Horde was the picture "At your doorstep." The premiere took place in 1962. Other works of this director:
- "Big ore."
- "The Red Square".
- "First love".
- “Through all the years.”
- "The Road to Calvary".
For most of his paintings, Ordynsky himself wrote the scripts. In addition, in the movie he played two episodic roles. Vasily Ordynsky played an officer in the film "At Your Threshold" and a political instructor in Vladimir Basov's film "Shield and Sword".
Personal life
Also known as the first husband Gurchenko Vasily Ordynsky. The personal life of the director is not closely related to the biography of the famous actress and singer. But since the men of Lyudmila Gurchenko are a topic that has long been one of the journalists' favorites, Ordynsky is often remembered as one of her spouses.
One evening in VGIK, Vasily Ordynsky met an eighteen-year-old student from Kharkov. The young budding director married Lyudmila. According to the traditions of the world of cinema, he had to shoot his wife in each of his films, and certainly in the lead role. But that did not happen. A year later, Gurchenko left her husband. Neither he nor she ever publicly talked about these relationships. There are many versions about why the actress left her first husband. One of them was expressed by the creators of the biographical series “Lyudmila Gurchenko”.
In 1964, Ordynsky married a second time. His chosen one was the editor of "Mosfilm" Marianne Rooz. In this marriage, a daughter was born, who, although she played an episodic role in one of her father’s films, did not begin to connect her life with cinema.