The film "The Noble Nest" (1969), whose actors received positive reviews from viewers and critics, was shot based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. The film was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
Plot of the film
Actors of the film "The Noble Nest" (1969) were given the opportunity in this film to demonstrate all the facets of their talent. The plot quite accurately repeats the events of the novel of the Russian classic.
In the center of the story is Fedor Ivanovich Lavretsky. He spent 11 years in Paris, after which he returned to his native estate.
Lavretsky arrives depressed, disappointed with life. It turns out that his wife cheated and cheated on him. In addition, he was very difficult to endure separation from Russia. This exhausted him greatly. So he appears before the viewer at the very beginning.
Very little time passes, and Lavretsky literally transforms before our eyes. He is falling in love. His beauty is conquered by the young daughter of his cousin named Lisa. Soon, from newspaper reports, he learns that his wife died in France. The culmination of the picture is the declaration of love of the protagonist Lisa and the return from abroad of his wife, who is alive and healthy. All this greatly complicates the plot, which only at first glance seems so simple.
The saddest thing for the protagonist is that Lisa also fell in love with him during this time, and the appearance of his wife ruined all plans. The blame for this was an unfortunate mistake in the magazine reporting her death.
Leonid Kulagin
In the film "The Noble Nest" (1969), the actors and the roles that they perform won over the frankness of many viewers.
The key male image went to the People's Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Kulagin. He played in many provincial theaters. Then he was a director. In the movie, this was one of his first roles. Prior to this, Kulagin appeared only in the image of Commissar Parfyonov in the film almanac "The Beginning of an Unknown Century" two years earlier.
After the role of Lavretsky, Kulagin played in several dozen films. For example, in the historical drama of Yaropolk Lapshin "Privalovye Millions", the historical film of Sergei Tarasov "The Adventures of Quentin Dorward, the arrow of the royal guard", the drama of Irina Poplavskaya "The Enchanted Wanderer". As we see from the last film, he often got the role of domestic landowners.
Irina Kupchenko
Actress Irina Kupchenko in the film "The Noble Nest" (1969) played the charming Lisa Kalitina. She is People's Artist of the RSFSR. For her, this work was the debut, but far from the last.
Currently, Kupchenko is a famous actress who has starred in dozens of films. After the success of her Lisa Kalitina, the directors began to actively invite Kupchenko to their work.
The film "The Noble Nest" was only the first in her fruitful career. It was followed by the drama by Andrei Konchalovsky “Uncle Vanya”, the historical film by Vladimir Motyl “Star of captivating happiness”, the psychological drama by Vitaly Melnikov “Vacation in September”.
In 1988, Kupchenko received the Nika Award in the nomination for Best Supporting Role for her work in the psychological drama Rasim Ojagov's Another Life. In 2016, she received the Nika Award already in the nomination for Best Actress for the image of a history teacher with 40-year-old experience of Alla Nikolaevna in the drama Alexey Petrukhin Uchilka.
Beata Tyszkiewicz
The role of the wife of the protagonist Varvara Pavlovna in the film "The Noble Nest" (1969) was performed by the Polish actress Beata Tyszkiewicz. With her unexpected return from Paris, she impressed many viewers of the film.
By the way, this was not the only work of Tyszkiewicz with domestic directors. In 1984, she played the role of Anna Losser in Igor Gostev's crime drama "European History", and in 2014 she played Marta Lipinskaya in the 4-episode military drama Oleg Gaze's Martha Line.
Victor Sergachev
An important role in the plot of this picture is played by Vladimir Nikolaevich Panshin, a friend of Lavretsky, an actor in the film "The Noble Nest" (1969).
Sergachev, first of all, became famous as a theater actor. He could be seen on the stage of Sovremennik, Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky and the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.
There are several directorial works in his career. Of these, the most famous is the production of the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment."
His most notable works in the cinema are Nikolai Kalinin’s children's adventure film “The Dirk”, Alexander Zakharov’s fantastic painting “The Invisible Man”, and Boris Rytsarev’s fairy tale “Sitting on the Golden Porch”, where he played Kashchei the Immortal.
Vasily Merkuryev
In the film "The Noble Nest" (1969), the actor Vasily Merkuryev played the role of Sergei Petrovich Gedeonovsky. This is the famous people's artist of the USSR.
Work in this picture, unlike most other actors, became for him one of the last in his career. He began working on the set in the mid-20s, playing in the little-known film "The Ninth of January."
Perhaps he gained the greatest popularity after playing the role of a senior lieutenant by the name of Tucha in the comedy military film "Heavenly Quiet" by Semyon Tymoshenko. In the film-tale of Nadezhda Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro, "Cinderella" played the Forester, and in the comedy of Mikhail Kalatozov "Faithful Friends" by academician of architecture Nestratov.
Total played more than 60 roles in the movie. The audience remembers him well in the military drama Mikhail Kalatozov “Cranes Are Flying”, the comedy by Alexander Stolbov “The Ordinary Man”, the vaudeville by Konstantin Yudin “On the Stage”, the comedy Vitaly Melnikov “The Seven Brides of Corporal Zbruev,” the fantastic comedy by Richard Viktorov “Moscow - Cassiopeia” .