Malvina, Guest from the future, Little Red Riding Hood. From childhood, these girls were famous throughout the Soviet Union. Has fame brought them happiness? How was their adult life?
To become a star, modern children only need to post a couple of top videos on Youtube. But before, the road to fame was much longer. To become famous, it was necessary not only to play a movie, this movie also had to become popular among the audience. These girls in the USSR managed to achieve real fame: they talked about them and predicted a stellar future for them. Films with their participation to this day remain classics of children's cinema. How was the fate of the most famous young actresses of the Soviet Union and what are they doing today?
Yana Poplavskaya - Little Red Riding Hood ("About Little Red Riding Hood. Continuation of the old tale ")
Little Red Riding Hood became the main recognition for Yana Poplavskaya / photo kulturologia.ru
There are a great many adaptations of the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the world. However, none of them can compare in popularity with the Soviet film “About Little Red Riding Hood. Continuation of the old tale ", which was filmed in 1977. Its main character, a sweet and obligatory girl with an open sly smile, has won millions of hearts. And the song of Little Red Riding Hood "If for a Long, Long, Long" became, as it is now called, viral and was spinning on everyone's tongue.
For Yana Poplavskaya, who starred in this film, the shooting was not a film debut. Before that, she had already appeared in Yeralash # 6. And then she continued to actively act in films and on television. However, it was for Little Red Riding Hood that the girl received the most serious award of her acting career, the State Prize of the USSR for the best children's role, and became a real all-Union celebrity.
After this film, Yana Poplavskaya starred in episodic roles in six more Soviet films for children, but they did not become as popular. Nevertheless, the actress decided to link her career with art. She entered the Shchukin Theater School, and after graduation she went to work at the Sovremennik Theater. Now she is actively acting on Russian television as the host of various television programs, does not refuse serials, and also teaches at the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. The personal life of Little Red Riding Hood was successful. For almost 25 years she was married to director Sergei Ginzburg, who helped her in her acting career. Yana gave birth to her husband two sons, one of whom, Klim, followed in his father's footsteps and also became a director. The youngest, Nikita, is building his own business in the construction industry. True, Yana subsequently divorced her husband, but found herself a second spouse: radio host Yevgeny Yakovlev, who is 15 years younger than the actress, became him.
Oksana Alekseeva - Maya Svetlova ("The Adventures of Electronics")
Oksana Alekseeva kept the beauty and freshness of Mikey from Electronics / photo tvcenter.ru
One of the most popular children's adventure films in the USSR, "The Adventures of Electronics", made stars not only the twins Yura and Vova Torsuev. Oksana Alekseeva became no less famous, who got the role of the most beautiful girl in the class named Maya Svetlova. Initially, the director of the film Konstantin Bromberg wanted to take the main Little Red Riding Hood of the country, Yana Poplavskaya, for this role, but for some reason she refused. All-Union tests were announced, to which Oksana Alekseeva herself came. She went up to the cameraman and asked loudly: "When will I be filming?" The operator could not resist the girl's courage, made a test and showed Bromberg, after which he immediately approved the girl.
The beauty Mike immediately fell in love with the audience - the charming blue-eyed blonde became at that time a real standard of beauty among Soviet boys. However, Oksana Alekseeva's acting career did not work out. Despite her excellent external data, the girl did not want to associate her life with cinema and learned to be a programmer. During her studies, she met her future husband, with whom she moved to Minsk after the wedding. In marriage, the woman had a son, but the relationship ended in divorce. Soon after that, Oksana found a second spouse and went to him in France. She lives there to this day, practically without communicating with journalists.
Inga Ilm - Masha Startseva ("The adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, ordinary and incredible")
The star of the film "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Ordinary and Unbelievable" Inga Ilm was remembered by the audience for her huge brown eyes and a rather arrogant character. She was born in 1971 in St. Petersburg, on the banks of the Fontanka, in the family of a doctor and hairdresser. And in childhood I thought to follow in the footsteps of my father, but fate decreed otherwise. She got to shoot a film about the adventures of the good hooligans Petrov and Vasechkin, and after school she entered the Moscow Art Theater School. She also starred in The Musketeers 20 Years Later, in the drama Luna Park, in the comedy series Musical Forecast and other films. But, perhaps, her most stellar role is still the role of Masha Startseva. Now Inga has completely abandoned acting. She became an architectural historian. Happy in her second marriage to Igor Severtsev, a director, designer, artist and architect. Raises a son from his first marriage.
Natalia Guseva - Alisa Selezneva ("Guest from the Future")
Natalia Guseva, even after many years, looks like Alisa Selezneva / photo kino.rambler.ru
A short haircut, a shy smile and huge piercing blue eyes - Alisa Selezneva from the film "Guest from the Future" became an idol that all Soviet girls wanted to be like. At the same time, Natalya Guseva herself was ashamed of her popularity - she says that it was because of this that she stopped her acting career. Natalia got into the cinema quite by accident: in the 4th grade she was selected to the Gorky Film Studio for good diction: the girl played one of the main roles in the educational desk film about the rules of the road movement. These shots caught the eye of the assistant director Pavel Arsenov, who was just looking for the main character for the film "Guest from the Future."
The role brought Natalia all-Union recognition and great fame. After her, the girl was invited to shoot three times, but the image of Alice was so firmly entrenched in her that the audience did not recognize her in a different role. And Natasha herself decided not to seek fame anymore: at the age of 17, she was last offered to star in a crime drama, but she refused, so as not to destroy that bright halo that still continues to hover around the guest from the future.
Natalya Guseva took up biology very closely, which she loved very much at school. She entered the institute at the department of biotechnology, and then went to work at the Research Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, where she became a leading researcher. But her starring role in the cinema brought Natalia to her first husband: Denis Murashkevich fell in love with a guest from the future, and could not pass by when he met her in real life. He courted Natalia for a long time, and six years after they met, he nevertheless persuaded her to marry him. True, the marriage broke up after 8 years, from him Natalya left a daughter, Alesya.
Now Natalya Guseva is married for the second time, and completely devoted herself to the family. From her second marriage, her daughter Sofia is growing up (now she is 8 years old). But the eldest daughter has already graduated from college with a degree in director and is trying her hand at shooting videos and reports for Russian television.
Tatiana Protsenko - Malvina ("The Adventures of Buratino")
Tatiana Protsenko will forever remain the best Malvina of all times and peoples / photo focus.ua
Another heroine of a fairy tale is the smart, well-mannered and reasonable Malvina from the Soviet film "The Adventures of Buratino". The film was released in 1976, and from that moment on, the girl with blue hair brought Tatiana Protsenko incredible fame. Tanya was called the most beautiful girl in the country, the best Malvina of all times and peoples. Thanks to this role, it was under Tanya that Inna Vetkina (screenwriter of "The Adventures of Buratino"), wrote the script for the film "About Little Red Riding Hood". However, the girl failed to play in it: just before filming, Tanya fell off her bike and injured her head. The injury was so serious that doctors forbade her to play in the movies.
After that, Tanya was offered to shoot one more time: the role of Ksenia Filippova from the movie "Scarecrow" was being prepared for her. However, like Natalya Guseva, Tatyana refused the negative role. She was worried that from the eternal Malvina she would turn into the eternal Iron Button.
Despite the refusal to shoot, Tatiana could not completely abandon the world of cinema. She entered VGIK at the Faculty of Film Studies, worked with Rolan Bykov as a script editor, and wrote columns about cinema in various magazines. Tatyana Protsenko was married twice, and it was her second marriage with actor and journalist Alexei Voytyuk that became happy for her. Together they raised Tatyana's daughter from her first marriage and a joint son. Unfortunately, the woman was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. This May, after an unsuccessful fight against the disease, Tatyana Protsenko died.
Anna Ashimova - Nina Pukhova ("The Sorcerers")
The role in "The Wizards" was the first and only one for Anna Ashimova / photo back-in-ussr.com
The Soviet film fairy tale based on the script by the Strugatsky brothers "Sorcerers" has become one of the cult New Year films of the USSR. First of all, thanks to the incredible cast: Alexander Abdulov, Valentin Gaft, Semyon Farada, Mikhail Svetin starred in the film. In such a number of stars, the youngest actress of the film, Anna Ashimova, would be quite permissible to get lost. However, her role (Nina Pukhova, the younger sister of the protagonist) made the girl famous. True, Nina "spoke" with the voice of another actress, and sang with the vocals of Larisa Dolina. However, the children's role was played so masterly that Anna Ashimova was called a rising star.
Unfortunately, the popularity did not bring Anna any pleasure. She recalls that classmates at school teased her, considered her an arrogant and teased her in every possible way because of the sudden fall of fame. Most likely, this is why the nine-year-old girl refused to connect her life with the film industry. She did not take part in the auditions, and there were no more proposals from the directors. So Anna calmly graduated from school and entered the Faculty of Economic Informatics.
In the first year, she met her future husband: they studied side by side until the 4th year, and then got married. For several years after receiving her diploma, Anna worked in an insurance company, and then her son Alexander was born. Because of the child, the woman gave up her career and took up household chores. “Now I’m not a sorceress, but a real exemplary housewife,” she once told reporters about herself.
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