Director and actress Natalia Naumova

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Promising film director and documentary filmmaker, actress Natalya Naumova was born into a famous cinematic family. Her film debut took place in early childhood, as soon as she was 5 years old, the girl, together with her mother, starred in her father's project "Tehran-43". She is a real creator who is in constant creative search, boldly taking steps into the unknown. This quality distinguishes Naumova from the majority of modern filmmakers who allegedly know the "formula for success".

Movies are not toys

Natalya Vladimirovna Naumova was born on the first day of spring 1974. Remembering her happy childhood, she focuses on the warm and cozy family atmosphere in which she grew up. For most, her parents Natalya Belokhvostikova and the legendary personality Vladimir Naumov have always remained great artists, for the girl they were just mom and dad. During her school years, Natalia showed a good talent as an artist, but as a teenager she abandoned drawing, for which her father constantly scolded her.

She practically did not feel the difficulties of the acting profession in her childhood, but at the age of 13, acting in the film "The Shore", she began to understand that not everything is so simple and the cinema is not at alltoys.

After receiving a certificate of secondary education, Natalya Naumova enters VGIK, where wise, wonderful masters A. Dzhigarkhanyan and A. Filozov become her mentors. The film debut of the young actress after graduating from VGIK is the film "White Holiday", in which the aspiring performer was lucky enough to play with the brilliant I. Smoktunovsky. It was the last creative work of the great actor. Innokenty Mikhailovich played the father, Natalya - his daughter.

Opening new horizons

When Natalya Naumova realized that the director's profession is no less interesting than acting, she again went to study, but already at the directing department, in the workshop of Surikova. Her debut work is the documentary chronicle "My Life in Cinema". After Naumova, she filmed a whole cycle "A Thousand and One Story about Cinema" for the channel "Culture".

For Natalia, documentary chronicles and feature films are not mutually exclusive, so her next project was the full-length film "The Year of the Horse, the Constellation of Scorpio", which was produced by Vladimir Naumov. According to the director, she was afraid that his authority would crush her author's vision, so she immediately set a condition for her father - not to appear on the set. The film tells a touching story of friendship and love between man and animal.

Second significant project

The second authorial work of the director and actress Natalia Naumova is the film "It's snowing in Russia". This is a story about a foreignjournalist who first came to Russia. A random telephone conversation radically changes the life of the protagonist, drawing him into a risky adventure. According to Naumova, this is an exclusively family picture. The father again acted as a producer and co-author of the script. One of the main roles was played by mother Natalya Belokhvostikova, besides her, I. Kokorin, V. Zolotukhin, K. Kozinskaya, A. Adabashyan and an actor from Bulgaria R. Mladenov starred in the project.

Natalia's personal life has always been hidden behind a curtain of secrecy. It is known for certain that her husband also graduated from VGIK, only the screenwriting department. But currently works in banking.