2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
It's amazing how different destinies sometimes develop for truly talented people! Some suffer great success and world fame, others life leads to a dead end, and, unable to cope with failures, they fade away, never reaching their peaks. Inna Gulaya is the greatest actress who has become an example of just such a sad life and creative story.
Childhood and youth
She was born shortly before the start of the Great Patriotic War, on May 9, 1940, in the city of Kharkov. Subsequently, the actress shared her childhood memories, saying that she remembers very well how difficult it was to restore the country in the post-war period. Gulaya Inna Iosifovna, like all her peers, graduated from a regular school and decided to enroll in a theater studio at the Central Children's Theater.
In those days, in order to enter a theater university, it was first necessary to obtain a certain work experience, but Inna, while still working at the factory in 1960, was lucky enough to star in her debut film Clouds over Borsk. Then the famous screenwriter and director Vasily Ordynsky noticed her and invited her to play the role of Olya Ryzhkova in this dramatic film. Inna Gulaya recalled that all her comrades in the workshop were surprised for a long time and did not believe that she was the one who starred in the movie. However, such inquiries did not stop until Inna left the factory in 1962 and entered the Shchukin Theater School.
Start of serious work
But being a simple worker, Inna Gulaya managed to star in two more films, one of which is the comedy melodrama "Noisy Day" by Grigory Natanson and Anatoly Efros. The second made her truly famous at that time. It was a picture of 1961 "When the trees were big" directed by Lev Kulidzhanov. The actress got used to the image of the village girl Natasha so much that the elite of Soviet cinema, after watching the film, called Inna a real find and began to prophesy her a great future.
Significant roles in Inna's career can also include the image of Shura, Hasek's wife, in the Czechoslovak-Soviet film "Big Road" and the role of Shurochka Soldatova in the film by Sofia Milkina and Mikhail Schweitzer called "Time, Forward!".
Meeting and life with Gennady Shpalikov
Some time after the first big success, the actress Inna Gulaya meets a famous poet, screenwriter ("Ilyich's Outpost", "I'm walking around Moscow") and an aspiring film director Gennady Shpalikov. Strong mutual feelings arise between them, and they decide to get married. Passionately in love, Inna considers her chosen one a genius, does not pay attentionattention to the fact that Gennady is not getting married for the first time, and to the rumors about his addiction to alcohol.
At the end of 1962, the couple married, and on March 19, 1963, their daughter Daria was born. However, at a new stage in Shpalikov's career, a fatal event occurred for the couple's life. The fact is that at a meeting of the leaders of the Union with figures of the Soviet cinema, held in the Kremlin, Gennady had the imprudence to speak sharply against politicians and their work. After this incident, Shpalikov and his wife could no longer count on the successful continuation of their careers.
The only and last directorial work of Gennady was the film "A Long Happy Life", in which his wife Inna Gulaya played the main role. The family everyday life of the spouses was difficult, full of hardships and troubles. Inna was still invited to play episodic roles, but Gennady's career seemed doomed, he became depressed and began to drink heavily. In November 1974, he hanged himself at the writer's dacha in Peredelkino.
End of career and life
This tragedy caused the actress a deep emotional wound. Friends said then that the wonderful light in the depths of her eyes had faded, and, according to Inna herself, she continued to live only for the sake of her daughter. Since 1975, the actress has taken part in the filming of only four films, including Mosfilm's The Flight of Mr. McKinley and the 1987 melodrama The Kreutzer Sonata. She became her last film work.
May 27, 1990 Gulaya Inna Iosifovna died at 51life. Death was due to an overdose of sleeping pills. According to the most common version, the cause of her death was suicide.
Simple great actress
In her short life, Inna Gulaya, whose biography is filled with tragedy, nevertheless showed what a deep, versatile and talented actress she was. In her works, she demonstrated the ability to get used to the role to the last cell, connecting with the image with all her heart.
Yuri Nikulin, Inna Gulay's partner in the film When the Trees Were Big, spoke of her as a person who made an indelible impression on those around her. She captivated the viewer with her sincerity and "huge, pure, soul-piercing eyes." It remains only to guess what an unprecedented contribution to the development of cinema could have been made by this never-ignited star, if her fate had turned out differently.
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