Actress Natalya Vilkina - the tragedy of lack of demand

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Among the actors and actresses of the Soviet era, phenomena arose, which were accompanied by a strong opinion as about something unearthly - from another time, from another world. Natalya Vilkina was such a phenomenon.

Any appearance of her on stage or screen gave rise to a feeling of a significant and large-scale personality, irresistible femininity and at the same time - incredible defenselessness against blows - either human evil will, or bad fate.

Children of the winners

In this generation of those born immediately after the Victory, there are many who, at the time of entry into life, will not have innate fear, whose parents came from a terrible war as winners and, realizing their strength, managed to pass on to their children part of this awareness. Natalya Vilkina was born on May 28, 1945.

There is also a fashion for free, creative professions. Natalya's parents were doctors and hoped that their daughter would continue their dynasty, but she chose the profession of an actor for herself, perhaps not realizing how unfree, dependent on others, life in theater and cinema would be.

On the second try

When after school Natalya Vilkina came to enter the Theater School. Schukin, she decided not toget involved in cosmetics and focus on the creative side of the exam. She did not pass to the second round and heard that her preparation in terms of acting was impressive, but here are the external data … She was told - she needs to get prettier.

After working for a year as a draftsman (which surprised her friends - they did not notice in her a tendency to such work - perseverance, thoroughness, meticulousness), she again came to the entrance exams in Pike. This time she came "fully armed", upsetting her mother with the amount of makeup that she used to influence the selection committee. Subsequently, she found out how the discussion of her candidacy went. And this time there was no firm conviction: “The preparation is not very good, the girl is rather weak, but what amazing external data!” Vilkina was enrolled.

Family course

On the course of the famous teacher Leonid Moiseevich Shikhmatov, which was released in 1967, many children of celebrities and future famous actors studied. They were Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Burlyaev, Nonna Terentyeva and others. During her studies, Natalya Vilkina marries actor Igor Okhlupin and soon gives birth to a daughter.

She did not have outstanding beauty in the usual sense, although if she wanted to, she could impress any man with just her appearance on stage. From her came, in addition to purely feminine charm, intellectual attractiveness. Such women became very popular during the thaw, when it was decided who was more important - physicists or lyrics. Vilkina harmoniously united both of these beginnings in the eyes of many.

Own director

An actor who has something in his soul is alwaysis looking for "his" director who will help him speak out. Finding such a master for an actor is a great success. Actress Natalya Vilkina met such a director. When, after graduating from college, she came to the Moscow Central Theater of the Soviet Army, Leonid Kheifets worked there.

Soon all theatrical Moscow began to talk about the work of Vilkina in his performances as an extraordinary, outstanding event. It was impossible to get to the play "Uncle Vanya", and Vilkina in the role of Sonya was called the defining beginning of the whole performance, setting the sound, rhythm, mood for all the characters. This acting work was considered outstanding.

My opinion

Later it became clear that the actress has her own convictions and determination to defend them. Kheifetz's attempt to stage the play "Two Comrades" based on the play by Vladimir Voinovich, who was already beginning to acquire the scandalous fame of a dissident, was thwarted by vigilant ideological workers in the bud, and Kheifets announced that he was leaving the theater.

Together with him, two more people filed an application - Sergey Shakurov and Natalya Vilkina. For a young artist, this could mean the death of a career at its very start. The obstinacy of "art critics" with a military bearing was rarely forgiven.

Own way

Fortunately, Kheifetz was left in the profession and allowed to work at the Maly Theatre. Vilkina enters the service at the Mayakovsky Theater and again excites theatergoers with her roles. The presence of such an actress in performances based on A. N. Ostrovsky or Dostoevsky inevitably gave them topicality, forcedlook for analogies from the classics in the modern world.

Kheifets considered Vilkina his actress, so he attracted her to work at the Maly Theater. The first and one of the most notable was the role of Inken in the play based on Hauptmann's play Before Sunset. Vilkina's partner was the legendary Mikhail Tsarev, who also considered her one of the most talented of her generation.

Followed by work in the performances of "Lord Golovlevs" - Anninka, "The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa" by Schiller - Leonora, "Zykov" by Gorky - Sofya, etc. And each was expected by the audience with impatience and was a success.

Film roles

A film actress with such a surname is known much less than the star of the Moscow intellectual theater scene of the 70s and early 80s Natalya Vilkina. Films with her participation are mostly theatrical performances transferred to the big or television screen. Although her roles in "School W altz" (1977), "Partners" (1983) and other tapes are harmonious and show her high professionalism.

The role of the mother of the main character in Valery Todorovsky's film "Love" (1991) was the last in the life of the actress. As if anticipating an imminent departure, she hurried the young director with filming, but some scenes planned by Todorovsky remained unfilmed.

Care

By that time, she had been without roles at the Maly Theater for a long time. Kheifets also left from there, preparing new performances at the Mayakovsky Theater. Therefore, Vilkina had to look for projects herself and break through their production. It was after talking with managementtheater about her solo performance, she suddenly lost consciousness and fell, and a few hours later she was gone. It was April 7, 1991.

As always, there are several answers to the question of why Natalya Vilkina left so early. The cause of death is a stroke. What caused the hemorrhage - weak vessels or a detached blood clot - is not so important. Some, depending on the degree of spiritual and mental development, name other "main" (actually false) reasons - smoking 5 packs a day, alcoholism and family troubles.

It's just that such individuals leave when it becomes clear to them that it is difficult to realize what is given to them by nature on this Earth, and this unrealized rushes out, tearing the aorta.