Visitor figures on the scale of Lyudmila Gurchenko, doomed to their biography, a more or less complete and true, were all familiar. Today, thanks to the media are almost all well-known facts from the life of stars. There is only a very narrow circle of individuals, which are judged and will not be judged by their "civil" biographies, and their creativity ...

"Missing" Sixties

Lyudmila Gurchenko was born on November 12, 1935 in Kharkov, in the family of employees of the Kharkiv Philharmonic Mark and Helen Gurchenko. As is known, Kharkov appeared in the German rear is already several months after the beginning of World War II, so with my mother Lyudmila about two years to live, as they many not had time to leave the city of Kharkov in the Nazi occupation. Gurchenko while Mark went through the war as a soldier, and safely returned home after the victory. By the time Lyudmila past two years was a schoolgirl: she began to study as soon as in August 1943, was released Kharkov. However, on their own memories of the actress in the study of school subjects, she was not too diligent, with a rather early age he felt an interest in music, dance and artistic creativity.

Therefore, none of your friends are not surprised when in 1953, after graduation, decided to become an actress Gurchenko .  Surprised that even very young girl plucked up the nerve to come and dared not go anywhere, but in Moscow, directly in VGIK .  However, Sergei Gerasimov, is, together with Tatiana Makarova gaining acting course, once saw a young Ukrainian woman in a remarkable talent .  It is highly influential in the Soviet cinema Gerasimov and largely contributed to the fact that the main role in the full directorial debut Eldar Ryazanov's "Carnival Night" is played Gurchenko, then still a student .  Once again to talk about what kind of success accompanied released in 1956 on the screens the film "Carnival Night" and how she became popular, incendiary performed the song "Five minutes," there is no need .  However, against the background of the triumphant start of creative activity of the second half of the fifties - sixties, looking for the actress Gurchenko palely .  So palely that is still very popular and abundantly cited in every other article about Lyudmila Markovna thought a thesis that after the "Carnival Night" because someone's jealous intrigues it was not invited to star in a movie about ten years .

There are many facets of a diamond ...

Perhaps in some interviews for food such theses gave itself Gurchenko, which in fact from the sixties could get the impression nothing past years, especially with the expectations and opportunities. In those days it was just unlucky to get the role that the scale and popularity could be compared with the "Carnival Night". Perhaps this explains why most of its few theatrical works Lyudmila Markovna implemented in the first half of the sixties (in the "Contemporary" and theater actor). But if an elementary look at the filmography of the actress, we find that only from 1960 to 1969, she starred in the thirteen paintings, some of them in the lead roles. And that's not to mention the late fifties - so famous musical comedy "The Girl with the guitar" with Gurchenko starring dates back to 1958.

But what is impossible to argue with is the fact that until the seventies actress unusually wide creative range used very casually .  Perhaps really a turning point for her was the creative plan mid-decade, when in fact took rebirth Lyudmila Markovna as an actress, and it began to actively invite a variety of roles, from drama to comedy .  In 1975 and 1976, two out of musical film "Straw Hat" and "mother" in which dance and vocal numbers Gurchenko became a real decoration films .  Since 1976, with the drama Alexei German «Twenty Days Without War", in fact career starts Gurchenko as a recognized dramatic actress: and their worth in this genre it is further demonstrated in such films as "Five Evenings", "Flights in Dreams and reality "," Station for Two "and other .  It should be noted and for all entered the folklore image of the "insidious razluchnitsy" Raisa Zakharovna comedy Vladimir Menshov's "Love and Pigeons" (1984) .  For over twenty years, from the mid-eighties and until 2010 Lyudmila Gurchenko was one of the most active actresses of the post-Soviet space: on its account after the collapse of the Soviet Union more than twenty roles .

Noting in November 2010. The diamond anniversary, the actress recently to try his hand at directing (the movie "Colourful twilight") was full of creative plans. However, her health deteriorated after the middle of February in an accident, she broke her leg. March 30, 2011 Lyudmila Gurchenko died at home of a heart attack. Buried People's Artist of the USSR was on April 2 at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Alexander Babitsky

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