At the Theatre. Moscow City Council hosted the premiere of a feature film about Faina Ranevskaya

At the Theatre. The Moscow City Council hosted the premiere of the biopic drama Ranevskaya about the life of actress Faina Ranevskaya. The series covers different periods of her life – from her youth and dreams of the stage to all-Union fame and loneliness in adulthood.

The project was presented to the guests of the evening by KION General Producer Igor Mishin, lead actress Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk, producers Andrey Tartakov and Sergey Titinkov. With his memories of working together at the Theater. The People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, actor Yevgeny Steblov shared with the audience of the Moscow City Council the audience of the premiere. The series “Ranevskaya” about the life of the legendary actress Faina Ranevskaya can be seen from February 8 in the online cinema. The premiere show was also attended by the star actors of the series – Alexander Domogarov, Irina Grineva, Maxim Litovchenko, Andrey Butin, Igor Pismenny and others. Premiere at the Theater The Moscow City Council, where Faina Ranevskaya served for almost 30 years, was also watched by Nastasya Samburskaya, Anna Banshchikova, Ekaterina Klimova, Zara, Marianna Maksimovskaya, Aurora, Elena Zakharova, Alika Smekhova, Irina Bezrukova, Rodion Gazmanov, Ekaterina Vulichenko, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Katya Lel, Alexander Enbert and others.

Theater and film actress, laureate of state awards, People’s Artist of the USSR, favorite of the public, author of well-known aphorisms – Faina Ranevskaya was remembered by more than one generation of viewers for her brightest roles in the films “Foundling”, “Wedding”, “Dream”, “Cinderella”, “Spring”, different images in the theater and an incredible sense of humor and self-irony. She turned her everyday life into a kind of tragicomic performance, and in this feature of her lies one of the secrets of the actress’s popularity.

But what was Ranevskaya like outside the spotlight, and what path did the young Fanny Feldman from Taganrog have to go through in order to shine on the stage of Moscow theaters and be filmed by great directors? The series “Ranevskaya” is dedicated to this, which tells about the little-known pages of the life of this amazing woman.

Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk, actress: “I read endlessly about Faina Ranevskaya, watched all the surviving videos with her. Before the shift, the day before, I watched what period of life we ​​were filming, reviewed films and other recordings with her around that time. At first, it was difficult to overcome the stupor from responsibility: the complexity of the role, the size of the personality, and much more scared me … Gradually, the stupor disappeared due to the elementary lack of time for reflection. We tried, I think, not to make direct biopics. It’s still fiction, based on some of our common perception of what we know about this great personality and actress.”

Inna Shkarbanova.

Photos from the series premiere