Incredible story of actress Valentina Telichkina: “age of survival” was not a hindrance

“Garden” by Larisa Sadilova received the Grand Prix in St. Petersburg

The film “Garden” by Larisa Sadilova received the Grand Prix of the 31st All-Russian festival “Vivat cinema of Russia!”, Held in St. Petersburg. Two actresses, Valentina Telichkina and Olga Lapshina, who played sisters, were awarded for the best female role.

The president of the jury, Alexander Proshkin, felt in the “Garden” “a sense of homeland”, not only a provincial one, and publicly confessed his love to Larisa Sadilova: “I really love this director, personality, strong and powerful artist.” In response, she thanked her mother and her sister, who became the prototypes of the heroines Telichkina and Lapshina. Larisa dedicated her film to “our parents.” He filmed in Bryansk, Kursk, Smolensk with the participation of not only capital but also local actors who had to work at temperatures from minus 30 to plus 45, and in one of the scenes on the bus the heat reached 50 degrees.

Olga Lapshina came to the festival in the very first days and was no longer able to receive the award. Prizes were accepted for two by Valentina Telichkina: “An incredibly beautiful page of my life is connected with this film. Our age is called the age of survival, but Larisa Sadilova approached me and said: “I’m writing a script for you.” It’s actually something incredible. I couldn’t even dream of this. By that time, I had already seen Larisa’s amazing film “With love, Lilya”, I knew that she studied at VGIK in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov. Even then something hit me. I thought: what a good fellow Gerasimov, what girls he took to his course, so I would star with her. It was a few years before Larisa said she was writing a script for me. The result is a film that I think is very good. I was afraid that he would not be noticed at all, since the trend is now completely different. He’s still a little Soviet. I am glad that you liked it,” said Valentina Ivanovna.

Sergey Puskepalis was posthumously awarded for one of his last roles in Artem Temnikov’s Doctor. Jury member and actress Tatyana Rasskazova prefaced the possible questions: “This is not a memory prize, but a brilliant acting job. The main character dies, and the movie turned out to be bright. Children will live better than us, and we must do everything for this.” “Doctor” also won the Press and Audience Award. Artem: Temnikov said that Sergey Puskepalis managed to voice the picture, saw the first assembly, after which he said: “We got a movie.” He asked to shorten the text of his role in the last scene, so that everything was as simple and concise as possible. At the end, he says: “I’m sorry.” And that’s it!

The choice of the jury was small, but the films of young directors participated in the competition – “Healthy Man” by Pyotr Todorovsky and “Flood” by Ivan Tverdovsky. It was possible to support them somehow. But the jury made an inexplicable decision, awarding, as a result of heated debate and controversy, the prize for directing Oleg Pogodin’s Syrian Sonata. He himself did not come for the award, although he could have. They say that he made the film for the sake of earning money and is ashamed of what he did. It’s sad because he’s a tough director. Failures happen to everyone, but here everything is more difficult. The result was a vulgar story about the failed performance of a symphony orchestra led by the famous conductor Viktor Fevralev, whose role was awkwardly played by Konstantin Lavronenko. Once in a dangerous and turbulent country, the musicians become hostages, and as in a fairy tale, the commander of the MTR detachment in a bad performance by Gosha Kutsenko will save them from terrorists. The ex-wife of his brutal hero also ended up in the ill-fated hotel. She is a journalist, hardened in hot spots, but now in a red evening dress and red shoes she is forced to flee from the impending threat. Particularly impressive is the scene where she, together with the conductor, hides in snow-white sheets, and a spark runs between them. A real “kid movie,” one of their experts said.

For camera work, Anton Drozdov-Schastlivtsev, who shot the historical military drama Amanat, was noted. Director Anton Sievers called him a subtle and intelligent artist who feels actors and dramaturgy with all the cells of his soul. “It was difficult for him, because there were two directors in the picture – me and Rauf Kubaev. Anton’s merit is that the seams are not visible,” Sievers said.

The prize of the directorate of the festival “Recognition” “for the creation of an impressive gallery of female images on the movie screen” was awarded to the oldest and current actress Tatyana Piletskaya. On July 2, she will turn 95 years old. “I have been in film and theater for 78 years,” she said. I have 52 films (actually almost 70 S.H.).” She devoted many years to cinema, and first appeared in Cinderella in 1947. I am a happy actress. I had wonderful roles and partners, incredible directors from whom I studied. I didn’t have a dramatic background. I only danced, I graduated from the choreographic school with my mother Ulanova Maria Fedorovna Romanova. To be honest, I was lazy. Sometimes I would come up and say: “Maria Fedorovna, I’m tired.” And she answered: “Tatochka, go stand at the machine, have a rest.” .Probably, ballet was not my profession, although I danced in the theater of musical comedy in the corps de ballet. Cinematography completely rebuilt me. The Motor team, I hope, will hear again.

St. Petersburg actor Sergei Migitsko was also awarded the “Confessions”. “Sometimes I can’t stop myself and blow like in a theater hall of one and a half thousand people,” he was self-critical. -Thanks to the masters who say: “Whoa!”. And he also meant Alexander Proshkin, who starred in Doctor Zhivago.

.According to the popular rating, and the poll was organized by one of the most popular magazines in St. Petersburg, Ranevskaya was named the best among 30 serials. And the lead actress Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk became “the best actress in a television series.” She was accompanied by the performer of the role of Chaliapin in the eponymous serial film Alexander Gorbatov. He received the title of “best actor in a television series.”