Birthday of Anastasiya Vertinskaya
December 19, 1944 in Moscow, in the family of the famous actor, poet, composer and performer of his songs Alexander Nikolaevich Vertinsky and his wife, actress and artist Lydia Vladimirovna Tsirgvava, a second daughter was born. The girl was named Anastasiya.
Despite the difficult post-war years, the childhood of Nastya and her older sister Marianna was happy and cloudless. In many ways, this happy childhood was provided by their father, who was extremely popular and beloved by everyone both in the USSR and abroad. It was he who did everything in order to provide a highly cultured atmosphere in the family and incentives for the intellectual development of his beloved daughters.
But when Nastya was 14 years old, dad died. It is difficult to say how this misfortune would have affected the fate of Anastasia, but soon after this tragedy, 15-year-old Nastya, having learned that director Alexander Ptushko was going to stage a film based on the Alexander Grin's novel "Scarlet Sails", beloved by Soviet children, and was looking for a leading actress for the role of Assol. It must be noted that Ptushko had another actress planned for this role, but the artist of the picture Levan Shengelia, who by that time had many authoritative works in cinema, supported by the studio's artistic council, made a decision in favor of Nastya.
On the next day after the release of the film "Scarlet Sails" on the screens of Soviet cinemas, Nastya Vertinskaya, as they say, woke up famous. The film was watched by almost 23 million moviegoers in its first year. According to this indicator, the film is quite a bit, about 1.5 million, yielded to the leader of the Soviet film distribution, the film by Mikhail Romm "Nine Days of One Year".
And literally six months later, the Soviet cinematographic world was literally blown up by another "movie bomb", or, as they say today, "blockbuster", with Anastasiya Vertinskaya in the main role - the film "Amphibian Man" directed by Gennady Kazansky and Vladimir Chebotarev. This film was watched by almost 66 million moviegoers, or almost each third people in the country, including babies. And here this film became the undisputed leader of film distribution in the USSR.
The glory that fell on the young actress had both positive and negative consequences. On the one hand, she, who did not have a theatrical education, was hired by the theater. On the other hand, among the many fans, there were maniacs. Some man ran after her with a knife through the corridors of the theater institute, where she entered, already being a movie star and a full-time theater actress. Some woman was waiting for her on the street with a sandbag to throw this sand in her eyes.
During her cinematic career, Anastasia Vertinskaya starred in 18 full-length feature films. This is in addition to numerous theater and television roles. Three films with the participation of Anastasia Vertinskaya entered the Golden Thousand. Thanks to this indicator and her unearthly beauty, Anastasia Vertinskaya is included in the list of the 100 most beautiful and sexy Actresses in world cinema, compiled by FilmGourmand.
According to Ekaterina Taranova, Anastasiya Vertinskaya is "called "the most refined and sophisticated", "the most aristocratic", "the most literary" actress in the entire history of Soviet/Russian cinema. Of course, Anastasiya Aleksandrovna Vertinskaya is in many ways the most, and probably not only in the country. However, the refined and sophisticated Vertinskaya was never loved by the “crowd”. She is too good for that. The mysterious beauty and magnetism of this actress drove many men crazy. In the sixties, Vertinskaya was the idol of a whole generation, in the seventies - an icon of style, in the eighties - became a legend".
Absolutely! And the fact that many men were crazy about this Actress, I can confirm with the example of one of my classmates, who, thanks to his mother's acquaintance with Galina Volchek, was well acquainted with many actors of the Sovremennik theater, including Anastasia Vertinskaya, on which literally "withered" on our eyes. But in those years there was only one man for Vertinskaya - Oleg Efremov.
To the above description of the Actress, we wanted to add that in the 90s Anastasia Aleksandrovna reduced her cinematographic activity to a minimum, and in the 2000s she stopped acting at all. The ideas about the art of the most sophisticated Actress and the Russian authorities from culture turned out to be too contrary. Anastasiya Alexandrovna completely devoted herself to charity and preserving the memory of her great father. Nevertheless, taking into account previous achievements, Anastasiya Alexandrovna was awarded state awards in 2005 and 2010.
On the Actress's birthday, we, as usual, want to remind her fans of shots from the best films with her participation.