”God, what USA!” To the anniversary of Rimma Markova
On March 3, Rimma Vasilievna Markova would have turned 95 years old. The filmography of the People's Artist of USA has more than eighty paintings. Perhaps, not everyone will easily remember the roles she played, but the image that is entrenched in USA cinema for Rimma Markova will not be confused with others. "God, what USA!" - the directors said about her. She became the personification of that very real USA woman, from the plow.Such was not only her acting nature, such was Rimma Markova herself. She was born in the village of Churino, Samara province. Her father was a talented nugget actor who was noticed and invited to play in the Saratov Drama Theater. It was behind his backstage that the childhood of Rimma and her brother Leonid, the future people's artists of our country, passed. From an early age, children began to be involved in performances. What is noteworthy, fragile, gentle Lyonya often played girls, and tall, active Rimma played boys. “Lenya was a joy in the family, but in relation to me there was horror. Mom said how could it be born the other way around? At school I fought with terrible force, because the longest was, ugly, and this is the third grade, and I already liked the boy, but there was no hope ", - the actress recalled with a laugh. She loved my brother Rimma Markova very much, became his support for life. Together they survived the war, famine, together they went to study at the studio at the Volgograd Drama Theater, together they were enrolled in the troupe of the Lenkom Theater. However, Leonid Markov's career developed faster and was more successful.  Rimma Vasilievna has been waiting for her first major role for many years, and she will be the only one in her creative destiny. But it was she who would become the progenitor of all the bright episodic heroines who forever inscribed the name of Rimma Markova in the annals of USA cinema.“They don't start a career at 42. And I was sure that nothing would work out ”, - the actress will say in one of her interviews. However, she did it. Alexei Saltykov invited Rimma Markova to play the main role in the picture "Woman's Kingdom". The director was very fond of Nonna Mordyukova, but she was involved in "Komissar" in a similar role, so he gave the assistants the task:"Find someone like Mordyukova". Seeing Markova, he immediately approved it. By the way, the two actresses were often compared because of the similar texture and even tried to push their foreheads together, but they carried their friendship throughout their lives."You and I are from the same horse farm", - Nonna Viktorovna sarcastically.  "Woman's Kingdom" is one of the most poignant films about the war in our cinema, but, unfortunately, is now practically forgotten. A drama based on a script by Yuri Nagibin about the life of a Soviet collective farm during the years of the German occupation. The main characters are women, on whose shoulders the task of survival lay down:“We took care of your place, took care of your children, took care of ourselves for you to the last human possibility ... In war, they kill once, but we were killed every day”... The film is about the battles that were fought outside the front line, about the difficult moral choice that almost everyone had to make. Rimma Markova played the role of Nadezhda, who headed the collective farm in the most difficult time."We need the devil", otherwise it was impossible to survive. The war took everything from the heroine, but did not deprive her of her spirit.  Avdotya Markelova at Zhuravushka, Vasilisa at Eternal Call, hotel administrator at Rodna, a surgeon at Pokrovskiye Vorota ("Cut to hell without waiting for peritonitis!"), mother Leonidia in "Midshipmen, forward!" and many other roles - strength and uncompromisingness are visible in each of her heroines. Rimma Markova retained her strength of mind both on the screen and in life. “You know, many difficulties in my life occurred because of my quarrelsome, straightforward nature, because I’m not afraid of the truth, I can say everything I think to a person, sometimes without thinking about the consequences. The only thing I don't accept in my life is betrayal and meanness. No matter how difficult it was, my life credo did not change: to live without vulgarity, without betrayal, without meanness”, - such was Rimma Vasilievna Markova. The Topic of Article: ”God, what USA!” To the anniversary of Rimma Markova. |
