The famous Soviet director who gave the countrythe best screen versions of Russian folklore, folk tales in literary processing, Alexander Rowe, tried to convey to the audience not just the content, but also to the "good fellows lesson", the spirituality of the fairy tale, the moral traditions and the spirit of the native country.
Его работы проникнуты задором, оптимизмом, poetry, humor and mischief, an indispensable element of any film adaptation is the abundance of razudaloy music. In Rowe's films, there are many unusual characters, whose roles are sometimes played by the same actors. "Morozko" - one of the most successful and favorite movie maker. The painting brought the director of the grand prix of the Venice International Film Festival and the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Two years after the release of the tape, the tape wasis presented to the American audience. The audience in the US did not appreciate the movie, most likely because of the difference in mentality and cultural traditions. Most of the Americans who watched the picture unanimously contributed Rowe's masterpiece to the list of the worst films of all time. They are not given to understand all the beauty and poetry of the film - this is how the actors involved in the project, who were tolerant of the overseas viewer's criticism, explained it. "Morozko" still found one ardent adherent in the US, it was Steven Spielberg. The reference director named the film Rowe the forerunner of many film masterpieces of the Dream Factory.
But in the Czech Republic the picture has acquired the status of a cult, forCzechs this work Rowe several decades was a mandatory and traditional winter hit. Everyone, both old and young, knew who Morozko was. Actors and roles have gained international recognition and fame. Actress Inna Churikova, who performed the role of Marfushi, was awarded an honorary award at the insistence of the country's public - a silver medal of Masaryk.
Сказка «Морозко», актеры которой были отобраны by A. Rowe, became a starring film for all the leading roles. The director not only independently recruited an actor's team, but also in the process of casting, and after filming he did not spare either the experienced stage masters or inexperienced debutants.
Самый счастливый билет из всех дебютантов went to Natalia Sedykh, who played the role of the main character - Nastenka. While the assistants of the director were looking for a young girl with a pupa's face and a pure naive look, the director saw the future take on television in the broadcast of figure skating. Despite the fact that many well-known and experienced actresses tried to play the role, Row preferred Sedykh.
A young, inexperienced girl sincerelyfell in love with her partner actor Eduard Izotova, who plays Ivan. The entire film crew was imbued with understanding of the current situation: both the attendants and the actors. “Frost” did not become the cradle of strong mutual feeling. Izotov was by that time a professional artist and older than Natalia by as much as 15 years.
"Frost" - a film whose actors are all as onefell under the charm of the performer of the role of Baba-yaga Georgi Milliar. Evil old woman turned out from the actor perfectly, evolving from a fairy tale to a fairy tale. But he had a problem, he almost daily consumed alcohol. Row was terribly angry at him because of this, but he couldn't do anything with his pet. Once Miller literally saved the picture from death. He was the only one in the room where the footage was lying, at the moment when the pipe broke through there. The actor immediately rushed into the icy water and made the film.
For the role of Marfushenka-darlings, there were twothe actress, or rather, one full-fledged - prima Tamara Nosova, wise with experience, and the second, a student Inna Churikova, for whom shooting at the cinema was to be a debut. Without a shadow of a doubt, the unbalanced Churikova fulfilled all the requirements of a demanding director - she climbed without hesitation into a dirty pond teeming with leeches, gnawed nuts without sparing her teeth, so Rowe chose her. Many of the participants in the shooting process did not understand the choice of director, especially the more experienced actors.
The premiere tape show was deafeningly successful.On all blue screens the fairy tale "Frost" was triumphant. Actors the next morning woke up famous. But despite the successful start, the acting career did not work out for either the Gray or Izotov.
Because of the vicissitudes of fate, Izotov was arrested andsent to prison for three years with confiscation of property. In Soviet times, it was not customary to discuss such delicate questions, and the viewer did not know that the hero of their favorite fairy tales suffered six strokes and died in a clinic for the mentally ill.
Natalia Sedykh voluntarily decided to leave the cinema anddevote himself to ballet. After her ballet career ended, the actress-ballerina tried to return to the cinema, but all her roles turned out to be passing, did not bring the actress neither former glory nor the praise of critics.
