Marina Vlady

Marina Vlady (real name is Marina De Poliakoff-Baidaroff) was born 10 May 1938 in Clichy, in the upper Seine, France. Her parents were actors, Russian emigrants. She studied at Ballet School at the Grand Opera in Paris. She couldn't become a ballerina, but acquired plasticity of movements and it became one of her distinctive features.

In movies from 11 years old, made her debut in a cameo in the melodrama "The summer storm" (1949) J. Zhere, where the main heroine played the older sister Vlady, actress Odile Versoix. Vlady has played several small roles in Italian and French comedies and melodramas, and for four years has become quite an experienced actress for the leading roles, . her first big work - melodrama "Super Girl" (1953) and "First Love" (1953),
. The most interesting thing in these films - the person Vlady and its behavior in the frame. It seemed new kinotipazhem mid-1950-1960-ies - tired Madonna Baroque postwar melodrama, a symbol of femininity physiological reflex. More recent pictures showed the internal capacity actress. Fragile beauties show indomitable will to life and power, their superficial passivity, indifference and female weakness, will involve an iron grip on life.

In 1954, Vladi has played a major role in the film "Before the Flood" (1954) A. Kayata, in which a group of teenagers, fearing nuclear war, sought to escape to a desert island. This was the first big success of the actress, she received a promotional prize for her role as Suzanne Byanshetti Lillian. Romantic fantasy heroine Vlady often fenced it from unsightly political realities of life. The quintessence of female attractiveness and shallow romance - her heroine in the film, Michel A. "Bewitched" (1955, based on a story AI Kuprin "Olesya"). Forest beauty, savage, ready at any moment to escape from adversity and men, became very popular with viewers of the Soviet Union, perceiving Vlady as an exotic phenomenon, but in a sense, native, 'my'.

In the candid memoirs of 24 frames per second, "Marina tells that one of the first of its admirers was Marcello Mastroianni, with whom she played in the film" Black Feathers ". This 27-year-old Marcello gave young virgin first "lessons flirting". A year later, on the set of tapes "Love Days", Marina fell into the arms of Marlon Brando. But this novel, according to the actress, they have never been. Future Star dizzy and famous directors - Orson Welles, Giuseppe De Santis. One of the pillars of the "new wave" Jean-Luc Godard, offered her hand and heart. However, she opted for Robert Hossein, at that time an unknown director and actor, having Russian roots. She married him at age 17, gave birth to two sons, Igor, and Pierre, and started acting in his films. Their collaborations - "Night Spies" (1959), "Are you - poison" (1960). The film "Sentence" (1959) was in the same year noted at the Moscow International Film Festival. But eventually the marriage was short-lived, and several years later, Marina's second husband was a former pilot, Jean-Claude Bruj.

Vlady alternated work in France and Italy. In the painting "Days of Love" (1954) classic of Italian neorealism Dzh.De Santis played a peasant Angelo, . and nearly ten years in the film M. Ferreri "Modern History" (1963; in the Russian hire "Queen Bee") - bitchiness nymphomaniac Regina, . for this role, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival,


. Ferreri not the first discovered Vlad ability to embody the dark feminine instincts: one year before the "modern history" JL Godard took Vlady as a duplicitous, . vindictive and greedy for love comfort proprietress shop in the story "hypocrisy" of kinoalmanaha directors of the French 'new wave' "The Seven Deadly Sins" (1962),
. In this same vein, the acting talent of Vlad have been sensitive to the psychological nuances of the Hungarian director M. Yancho in the "Sirocco" (1969) and Martha Messarosh in the tape "Their two" (1977). In the picture Messarosh Vlady plays the commandant female dorm. She has a sensitive heart and rigid moral installation. Social situation does not allow it starts a romance. However, she was actively interfering in the personal lives of his friends and subordinates. Sixteen French Marina Vlady, performing a major role, indeed bewitched all those who watched this movie - including Vladimir Vysotsky. They met only in 1967, when Marina was invited to the theater on Taganka.

After the rehearsal, it was introduced to the actors engaged in the play "Pugachev". Everything seemed unusual at the party, where the assembled were amazingly talented, young and filled with powerful energy creators. Marina did not know that these minutes will determine its fate for many years. Vysotsky met his dream and realized that was not wrong in anticipation - it was love, and love, for which he is ready to fight.

That same evening, barely acquainted, they left the noisy company, went to friends and the whole evening, he sang only for Marina. Every word to the accompaniment of guitars, like a cry, stuck in the soul and swept away the barriers. Subsequently, many more wonderful songs will be written for the beloved. They appear tenderness and passion - all that 6yla full of soul of this amazing pair.

Marina Vlady remembers how they were able to Volodya finally left alone: "For months, sly glances and caresses were like a prelude to something infinitely more. Each found the other missing half. We are drowning in an infinite space, where there is nothing but love. Our breath subsides for a moment, then to merge together in a long complaint to break free Love ... The whole night we did not have enough to fully understand the depth of our feelings. "

But there was also a favorite work, unfortunately, in various countries, the incredible popularity, were parting and meeting, there have been thousands of letters, hundreds of telegrams and night calls. Often, their new songs, written for her, Vysotsky sang over the phone.

When Marina and Vladimir ended up together, the others felt that this pair comes from the bright light. Already in the first minute dating Vysotsky said that they will become husband and wife. This happened only a few years later, and not soon they will find a corner in a noisy, huge Moscow.

December 1, 1971 Vlady married Vysotsky. They decided that the marriage will Wysocki leave the USSR. But these were only illusions, which quickly gave way to bitter disappointment ... In Russia, he felt like a prisoner, but in France - a man unnecessary. It is associated with Vysotsky and the happiest and most difficult years of her life.

Ability Vladimir Semenovich work, love and friendship to wear with complete dedication superimposed on frantic pace "atomic age". This period in their lives, gave the subsequent generations love to hear, with bated breath:

"I love the field bed-Let them sing in his sleep and waking, I breathe - and that means I love you I love - and that means I live!"

In. S. Vysotsky

July 25, 1980 Vysotsky died after prolonged illness. For Marina it was a terrible blow.

With the third husband, an actress of Russian origin, introduced in 1981 in Paris, Andrei Tarkovsky. Director was already ill and was treated Leon - one of the leading French specialists in the fight against cancer. With encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, humanist and just a charming man, Marina became fast friends, and then, when Leon left the family, leaving his wife home, she sheltered him in his mansion near Paris. Soon their relationship grew into love, which lasted until the death of the oncologist, on a grim irony, of liver cancer in December 2003.

. Leon Schwartzenberg was the parachute Circle, which helped her to rise from the depths of depression after the withdrawal of Russia from the life of the poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky
. He witnessed the first steps of Marina at a literary career, when she worked subsequently translated into many languages famous autobiographical novel, "Vladimir, or Interrupted Flight" (1989). "Imagine staying in a love of harmony pair, . - Wrote today in "On the Beach, . man in black "Marina Vlady, . - In which a woman day after day for two years, communicates to men the words tragic passion to another, . but it still should at the same calm, . support both day, . and night, . For her dreams, and also occupied by the restless ghost ... ",

. Love to Vladimir forever remained in the heart of Marina Vlady, but next to it was the love of Leon
. 23 years, they lived together, were years of happiness and complicity: together they participated in actions to protect the disadvantaged, immigrants, whom the authorities had intended to expel from the country in protests against the war in Iraq. The last four years living together were filled with dread of impending catastrophe. It was then, Marina, in order to deaden the pain and growing with each passing day the fear of the upcoming loss of the loved one, began to resort to alcohol. First it was light vintage wine, then went to drink a bit stronger. "I never eschewed wine, after all, I have Russian roots - Marina told me recently in a French television programs devoted to literature. - Besides, I have long lived with Vysotsky. I started drinking when Leon got sick and died before my eyes. Drunk, to alleviate the suffering. "

- We want Leon to die together, - said Marina. - The last time I laughed heartily at it alone and it was absolutely not ready, that he will.

After the death of Schwarzenberg in front of Marina opened a yawning gap. It was then, as she writes in her book, "Man in Black", the embodiment of alcohol dependence, settled with full rights in her home. Two-plus years she lived in the thrall of alcohol is almost completely alone, not counting the rare calls from adult children have. Times contemplated suicide. But this saved her dog - they had to be fed, to walk. Marina tells how she went on a bicycle, with difficulty keeping balance to the nearest grocery store, and most importantly - for a drink. "The way back - she wrote - was much easier. I even felt a certain euphoria, well-known alcoholics. This time I was surprised in a unique man - Vysotsky, who began to feel dizzy drunk on only one of anticipation of the forthcoming drink. Now it was my turn ". With ruthless candor Marina Vlady also tells how, after communicating with the "black man" she often fell. "This was enough to hurt me one of the dogs. I stood on all fours, and when consciousness returned, then anointed them with ointment skinned knees and healed abrasions on his hands. Me to laugh and scorn for herself.

Going down to near the bottom, however, Marina found the strength to rise to the surface. Attachment to alcohol, she tried to dislodge the other passion - draft of writing. First, never touched alcohol before six o'clock, and then generally reduced his consumption to a minimum. A year ago, it appeared the book "24 frames per second," in which she writes about his colleagues in the film and, of course, about Vladimir Vysotsky, "a whirlwind burst into her life".

Now Marina was completely alone. Three sons Vlady went to America, and only the dogs are the closest creatures. Then it came to Marina idea - to write books in which she poured out soul.

- I would most like to return the people close to me, if it were possible - says Marina. Vysotsky is still her dream. In the dream, they were holding hands, flying, and after such flights Marina wakes up crying from happiness.

. AWARDS

. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival in the category 'Best Actress' for the film Modern History or the Queen Bee (1963).

. FILMOGRAPHY

. 1949 - Summer thunderstorm
. 1952 - Black plumage
. 1952 - bastards go to hell
. 1952 - The Lady from Boston
. 1953 - Super girl
. 1953 - First Love
. 1954 - Days of Love
. 1954 - Before the flood
. 1955 - The Adventures of Giacomo Casanova
. 1956 - Bewitched
. 1956 - Pardon our insults
. 1956 - Crime and punishment
. 1958 - You - poison (you hate)
. 1959 - The verdict
. 1959 - Night of spies
. 1961 - The Princess of Cleves
. 1962 - The Seven Deadly Sins
. 1962 - Steppe
. 1962 - Bed and Board
. 1962 - A charming liar
. 1963 - strong evidence
. 1963 - Box
. 1963 - Modern history, or the Queen Bee
. 1965 - Falstaff (Midnight Bell)
. 1966 - The kidnappers Mona Lisa
. 1966 - At gunpoint from death
. 1967 - Two or Three Things I Know About Her
. 1969 - The plot for a short story or Lika - love Chekhov
. 1975 - Seven deaths by prescription (in networks Mafia)
. 1977 - two of them (The two)
. 1978 - The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
. 1978 - The Thief of Bagdad
. 1982 - Secrets of the Princess Kadinyan
. 1986 - In Search of Captain Grant
. 1986 - Twist in Moscow
. 1987 - The exploits of a young Don Juan
. 1991 - the blood drinkers
. 1991 - Flaming sky
. 1992 - Dreams of Russia
. 1995 - Son of Gascogne
. 1996 - Wind over the city

. Husbands and children

First husband: actor and director Robert Hossein (years of married life 1955-1959)
. Sons: Igor (lives in Haiti, cultivates pearls) and Pierre (guitar and balalaika player, lives in the south of France).

Second husband: pilot and owner of the airline in Africa: Jean-Claude Bruj (years of married life 1963-1966). Son: Vladimir (living in Paraguay, is engaged in cattle breeding).

Third husband: poet and actor: Vladimir Vysotsky (years of married life 1970 - 1980).

Fourth husband: oncologist: Leon Schwarzenberg (years of married life 1981-2003).


. BIBLIOGRAPHY

. 1) Vladimir, or Interrupted Flight

. 2) Series: 'Novels Marina Vlady':
. - My cherry orchard;
. - Travel Sergei Ivanovich.

. 3) "On the beach, a man in black"

. 4) 24 frames per second