Ekaterina Fedorovna Savinova was born in the village of Yeltsovka of the Altai Territory on December 26, 1926. After graduating from a rural school, she came to the capital to fulfill her dream of an acting career. But Moscow did not want to submit: it was not taken to VGIK, but Savinova still entered Vasily Vanin’s courses. But soon Catherine was expelled with the wording “unsuitable for cinema”.
Thanks to perseverance and faith in her own capabilities, Savinova continued to “storm” VGIK and still
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Ekaterina Fedorovna Savinova was born in the village of Yeltsovka of the Altai Territory on December 26, 1926.
After graduating from a rural school, she came to the capital to fulfill her dream of an acting career. But Moscow did not want to submit: it was not taken to VGIK, but Savinova still entered Vasily Vanin’s courses. But soon Catherine was expelled with the wording “unsuitable for cinema”.
Thanks to perseverance and faith in her own capabilities, Savinova continued to “storm” VGIK and still entered the workshop of Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova. After graduating from VGIK in 1950, she entered the Gnessin Institute, where she was engaged in vocals: the actress had unique singing skills.
The first role in the film by Ivan Pyryev
Kuban Cossacks brought only disappointment: not responding to the attention of the head of Mosfilm, she doomed herself for several years without a job in the movies. The actress was invited to audition for interesting roles, claimed, but then refused. Ekaterina got into the unspoken “black list” of Soviet cinema. And yet she managed to play 25 roles, even episodic ones.
"Balzaminov's Marriage" "Chuk and Huck", "Shadow at the pier", "Honeymoon", etc.
However, the finest hour for Ekaterina Savinova still came. Frosya Burlakova from the painting
"Come tomorrow." She loved the audience and was recognized as the best female role of the year. Of course, the story of a girl from a remote Siberian village in many ways repeats the fate of the actress herself. This is not surprising: the script of the film especially for Catherine was written by her husband, a film director.