This role had a difficult fate. The actress, who played her, became a sex symbol of the USSR (doubtful popularity in those years), although they wanted to cut the role from the film. In addition to this, the performer of the role of Svetlana Svetlychnaya does not like when she is compared to a bitchy blonde from
"Diamond hand" - the image created did not allow her to withdraw in
Anna Karenina and
"War and peace" .
Svetlichnaya was born in 1940 in Leninakan in the family of a general. Mother encouraged her daughter’s passion for the theater, and she was fond of amateur art. And when Svetlana graduated from school, her mother handed a ticket to Moscow and sent her to conquer the capital. The competition in VGIK that year was 80 people per place, but, nevertheless, Svetlychnaya was enrolled in the course.
Vladimir Ivashov . By that time, he was already in
"The Ballad of a Soldier" I went to Cannes for a film festival. The decisive moment occurred during the rehearsal of the play "Cossacks", where Svetlichnaya and Ivashov, assigned to the main roles, had to kiss. Six months later, the wedding was played, the blessing of which was given by the mother Svetlychnaya. They named their first son Alexei, in honor of the main character from the Ballad of a Soldier.
As for her film debut, it took place in 1961.
Lullaby . Then the role of Nadia Kolchina in
After graduating from VGIK, the young couple were admitted to the staff of the theater-studio of the film actor. Then there were roles.
"Hero of Our Time" "New Adventures of the Elusive,"
"Dryapuche" "Clean Ponds,"
Melodrama "Indicted" Comedy "Not the most successful day", the first Soviet series
"Seventeen Moments of Spring" and
"The meeting place cannot be changed" . She also appeared in the Soviet-Hungarian
comedy "Hold on to the clouds" But this picture did not come out on Soviet screens.
With the beginning of perestroika, Svetlychny was not invited to the cinema, the actor had to leave the theater-studio “at his own request”. Therefore, Svetlychnaya plunged into the role of mother and wife and reconciled with the disappearance of popularity. But she had another test - in March 1995, having torn up on hard work at the construction site, her husband V. Ivashov died.
After the death of her husband, the times of loneliness and lack of money came for Svetlichnaya, support was only from the sons of Alexei and Oleg. At some point, her solitude was violated by the poet Sergei Sokolsky, but the marriage with him lasted only 27 days.
Today Svetlychnaya lives alone, one of her films of the new time - a role in the film by Renata Litvinova
"Goddess" . /