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Natalya Yakovlevna Velichko
Наталья Величко
Life Time
4 May 1941 - 21 May 2022
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If you show a photo of actress Natalia Velichko on the street and ask what literary heroine this person is associated with, someone will definitely answer: with Natasha Rostova. With the Tolstoy heroine, the actress really had some kind of mystical connection. Fate several times gave her opportunities to play this “brand” role, but ... it did not work out. But much later in France, Velichko was invited to the film screening of War and Peace, the audience took her for the actress who played this
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If you show a photo of actress Natalia Velichko on the street and ask what literary heroine this person is associated with, someone will definitely answer: with Natasha Rostova. With the Tolstoy heroine, the actress really had some kind of mystical connection. Fate several times gave her opportunities to play this “brand” role, but ... it did not work out. But much later in France, Velichko was invited to the film screening of War and Peace, the audience took her for the actress who played this role, and received a standing ovation.
In the life of Natalia Velichko there were many sharp and unexpected turns. Fate seemed to be thinking all the time whether to reward the girl, or punish her. She did not intend to become an actress. She studied at a music school, and in the future her career as a musician opened up. And acting skills, which, of course, were, used, well, say, to “dump” the ticketer to let her and friends in the movies without a ticket. At that time, Sergei Bondarchuk was going to shoot War and Peace. And friends and acquaintances, as if conspiring, said that Natalia “like Natasha Rostov.” And that she has to go to VGIK to play this role.
For exams in VGIK, as the actress admitted, she was not ready at all. “I didn’t look good” and read it like that. But, uh, she was taken. And the role "smiled and passed." The film tests seemed to be successful, but approved another actress. Meanwhile, the study in VGIK also did not work out. “I was stuck,” the actress recalled. I was lost on the set, my tongue was numb. In general, an order for expulsion was being prepared, but classmates came to the dean's office and persuaded Natalia to give "a postponement from execution." VGIK she graduated not only from the acting faculty, but, after a while, and director. She made a lot of films herself. And once during the film premiere.
Silence In Finland, David Lin, director of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, offered her the lead role in Dr. Zhevago. It was a fantastic offer, it was impossible to refuse. But... It was 1964. To leave the USSR would mean to leave forever. And in Moscow was the mother ...
In the 80s and beyond, the actress almost did not appear. She got married and now answers questions about her creative plans: family and home. /