Biography of Lyudmila Semenova

Born 4 on February 17. She died on May 25 of the year. Actress Lyudmila Semenova was one of the iconic figures of Soviet cinema of the 10ths of the last century. The take -off of her work fell at a turning point in the history of the country and art, which sought new forms of expression, fundamentally opposite to the old, pre -revolutionary. Cinematographers tried to move away from the previous narrative and “games of feelings”, mastering the installation-painting method, abandoning private “soapy” stories, introducing masses and people into the center of plots.

Semenova was lucky: she happened to work with different directors, in different stylistics, different manner, which, of course, gave her a lot in the acting plan. This is, first of all, Fexes - Kozintsev and Traubberg - in the “Damn wheel” of which she knew her first success, playing Valka, who had lost her from the right path, but did not lose a sense of justice. Here she managed to convey the contradictory palette of the heroine's feelings, confused in a love relationship between two men, none of whom could make her truly happy.

In the complex material, the role of Semyonov reached the necessary psychologism, which played to the depths of acting shades and the dramatic component of the image. And, finally, the third director - Friedrich Ermler - the actress played a small role in volume, but very significant in the plot basis of the film “The Empire’s Club”. Her wife of a non-commissioned officer showed cowardice: without waiting for her husband's return from the front, she married a small bourgeois-to-the-person who preaching the stands of the life of Soviet women, but not fulfilling them.

A marriage with him was a real test for her, but she was not able to get away from him, slamming the door. All of the above heroines of Lyudmila Semenova fell into complex life situations, requiring them a difficult choice, the ability to take a step aside. But not every of them could decide on it. It would seem that the participation in the cult films of cult directors foreshadowed Lyudmila Semenova a brilliant acting future.

However, the arrival of sound in the cinema, the change of ideological priorities and screen heroes, plus the incident disease of the eyes of the actress for some time forced her to leave the distance. The corresponding era, the young heroines of Marina Ladynina, Lyubov Orlova, Zoe Fedorova and others, soon replaced. Semenova, on the other hand, had to exist outside the screen for many years and later return to the cinema only to small roles and episodes, never repeated the success of his early works.

The case with Lyudmila Semenova is not unit. Many actors who began in the years later interrupted by episodes, and some even went into oblivion. One of them was repressed, someone changed the kind of activity, and someone had a noble origin to someone further development of his career. With Lyudmila Nikolaevna, it, thank God, did not play a cruel joke. Her parents were representatives of the noble estate.

Father Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov is a lieutenant colonel, a military teacher, an officer-educator of the 3rd Cadet Corps, a teacher of mathematics. After the revolution, he served in the Red Army, demobilized in the year. In the year, he went to Urzhum, where he died in the year. Mother Alexander Karlovna Runge-Semenova-singer of imperial theaters, performed on the Mariinsky stage for many years.

In Soviet times, she taught singing at the Leningrad College named after P. Tchaikovsky, led choral circles in clubs and various institutions. She died in Urzhum in the year. Lyudmila studied at the female gymnasium since the year. Having graduated from a silver medal, she entered the historical department of the Historical and Philology Faculty of Higher Women's Courses named after Poltoratskaya and at the same time at the school of plasticity and a characteristic dance led by the Major Vera, later transformed into the technical school named after Lunacharsky.

Without interrupting their studies in the above institutions, since August, she began to study in the film studio “Creativity” under the leadership of B. Tchaikovsky and soon played its first episodic roles in the movies in the films “Angels-Guardians”, “Gladiator”, “Two Hussars”, “Five floors” and “Three portraits”. In the year, she starred in the painting by Tchaikovsky “Paris Commune”, which became her graduation graduation.

In the year, Lyudmila Semenova graduated from the School of Vera Maya. Immediately after this, her first marriage broke up, as a result of which she was forced to leave the highest female courses that merged with Moscow State University and begin an independent labor life. Semenova entered the Higher Theater Workshops at the Faculty of Dance, the head of Inna Chernetskaya, and a year later she was accepted as an actress and prima-ballerina to the Mastfort Theater under the leadership of Nikolai Mikhailovich Foregger in the same year, she became his common-law wife, and over the next few years her fate was inextricably linked with him and his theater.

In Mastfor, she played a number of leading roles in comedies, parodies, miniatures, operette, demonstrating the talent of a comedic actress and dancer.In the year after the fire, the Mastfort Theater was liquidated. Lyudmila Semenova switched to the stage, working first in Moscow, and then in Leningrad. Performed acrobatic dances, international genre songs in French, German and English.

In the year, the civil marriage of Semenova and Foregger broke up. Soon Lyudmila Nikolaevna married a soldier Georgy Nikolayevich Filonov, who served in the second horse. After a severe wound, he graduated from the Dzerzhinsky Academy, taught at the Chkalovsky Artsenite School. At the same time, he was engaged in motorized practitioners, was the organizer of motorcycle consumers.

He was one of the experimenters in this area, in particular, one of the first to jump on a springboard motorcycle. In the year, Semenova and Filonova had a daughter Kira, and already in the year the actress returned to creative activity, entering the operetta theater troupe under the direction of M. Semenova later, Semenova, as an actress and choreographer into the “Small Form Theater” led by N.

Surin, played cascading and characteristic roles in the miniatures “Spring on the arrow” Elena, Rufi from a pet from a pet. Rolan, “Dying Swan” is a black woman, “Come back, I will forgive everything” a student, “Bitch children” Olga and others.

Since years, Lyudmila Nikolaevna spoke on the stage with theatrical feuilletons “Songs of Paris”, “On Libra of History” and others, as well as in the plays and operettes of the Leningrad musical-Hall “Heavenly Swallows” Korin, “Sancts of marriage” Madame Boden and others. But how did the actress’s relationship with the cinema develop during this period? In addition to the “Damn Wheel”, “The Third Meshchan” and “The Fragment of the Empire”, Lyudmila Semenov starred in a number of films, many of which, unfortunately, were not preserved, leaving only mention in the film -fighters.

Among them were the main roles “Nord-Ost”, “Mortal Room”, “Woman in the Forest”, “Alien Coast” and the supporting role “Golden Beak”, “My Son”, probably well played by the actress, but can now be judged only by the film press of those years. In the year, Lyudmila Semenova starred in her first sound film “My Motherland” by the directors of Joseph Hyphic and Alexander Zarkha, playing a small role in Lyudmila's prostitute.

The actress endowed her with all the necessary attributes corresponding to the representatives of this ancient “profession”: mannerism, shocking, lack of intellectual inclinations. The viewer was not told the story of how Lyudmila “reached” to such a life - too little time was given to her on the screen. During the filming of this picture, Semyonov received serious eyes of her eyes, as a result of which she had to say goodbye to the cinema for a rather long time.

In the year, a son Alexei was born in the Filonov family. After childbirth, Lyudmila Nikolaevna required a long rehabilitation, which lasted two years. Having restored health, from the year, Semenova worked depending on her husband’s official movements by the director and choreographer in clubs of military units and military schools in Chkalovo and Sevastopol.

In the club of the Chkalovsky School of anti -aircraft artillery, Nazar Stodol, Shevchenko, the “defeat” of Lavrenev, as well as a number of sketches and miniatures, put Nazar Stodol. Semenova’s productions were awarded at the city and regional Olympiads of amateur performances, and she herself has repeatedly been awarded with diplomas and valuable gifts. At the beginning of the war, Lyudmila Nikolaevna, along with her children, was evacuated to her father in Urzhum, the Kirov region.

She conducted a chef work on the organization of concerts and the creation of artbridge at the Urzhum House of Culture. From the years, she went with amateur performances to military units in Kuntsevo near Moscow. The war inflicted a double loss to Lyudmila Semenova. Her father died in the year, and in May she received a funeral at her husband. Left alone with two children, in October of the year the actress returned to Moscow and was admitted to the staff of the Mosfilm film studio, and from July 1, he was transferred to the newly organized state -actor theater, in which she worked before it was closed in the year.

On this stage, she played small roles in a dozen performances, including the “Young Guard” of the lady from Voroshilovgrad, “Sofya Kovalevskaya” Frau Swedelitz, “Children of Vanyushin” Kukarnikova, “For those in the sea” Sofya Petrovna, “Island of the World” Miss Marrison, “Three Soldiers” of the Old Woman and others. As a choreographer, she took part in the creation of the performances “For those who are at sea”, “Blue bird”, “Poverty is not a vice”, “Fizetta and Filidor” and others.

Semenova returned to the movie in the year, but already to small roles and episodes of a characteristic-comedy and domestic plan. As often happens, no one began to recall her previous merits, leaving them in the past. The directors later used her type of data mainly - because with age she recovered and well suited the roles of ladies from high society, representatives of the intelligentsia.

Of the later works, one of the old aunts in the musical comedy “Ancient Vaudeville” is mentioned, in which the actress brilliantly demonstrated her witty talent.The film actor played on the stage, and then transferred to the screen, a lady from Voroshilovgrad, the owner of the apartment in which Lyubov Shevtsova from the “Young Guard” lived. Through the softness and intelligence in her gaze, the power of the spirit and the undisguised hatred of the Nazis slipped.

And, finally, the tiny role of a strict music teacher in the thesis of Andrei Tarkovsky “The skating rink and violin” became the final chord of her creative activity in the cinema. After that, flashing in the episodes of several films, Lyudmila Semenova left the screen forever. However, the decline in the creative activity of Lyudmila Nikolaevna did not affect the activities of the public.

Even in the days of her youth in the "Theater of Small Forms", she was the secretary of the local committee. Later in the theater-studio of the film actor held the position of secretary of labor protection. And when in the beginning of the X came the idea of ​​creating a house of cinema veterans, Semenov was one of those who actively helped her promotion. After the opening of the house in the year, she immediately became one of his residents.

By that time, the children of Lyudmila Nikolaevna had long grown up, they had their own families, and she wanted to be closer to her comrades in art, so she easily made this decision. In fact, until the last days of her life, she participated in the creative and public life of the house of cinema veterans, until the disease of the legs disabled it. The actress died at the age of 91.

Buried in the Vostryakovsky cemetery. Lyudmila Semenova, unlike many of her early heroines on the screen - rushing, suffering, making mistakes - in life was their exact opposite: active, confident, determined, sociable. She was lucky to communicate with the best representatives of domestic art, to know love and disappointment in her personal life, to overcome the heavy blows of fate, the loss of loved ones.

At the same time, she always remained strong, did not lose hope, did not adapt to anyone, was honest with herself and surrounding people. The result is a quiet, modestly living life, not burdening anyone, even their own children. Without titles and privileges. And this is an undoubted indicator of a powerful spiritual principle, true decency, disinterested service of the profession.

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