Natalia Nikolaevna Belokhvostikova. She was born on July 28, 1951 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist RSFSR (1984).

Although she is Natalia according to her passport, the name Natalya has become more common in relation to the actress.

Father - Nikolai Dmitrievich Belokhvostikov (1918-1984), Soviet diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, in different time worked in Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, was the head of the department Scandinavian countries Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and in 1975-1981 Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

Mother - Antonina Romanovna Belokhvostikova, translator (died in 2009).

had younger brother Nicholas (died 2008).

In 1952-1956, her father served as an adviser to the USSR Embassy in Great Britain. Therefore, Natalya, at the age of 11 months, was taken to England, where she stayed until 1956.

At the age of 12, Belokhvostikova lived with her parents in Sweden. There she successfully studied languages. Soviet delegations often came to the embassy to see my father - film actors, artists, artists, directors. As the actress recalled, she often secretly followed the reception and listened to every word at the table. “And I very secretly really wanted, of course, somehow to have something to do with cinema, but I, being a sober person, I understood that I was so quiet, so shy,” said Belokhvostikova.

She admitted that her childhood was special compared to other Soviet children. “Of course, you don’t understand this. But for me it was somehow natural, because I lived all my childhood before school abroad. I didn’t have the feeling that something was impossible, that I climbed the Eiffel tower, for example. My world has been so wide and so open since 9 months that I never had the feeling (for me personally) that there is another life, "she shared.

She made her film debut in 1965. Luck simply smiled at her: director Mark Donskoy was filming the film "Mother's Heart" (about Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova) in Stockholm. This small episode, which she played, subsequently greatly influenced the fate of the actress.

"Mom came to Gorky's studio to watch Donskoy's film and took me (we were invited by Mark Semenovich). When we looked at the picture and left the screening room, a bald man was walking toward us - his name was Sergei Apollinarievich Gerasimov. Well, why was he walking? Why was he walking " But he walked. And he walked towards us. And Donskoy was very fond of joking and said: "Look, look, the artist is new." And I'm 15 years old there. She also wants to be an artist. "I became red, as always, just a crimson color. I lost all speechlessness. He says:" Well, let him do it. Good profession. Let him do it. "And we parted like ships in the sea," Belokhvostikova recalled.

And a few days later they called her and said that Sergei Gerasimov was looking for her. And instead of the 10th grade, she went to VGIK. It was a unique case in the entire history of VGIK: a 10th grader without a matriculation certificate and entrance exams was admitted to the Institute of Cinematography. And she had to finish school externally.

Later, she learned that her admission to VGIK was the result of Gerasimov’s letter to the rector: “A long long letter that I will hand over everything on time within 1.5 or 2 months. I'm 16. Great master, the director writes this about a child practically."

The first significant work in the cinema was the role of Lena Barmina in the film Gerasimov "At a lake". In this film, a student of VGIK had a chance to become a partner of other eminent actors. Her heroine is madly in love with an elderly and married man.

For the role of Lena Barmina, along with a number of other members of the film crew, 19-year-old Belokhvostikova received the USSR State Prize in 1971. She is the record holder: the youngest laureate of the USSR State Prize by the age of its receipt in the history of Russian cinema.

Natalya Belokhvostikova in the film "By the Lake"

In 1971 she graduated from VGIK, the acting workshop of S. A. Gerasimov and T. F. Makarova.

In 1971-1975. - actress of the film studio named after M. Gorky.

Since 1976 she has been an actress of the Theater-Studio of a film actor.

The actress received great love from the audience after the release of the 5-episode film by Sergei Gerasimov in 1976. "Red and black", in which she starred as Mathilde de La Mole. Her partner was who played Julien Sorel.

Natalya Belokhvostikova in the film "Red and Black"

Next was the main role in the film "The Legend of Thiel" in which she played Nele. Film critic Irina Zaslavskaya then wrote in the Soviet Screen magazine about her work: “After the film, there remains an almost nervous and sad mood, a feeling of hopeless grief. The bearer of this grief is Nele, the beautiful and mysterious Nele, whose character dominates the film. Only the one who comprehended the true essence of things and went through so much suffering, can look at everything with the beautiful, compassionate eyes of Nele.

I remember the audience for the role of the Queen of England Anna Stewart in the drama "Glass of water".

Natalya Belokhvostikova in the film "Glass of Water"

One of the most famous films with the participation of the actress was the film by A. Alov and V. Naumov "Tehran-43" 1980, where her partners were and.

Natalya Belokhvostikova in the film "Tehran-43"

Together with Kostolevsky, they played the main roles in a military drama together. "Legal Marriage"- the picture is accompanied by music by Isaac Schwartz and romances on verses.

Natalya Belokhvostikova in the film "Legal Marriage"

It is worth noting the role of Dona Anna in the film "Little Tragedies", where she was her partner.

Her roles of feminine and uniquely tender heroines invariably resonated in the hearts of millions of fans.

She played memorable leading roles in the war film "Coast" (Emma Herbert - german girl, who fell in love with a Russian lieutenant during the war), the musical comedy "Princess of the Circus" (beauty Countess Palinskaya), the social drama directed by Dmitry Barshchevsky "Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle" (Irina Blagovolina).

Natalya Belokhvostikova in the movie "Princess of the Circus"

In the second half of the 1980s, she starred in the films The Choice (Maria Vasilyeva and Veronika Vasilyeva) and Ten Years Without the Right to Correspondence (Nina).

Several works in the cinema were in the early 1990s, followed by a long break.

In 2001, the actress appeared on the screen in the detective story Clock Without Hands. And the most significant work of the 2000s was the main role - Claudia - in the film "La Gioconda on Asphalt", filmed by her husband Vladimir Naumov.

Natalya Belokhvostikova in the film "La Gioconda on Asphalt"

He is the president of the Soyuz Navona company, an academician of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia.

In 2003 she received a prize for her great contribution to cinema at the Vyborg Film Festival "Window to Europe".

He has a number of high state awards, including the Order of Honor (2003) and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2006).

Natalya Belokhvostikova. Interview

The growth of Natalia Belokhvostikova: 168 centimeters.

Personal life of Natalia Belokhvostikova:

Husband - director. He is 23 years older than her.

Naumov first saw her when Natalya was 12 years old: “I saw her when I was sitting in the office of Nikolai Dmitrievich Belokhvostikov in Sweden. I was there, with a delegation, with Donskoy from Poland. And I was sitting in the ambassador’s office, and there that "Something flashed in the corridor. It flashed rather quickly. But behind this flashing body flew a scythe as thick as two of my fists and as long as a span."

The next time they crossed paths was when Natalia went to Belgrade for the premiere of the film By the Lake. Shortly before departure, she was informed that Vladimir Naumov would be the head of the delegation. Naumov himself recalled: "This meeting at the airport ... I impressed her as a madman." After that, they never parted. Belokhvostikova was 20 years old, and Naumov was 43 years old, he had a failed marriage and a growing son behind him.

In 1974 they got married. A year and a half later, the couple had a daughter, she is an actress and director. There are no grandchildren.

In 2007, Natalia Nikolaevna adopted a three-year-old boy, Kirill. He wants to follow in the footsteps of his adoptive father, become a director, and his favorite films he calls "La Gioconda on Asphalt" and "Tehran-43".

Filmography of Natalia Belokhvostikova:

1965 - Mother's Heart - episode (uncredited)
1968 - Nastasya and Fomka (short)
1969 - By the lake - Lena Barmina
1971 - Sing a song, poet ... - Anna Snegina
1972 - Hope - Nadezhda Krupskaya
1973 - Ocean - Anechka, Platonov's wife
1976 - The legend of Til - Nele
1976 - Red and Black - Matilda de la Mole
1978 - The Story of the Metropolitan Page (short) - Victoria, trainee
1979 - A glass of water - Anna Stewart, Queen of England
1979 - Little Tragedies - Dona Anna
1980 - Tehran-43 (Teheran 43 / Téhéran 43) - Mari Looney and Natalie (mother and daughter)
1980 - uninvited friend- Nina, Grekov's wife
1982 - Circus Princess - Countess Palinskaya (vocal - Lyubov Kovaleva)
1982 - Two chapters from the family chronicle - Irina Blagovolina
1983 - Shore (Shore, The / Ufer, Das) - Emma Herbert
1984 - I'll teach you to dream ... (documentary)
1985 - Zmeelov - Lena
1985 - Legal marriage - Olga Kalinkina, music teacher
1985 - City of brides - Lena Reutova, director's wife
1987 - The World of Ray Bradbury (film-play) - a reader (fragment from the novel "451 ° Fahrenheit")
1987 - Choice - Maria Vasilyeva / Veronika Vasilyeva, daughter
1989 - Law - Marina
1990 - Ten years without the right to correspond - Nina
1992 - A dangerous criminal is wanted - Natasha
1992 - Ask and you will be - Ekaterina
1994 - White Holiday - Masha
1996 - To be remembered. Vadim Spiridonov (documentary)
2000 - To be remembered. Gleb Strizhenov (documentary)
2001 - To be remembered. Oleg Zhakov (documentary)
2001 - Clock without hands - Nelli Vladimirovna
2002 - To be remembered. Nikolay Eremenko (junior) (documentary)
2004 - Year of the Horse - the constellation of Scorpio - Maria, a former circus rider
2005 - How the idols left. Vadim Spiridonov (documentary)
2006 - Pirates of the twentieth century. Eremenko - Nigmatulin (documentary)
2007 - Gioconda on asphalt - Claudia
2008 - Talgat Nigmatulin. Parable of life and death (documentary)
2010 - In Russia snowing(was not completed) - Elena
2010 - Alain Delon. A Man for All Seasons (documentary)
2011 - Vysotsky. Last year(documentary)
2011 - Vysotsky. This is where everything comes true. what is prophesied... (documentary)
2012 - The Tale of Tsar Saltan (was not completed) - Baba Babarikha
2013 - Islands. Vadim Spiridonov - Hear the eternal call (documentary)
2013 - Igor Kostolevsky. Parting with illusions (documentary)
2014 - The last spring of Nikolai Eremenko (documentary)
2014 - Not played, not sung (documentary)
2014 - Natalia Belokhvostikova. Whims of Fate (documentary)

People's Artist of the RSFSR, winner of two state awards Natalya Belokhvostikova grew up in a family of diplomats. Her parents met in Canada, where her father worked as an ambassador and her mother worked as a translator.

Natalya was born on July 28, 1951 in Moscow, but when she was one year old, her parents were sent to work in England, they took their daughter with them. The actress says she remembers the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Natasha's mother was in a lilac dress, long gloves and a hat with a veil. At the age of three, her parents took her to the best store in London and let her choose whatever she liked. Natalya walked for a long time, and then asked to look at the doll she liked the size of her again. Bought a doll for her.

Belokhvostikova lived in London until she was 5 years old. She was fluent in English, and from the age of 2 she attended screenings of Soviet films. The girl went to school already in Moscow - her parents sent her to her grandmother. She yearned for her parents, in order to appease this longing, she read and imagined herself as an actress.

In 1968, Natalya Belokhvostikova entered the VGIK for a course, although she had not yet completed the last class of the school. The high school student interested the master with artistic talent and unusual external data. Sergei Gerasimov personally invited a large-browed, fragile, medium height (168 cm) girl through director Mark Donskoy. In 1971, a talented student received a diploma from the institute.

Movies

The actress was 14 years old when she first appeared in films. Natalya was visiting her parents in Stockholm when director Mark Donskoy was filming the film "Mother's Heart". He was looking for people for extras on the playground. There he saw Natalya, who was offered the role of Maria Ulyanova.

The next time, Belokhvostikova starred in her teacher's film "By the Lake" when she was in her second year at VGIK. Gerasimov did not hide the fact that the role of Lena Barmina was written specifically for this actress, because she had the purity, softness and aristocracy inherent in the heroines of Russian classics. After this film, Natalya Belokhvostikova received the USSR State Prize and became the youngest laureate.

Together with the actress, other students of the master also played in the film. The film dealt with the relationship between the young Komsomol member Lena Barmina and the director of the enterprise Vasily Chernykh (), which unfold against the background of the struggle to preserve the ecological purity of Lake Baikal.

In 1971, the actress starred in the film Sing a Song, Poet, where she transformed into the heroine Anna Snegina. He played the role in the film novel. A year later, the artist transformed into a bride and future wife in the drama "Hope". He acted as a partner of the actress on the stage.

In 1973, Natalya starred in the film "Ocean", where she tried on the image of the romantic heroine Anechka, Platonov's wife ().

In 1976, Natalia played Mathilde de La Mole in the film "Red and Black" based on the novel of the same name by Stendhal. A star acting team was selected in the film, where, in addition to Belokhvostikova and Eremenko Jr., they shone,.

In the same year, Belokhvostikova appeared in another significant role for herself. The actress reincarnated as the heroine Nele in the adventure film by Alexander Alov and The Legend of Thiel about medieval Flanders, which is experiencing a period of liberation from the yoke of the Spanish rulers.

In the late 70s, the actress's filmography was also replenished with work in the film adaptation of "Little Tragedies", where Natalya reincarnated as Don Anna. The last role in his life - Don Juan - played in this film. Natalya Belokhvostikova played the best roles in films in films directed by A. Alov and V. Naumov. In addition to Nele in The Legend of Til, Belokhvostikova distinguished herself by the role of Emma in the film The Shore and Lena in the drama Ten Years Without the Right to Correspond.

In the cult Soviet film Tehran-43, the actress played two main roles at once - Natalie and Marie. Shooting in this project became a high point creative biography Belokhvostikova. During this period, a unique acting style of Natalia Belokhvostikova was formed. In her heroines, the earthly beginning and unearthly refinement complemented each other, perfectly combined.

There are more than 30 films in the filmography of the actress, but in recent times she rarely indulges fans with her creativity. All the images created by her on the screen are realistic, although the characters of the heroines are different. Among the film works of Natalia Nikolaevna there are many dramas and social dramas. She played leading role in the film "Snakes", starred in the dramas "Law", "Wanted a Dangerous Criminal", "White Holiday".

On the account of the actress - work in the films "Glass of Water", "Named Friend", "Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle", "Princess of the Circus". In the mid-80s, Natalya appeared in the social drama Legal Marriage, and later starred in the film adaptation of The Choice.

In 2004, the drama "The Year of the Horse - the Constellation of Scorpio" was released, the plot of which tells about the circus rider Mary. She learns that her horse is going to be sent to the slaughterhouse and decides to steal it from the circus stable. This film is interesting because it was filmed by the daughter of Natalia Belokhvostikova.

Natalya Belokhvostikova in the film "La Gioconda on Asphalt"

In the film "La Gioconda on Asphalt", released in 2007, the actress starred with her daughter. This touching story tells about a girl from rich family, whose husband died in Chechnya.

Personal life

The personal life of the actress proceeds without shocks. Natalya Belokhvostikova is married to director Vladimir Naumov. Her husband is 24 years older than her, but, as the actress says, she never felt the difference in age.

Natalia met Vladimir at the Sheremetyevo airport. Both flew to the festival in Belgrade. Belokhvostikova says she saw a crazy genius on the plane. Naumov was offered to smoke, he took a cigarette, sniffed it and crushed it in his hands, tobacco fell on his trousers. Later, Natalya Nikolaevna found out that two weeks before that flight, Vladimir Naumov had quit smoking. The director drew attention to her in Yugoslavia, after watching a film with her participation. Natalia and Vladimir began to communicate, then got married.

In 1977, the couple had a daughter, Natalya. Having matured, she continued the work of her parents - acting in films like her mother, and making films like her father.

In 2007, their son Kirill appeared in their family - the couple adopted a three-year-old boy from orphanage. Natalya Belokhvostikova says that their meeting was not accidental. AT orphanage, where the actress and her husband arrived as part of the Me and the Family festival, a boy approached them and said: “Aunty, you have a cross, but I don’t. Give me a present".

Kirill did not shout that he was the best, did not hang with other boys on the fence, did not ask for anything - only a cross. Years later, he confessed to the actress that God helped him find parents, because he turned to him every day with this request.

A family - main value in her life. Natalya Nikolaevna says that first of all she is a woman who cannot live without love, loved ones, children and a cozy home. Natalya Belokhvostikova prefers to live in solitude, so she does not use social networks, including Instagram, for posting personal photos.

Natalya Belokhvostikova now

Now Natalya Belokhvostikova is not acting in films. The actress directs her forces to raising her son Cyril. In the film by Vladimir Naumov "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", the boy played a cabin boy on a ship. The boy's mother, Natalya Belokhvostikova, also starred in the film.

In 2017, the actress was awarded an award for helping orphans, which is awarded annually by the Moscow City Hall. In addition to Belokhvostikova, this year the head coach also received the award football club"Ufa", journalist Olga Allenova and President of the Management Company "MKB Capital" Roman Avdeev.

Filmography

• 1965 - "Mother's Heart"
• 1969 - "By the lake"
• 1973 - "Hope"
• 1976 - "Red and Black"
• 1976 - "The Legend of Til"
• 1979 - "Little Tragedies"
• 1980 - "Tehran-43"
• 1982 - "Circus Princess"
• 1985 - "Snake"
• 1990 - "Ten years without the right to correspond"
• 2001 - "Clock without hands"
• 2004 - "Year of the Horse - the constellation of Scorpio"
• 2007 - "Gioconda on the pavement"
• 2009 - "It's snowing in Russia"

famous actress Natalia Belokhvostikova I am sure: everything in her life is an accident. And a meeting with a famous director Sergei Gerasimov, from whom she later studied and starred. And acquaintance with the future husband - the director Vladimir Naumov, one of the authors of the film masterpieces "The Legend of Til", "Tehran-43", etc. And the appearance of a new family member, Cyril, is also fate. Natalia Nikolaevna never intended to adopt a child, but once in an orphanage where she and her family performed, a boy approached her ... They exhausted her soul for a year while she was engaged in paperwork for Cyril. "You've run out of this medical certificate, we need a new one”, “Bring proof that you have no criminal record”. But the actress never used her regalia and went through all the painful bureaucratic path...

Olga Shablinskaya, "AiF": Natalia Nikolaevna, you founded the film forum "Me and my family". He's already 6 years old, right?

Natalia Belokhvostikova: It is in its sixth year in Moscow, and we started 11 years ago, when no one discussed the problems of the family, foster children, orphans, orphanages, and loneliness. At the last festival for a week we showed movies in 8 cinemas for free. At any point where the forum takes place, and it is scattered all over Moscow, a person can simply open the door and enter: listen to psychologists, talk with them, communicate with directors, artists ... Watch films, performances. And all this, again, for free.

Natalia Belokhvostikova, Vladimir Naumov, Infographics: AiF

Natalia Nikolaevna, how did the project “Me and my family” begin in famous couple Naumov-Belokhvostikova? How did you meet?

On the plane on the way to Belgrade. This is destiny. We might never have met, I worked at Gorky's studio, Naumov filmed at Mosfilm. By the way, I auditioned for one picture, where he was in the artistic council. But they approved another artist. I did not appear to Naumov at all.

Then, on the plane, I saw a completely crazy person who behaved brilliantly. (Laughs)

- What did Naumov do that was so crazy-genius?

He was offered to smoke, Naumov took a cigarette, they lit a light for him, but he did not light it. And the whole flight he sniffed these cigarettes, crushed them, tobacco fell on his trousers, on the floor ... He was offered to smoke again, and everything was repeated. I thought: “Well, everything is clear. Whims of genius. But she taught the history of cinema, Alov, Naumov ... After a while, Volodya told me that two weeks before this flight he had quit smoking, and he had been smoking since the age of 14 ... It happened interestingly. His friend, who possessed hypnotic abilities, decided to cure Naumov: “Listen, you are no longer a young man, stop smoking, you cough endlessly, lie down, now I will do everything.” Naumov lay down on the sofa: "Come on." And he began to tell him: “Smoking is harmful, there will be blackness in the lungs, you can get sick, you will be treated for a long time.” In general, he said some good-nonsense that everyone says. Naumov lay and waited for this disgrace to end. "Well, is that all?" - "Yes, get up, now you will not smoke." - “I won’t smoke?! Give me a cigarette". - "On the". Volodya took a cigarette, held it and threw it out the window. I have never seen him smoke in my life, only in photographs. And then on the plane he had, so to speak, nostalgia. (smiling)

How did your relationship develop then?

During the week there was a premiere of the picture, where I played the main role. A government telegram arrived in Belgrade: Belokhvostikova received the State Prize Soviet Union for "By the Lake" I was then 20 years old. I was the youngest laureate of the USSR State Prize, and I probably still am. Naumov drew attention to me, watched the film. We started talking...

- Is it possible to say about your story: “A spark jumped, feelings flared up”?

There was no such thing that we returned to Moscow and no longer parted. No, Naumov and Alov left for two months to write the script, then Volodya flew somewhere else ... I remember how he returned from Holland from the premiere of "Running". Arrived at night, called: "I definitely need to see you." And when we met at night, he brought me such a bouquet (The actress opens her arms). Tulips from Holland! And not a single color repeated the other, this is Holland, the country of tulips, they were all different shades ...

Such a beautiful act...

Very handsome... Volodya traveled a lot that year. I also went somewhere. So we talked on the phone. After midnight.

Natalia Belokhvostikova and Vladimir Naumov. Photo: www.russianlook.com

- And when did you realize that everything, the head is only occupied by him?

Pretty soon, because I was very young, and his life screwed me like a funnel. His life, in which I grew up, grew wiser, I was interested in everything. It was interesting for me to see him, to hear him, he read poetry for hours, introduced him to amazing people, took Bella Akhmadulina to evenings. These were his friends... After some time, we saw each other almost every day. A year later they got married.

American psychologists say that people devote so much time to work, and then they are surprised that everything fell apart at home. Therefore, you need to take at least one hour off work and devote it only to your family.

As for the "extra hour for the family." This is absolutely true. I grew up in a diplomatic family, lived with my grandmother in Moscow when my mother and father were in Sweden. I missed them madly.

Therefore, I really didn’t want Natasha to live the same way because of my profession and worry that I would, like a gypsy, rush around the world. And indeed, at first it was like that, I found out that she had a tooth on the phone. We were then filming The Legend of Til, I was standing in a telephone booth in Riga, throwing these 15-kopeck coins and suffering that I did not see this tooth with my own eyes. But then she did everything to be with her daughter as much as possible. She did not disappear for a long time and did a lot, maybe even to the detriment of herself and her profession, so that after all she would not have a feeling of loneliness. I was there all the time, and this is very important. I don’t even know who has more - children or parents.

- My 10-year-old daughter takes care of me when I'm sick. And how does Kirill behave in difficult moments for you?

He can come and say: “Do you want me to give you strength?” He takes my hand in his little hand - and transfers strength. "Are you better, Mom?" - "Yes". He has the ability to empathize - it's very cool. I see how he reacts to small children on the street, how he wants everyone to say something good to them, to give them. It can't be lost.

After filming in Tehran-43 in 1981, Alain Delon (Inspector Foch), Belokhvostikova (Marie) and Naumov (one of the directors) became friends for life. Photo: RIA Novosti

When we did an interview with your spouse, he said that Natasha is fully involved in her son, all duties are on her.

First, we have no responsibilities. We all do everything. Naturally, there is a nanny who takes her son and brings him home from school, because we do not have time for this. She helps him.

Secondly, as soon as dad enters the house, Kirill rushes to him and begins to report what happened during the day. By the way, he is now filming with his father in "Pushkin's Tales", playing a cabin boy in "The Tale of Tsar Saltan".

They draw together, sculpt together, chat, they have their own men's secrets. This is their men's personal life. There is no place for women there. (laughs)

- pianist He said that his most severe critics are his parents. How do you behave towards your daughter? Do you support her in all her creative endeavors or can you also criticize her?

- “Untalented” I never say, and in general I think that it is wrong to give such assessments. Natasha at first acted herself, graduated from the acting department, and then graduated from directing and began to make films. I starred in her first film, “The Year of the Horse,” in the second, “It's Snowing in Russia,” where I played, probably, this was one of his last film roles, the picture has not yet been released. And now I'm filming, Natasha and her father are filming Pushkin's Tales.

In the first picture, Naumov, being a producer, gave his daughter a word that he would not come to any shooting. Everything she does, she does herself. And good and bad, and mistakes, and good luck - it will all be hers. They agreed and both kept their word. That is, Natasha completely went from call to call as a director at her first full-length big job, without the help of her father and mother. I was on the set, but I was an artist and didn’t get involved in how to shoot, how to play for someone there, who to shoot - this is unrealistic in our family.

Natalya Belokhvostikova as Lena Barmina in a frame from feature film"At the lake" Photo: RIA Novosti

- When you decided to adopt Cyril, how did your family react to your decision?

We always went to orphanages together. Volodya and Natasha saw Kirill on the very first day. Once Volodya and I were sitting in the evening and he said: “What is he doing there in his loneliness?” “And I think about it. And we realized: well, it’s impossible to continue to live the same way, travel somewhere, smile and know that he is going nowhere and, most likely, into trouble, into loneliness, because very rarely any of these pupils have destinies.

We had a picture "The Year of the Horse in the constellation Scorpio." We filmed a horse there. When the filming was finished, she lived in a private stable, and the owner did not care what would happen to the animal, on him, already exhausted, they played tic-tac-toe with a knife. This horse was my amazing partner in the film, and friends do not betray, I think. I ended up buying a horse. I could not live with the thought that she was sold for meat. And now this friend of ours is standing on the hippodrome, his eyelashes are white, he pokes his nose when we come to him. So far, the son is passionate about martial arts, but perhaps the moment will come when he will come to the hippodrome and seriously engage in equestrian sports. Because it’s impossible not to go there, it’s great there, such a fantastic, amazing world. So I have a lot of wards.

- Did you have to change a lot in the way of the family with the advent of Cyril? Still a small child...

They didn't change anything at all! As if it was so, as if he had always lived with us. He opened up a lot for me. I love Italy and know it well. I filmed there and made friends with Fellini, with Tonino Guerra, with Francesco Rosi I have mountains of friends there. But it was one Italy. And with my son - another Italy, when everyone in the hotel and the whole neighborhood loves you, because you are Cyril's mother. He has friends in a few hours wherever he goes, in whatever part of the world. Very kind.

I’m listening to you, with what warmth you talk about your home, loved ones ... That is, first of all, Belokhvostikova is not a creative person, not an actress, but still a woman who keeps her family?

First of all, I am a woman, of course. And a woman is a creature that cannot live without love, without a family, without a cozy home. I can't see myself without my loved ones.

People's Artist Natalya Belokhvostikova told how she met her husband and why she decided to take a child from an orphanage.

Actress Natalya Belokhvostikova will celebrate her 64th birthday on July 28. Popularity came to her after filming in the film "By the Lake", for which the 20-year-old actress was awarded the USSR State Prize. Then there were the films "Princess of the Circus", "The Legend of Til", "Little Tragedies", "Snake Catcher", "Tehran-43". We talked with the actress on the eve of her birthday. The legend of Soviet cinema spoke about how, at the age of 56, she became a foster mother for an orphanage boy and what a crazy act she decided to save her husband.

The future star loved cinema since childhood, but because of her shyness, she was not going to become an actress. Natalya Nikolaevna believes that it is impossible to leave the cinema if you get sick with it at least once. She first appeared in the frame at the age of 13 in the film "Mother's Heart".

“At that time, I came to Stockholm for the holidays with my parents,” Belokhvostikova told Sobesednik.ru. - My father at that time was the Russian ambassador to Sweden. The director of "Mother's Heart" Mark Donskoy asked his father to find actors who could act for free. Then the father offered the children of employees who came for the holidays. That's how I got into movies.

Belokhvostikova with her daughter Natasha / personal archive

When Belokhvostikova was still a tenth grader, she was taken to VGIK, where she was the youngest on the course.

– I come from a family of diplomats, so I thought that I would go to study at MGIMO. But cinema changed my life. After filming in "Mother's Heart", the stage of editing the film came, and my mother and I were called to the film studio. Gorky. There my fateful meeting with the legendary director Sergei Apollinarievich Gerasimov took place. He invited me to join next year to VGIK in his workshop. A few days later, a representative of the director Donskoy called us and said that Gerasimov was looking for that big-browed girl and asked to come to the institute in early September. I came to him: a braid to the waist, a pleated skirt, and around were adult students who embarrassed me with their vulgar jokes. I didn't like it so I decided to leave. I remember when I returned home, my dad was very surprised at my act: “You are already an adult. She herself promised to enter VGIK, keep your word. Gaining courage, I went back to college. Gerasimov allowed me to become a volunteer on the course. Soon she transferred to another school, passed all the exams externally and was officially enrolled in the course.

As an 18-year-old student, Natalya Nikolaevna played one of the central roles in Gerasimov's film "By the Lake", which was released in 1969. For this she received the State Prize of the USSR, which in those years was an extraordinary rarity for such a young artist. Her partner in the film was Vasily Shukshin himself.

- Gerasimov always filmed his students and said that he would look for a heroine for the film. After some time, she met her future partner - Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. I remember it was winter, he was standing at the window, trying to light a cigarette, and his hands were shaking, apparently, he was so worried before the first rehearsal.

Two months after graduating from VGIK, the artist met her future husband on the plane, director Vladimir Naumov, who was 24 years older than Natalia. She was sent to present the film "By the Lake" at the Days of Russian Cinema in Yugoslavia.

In her husband's film "The Legend of Tila" Natalia played the main role / Kino-teatr.ru

- It so happened that Vladimir Naumovich headed the delegation of the film "Running" and also flew to the festival. By the will of fate, we were seated next to each other on the plane. The whole flight we played with him sea ​​battle. Sometimes he would take out a cigarette and turn it over in his hands. Then they were allowed to smoke on planes - they offered him, he lit a cigarette, but did not inhale. He was again offered to smoke, and everything was repeated. In general, he seemed a little strange to me. Later, Volodya said that he had been smoking since adolescence, and quit two weeks before the flight. And it was very interesting story, as his friend, who possessed hypnotic abilities, tried to wean him from addiction. Volodya came to a friend, lay down on the sofa, he began to tell him in a monotonous voice about the dangers of tobacco, they say, there will be blackness in the lungs, you will often get sick. Volodya could not bear this nonsense and, when the session ended, he asked: “Is that all?” Then he wanted to smoke, took a cigarette and threw it out the window.

A week after we met in the newspaper Pravda, I saw that in response to a journalist's question: "What impressed you in Yugoslavia?" - Vladimir Naumovich answered: "Natasha Belokhvostikova."

Despite the fact that the chosen one of Natalya Nikolaevna was much older than her, her parents took this news joyfully and gave their daughter into safe hands.

“I never felt the difference in age. We have always been on an equal footing, each of us had the right to vote. Volodya never interfered in my work. Often asked him to read the script, but he never touched it and always left me to decide. Before the wedding, he courted me for a year. Naumov knew how to surprise: either he would invite me to boxing, then he would read poetry by Akhmadulina on the phone at night, once he brought a huge bouquet of tulips from Holland, where all the flowers were of different colors.

In the historical film "Glass of Water", the actress was the Queen of England / Kino-teatr.ru

In 1974, Natalya Belokhvostikova and Vladimir Naumov got married. A year and a half later, their daughter was born.

- Natasha was born on March 1, 1975. And I always knew that I would call my daughter Natasha. Vladimir Naumovich likes to joke all the time, they say, he will call one Natasha, and two will come. When my daughter was going to become an artist, her father was not against it. And I wanted her to become a director - she would have received a normal profession, independent of anyone. When the exams at VGIK were already underway, a familiar artist called me and told me about a wonderful girl who read Tsvetaeva. It was Natasha. As a result, she graduated from the acting department, then, after a long period of filming, she realized that this was not her profession - she went to study as a lawyer. Recently, cinema fell ill again and graduated from the directing department.

The union of Belokhvostikova and Naumov has been going on for 41 years, and even over the years their love does not go out.

- My husband and I flew to the film festival. As soon as we got on the plane, I noticed that he turned pale sharply, his head was spinning. Before the flight, Volodya drank a headache pill, because of this medicine, the pressure dropped. The plane was moving along the runway. I began to peck into the cockpit to the pilots and ask that my husband and I be dropped off and an ambulance called. The pilots stopped the plane, and an ambulance met us at the gangway.

Natalya Belokhvostikova with relatives / Anatoly Lomokhov

Despite their age, 56-year-old Natalya Nikolaevna and 80-year-old Vladimir Naumovich dared to become parents again and adopted four-year-old Kirill, whom they called "a little piece of happiness." Their meeting took place in one of the orphanages near Moscow, where the couple arrived as part of the festival "Me and Family".

- After the concert, a three-year-old kid approached me with a sad expressive look, in holey tights and asked him to bring a cross. I still wonder why he didn't go up to Natasha or Volodya...

The couple could not get past Cyril. They began to come to the orphanage often, and soon decided to adopt.

- I remember when they took Kirill home, he said: "Every night I asked God that mom and dad would find me as soon as possible." I will do everything so that my son lives happily and has a real childhood. Now he will never be alone. By the way, when Kirill sees small child, then be sure to smile at him and give something. Now Kiryusha is 12 years old, he reads poetry, starred in a new film adaptation of Vladimir Naumovich's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", where he plays a cabin boy and reads Pushkin. In my opinion, he has acting talent. In addition to cinema, he is interested in classical literature, art and music. Kirill gives strength to me and Volodya, does not allow us to grow old, he breathed new life into us.

Actress Natalya Belokhvostikova gave birth to her first daughter in 1975 at the age of 24. The girl, who was named Natasha, was the only child in the family of Belokhvostikova and her husband, director Vladimir Naumov. However, in 2007, the 56-year-old actress and her 80-year-old husband decided to adopt a three-year-old boy.

Natalya describes the touching story of their meeting: unlike many children from the orphanage, Kirill did not try to attract the attention of potential parents. He only asked to buy him a cross: “Aunty, everyone has crosses, but I don’t. Give it to me, please,” said the boy. This modest request moved the actress to tears. Later, seven-year-old Kirill confessed to her that every evening he asked God to send him parents.

According to the actress, not all friends made her and her husband's decision to adopt a child in such a adulthood. But the couple themselves never regretted the decision. The actress says that her son has a wonderful character and many abilities: Cyril sings wonderfully, sculpts from plasticine, recites poetry beautifully and is engaged in martial arts.