Alice Freindlich Biography Height

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. She is the People's Artist of the Soviet Union, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Konstantin Stanislavsky, the owner of three state prizes, two “gold masks” and four “Nick”. In the photo: Alisa Brunovna Freindlich in the year was awarded the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the second degree, noted the flying of creative activity in the BDT role in the production of “excitement” and her summer anniversary.

Childhood in the besieged Leningrad in the winter of the year in the family of actor Bruno Arturovich and accountant Ksenia Fedorovna Freindlich from Leningrad, a girl was born, who was called Alice. Mom wanted to call her daughter Natasha, but dad, German by origin, insisted on his own, motivating that the middle name did not combine with the name "Natasha". Ksenia convinced him only that the girl needs to be recorded by Russian, not a German woman.

Parents of Alice Freindlich in his youth met their parents on the dramatic courses of the Leningrad theater of working youth, where the Pskovite Ksenia Fedorova is a maiden name, who participated in amateur performances, came to study, but eventually married Bruno, gave birth to accounting courses, giving all her next life to give her subsequent life to work in a central work Sberkasse of the Oktyabrsky district of Leningrad.

Alisa Freindlich in childhood in the photo: with mom and aunt Bruno at that time was already a leading actor of the theater. His ancestors, German glass artists, arrived in Russia at the invitation of Emperor Peter the Great in order to teach their skill Russian students. Bruno's father did not continue the dynasty, engaged in shoe business, but he died suddenly in the year.

His son decided to devote his life to the stage. The children's photo of Alice Freindlich Alisa Brunovna recalled how she, a three -year -old baby, fell on the premiere of the performance at the conservatory. Her impression was so strong that she began to play with herself “to the theater”, singing the remembered melodies. I was born in a house on Isaacievskaya Square. The cathedral was clearly visible from the windows of our apartment, and a famous copper horseman stood a five-minute walk from the house, and such an exciting soul of some super-beautiful view of the Neva opened.

The charm of my city from childhood entered the soul and bewitched for his whole further life ...

When Alice was preparing for admission to first grade, her parents divorced. She and her mother remained to live with her grandmother, Charlotte Friedrichovna Zeitz-Frandlich. It was a year. Father left with the theater troupe to Tashkent. Repressions of the Germans living in Russia unfolded with might and main. Only years later, Alice found out that his father and his wife were arrested and shot.

The divorce of his parents, in fact, saved them with his mother from such a fate. Charlotte Friedrikhovna with her grandchildren: thanks to his grandmother, Alice and Edward, they were able to survive the horror of the Leningrad blockade. Charlotte Friedrikhovna established a strict diet, strictly disposed of meager food supplies. Freindlich recalled later that only thanks to this strict discipline did they manage to survive.

Porridge, cooked on a carpentry jackpot with the addition of mustard from grandmother's reserves, was made tastier, and boiling water with soda replaced her soda. During the blockade, the family lived on the ground floor, and the neighbors on the entrance sometimes descended to their apartment to wait out air anxiety. In one of the raids, as if on a hunch, they still went down to the bomb shelter.

School photos from the archive of Alice Freindlich, she returned to this school only at eight years, in the winter of the year. The children sat in mittens and fur coats, wrote letters and numbers on the fields of newspapers and old forms, since there were no notebooks. At Alice, half German, they looked askance. Psychological stress was aggravated by a physical weakened state and a constant sensation of cold.

To be saved from him, women drowned a stove-stove, using furniture in the apartment instead of firewood. Freindlich remembered bitterly how rare books were thrown into the furnace furnace, for example, the lifetime of the works of Leo Tolstoy. But there was no choice, the burned folios extended life. Alisa Freindlich recalls the blockade of Leningrad people began to leave the blockade Leningrad, gathered on the road and Charlotte Friedrikhovna.

Alice remembered huge boilers at the station, in which collapsed pasta for departing frosts froze from severe frost. They were cut with loafs and distributed so that people would not die on the way from hunger. Grandmother cut off a piece from her share and handed over to Alice with her mother, who remained in the city. As they found out later, Charlotte Friedrikhovna never reached the place, died along the road.

She was all the whole of the war Ksenia Fedorovna worked as an accountant, and at her end, along with Alice, she left for relatives in Estonia, where they lived up to a year. The post -war youth, upon returning to Leningrad, Alice again began to study at her school, entering the sixth grade. The circle was supervised by her husband Pavel Karlovich Weisbrem.Alisa Freindlich in her youth Freindlich later recalled that it was these people who were the first not only to love her to the theater, but they excited a real passion for him and forced her to take her seriously: I had a good voice, I adored music.

Relatives advised me to enter the conservatory. But my dad reasonably remarked that nothing interesting was shining there, since I am small, and the opera requires the texture. He said that if I go to the theater institute, I can do everything - play, sing, dance. By that time, Bruno Arturovich also returned to Leningrad with a new family. His wife was jealous of his past life and categorically forbade him to meet her daughter.

They saw each other secretly from time to time, and only after many years Alice met and made friends with her half -sister Irina. Father did not help his daughter with his admission, despite the requests of the head of the drama circle, who believed that "the girl is small, thin, small, may not notice, and there will be trouble." Bruno refused to vouch, motivating that he did not see Alice on stage.

As a result, Pavel Weisbrem asked her, transferring a note to the admissions with a request to pay attention to a talented girl. Alice Freindlich with her father at the entrance exams Alice sang the Russian romance “Do not scold me dear” and read an excerpt from the Dead Souls of Nikolai Gogol. Freindlich was admitted to the Leningrad Theater Institute named after Alexander Ostrovsky, at the Boris Course, which Freindlich to this day recalls with great gratitude.

Among his famous and famous students were the legendary Pavel Kadochnikov, the charming Zinaida Sharko, the original Nikolai Trofimov. The test book The beginning of a creative career and two marriage still a student Freindlich starred in several episodes of two dramatic films: “Immortal Song” her last name was not even indicated in the credits and “Talents and fans” in the main roles were occupied by Pavel Kadochnikov and Tamara Aleshin.

Frame from the movie "Immortal Song". One of the first roles Freindlich, the third -year student, Alice fell in love with the classmate of Vladimir Karasev and became his wife. Together they received diplomas and, by distribution, got to the theater named after Vera Komissarzhevskaya. Hitting in the room provided to the newlyweds Freindlich's family, both felt that they were not yet ready for family life.

In addition, work in the theater demanded complete dedication, feelings gradually came to naught, and the couple broke up. Alisa Freindlich and Vladimir Karasev, her first husband played an important role in the divorce was played by Alice's meeting with director Igor Vladimirov, invited to the theater to staged the play “Time to Love”. Freindlich was conquered by a well -known womanizer in theatrical circles, especially his sense of humor.

He was 16 years older than the actress, wiser and more experienced. Having immediately examined her talent, Vladimirov insisted that Alice switch to the service of the Lensovet Theater, where he was the main director. He unfolded my fate, thanks to him they noticed me ... We were not only spouses, we were a strong creative union. He, like me, experienced not just weakness for music, he was sick with her.

That is why he put so many musical performances. It is the music that opens up the acting soul, multiplies the audience perception. Vladimirov created almost all his productions for the new Prima and his wife, whose bounds sparkled brighter. The demanding Leningrad viewer soon began to come to the theater precisely "on Freindlich." The young Alice Freindlich in the play “Pygmalion” was one of her best roles on the stage of the theater, Katerina Ivanovna from “Crime and Punishment” and Ranevskaya from the “Cherry Garden” became.

Photo from the play "Cherry Orchard" Roles in the cinema, another situation took shape with Freindlich with a film career. She was already a famous theater actress, but she was not offered interesting and large -scale roles in the movies, she played secondary characters in television films. The viewer was remembered only by her baroness de Shampeni from the “straw hat”, a musical television movie with Andrei Mironov in the title role.

As it turned out later, it was also difficult for the operators to take off her face of the “wrong sculpture”. Photo tests for the role in the Hussar Ballad in the film career of Alice Freindlich could have other roles of Eldar Ryazanov. The role of Alevtina in the Zigzag Good luck, which was written specifically for her, ended up Valentina Talyzina, as Freindlich was preparing to become a mother.

In the year, she gave birth to her daughter Barbar, and in the year she experienced a personal tragedy - her mother Ksenia Fedorovna, who had left this world from a sudden stroke, did not become. The actress had a chance to play Nadia Shevelev in the "Irony of Fate ...", but this role also did not work out. Her Lyudmila Kalugina from the “official novel” became so popular that the women of the whole country made hairstyles “under Kalugin” after her wonderful transformation, shared the patterns of dresses seen in her cinema.With Andrei Softov on the set of “Service Roman”, but initially the costume artist raised his head for a long time over what a female leader who waved his hand should look like.

The centers of rolled things, along with the director, showed the world a monstrous criminal costume and shoes, knocking heels so that it was heard a mile away. It was in this picture that the country heard the purely soprano Freindlich, who sang about the restless soul and that “we must gratefully accept” not only any weather, but also all the vital and downs. Alisa Freindlich in the role of “Mymra” according to the actress, she spied the initial gait in Kalugina in life, and by the time of meeting with the main character played by Andrei soft, she was preparing, like a schoolgirl for an exam.

Her magical transformation in the film was achieved thanks to acting talent and French compact powder Lanka, which was obtained by Freindlich on occasion. For the operator’s camera, this was enough for the heroine's eyes to shine in the frame, and his face was lit by absolute happiness. From that moment on Alice Freindlich, the door opened into a large cinema, where she managed to play more than one brilliant role.

The transformation of Lyudmila Kalugina saw in one of the theatrical productions Andrei Tarkovsky, she received a leading role in Stalker, where she embodied the image of the wife of the protagonist Alexander Kaidanovsky. The viewer well remembered her colorful Harita Ignatievna Ogudalova in the “Cruel Romance”, where the venerable Nikita Mikhalkov and young Larisa Guzeeva were involved in the main roles.

In this role, the actress already starred in the national artist of the USSR and in the status of a divorced woman. The director of these events was also called the director’s great love for the female sex and alcohol, and the article in the newspaper called “Theater of one actress”, which supposedly painfully hit Vladimirov’s pride and after reading he filed for divorce. One way or another, in the year the couple broke up.

With Igor Vladimirov, on the theater stage, Alisa Brunovna herself answered the questions of journalists about the true causes quite delicately and evasively: our parting was bitter for Vladimirov, bitter for the theater. I understood this and swore that I would play my performances. But Igor Petrovich did not want this, he believed that nostalgia for past success would only spoil everyone’s mood in the theater, that you need to move on, and my presence in it is in a sense of a hindrance ...

So I left. Having worked after a divorce for a couple of years in the theater of the former spouse, Freindlich switched to the service in the Leningrad BDT to Georgy Tovstonogov.