why the performer of the role of Frosi Burlakova passed away
Ekaterina Fedorovna Savinova is a talented Soviet actress with a short and tragic biography. She was remembered by the viewer in the main role of Frosi Burlakova in the film “Come Tomorrow”. Unfortunately, this work turned out to be her only significant role in the cinema. Savina’s life was brutally treated: the film career was destroyed at the very beginning, and a ridiculous accident led to a serious mental disorder that caused death at 43 years old.
Catherine was born on December 26, 1926, in the village of Yeltsovka in the Altai Territory in a simple peasant family. After graduation, she came to Moscow to enter VGIK, but her first attempt was unsuccessful. After a while, the girl managed to get on an additional course of the director Vasily Vanin, from whom she was soon expelled “due to lack of acting data”. But Catherine stubbornly went to her goal and in 1945, having overcome a huge competition was accepted at VGIK into the workshop of directors Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova. Together with her, such future stars as Nonna Mordyukova and Vyacheslav Tikhonov studied.
After graduating with honors from the course, the young actress entered the Gnesinka vocal department, as, In addition to acting talent, she also had a unique voice. Savinova could have developed a brilliant singing career - she was invited to the Bolshoi Theater and to the stage, but Catherine wanted only one thing: to act in films. She refused.
How Katya became a “Kuban Cossack”
In 1950, Savinova entered the service at the Theater Studio of the film actor but continued to dream about cinema. Her debut in the cinema was the role of Lyubochka in the film by the famous director Ivan Pyryev “Kuban Cossacks”, in which she starred in the last year of VGIK.
The actress was noticed by both the audience and the directors, but ... Ivan Pyryev was famous for both his love of lovingness and vindictiveness. He made an explicit proposal to Catherine, to which the girl responded with a slap in the face. This incident put an end to her film career. Savinova was far from the only one whose creative fate was destroyed by an omnipotent director.
Catherine was invited, mainly, to the passing roles, which sometimes did not even appear in the credits. It happened that interesting proposals came in and she was even approved for the role, but at the last moment, the actress was refused. This happened, for example, with the role of Maryutka in the film directed by Grigory Chukhrai in “Forty-first”. As a result, Isolde Izvitskaya, who received numerous awards for this work, played the game. Savinova was very worried about her lack of demand, but she believed that she would still be starring.
Frosia Burlakova
This happened only in 1963: the actress played her starring role of Frosi Burlakova in the film “Come Tomorrow”, shot by her husband, director Evgeny Tashkov, at the Odessa film studio.
But even there, Tashkov with great difficulty managed to get consent from the studio leaders to shoot. They wrote the script for the film together and brought into it some real circumstances from the life of the actress: her heroine Frosya also comes to Moscow from the hinterland, is late for exams, and studies at the Institute. Gnesins. The picture made Savinova famous and was noted by critics as the best role of the year. In the wake of success, the couple begins to tour with concerts around the country. Another bright, albeit small work of the actress, was the role of the cook Matrena in the film Sergei Gerasimov's “The Marriage of Balzaminov”, where the main role was brilliantly played by George Vitsin.
Despite more than a modest filmography, in 1965 Ekaterina Savinova was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
The tragedy in Novosibirsk
In April 1970, Savinova left for her older sister Maria in Novosibirsk. At this time, Eugene worked on the painting “Adjutant of His Excellency”. The actress called her husband several times, was interested in how the shooting was being done, and nothing in her words Tashkova alerted. But on April 25, Catherine came to the railway station and threw herself under the wheels of a passing train. Perhaps this was her conscious decision. They buried Ekaterina Fedorovna at the Kleschikhinsky cemetery in Novosibirsk. For 3 decades, a modest grave fell into complete desolation - there was no one to care for. By decision of the Council of Cinematographers, on November 5, 2006, the remains of the actress were reburied in the central part of the cemetery and a memorial was opened there.