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Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov - 52 years together

Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov have been together for more than half a century. Photo: globallookpress.com © Pravda Komsomolskaya

Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov met on the set of the film “There is no ford in fire.” Director Panfilov saw Churikova on television and decided that she was suitable for the role in his first film. According to the actress, at the first meeting, the future husband seemed middle-aged to her. After a while they started talking, the girl realized that she could love this man for the rest of her life.

Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov got married in 1968, ten years later their son Ivan was born. For the artist it was the first child, for the director it was the second child. He first became a father in 1957, when his son Anatoly was born in his first marriage.

Inna Churikova remembers how her son and her husband looked at her when she left them at the door and she went to rehearsals. According to the artist, they had such an expression on their faces as if she was leaving them for someone else. However, the love of the spouses turned out to be stronger than the busy work schedule and constant filming.

Gleb Panfilov: “I have always been interested in faces...”

It is enough to list the films he made to appreciate his artistic scale: “There is no ford in fire”, “Beginning”, “Please speak”, “Theme”, “Valentina”, “Vassa”, “Mother”, “The Romanovs - The Crowned Family” ", "In the first circle", "Guilty without guilt" ...

May 21 is the film master’s anniversary.

Character

- Gleb, you are a Ural man, and my dad is from the Ural blacksmiths, from him I can judge the Ural character: firm, even tough. But you are an artist, and therefore a doubtful person. How does it fit together?

- Hard? Not good. I'm more of a lyricist. I think this comes from the films. Although the profession takes away the character...

— Selects or shapes?

- Both selects and shapes. To work in cinema, you need to have a fairly independent and persistent character. For example, I am shy, but when work starts on set, I change. A director, like any person, consists of more than one quality, say, toughness...

— Out of self-torment too?

- I think yes. But this does not concern any outsiders. Only, perhaps, those closest to us who have to deal with this and experience a certain discomfort.

- From the height of your years, not you, but we can talk about your Napoleonic achievements. Did you have Napoleonic plans in your youth? Did you feel like you were going into larger spaces?

— I didn’t think about spaces. I was brought up fairly well. Not achievements, but work, a favorite thing - that’s what was nurtured in me since childhood. It is extremely important for a person to find his favorite thing. Do what you like...

- A simple secret.

- Yes, simple. I studied at the Polytechnic, studied in a scientific student society, became a chemical engineer, I liked it. I loved to explore, I loved what happens in a retort or in a test tube. There is also photography, the photo process. Everything is organic. It was a holiday for me when on a holiday I locked myself in the bathroom, curtained the window to print the photographs that had accumulated, say, from May 1 to November 7. These were happy hours and days.

-What were you filming?

— I have always been interested in faces, more than landscapes. And then it turned out that I was interested in faces more than chemistry.

— Is this how the camera business began?

— Perhaps more than camera work... As long as I can remember, I really loved listening to adults’ conversations. As I now understand, I was interested in people's relationships. I secretly observed, absorbed, memorized the characters. This is a very important point - life observation.

Moscow

— A provincial comes to the capital - was there some kind of conflict when you appeared in Moscow?

- Perhaps. When I decided to enroll in the correspondence camera department at VGIK, I didn’t even imagine that photographs for the competition should be large format, pasted in a beautiful album, preferably with titles, say, “Spring”, “Love”, “First Kiss”, “Starlings” have arrived”... And I have a 13x18 format and everything is packed in a black envelope from photo paper. Provincial, from the cold. When the VGIK luminaries took them out of my envelope and began to look, I realized: that’s it, it’s over...

- But you still did...

- The fact is that I also brought a documentary film “People's Militia”, about vigilantes. And the great cameraman Anatoly Dmitrievich Golovnya, who headed the selection committee, went into the hall to watch it. And he had to come in exactly at the moment when I wanted to pick up the documents and leave. Before the exam, I decided: if I get a C, I’ll go home and enter graduate school as a chemist. He comes in and takes my envelope. I can’t stand it and say: I’ll get two for the photos. Three, corrects one of the examiners. Golovnya didn’t even bat an eyelid - carefully, one by one, he takes my photographs out of the envelope and looks at them. He finished watching it and said: well, let’s give him a high five and accept it. I thought I heard wrong...

- What dramaturgy!

- Go, he says. I’m walking towards the exit, and he throws it at me in the back: just don’t edit everything on a global scale! I understood what we were talking about. In my film there is a close-up shot of a huge ladle with hot steel pouring into it. And just as large, end-to-end, a glass - champagne pours into it. I flew out on wings...

- So you won, and there was no mistake?

- It wasn’t then. And in general, if you think about it, it wasn’t. Neither then, nor when three years later I entered the Higher Directing Courses...

— Did you remain yourself?

- Of course. I’m like me, all in front of you... I remember another shocking situation was during the final exam...

- Upon graduation?

— No, at the entrance. A synclite gathered, from young to old. From Alov with Naumov to Pyryev with Alexandrov and Raizman. A carpet and a chair on the carpet. There's a line out the door. Everyone is nervous. I'm getting closer. They call. I’m walking, and my mouth is completely dry, I can’t speak. He sat down on a chair, smiled forcefully and said: please, water, otherwise I won’t say a word. A thin glass contains water. He took a sip and a voice appeared. They ask questions - I answer. Either Alov or Naumov ask: who did you study with as a chemist? With Professor Pushkareva. Can you tell us anything bright about her? I say: she is a wonderful person, and a scientist, and a public figure, and a charming woman, but she struck me unexpectedly, it was at the collective farm market, she bought milk, and a quarter went for milk, and the saleswomen only had a can and a bucket and no funnel. So what, asks Naumov. And such silence. I answer: she acted very simply, took a bucket and began to pour milk in a thin stream into the neck of her quarter, the amazed women gathered in a crowd and watched as Professor Pushkareva did not spill a drop...

- She had experience!

- She was a chemist! And they accepted me.

Woman

— When you met Inna Churikova, who was she to you? Did you immediately realize that this was the woman of your life?

— For me she was Tanya Tetkina. What I saw, what I fantasized about, what I thought about, what I dreamed about - Tanya Tetkina.

- So you created a character...

- ... and then I saw her. And then I met her. I was happy.

- When did you fall in love with her?

- It's later. This is different. It's independent. First feeling: I found what I was looking for.

— When you started working, did she follow you?

- She followed me. Moreover, she was still very green and untrained and loved to play. Other people's intonations and mannerisms stuck to her. Inna, you speak in the voice of Tatyana Doronina - yes, yes, it stuck with me... She is very musical, listens very well and accurately reproduces. She adored Doronina. I say: don’t, be yourself, you have your own wonderful voice, a unique, inimitable timbre. All her sympathies for her grandmother, for the village - this is what Tanya Tetkina needs, which is her essence. She grew up a lot in the painting. Work educates. Raises me too.

- You filmed her so much - did she ever surprise you?

- From the first film. She surprised and delighted. Her stories about her mother, her grandmother, and the Ryazan village women were close to me. My grandmother on my mother’s side is also from Ryazan. This is a special dialect, speech music, everything is native.

— Was it hard to leave your previous family?

- Yes, it’s not easy. I wouldn’t really like to expand on this topic. This applies not only to me, but also to my first wife. We have a good relationship with her. And Inna too. My eldest son lived with us for a long time. I treasure this.

- Do you believe in fate?

- I believe.

— Does character make fate or does fate make character?

- Higher power. What is character, what is genetics? Everything comes from above. I don't believe in chance. Chance is an unrecognized and misunderstood Providence of God. I began to understand quite early on that this is an area of special attention, and we should not rush to conclusions or actions, we should wait, think, figure it out...

— Have you had internal psychological breakdowns, including ideological ones?

- I did what I had to do. I am not one of those who, with their hands on the bit, pursued a career. My worldview changed, but it changed naturally, as my life progressed. In 1961, when Gagarin flew, I joined the party. By conviction. And he believed that the people of the 80s would live under communism. But already in 1966, the Higher Directing Courses, three hundred films watched, and books read did their job. I remained myself, but my thoughts changed.

- What did you do with your membership card? Burned?

- No. I'm not capable of this. The events of 1991 in Latvia and Lithuania turned me upside down. I decided that I could no longer remain in the CPSU. For me it was an act, a milestone. I told my father about this. He remained a communist. He built Magnitogorsk, I was born there, in a barracks. My family is wonderful, both my father and my mother. I grew up in love, just like my brother... After talking with my father, I went to Mosfilm, went to the secretary, explained and put in my party card.

— Were you worried?

- Very. It wasn't easy.

Man in history

— If you look at the retrospective of your films, we can say that you filmed a Russian man in Russian history. Sometimes this is a special case, as in “Valentine” according to Vampilov, sometimes a model, as in “I ask for the floor” and “Theme”, sometimes a big story, like “In the First Circle” according to Solzhenitsyn. What are we? What is our trouble and what is our hope?

“If I knew the answer, I would make a film about it.” I don't know the answer. But I know the problem, and all my paintings are an attempt to talk about it. If you arrange them not in order of appearance, but according to historical chronology, you get the 20th century in my opinion. “Mother” – 1902, Nizhny Novgorod, workers’ unrest. “Vassa Zheleznova” - 1913, merchants, economic prosperity, and around there is already fermentation of revolution. “The Romanovs” - 1917-1918, the death of the Royal Family. “There is no ford in fire” - the story of nurse Tanya Tetkina in the same years. “I ask for the floor” and “Theme” - Soviet power...

— Soviet boss Uvarova in “The Topic” – a heroine or a victim?

- Both. Product. This worried me because I saw myself in her. And people close to me with whom I worked in the city committee of the Komsomol in Sverdlovsk.

— Where does cinema begin for you? From thoughts, pictures, sound?

- Differently. Let's say, the painting “I Ask for Your Word” began for me with the story of a woman who lost her son. There was a real story of a boy who died; he studied with my younger brother. And the fact that he is the son of the city mayor, and that the mayor, having buried her son, immediately went to work - this is already a plot. The film “There is no ford in fire” began when I came across the magazine “Krasnaya Nov”, I still have it, 1938, and there is Gabrilovich’s story “An Incident at the Front”. Reading: Tanya Tetkina, nurse. And what struck me: she is an artist! And also - a river, the low sun, fish splashing, a voice above the water, an accordion. Oka. I often admired it when I traveled by train from Moscow to Sverdlovsk. And then everything coincided...

— Why did you take “Guilty Without Guilt”?

“I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, in the theater. I proposed it to Mark Zakharov, but it didn’t work out. And then Vanyushka, the son, grew up, and a rare opportunity arose to film a mother and son, and then the plot connection from conditional became unconditional, the relationship between the characters took on special colors...

— You staged “Hamlet” and “Sorry” with Zakharov...

“Sorry” was a success for eleven years, until this misfortune happened to Kolya Karachentsov. "Hamlet" - five years until the costumes burned. It's a pity for the performance and my concept.

Hamlet

- What is the concept?

— In dynastic marriages, it often happened when uncle and nephew were the same age, and sometimes the nephew was older than the uncle. In my opinion, Hamlet and Claudius are peers, and even friends. Imagine when a classmate with whom you played football, the girls ran around together, you know everything about him, and he about you, and he suddenly becomes your mother’s husband and king. Although, by right of succession to the throne, the king's son must be the king. It has not been proven that Claudius killed his brother. From the interlinear translation it may follow that the whole story with the ghost of Hamlet's father was organized by Hamlet himself. This is his hoax. Just like the mousetrap scene. The wounded Hamlet creates his hoaxes with the help of a traveling troupe of actors.

- For what?..

- To become a king - this is how he understands justice. Hamlet is not a victim, not a hero. Hamlet is a sinner. He, a Christian, killed Polonius, destroyed Ophelia - he treated her cruelly, mercilessly, sent two of his university friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to execution, committing burglary and forgery for this. He's a criminal. He allowed himself to be carried away by demons. And he destroyed his soul before he himself died. Hamlet is a complex, contradictory nature, there are demons in him, not angels!..

- How did you read this?

- This follows from the text.

- Has the entire world tradition really missed this?..

- Obviously. I saw. Just as I saw that Vassya Zheleznova was 42 and looked younger. And she is not Zheleznova at all, but Khrapova. “Human woman”, as written by the author. And I'm directing a completely different film. And Rachel? Wonderful dissident. I knew such people, they were in the kitchen with a cigarette, arguing all night long about world problems, and their husband and child were forgotten, abandoned. Lord, it’s all about us!..

- And “Hamlet” is about us...

— With “Hamlet” - my guess, my discovery, has remained with me for now.

- You should write a book about this...

- Or put on a movie.

- God help you!

Track

- You are a happy person.

- Yes. I'm doing what I love. I am surrounded by good people. I have a family that I love...

- Looks like you deserve everything.

- I'm just very lucky. I was lucky for my parents, for my wife, for my children, for my comrades. A lot of love was spent on me.

- If we talk about the secret of life, this is probably the whole point - is a person lucky with love?

- Maybe.

— What kind of movie are you going to make?

“I’m excited now, but I haven’t taken the trail yet...

Blitz survey

— What does it mean to age gracefully?

— I have long noticed that not all people become ugly in old age, there are also those who become prettier. What is behind this, physical, spiritual? It seems to me that when a person is at peace with himself, he remains young longer.

—What is your main character trait?

- (Thinks for a long time). Sit down, Panfilov, two. Don't know.

—What character trait do you like in other people?

- Goodwill. This is Inna’s main feature. By the way, this is inherent in me too.

—What would you have become if you had not become a director?

- Chemist.

— Do you have a motto?

- You never know what you can do till you try.

Vera Alentova and Vladimir Menshov - 58 years together

Vera Bykova and Vladimir Menshov met while studying at the Moscow Art Theater. He entered there after three unsuccessful attempts to become a student at VGIK. She ended up within the walls of the studio school because the other theater universities in Moscow did not accept her.

The teachers considered Vera a capable student and predicted a brilliant acting career for her. They received the news about their wedding with Vladimir without Moscow registration with hostility. But love turned out to be stronger. The young couple married in their second year in 1962. The newlyweds celebrated their wedding with the last 20 rubles. They were enough for a treat and a couple of photos. For the first few years, the family wandered around the hostels. In 1969, their daughter Yulia was born, after which the family was allocated an apartment. During this period, the actress changed her last name from Bykova to her mother’s maiden name - Alentova. The family began to live much better, but the relationship between the spouses worsened. At some point they separated, but did not file for divorce. According to Alentova, the reason for the disagreement was that she had accumulated many minor grievances towards her husband.

Vladimir and Vera were reunited when their daughter Yulia entered first grade. Alentova found old letters that she and her husband once wrote to each other and realized that all her grievances were nothing. Alentova and Menshov came to their daughter’s school function together and said that “dad will live with them again.” Since then, the couple have not separated.

Svetlana Druzhinina and Anatoly Mukasey - 63 years together

Svetlana Druzhinina and Anatoly Mukasey met at volleyball. The young actress, who was already being recognized on the street, had a ball hit her head. She decided to see who threw him, and met the gaze of Anatoly Mukasey.

The relationships of young people became a topic for discussion. It seemed strange to many that in a couple the woman was older than the man. However, Anatoly was not embarrassed by their three-year difference with Svetlana. They became friends. The young man photographed the girl, and thanks to these photographs she received new roles in films.

The parents found out that their son was dating an older woman, after which he brought Svetlana to a meeting with relatives. Father and mother liked the heir's beloved. In 1958, they had a double wedding with Mukasey’s sister. They say that at first the future stars often quarreled. My husband's relatives helped me sort out any misunderstandings. Soon the young people learned to treat each other’s wishes with understanding and everything improved in the family.

In the marriage of Svetlana Druzhinina and Anatoly Mukasey, two children were born: Anatoly and Mikhail. The firstborn died at the age of 28 due to drug addiction. The youngest son works as a cameraman and producer.

Family of Inna Churikova

As mentioned earlier, Inna Churikova’s family is ideal. She is crystal clear. It seems that their union of Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov was made in heaven.

Yes, of course, in marriage there were sometimes disagreements and minor quarrels, but all this remained in the shadows and was never taken out of the house. The couple is still together and still loves each other as much as in their early young years.

The meeting of Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov turned out to be fateful and became an impetus for the popularity of the spouses. And now the actress is the main muse for her husband.

Natalya Belousova and Alexander Shirvindt - 64 years together

Natalya Belousova and Alexander Shirvindt began dating as teenagers. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS

Natalya and Alexander met in the village for the creative intelligentsia NIL (“Science, Art, Literature.” - Ed.), which was built by Natalya’s grandfather. He was 17 years old, she was 16. At that time, few people took this “novel” seriously. They thought the teenagers' relationship would end at the end of the summer. But the lovers continued to meet upon returning to Moscow.

The young people corresponded often. Shirvindt accompanied Tattoo home, and along the way they talked about various things. Their affection for each other grew stronger, and after school they entered different universities. He wanted to become an artist, she wanted to become an architect. In the winter of 1957, Sasha came to Tata with a branch of white lilac and the words “Let's go to the registry office.” They got married the same year and never separated.

In the marriage of Alexander Shirvindt and Natalya Belousova, a son, Mikhail, was born. He became an actor and TV presenter. One of the most famous projects with his participation is the program “Dog Show”.

Our information

Inna Churikova was born on October 5, 1943 in the city of Belebey, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1965 she graduated from the M. S. Shchepkin Higher Theater School with honors.
Inna Churikova made her film debut while still a student, playing in the 1960 film “Clouds over Borsk”.
Subsequently, she starred in many films, including films created by her husband, film director Gleb Panfilov (born May 21, 1934).
Son - Ivan Panfilov (born February 8, 1978), international lawyer, producer.

Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov - 65 years together

Pakhmutova and Dobronravov urge lovers to find fault with each other less often. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev / ITAR-TASS

Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov met on the radio in 1956. The girl wrote music for the programs, and the young man read poetry. Soon after their first meeting, they wrote a joint song, “Motor Boat.” Three months after they met, the young people got married. On the way to the registry office, they encountered a downpour, which they took as a good sign.

The writers had no money, so they celebrated the wedding modestly. The bride didn't even have a white dress. Pakhmutova got married in a soft pink suit sewn by her mother.

The newlyweds' honeymoon took place in Abkhazia, with Alexandra Nikolaevna's relatives. Relatives treated the young couple to Caucasian cuisine. And the lovers celebrated their wedding night on the shores of the Black Sea. Pakhmutova and Dobronravov still consider that vacation to be the best, despite the fact that at that time they had neither money nor fame.

Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov have been together for 65 years. They have no children. They consider their children from disadvantaged families, whom they teach music, to be their own. According to the stars, for family happiness you need to be less likely to be guided by personal principles and not find fault with your partner. Dobronravov, when asked about the secret of their strong marriage, quotes the writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “Loving is not looking at each other, but looking in the same direction.”

Personal life of Inna Churikova

Inna Churikova’s personal life is calm, devoid of any intrigue, scandals or provocations. We can say that it is quite successful and stable. Inna Churikova is married; she and her husband have been living together for more than fifty years, happily and at ease. Few modern actresses, and indeed in general, can boast of such a probably ideal family life.

Inna Churikov's husband is film director, People's Artist of Russia Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov. They still love each other. They live peacefully, as they say, in perfect harmony.