At the age of 77 years died actress Natalia Krachkovskaya – BBC

On Sunday, 28 February, the actress was hospitalized with suspected myocardial infarction; her condition in the First City Hospital was assessed as extremely serious in intensive care it hooked up to a ventilator. But doctors’ efforts did not help – on the night of March 3 Krachkovskaya died

Natalia Krachkovskaya izaestna primarily for his roles in comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai -. She played Madame Gritsatsuyeva in the film adaptation of “The Twelve chairs “and wife superintendent Bunsha in” Ivan Vasilievich. »

But in a movie she starred at the time more than ten years.

Krachkovskaya was born in 1938 ; her mother – Maria Fonina – was an actress, and after school Natalia came to VGIK. Having studied it there, though, quite a bit – after the trauma she had to stop the study, but the movie is not broke. First played in small episodes in production dramas, which are now almost do not remember, then reached roles in the films of a higher level – like “Marriage Bal’zaminova” or “the” Trust “operations. But it works if not in the movie, and was a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Metallurgy, and then – at the Department of the Moscow State University geology

«12 chairs» became the first major work Krachkovskaya in the movie. .

With Gaidai introduced her husband, sound engineer Vladimir Krachkovsky (nee actress – Belogortseva); the famous director was looking for and enjoy their full type Krachkovskaya perfect idea came to him. And after the release of the film adaptation of the novel by Ilf and Petrov actress, what is called, “I woke up famous.” It found its role and completely switched to work

Gaidai called Krachkovsky in his next film -. “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation”, where she got the role of a scandalous wife Bunsha, who did not notice the substitution and very willingly communicated with the king; and the presence of two identical men even brought her to mind ( “We are all cured”). After the “Ivan” Krachkovskaya finally became a comedic actress, her relationship with the cinema have been identified for many years ahead, and

her character is guaranteed to raise a smile with one fact of its appearance on the screen.

in her filmography of over one hundred paintings, in which she played the first cooperation with Gaidai (he, she starred in “can not be!”, and “On Deribasovskaya good weather or On Brighton Beach raining again “). Played Krachkovskaya not just only in comedies – scenes with her participation is in the adventure “two captains” by Veniamin Kaverin, in a television detective “The investigation leading experts” in the cult “The venue can not be changed” by Stanislav Govorukhin

. comedy, however, were in the majority – “Take care of men”, “Pokrovsky gates”, “Be my husband”, “Man from boulevard des Capucines»

His fullness it is perceived as part of the image and gives the example of a stop shooting “Ivan” – after because of illness she dropped twenty kilograms: Gaidai waited Krachkovskaya return in the form of

«always directors treat me. as a gay trifles, so filming, mostly in comedy and the absurd way – recalls the actress in an interview. – But to shoot a lot, because people always want to see something big and bright: I, for example »

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