Elena Safronova Biography

Look for a woman for the first time Igor Maslennikov and the operator Yuri Veksler doubted the correctness of their choice, but when they looked at the footage, they realized: she is the same. Igor Maslennikov said: “Safonova was an excellent model. Elena, experiencing everything in herself, very trembling, closed, insinuating, laconic, caused sympathy at the viewer. The success of the film was colossal.

For a year in the Soviet Union, 32 million spectators watched it, the film was sold in 27 countries of the world. In m, the second part of the “Winter Cherry” was released on the screens, in m - the third. These were the first foreign shootings for the actress, who until that time was not a disorderly. Safonova gratitude recalls this work, although he says that it was difficult for her to work with Mikhalkov.

But she recalls the work with her partners on the set differently: “On the first shooting day, I should have been very scary: so many major masters of the world screen - Marcello Mastroianni, Marta Keller, Silvan Mangano, who did not star after the death of her son, and in the film“ Black Enches ”agreed to play the wife of the main character. Of course, scary: they are near me.

But somehow I did not have time to feel all this, so actively, work went richly. It was just that there was no time to reflect. Well, maybe at the first rehearsal with Mastroanni at first there was some kind of “cotton” state of confusion. But this artist is so easy to communicate, contacted, behaved obediently as a schoolboy. ” This work brought Safonova European fame, it received the Italian prize "David" for the best female role.

Sooner or later, this will certainly happen, if not by virtue of intrigues, then by virtue of age. But then it will not be so offensive to me. ” Elena Safonova photography: Museum of History and Ethnography, Yugorsk “Winter Cherry” and “Black Eyes” secured the safon image of the lyrical heroine, and the directors actively exploited him in the films of that time: “Filel”, “Srown my sorrows”, “Taxi-Blub”, “Butterflies”.

The film "Accompanator" Claude Miller, where her partner on the set was actor Samuel Labart, is the landmark in Safonova's career. Their relationship continued after filming, the actress decides to stay in France. There, Safonova starred in several paintings “Mademoiselle O”, “Woman in the Wind”, “Wind from the East”, plays in the Paris Theater of the Civil Code, at the Atelier Theater.

In France, she received proposals for cooperation with Alena Delon himself, but the actress refused to the husband’s advice. True, then she was very sorry: it turned out that Labart opposed the filming of Delon not for professional considerations, but out of jealousy. In parallel, Safonova starred in Russian paintings - in particular, in “Music for December” by Ivan Dykhovichny.

The fight against role in the year, the actress returns to Russia and accepts the proposal to withdraw in the painting of Villen Novak "Princess on Bobs." In this tape, she also “took away” the main role from Andreichenko, who at that time was busy on the set in Hollywood. The film about a dishwasher with a noble origin thundered throughout the country and gathered a large number of festival prizes.

But in the Princess on Bobs, Safonova again did not change her role as a lyrical heroine. She dreamed of trying herself in other genres. The actress’s characteristic roles were offered in the theater. Safonova has always loved to play in entranding performances: in the comedy “I cry forward!