What sacrifices did the actors who starred in the fairy tale film “Morozko. Baba Yaga "Frost" saved

The famous picture was saved from death by its main "villain" - actor Georgy Millyar, who played Babu Yaga

The fairy tale film "Morozko", released in 1965 Alexandra Rowe immediately appreciated not only by children, but also by adults who are responsible for the cinematic awards. The painting received the main prize "The Lion of Saint Brand»At the XVII Venice International Film Festival in the program of films for children and youth; in 1966 at the All-Union Film Festival "Morozko" was recognized as the best children's film; The US Film Advisory Board presented him with the Award of Excellence for Best Screenplay for Family Viewing, and Steven Spielberg, admiring the special effects of the tape, called our picture the forerunner of many film masterpieces of the American dream factory.

But in the process of creation, the actors and the entire film crew had to go through many difficult and even dangerous moments, and the film itself could die without reaching the viewer.

Nadezhda Rumyantseva could have become Nastenka

Artist for the role Morozko found right away: director Alexander Rowe had no doubt that he should be an actor Alexander Khvylya, high, colorful, with a thick, impressive voice. After the release of the fairy tale on the screens, Khvylya became the most important Santa Claus Soviet Union: for many years he "worked" on the Kremlin Christmas trees, the kids recognized him and was very happy about the appearance of his beloved character.

The search for a girl who was supposed to play a timid, sweet and unrequited Nastenka, did not last long: Rowe saw a 15-year-old ballerina and a figure skater Natalia Sedykh, performing "The Dying Swan", and immediately decided that he needed such an actress. But in order to defend her candidacy, I had to fight: the artistic council at all costs wanted to see in this role already famous in the film "Girls" Nadezhda Rumyantsev... Young Natasha Sedykh did not like the film bosses - no experience, a quiet, timid voice, what an actress she is! Yes, and too young.

But Rowe, who always very carefully selected the actors, showed persistence, because he firmly decided: in his fairy tale there will be just such an Nastenka! And he won. True, he asked the make-up artists to "age" the girl a little so that she would look more mature.

For a long time they did not want to let Natasha go to the shooting from the choreographic school: everything is strict there, the students are kept in tight-knit gloves, and then they had to give Natasha “freedom” for several months.

How "Nastenka" almost lost her eyelashes

The snow in the fairy tale was real, no joke: on the Kola Peninsula, winter is always cold and snowy. And Nastenka and Ivanushka had to be filmed in the middle of snowdrifts in light clothes - in a sarafan and a thin shirt. The film crew had to warm up the frozen artists after each episode.

However, for Natalya Sedykh, the main test was not even the cold, but the need to make up eyelashes: the frost that the viewer sees in front of Nastenka's eyes is makeup applied with ordinary glue. For Natalia, the most painful procedure was the removal of this glue, she almost lost her eyelashes.

And also young Natasha fell in love with her partner Eduard Izotov playing Ivanushka. Love was unrequited, and the girl suffered a lot.

How Inna Churikova sobbed after watching the film

Perhaps the most striking character of the popularly beloved fairy tale can be called Marfushenka- the native daughter of an evil old woman. A young Inna Churikova was brought to the set by an assistant director. Alexander Rowe immediately put a bowl of nuts in front of her: gnaw! And the girl, who passionately dreamed of playing in the fairy tale of the famous director, set to work with such temperament that no one could refrain from laughing. Churikova was approved, and Marfushenka in her performance turned out to be inimitable.

Looking at herself from the auditorium, Inna Churikova, unable to bear it, burst into tears. She seemed to herself rude, ugly, cried and repeated: "Who will marry me now, such a terrible one!"

The young actress then did not even suspect what kind of celebrity she would become, and it was Morozko that paved the way for her on the big screen.

Filming in this fairy tale was generally not easy for Inna Mikhailovna: for example, sitting in the forest, under a spruce, Marfushenka had to gnaw apples, but they forgot to put them in a bag. The actress had to crunch deliciously raw onions, and to make it easier to chew, she washed down the onions with diluted milk. A test for true actors ...

How Baba Yaga accomplished the feat

And, of course, one of the brightest stars of the fairy tale "Morozko" Baba Yaga- a unique actor Georgy Millyar... For the sake of greater reliability of his character, the actor was ready for any sacrifice: he sat on makeup for six hours, and once the make-up artists burned his face with hydrogen peroxide. In 30-degree frost, he was removed in light rags.

No one even doubted his talent, but the actor had a well-known Russian "weakness". Rowe cursed, forbade local saleswomen to dispense alcohol to Millyar, but nothing helped: the saleswomen could not refuse their favorite artist, who every time came up with new tricks and was invariably tipsy.

But after one incident, Alexander Rowe immediately forgave Millyar for all violations of discipline. The film group lived in a private house with a basement, in this basement all the footage was stored. One day a pipe burst in the house, water gushed into the underground. The film could have easily died if it were not for the resourceful "Baba Yaga": naked Millyar, who had a day off that day, ran barefoot in the snow in the 20-degree frost, pulling precious films from the basement. The drenched, numb artist did not leave until he was convinced that "Morozko" was saved.

During the filming, Nastenka fell in love with Ivanushka, Morozko grumbled at everyone, Baba Yaga loved to drink, and Marfusha was upset that no one would marry her.

"Is it warm for you, girl?"

In the summer, "Morozko" was filmed near Zvenigorod, in the winter - near Murmansk, beyond the Arctic Circle. The film crew lived in a hotel in the city of Olenegorsk, and went to nature in the forest - where there were snow-white snowdrifts and the trees were covered with frost. In general, filmmakers got into the real kingdom of Frost and fully felt what a bitter frost is. Ivanushka ( Eduard Izotov) ran through the snowdrifts in a linen shirt-shirt, at Baba Yaga - ( Georgy Millyar) was a suit made of only rags, and Nastenka ( Natalia Sedykh) was freezing under a pine tree in a light sundress.

"Mom, you grease her eyebrows!"

“I was only 15 years old, so my mother was with me on the set, who warmed me with hot coffee from a thermos,” says Natalya Sedykh, who played the role of Nastya. - But I took everyday difficulties and cold for granted. I got into a fairy tale, that was the main thing! And it happened quite by accident.

I was asked to perform at the ice festival with a beautiful performance "The Dying Swan" (as a child I was engaged in figure skating), but I was already at school at the Bolshoi Theater, and ballerinas were forbidden to skate, horses and bicycles ... However, I decided to take a risk and did the right thing : the ballet dancers did not know anything, but Alexander Rowe saw me on TV and invited me to audition. True, when I reached the final together with Nadezhda Rumyantseva, I realized: no chances. Who am I? A young ballerina, there is no acting experience, and even food, like a mouse (as some representatives of the artistic council said). Alexander Rowe insisted on my candidacy, but told the make-up artists: "Do something with her, otherwise she looks just like a child." They painted my eyes with blue shadows, made my lips bright scarlet, and created snow-white eyelashes for winter scenes. That was a real nightmare! The role of frost was played by ... the glue with which the actors' mustaches and beards were usually glued. I still remember with horror how I tore it off my eyelashes. "

Natalya Sedykh.

On-screen Nastya does not hide that on the set she fell in love with her Ivanushka and with great excitement was waiting for the final of the film in which she was to kiss her partner - this was the first kiss in the life of a young beauty.

“Natasha didn’t flaunt her feelings, but the entire film crew saw how she was suffering and suffering,” recalls the assistant director of the film. Lyudmila Pshenichnaya... - Izotov was told: "Look how the girl loves you!" But by that time he was married to an actress Inge Budkevich and, despite the fact that he was very handsome and loved the attention of women, he did not go to the side. "

Still from the film

"Not a little princess ... Princess!"

Unlike Nastenka Marfushu ( Inna Churikova) the make-up artists disfigured: they made her colorless eyelashes, greasy hair, painted large cannabis ... “I remember when Inna saw herself in the mirror, she almost burst into tears:“ Am I really that terrible? I will never marry now! " - says the assistant director. - Inna was then a student at a theater school, and this was one of her first roles in films. However, Inna took not beauty, but amazing humor, talent, charm. On the set, the whole film crew fell in love with the funny Marfusha. "

Inna Churikova.

“Remember the scene in which Marfushka sits under a tree and eats while waiting for Morozko? - recalls Natalya Sedykh. - Inna was supposed to gnaw apples, but they were forgotten, and the road from the forest to the hotel would have taken 2 hours. Therefore, poor Marfusha ate onions, take after take, and washed it down with diluted milk ... By the way, Alexander Arturovich was a real storyteller - kind, childishly naive and at the same time strict. Everybody kept pace with him. I remember that he yelled at me for the first and last time when they were filming a scene in the pond ... Inna had been sitting in the water for a long time, the sun was leaving, and I could not make up my mind to jump into a dirty and cold reservoir with leeches - I ran up three times ... But, as soon as Rowe shouted at me, she immediately jumped into the water. "

Inna Churikova.

"Oh! Radiculitis tortured! "

"The main character of the tale - Morozko - played Alexander Khvylya... I remember he always muttered at everyone. True, he grumbles, grumbles and begins to sing songs. His bass was very strong, ”recalls the assistant director. “And Khvylya seemed like a real Santa Claus to me,” says Natalya-Nastenka. - He was such a kind, powerful man. And he treated me like a granddaughter. "

Another important character in any Rowe's tale is Baba Yaga performed by Georgy Millyar... In Frost, he portrayed the grandmother for the eighth time, and also played the role of one of the robbers and voiced the rooster in the film. “If in“ Vasilisa the Beautiful ”my grandmother is a sort of summer resident with a bandage on her head, then in“ Morozko ”she has already grown old: she has grown tired, weakened, and radiculitis has tortured her,” said Millyar. Georgy Frantsevich himself invented his own image, invented antics, gait, remarks of Baba Yaga.

According to Millyar's acquaintances, he had two weaknesses, due to which Alexandru Rowe I had to cover it up: men (as you know, in the USSR there was an article for non-traditional orientation) and alcohol. The actor did not go into binges and did not disrupt the shooting, but he was often a little drunk ...

"A car shop came to the village near Zvenigorod," AiF told Yuri Sorokin, director of a documentary about G. Millyar.- Rowe forbade the actor to sell alcohol, the poet Georgy Frantsevich went for a trick. In full view of the film crew, he moved to the car with a can - supposedly for milk. I came back and after five minutes I was already drunk. It turns out that he negotiated with the saleswoman in advance, she put a bottle in the can, and poured milk on top. "

“Rowe told Milliar:“ Okay, I forgive you everything, because you are the best Baba Yaga in the world! ” - recalls L. Wheat.

By the way, it is thanks to Millyar that "Morozko" was seen and loved by thousands of children all over the world. During the winter filming in Olenegorsk, pipes burst and flooded the basement of the hotel, in which the footage was stored. The group worked in the forest, and Baba Yaga was not involved in the filming. When the filmmakers drove up, they saw the following picture: in some shorts, knee-deep in water, Millyar pulls out boxes of film in the cold ... The picture was saved.

How was the fate of the heroes?

Ivanushka: In 1983, Eduard Izotov was arrested on the street. Gorky (now Tverskaya) for currency fraud. Some filmmakers say that he traded in dollars for a long time, others believe that it was only once: the actor did not have enough money to build a dacha. After 3 years in prison, Ivanushka returned with poor health. A couple of years later, the first stroke happened, then the second, the third ... There were five of them in total. The actor spent the end of his life in a neuropsychiatric boarding house. In 2003 he was gone.

Nastenka: Natalia Sedykh starred in A. Rowe's fairy tale "Fire, Water and ... Copper Pipes", where she played Alyonushka. Then there were a few more pictures. She worked for 20 years at the Bolshoi Theater, and when she retired as a ballet, she played for 10 years at the theater "At the Nikitsky Gate".

Marfusha: It was in vain that Inna Churikova was upset that she would not find a groom. The actress got married
for the director Gleb Panfilova and starred in many of his films. Plays in Lenkom.

Morozko: Thanks to the filming in - "Morozko" Alexander Khvylya became the main Santa Claus at all Kremlin Christmas trees. The actor lived after filming the film for only 12 years.

Baba Yaga: Georgy Millyar starred in all of A. Rowe's films, and when the director died in 1973, the actor's tale ended. Millyar played cameo roles in films, voiced cartoons. Died in summer 19 93, shortly before the 90th anniversary.

Elena Kostomarova

“I work in the field of fairy tales,” the actor Georgy Millyar proudly admitted. Growing up on films with his participation is pleasant and useful, because Millyar's characters - devils, water, Baba Yaga, Kashchei the Immortal and many others - even represent evil spirits on the screen, but they also teach reasonable, kind and eternal.

King Peas, "By the Pike's Command"

The black-and-white film about the lazy Emelya was released in 1938 - it was the debut work of director Alexander Rowe and the first notable role of Georgy Millyar, who until then was known only to theater-goers.

The Tsar-Father, performed by Millyar, is a funny tyrant, tired of the endless hysterics of his daughter Nesmeyana. According to the established tradition, the Tsar Peas makes decisions by connecting his fingers with his eyes closed - will it work, will it not work? And when the "unwashed, unkempt" Emelya takes away the princess on his stove, the actor does not even need words to express all the despair of Tsar Pea - the famous mimicry of Millyar works here.

© Soyuzdetfilm (1938)Shot from the film "By the Pike's Command"

© Soyuzdetfilm (1938)

Alexander Rowe was the first to use the extraordinary comedic talent of the actor and the ability to transform into any, even the most fantastic, characters. The collaboration between the actor and the director, which began with the film "By the Pike," lasted almost thirty years - Rowe found roles for his favorite actor in all his films.

Baba Yaga, "Vasilisa the Beautiful", "Frost", "Fire, water and ... copper pipes", "Golden Horns"

Baba Yaga is the most famous image created by Georgy Millyar in the cinema, but the actor did not immediately get this role. Many famous actresses, including Faina Ranevskaya, passed auditions for the role of the villain in the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful", but Rowe still could not achieve the desired result. When Georgy Millyar proposed his candidacy, the director decided to take a chance - and he made the right decision. Millyar's Baba Yaga turned out to be exemplary - scary enough to frighten little spectators with it, but very mischievous and funny.

“Once before shooting,” Millyar recalls, “the artist Sokolovsky came up to me.“ I saw such an old woman in Yalta, ”he said. - an old Greek woman, hunched over, crocheted nose, unkind look, in the hands of a short stick. Later on the set we completed the portrait of my sinister "heroine", dressing her in terrible rags, tied a black scarf on her head, rewarding her with an animal gait. "

This heroine stayed with the actor forever - later Millyar played Baba Yaga in several more films. Even before the wedding, when his astonished 60-year-old bride - a neighbor in a communal apartment - exclaimed: "Well, Georgy Frantsevich, I no longer need men!"

Kashchei, "Kashchei the Immortal", "Fire, water and ... copper pipes"

The premiere of the film, in which the hero of Georgy Millyar plays the most important role, took place on May 9, 1945 - a picture of how a Russian hero defeats a villain, has been waiting in the wings since 1941 and symbolized the great victory of the Russian people over fascism.

"For me, the role of Kashchei is the most hard-won. It contains not only a trace of creative anguish, but also the memory of those difficult years when we all lived with burning hatred of the Nazi conquerors and longed for the day of victory," the actor admitted.

Nevertheless, Georgy Millyar refused the role of Kashchei for a long time, claiming that he was not talented enough, but director Alexander Rowe acted cunningly: gradually, according to the episode, he introduced the actor into the filming process and he eventually "got involved".

The shooting took place in evacuation in Dushanbe, where the actor fell ill with malaria and by the beginning of work weighed 48 kilograms - skin and bones. Therefore, his Kashchei did not need any special make-up or additional tricks - the hero was already so scary to the point that his own horse would not let him near him.

“Working on the role of Kashchei, we turned to the Teutonic epic, deliberately parodying the Nibelungen,” Millyar recalled.<…>Do you remember that Dürer's four apocalyptic horsemen are an allegorical depiction of destructive forces? In the external drawing of the role, I went from these gloomy figures of the artist. "

Kwak, "Mary the Master"

The roles of representatives of evil spirits required serious preparation and patience - sometimes it took up to six hours to make up. Millyar always respected the work of make-up artists, actively participated in the development of the image, and before new roles he shaved off his hair and even eyebrows so that it would be more convenient for specialists to "sculpt the face". For example, on the set of the fairy tale "Mary the Master" the actor's face was coated with brilliant green, and he had to dance in green flippers. Everything for the role - in this film, Georgy Millyar played Kvak - the most harmful henchman and the main sycophant of the evil Water.

Actress Natalya Sedykh (Nastenka in "Morozko") in one of her interviews talked about how much Georgy Millyar improvised in his work. The director only had to set a common goal for him, and the actor himself invented the character, for hours rehearsing in front of the mirror his gait, facial expressions, and habits.

Many highlights and quotes from films with his participation (for example, Kwak's "kwa-kwa-qualification") are the result of this truly creative work of the actor.

Chief Master of Ceremonies, Royal Carter and Queen Dowager, "The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors"

Often Georgy Millyar created several images for the film at once. In the movie, beloved by the audience, about the adventures of Oli and Yalo in Through the Looking Glass, Millyar has three roles - the Most Important Master of Ceremonies, the kind royal carter, to whom the girls tell about "the best country in the world," and the Queen Dowager.

Children adored Georgy Millyar - he was constantly invited to meetings at schools, kindergartens and pioneer camps. Before his death in 1993, the actor regretted only that he did not have a chance to play a single serious role - he dreamed of Voltaire and Suvorov. However, who said that fairytale heroes are worse than philosophers? "A fairy tale should reflect the philosophy of the era, and not chase cheap topicality. Then it will not become obsolete," Millyar said.

Probably everyone remembers Baba Yaga, Koschei, Miracle Yudo and other evil spirits from Soviet films for children. All these incredibly bright and expressive roles were performed by the magnificent Georgy Millyar... It is not surprising that he is rightfully called the deserved Baba Yaga of the Soviet Union, but is this not too dubious a compliment for a man? Indeed, in addition to roles in children's films, there were so many moments in his life that deserve attention!

Nothing foreshadowed his career as an actor in childhood. George was born in 1903 into a very wealthy family: his father was a French engineer who came to Russia to build bridges, and his mother was the daughter of a gold miner. After 1917, nothing remained of the family's impressive property, the father died suddenly, and the huge apartment in Gelendzhik was turned into a communal one, the boy and his mother were settled in the same room.

Georgy de Mille turned into Georgy Millyar, in the questionnaires he had to not only write "employees" in the column "origin", but also carefully hide the knowledge of three languages, which he was taught by the governesses.

He began by working as a prop at the Gelendzhik theater. Once, when the actress who played Cinderella fell ill, he volunteered to replace her. The audience did not notice the substitution, and this role became the first female of many in Millyar's repertoire.

After the Civil War, from a communal apartment in Gelendzhik, she and her mother moved to a Moscow communal apartment. There Georgy graduated from acting school, played in the theater, and in 1934 he went to the cinema, after a landmark meeting for him with the director Alexander Rowe. In 16 of his tales, he played 30 roles - in one film he could appear in different characters.

In the role of Baba Yaga, he felt organic, as he argued that this role was not at all female - only a man could allow himself to be mutilated. The prototype for the image of the evil old woman was his neighbor in a communal apartment, quarrelsome and quarrelsome. Regarding the fact that he had to play all kinds of evil spirits, Millyar wittily noted: "Humanized devils are better than shaded people."

Many important events in the life of the actor happened too late. He received the title of People's Artist only at the age of 85. He did not wait for serious main roles in the cinema (he dreamed of playing Caesar, Voltaire, Suvorov). Although he did have affairs, he remained lonely for most of his life. Until the age of 65, Millyar lived alone with his mother, and married only after her death - to a 60-year-old neighbor. At first, she refused - they say, she no longer needs men at her age. George was not at a loss: "I am not a man, I am Baba Yaga." So the famous cinematic image and natural sense of humor helped the actor win the heart of a woman.

Georgy Millyar did not lose his innate intelligence and gallantry, and even in a very modest suit he remained de Millier. And although the actor believed that he had not fully realized his creative potential, it can be argued that he brilliantly fulfilled his mission in cinema: it is difficult for viewers to imagine a children's fairy tale without his participation. And more than one generation of children will laugh at his roles in the films Frost, Koschey the Immortal, Barbarian Beauty, Long Braid, Vasilisa the Beautiful.

In the Soviet Union, they did not save on children's cinema, and in addition to fairy tales with the participation of Millyar, we have come down to

In the summer, "Morozko" was filmed near Zvenigorod, in the winter - near Murmansk, beyond the Arctic Circle. The film crew lived in a hotel in the city of Olenegorsk, and went to nature in the forest - where there were snow-white snowdrifts and the trees were covered with frost. In general, filmmakers got into the real kingdom of Frost and fully felt what a bitter frost is. Ivanushka ( Eduard Izotov) ran through the snowdrifts in a linen shirt-shirt, at Baba Yaga - ( Georgy Millyar) was a suit made of only rags, and Nastenka ( Natalia Sedykh) was freezing under a pine tree in a light sundress.

"Mom, you grease her eyebrows!"

“I was only 15 years old, so my mother was with me on the set, who warmed me with hot coffee from a thermos,” says Natalya Sedykh, who played the role of Nastya. - But I took everyday difficulties and cold for granted. I got into a fairy tale, that was the main thing! And it happened quite by accident.

I was asked to perform at the ice festival with a beautiful performance "The Dying Swan" (as a child I was engaged in figure skating), but I was already at school at the Bolshoi Theater, and ballerinas were forbidden to skate, horses and bicycles ... However, I decided to take a risk and did the right thing : the ballet dancers did not know anything, but Alexander Rowe saw me on TV and invited me to audition. True, when I reached the final together with Nadezhda Rumyantseva, I realized: no chances. Who am I? A young ballerina, there is no acting experience, and even food, like a mouse (as some representatives of the artistic council said). Alexander Rowe insisted on my candidacy, but told the make-up artists: "Do something with her, otherwise she looks just like a child." They painted my eyes with blue shadows, made my lips bright scarlet, and created snow-white eyelashes for winter scenes. That was a real nightmare! The role of frost was played by ... the glue with which the actors' mustaches and beards were usually glued. I still remember with horror how I tore it off my eyelashes. "

Natalya Sedykh. Still from the film

On-screen Nastya does not hide that on the set she fell in love with her Ivanushka and with great excitement was waiting for the final of the film in which she was to kiss her partner - this was the first kiss in the life of a young beauty.

“Natasha didn’t flaunt her feelings, but the entire film crew saw how she was suffering and suffering,” recalls the assistant director of the film. Lyudmila Pshenichnaya... - Izotov was told: "Look how the girl loves you!" But by that time he was married to an actress Inge Budkevich and, despite the fact that he was very handsome and loved the attention of women, he did not go to the side. "

Still from the film

"Not a little princess ... Princess!"

Unlike Nastenka Marfushu ( Inna Churikova) the make-up artists disfigured: they made her colorless eyelashes, greasy hair, painted large cannabis ... “I remember when Inna saw herself in the mirror, she almost burst into tears:“ Am I really that terrible? I will never marry now! " - says the assistant director. - Inna was then a student at a theater school, and this was one of her first roles in films. However, Inna took not beauty, but amazing humor, talent, charm. On the set, the whole film crew fell in love with the funny Marfusha. "

“Remember the scene in which Marfushka sits under a tree and eats while waiting for Morozko? - recalls Natalya Sedykh. - Inna was supposed to gnaw apples, but they were forgotten, and the road from the forest to the hotel would have taken 2 hours. Therefore, poor Marfusha ate onions, take after take, and washed it down with diluted milk ... By the way, Alexander Arturovich was a real storyteller - kind, childishly naive and at the same time strict. Everybody kept pace with him. I remember that he yelled at me for the first and last time when they were filming a scene in the pond ... Inna had been sitting in the water for a long time, the sun was leaving, and I could not make up my mind to jump into a dirty and cold reservoir with leeches - I ran up three times ... But, as soon as Rowe shouted at me, she immediately jumped into the water. "

Inna Churikova. Still from the film

"Oh! Radiculitis tortured! "

"The main character of the tale - Morozko - played Alexander Khvylya... I remember he always muttered at everyone. True, he grumbles, grumbles and begins to sing songs. His bass was very strong, ”recalls the assistant director. “And Khvylya seemed like a real Santa Claus to me,” says Natalya-Nastenka. - He was such a kind, powerful man. And he treated me like a granddaughter. "

Another important character in any Rowe's tale is Baba Yaga performed by Georgy Millyar... In Frost, he portrayed the grandmother for the eighth time, and also played the role of one of the robbers and voiced the rooster in the film. “If in“ Vasilisa the Beautiful ”my grandmother is a sort of summer resident with a bandage on her head, then in“ Morozko ”she has already grown old: she has grown tired, weakened, and radiculitis has tortured her,” said Millyar. Georgy Frantsevich himself invented his own image, invented antics, gait, remarks of Baba Yaga.

According to Millyar's acquaintances, he had two weaknesses, due to which Alexandru Rowe I had to cover it up: men (as you know, in the USSR there was an article for non-traditional orientation) and alcohol. The actor did not go into binges and did not disrupt the shooting, but he was often a little drunk ...

"A car shop came to the village near Zvenigorod," AiF told Yuri Sorokin, director of a documentary about G. Millyar.- Rowe forbade the actor to sell alcohol, the poet Georgy Frantsevich went for a trick. In full view of the film crew, he moved to the car with a can - supposedly for milk. I came back and after five minutes I was already drunk. It turns out that he negotiated with the saleswoman in advance, she put a bottle in the can, and poured milk on top. "

“Rowe told Milliar:“ Okay, I forgive you everything, because you are the best Baba Yaga in the world! ” - recalls L. Wheat.

By the way, it is thanks to Millyar that "Morozko" was seen and loved by thousands of children all over the world. During the winter filming in Olenegorsk, pipes burst and flooded the basement of the hotel, in which the footage was stored. The group worked in the forest, and Baba Yaga was not involved in the filming. When the filmmakers drove up, they saw the following picture: in some shorts, knee-deep in water, Millyar pulls out boxes of film in the cold ... The picture was saved.

How was the fate of the heroes?

Ivanushka: In 1983, Eduard Izotov was arrested on the street. Gorky (now Tverskaya) for currency fraud. Some filmmakers say that he traded in dollars for a long time, others believe that it was only once: the actor did not have enough money to build a dacha. After 3 years in prison, Ivanushka returned with poor health. A couple of years later, the first stroke happened, then the second, the third ... There were five of them in total. The actor spent the end of his life in a neuropsychiatric boarding house. In 2003 he was gone.

Nastenka: Natalia Sedykh starred in A. Rowe's fairy tale "Fire, Water and ... Copper Pipes", where she played Alyonushka. Then there were a few more pictures. She worked for 20 years at the Bolshoi Theater, and when she retired as a ballet, she played for 10 years at the theater "At the Nikitsky Gate".

Marfusha: It was in vain that Inna Churikova was upset that she would not find a groom. The actress got married
for the director Gleb Panfilova and starred in many of his films. Plays in Lenkom.

Morozko: Thanks to the filming in - "Morozko" Alexander Khvylya became the main Santa Claus at all Kremlin Christmas trees. The actor lived after filming the film for only 12 years.

Baba Yaga: Georgy Millyar starred in all of A. Rowe's films, and when the director died in 1973, the actor's tale ended. Millyar played cameo roles in films, voiced cartoons. He died in the summer of 1993, a little before his 90th birthday.