Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya is the greatest, one and only, personality with a capital letter. Life did not indulge the actress, but irony, sharp mind, wisdom, finally, allowed Faina Georgievna to live it with dignity and brightly.
Faina Ranevskaya was filmed in characteristic episodic roles, but large, major ones were not given. From what? Because of the "Semitic features, which are very bright in the close-ups" (from the official letter of Bolshakov, Minister of Cinematography). And this despite the fact that the name of Faina Georgievna is included by the British Academy in the ten greatest actors of the twentieth century.
The actress was born at the end of the 19th century in the family of a wealthy Taganrog industrialist. But her father deprived her of content, having learned that her daughter wanted to devote herself to the stage. And then she was left alone - her relatives emigrated after the revolution. Cosmic, universal loneliness remained with her for life.
Ranevskaya is the pseudonym of Faina Feldman. Once on the street money fell out of her purse and the wind blew it along the embankment. And Faina looked and admired: "How beautiful they are flying!" "You are just Ranevskaya from The Cherry Orchard!" - noticed her companion. And so the surname stuck.
An unforgettable gallery of her farcical film images in "Pyshka", "Koddysh", "Wedding", "Cinderella", "Spring" - how little still, but how talented, memorable!
Faina Ranevskaya suffered from a cruel reality and defended herself by trying to see the funny side in everything. This one from the artistic talent) revealed in full measure. Almost all her statements, remarks, stories became aphorisms, stories. We often repeat many phrases of Faina Georgievna, they are part of our life.
Perhaps this is real immortality?
