Movies of the Soviet period seem naive and simple today. From the first minutes of viewing, you can easily determine the character of the character. Facial expressions, gestures, manner of conducting a conversation betrayed a positive character or a negative one. Based on this approach, the directors selected actors with the appropriate appearance. Valentina Petrovna Telegina is not a beauty, but a textured actress, capable of transforming into any image.
From the village to the capital
In the first half of the 20th century, cinema was the most important of the arts for Soviet people. There is no exaggeration in this thesis. After the revolution and the Civil War, the country began to build a new society. The biography of the People's Artist of Russia Valentina Telegina, even in the smallest detail, coincides with the history of the Soviet state. According to the data indicated in the metric, the girl was born on February 23, 1915 in a Cossack family. Telegin at that time lived in the city of Novocherkassk. The child, as was customary, was brought up in simplicity and severity.
For many centuries, few people were interested in how a simple woman from the draft class lives. They wrote novels about noblewomen, staged plays and made films. And only with the advent of Soviet power, they began to show attention and care to the workers. If we talk about Telegin, then a real prospect opened up for the Cossack to get a decent education and a decent job. When she went to school, there was already a different order and a different atmosphere compared to the old regime. The lively girl was immediately attracted to participate in amateur performances.
Here she got the first idea of working on stage. Of course, the ossified morals of relatives and neighbors resisted the girl's frivolous hobby. But Valentina, in spite of a sullen protest, packed up and went to Leningrad. I entered the Institute of Performing Arts without any special obstacles. The beginning of his professional acting career was filming in the film by Sergei Gerasimov "Do I Love You?" In 1937, Telegin, who received a diploma, was invited to the troupe of the Theater. Lensovet.
Recognition and success
During the war, she had to be bombed and provide real assistance to the wounded soldiers. On the stage and on the set, Valentina Telegina behaved naturally and organically. Her characters were literally written off from living people. The actress knew from her own experience how she lives and what a milkmaid or weaver cherishes. It is important to emphasize that she also succeeded brilliantly in other, more meaningful roles. This is confirmed by the role of the people's judge in the film "Court", a reasonable woman in the film "Member of the Government", a research assistant in the film "Spring".
Valentina Petrovna worked hard. Not only starred, but also willingly voiced various roles. People who knew her note that behind the scenes Telegin was an intelligent and tactful woman. But the formed stereotype dominated the directors. She was offered roles that were designed to contrast with the protagonist. The actress agreed without showing any aplomb or arrogance. It is interesting to note that the audience often remembered it. Other characters were quickly erased from memory.
Not much is known about Telegin's personal life, apart from gossip and rumors. Love for the director does not lead to the creation of a family. Although in the cinema, a husband and wife can work side by side for a long time. It so happened that Valentina Petrovna gave birth to a daughter and raised her alone. There is nothing new in her life scenario. Nothing new and nothing good. In life, she deserved a happier fate. But something didn't work out. Valentina Telegin died in October 1979.
