Galina Samokhina was called one of the most beautiful actresses in Soviet cinema. The main role in the film "Good Hour!" Brought her fame. and work in the film "The Idiot". The performer starred in the serial films "Walking through the agony" and "Eternal Call".
Galina Mikhailovna was remembered as a talented artist, whom the directors did not indulge in the main roles. However, none of them doubted her talent.
Searching for a vocation
The biography of the future celebrity began in 1934. The girl was born on July 5 in Moscow. In the family of a teacher and an engineer, she became the fourth, youngest child. She studied and finished school Galina in Tula, where she was sent to evacuation during the war.
In 1952, the graduate entered GITIS, dreaming of a professional acting education. In 1957 she completed her studies with honors and came to the Mosfilm studio. The film debut was one of the leading roles in the film "Good Hour!" in 1956.
She played Masha Polyakova, the bride of the protagonist. According to the plot, the nephew of Professor Averin Alexei comes from Siberia to the capital to enter the institute. Andrei Averin, after school, did not decide on the choice of the future. The institute for him is selected by his mother.
The eldest son Arkady is a theater actor. He is dissatisfied with the lack of significant roles and constantly transfers irritation to his girlfriend Masha. However, she forgives the guy, supporting him in difficult moments. Young people get married deciding to live separately from their parents.
Alexei does not go to the institute, but he finds true love. Andrei also cannot enter, but the reason is the guy's refusal to study at the university imposed on his parent. Together with his cousin, he decides to go to Siberia to seek a vocation.
Film career
In total, Galina Mikhailovna played in more than 40 films. She also shone on the stage of the Film Actor's Studio Theater. In 1958, the actress appeared as Alexandra Epanchina in the film The Idiot, based on the work of the same name by Dostoevsky. The work of the artist was highly appreciated by both viewers and critics.
However, in the next film, the role of Samokhina went to a small one. She played the mentor of the main character at the watch factory, Lucy. At the same time, the name of the actress was not mentioned in the credits.
In "The End of Old Berezovka" the work was more noticeable: Samokhina played one of the members of the construction brigade. According to the script, Pavel Sakharov is in love with her heroine. In the story, former sailor Ivan Degtyarev works as a builder.
Deciding to help his friend get back on his feet, he gives Borka a job. Lisa, Boris's sister, is expecting a child, but the father of the future baby does not plan to tie himself by marriage. Ivan decides to help his friend, but realizes that he himself has fallen in love with Elizabeth.
The role in Life First was also episodic. After the Victory, front-line friends Alexei, Fedor and Antonina arrived in the capital. They live in Fedor's apartment, which was empty after the departure of his wife. Antonina returns to teaching, goes on expeditions. Having learned about his love for Fyodor Antonina, Alexei leaves his friends. But the ex-wife who returned to her husband deprives both of them of hope for happiness.
New roles
In the film "Peace to the incoming" the heroine of the actress was the translator in the commandant's office. In "Black Business", the character of Samokhina was a girl in a restaurant, a companion of Captain Gromov. According to the scenario, under the guise of a tourist, General Daniel's employee Eleanor von Budberg, Nina or Miss Luster arrived in the USSR. The true reasons for her arrival are being investigated by the employees of the relevant services of the country.
The film "Cross the Threshold" was also shown at the box office under the title "10th Grade". Galina Mikhailovna played in the film about the first problems of life and the choice of the future by tenth graders, their first love and their real friendship, a mother at a meeting.
The main character, Alik Tikhomirov, is told the fate of the great mathematician. However, the graduate "fails" on the introductory essay. The rector stands up for a talented applicant, but Alik refuses help.
The roles in "Deeds of the Heart", "Taming the Fire" and "Mortal Enemy" were hardly noticeable. In the film adaptation of Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered, the actress was reincarnated as Grishutka's mother. She briefly appeared on the screen in "The Eternal Call", "Walking Through the Torment", as well as in "The Magic Circle".
One of the employees of the statistical bureau became the heroine of Samokhina in the now cult "Office Romance". In the three-part film of the late seventies "The Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person" Galina Mikhailovna played a servant. In the story, in search of adventure, Prince Florizel, who is bored of a too calm life, saves a young artist from suicide in the company of Colonel Geraldine. From him, friends learn about the strange Suicide Club and its Chairman. The prince, who decided to penetrate into his secret, finds himself in the role of a victim. However, thanks to Geraldine, he is saved, and almost all members of the club are on trial.
However, the prince is bound by an oath, because of it he cannot bring the President to justice. At the same time, the search for the missing Raja's diamond is unfolding. The prince defeats his enemy and throws the find into the Thames in order to save the rest from the temptations of the stone.
Results of activities
The lawyer's visitor was an actress in Mechanic Gavrilov's Beloved Woman, played a customer in The Secret of a Notebook, and was reincarnated as a member of the parent committee for the children's film Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches in 1983. The protagonist is fascinated by books about Indians. He writes a story about them, being transported into a fictional world of adventures. Suddenly, a friendship begins between Vitya and Arkady, a lonely adult man. Disguised as an uncle, he attends meetings at the school of a new friend, raises his authority in the class and protects Glushakov from hooligans. Under the influence of the boy and his girlfriend Nina, Arkady quits drinking and completely changes his life for the better.
The last role was played in the film 1991 "Until the Thunder Breaks".
The bright, charming Galina always stood out from the crowd. At the film studio, her acquaintance with actor Vladimir Grube took place, which changed the personal lives of both. They became husband and wife, in 1959 a child appeared, daughter Elena. But the couple soon broke up.
Galina Mikhailovna passed away in 2014, on February 9.
