Happy marriage and family tragedy: the fate of the actress and director Svetlana Druzhinina
'31.01.2021'
Looking at this cheerful, cheerful woman, it's hard to believe that she is already 85. Almost 60 years have passed since the premiere of the youth comedy "Girls", and Svetlana Sergeevna is still the same - wonderful, beautiful, slim. And not at all as unhappy as her heroine Anfisa, who was frankly unlucky with men, despite all her becoming, brightness and beauty, the author recalls "People and Destinies" on Yandex.Zen.
The future actress was born in Moscow in the family of a driver and a kindergarten teacher, and from childhood she was a very enthusiastic child. She was 10 years old when she fell ill with the circus, went to all the performances, and a year later she entered the circus school. The girl turned out to be very flexible, fearless, and capable, she was accepted into the group of acrobats, but she did not stay there for a long time - ballet became Svetlana's next hobby.
She transferred to the choreographic school at the musical theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, from where a few years later she was transferred to the Bolshoi Theater school for her obvious talent. Druzhinina studied on the same course with Natalia Kasatkina and Maris Liepa, was considered one of the best students, but a serious injury put an end to her future career.
She took an academic leave and became a presenter at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, then switched to television, hosted children's concerts and the first KVN programs with Mikhail Derzhavin.
On the TV screen, the director of the film “Behind the Shop Window of a Department Store” Samson Samsonov saw Svetlana - he invited a beautiful girl to play the role of saleswoman Sonya Bozhko, thereby opening her way to big cinema. The debut was successful, Druzhinina immediately got another role in the film Good Morning, and most importantly, she really liked the filming process, and she decided to enter the acting department at the Institute of Cinematography.
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Svetlana studied in the same group with Leonid Kuravlev and Sofiko Chiaureli, and already in her second year she got the main role of Larisa in the melodrama "It Was in Penkovo", which made her truly famous. After receiving her diploma, the actress continued to act in films, strengthening her popularity with the role of Klava in the film "Bad Omen" and Anfisa in the comedy "Girls", but gradually she began to realize that she was more interested in directing films than acting in them, and thought about further studies ...
In 1969 she graduated from the directing department of VGIK, her graduation work was the drama "Zinka", Svetlana Sergeevna invited Vitaly Solomin and Victoria Fedorova for the main roles.
Druzhinina's first independent work was the social drama "Fulfillment of Desires", then there were "The Sun, Again the Sun", "The Matching of a Hussar", "Dulcinea Tobosskaya", "Circus Princess", and finally, the adventure film "Midshipmen, Go!", Incredibly beloved viewers and became a national treasure.
Inspired by the deafening success, Druzhinina shot a sequel to the film "Vivat, Midshipmen!", Then "Midshipmen III", and is now working on the fourth part of the tape. It is noteworthy that Svetlana Sergeevna acted not only as a director, but also as a screenwriter for the entire project, and his beloved husband Anatoly Mukasey, who was the permanent operator of all the films of his genius wife, was filming.
They met at VGIK and for 63 years they have been happy together, loving, protecting, and supporting each other in any situations, and setting an example of loyalty and mutual understanding. Not everything in their life was smooth and rosy - the eldest son, Anatoly Mukasey Jr., named in honor of his father, voluntarily passed away at the age of 28, unable to cope with severe drug addiction. He left his wife Irina with his six-month-old son Daniel, who grew up to be an exact copy of his father, not in appearance, but in behavior.
Svetlana Sergeevna and Anatoly Mikhailovich gave a lot of love and vitality to their grandson, who at the age of 14 became an orphan. They formalized guardianship, gave the guy an excellent education, attracted him to their work - Danila starred in the "Midshipmen" with his grandmother, and helped his grandfather edit films, as he was well versed in computer technology.
But then he got tired of studying and working - why, if you can not strain too much, but be just a bright representative of the golden youth, like dad. The guy accused his relatives of excessive custody, spying on him, and left for India, where he preferred to do nothing and just receive money from his grandmother. And in 2019 he returned to Russia and glorified his family throughout the country, appearing on the talk show "The Stars Came Together."
“After watching the program, we were very upset. Anatoly is still saddened, he left to smoke, I will go to console him. But everything is not so scary, if we breathe, walk, are alive, love each other, children and grandchildren - this is already happiness, "Druzhinina responded by recording a video on Instagram.
Then, however, Daniel caught himself, decided that he had gone too far with insults, and to hush up the scandal again drove off to India, taking a one-way ticket.
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Now Svetlana Sergeevna prefers not to talk about her eldest grandson - she has another son, Mikhail, who has been working as an operator with his father for many years, including in his mother's projects, and gave his parents three grandchildren.
The director maintains accounts on social networks, infecting her fans with positive emotions and posting funny videos, for example, how she runs barefoot in the snow in one frivolous robe and with a bright pedicure.
All subscribers sincerely admire this woman who does not feel her age at all, is keenly interested in everything that surrounds her, be it new film festivals or handmade jewelry.
She is always well-groomed, fit, active, inspires with an example of ageless energy and makes you want to be like her. In any case, for women, and they never cease to be amazed at how great the actress looks at her age.
Now a new stage has begun in the lives of Svetlana Sergeevna and Anatoly Mikhailovich - their own film festival "Historical Cinema and the Present" has appeared. Both of them cannot imagine their life without cinema, both are constantly at work, in motion, strive for something, go somewhere. This interest and passion for life and work gives them strength and youth, despite the years they have not noticed.
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