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She huddled with gypsies, slept on a chair: the star of Soviet cinema lives in poverty in the USA

'16.12.2018'

Source: TVNZ

Once she lived royally: trips around the world, social events, friendship with renowned artists.
With her beauty, Soviet actress Olga Prokhorova drove men crazy. Her face was printed on the postcards, she was awaited for a dizzying career. She flew out of the USSR to become a world star, but was left with nothing.

Erotic video from the closet

Now the actress lives in Los Angeles. But often remembers his past, tells TVNZ.

“I was born in Stalingrad, and then my parents, operetta actors, were invited to the Riga operetta, and we moved to Latvia,” Olga Prokhorova told KP. - In Riga, I studied ballet, graduated from a music school, at the age of 14 I started acting at a local film studio. Then she left for Moscow - she entered VGIK.

I studied at four Natasha's course, my classmates - Natalya Belokhvostikova, Natalya Arinbasarova, Natalya Bondarchuk, Natalya Gvozdikova. The future sex symbol Nikolai Eremenko (the main role in the film “Pirates of the XX century. - Ed.)” Studied with me on the same course. All VGIK went crazy for Kolya. In student performances, we usually played in pairs. The students teased: "Olya and Kolya ran in the field."

With Kolya, our romance was in full swing, passions were off scale. Once we had a date with him, and our friend hid in the closet. And he filmed everything on camera. We beat him, then began to look: those who saw, said, they say, it's just "Emmanuel"! At that time, such a video could be expelled for immoral behavior, and now some are making a career on this.

Husband filmed a former fiance movie

- With Kolya, we then sort things out, then did not talk, then converged again ... He made me an offer. We decided that after graduating from VGIK we would go to Riga. But suddenly another man burst into my life - director Alexei Saltykov. It was he who shot the legendary films “Chairman” with Mikhail Ulyanov, “Woman's kingdom”, “My friend Kolka”, “Guys from our yard”.

Acquaintance with him was unexpected. I was invited to star in the movie Liberation. I played a German girl: my grandmother is German, I spoke German fluently. And somehow, during a break in the cafeteria, Alexei Saltykov noticed me. Said, "You know, you are perfect for the role in my film, Sibiryachka." I'll take it without samples. "

I said: I need to think. And the best thing I could think of was to gallop off to Riga to my mother (laughs)! I was just afraid to go somewhere to the shooting ... And then, when I returned to Moscow, Saltykov and I met by chance at the Mosfilm elevator. He invited me to a restaurant and made an offer right away.

I was captivated by Alexei's talent, sense of humor. He knew that I had a serious relationship with Kolya Eremenko. And he decided that if Kolya did not "have with him", then sooner or later he would definitely take me away. Therefore, Alexei soon invited him to star in the lead role. In general, many of his projects were for Kolya and for me. For example, the film "No Return", "The Ivanov Family". With Eremenko we remained friends, called each other "eternal partners" - together we filmed and worked in the Theater of the Film Actor.

Alexei Saltykov managed to make about 20 films, some of which he himself wrote scripts. Photo: Eugene KASSIN / TASS

Divorce and relocation to Canada

Olga Prokhorov director and husband Alexei Saltykov shot in his paintings up to 1982 year. And in 1984, Olga unexpectedly for her colleagues emigrated to Canada. With a new spouse.

- Why did you divorce Saltykov - the relationship began to cool?

- Not that cool. He just had binges periodically. And the last years of our married life we were overcome by one woman whom I called Nastasya Filippovna. She appeared, soldered him, and he fell under her power ...

My second husband is a Canadian diplomat, an erudite man, spoke six languages. We met at the Canadian embassy in Moscow.

They showed the film "Wormwood - Bitter Grass". The Canadian attache said, they say, Canada is a young country, and there are few actresses of such a level as you, go to work, it will be interesting for you. In general, I was advised to go to Canada. And indeed I did a lot of filming there.

With a second husband after a few months of life in Canada, we divorced, although remained in good relations. I do not want to talk about the second husband. Now I look back and understand that I continued to love Alexey.

“I was just killed”

“I liked Canada,” the actress recalls. - I was invited to the shooting all the time. I remember not only my role, but the entire script. I don't forget anything, I clearly learn what the director says, and I do everything from the first take. And for them this is a huge savings ... In the intervals between filming, she worked as a stylist, even won a competition. She graduated from the second educational institution in Canada, learned English.

She starred in the film "ABC America" - played a KGB agent. She was engaged in judo, karate. I was a sort of local Mata Hari there. They even sold T-shirts with my image in Canada. I used to hate my cheeks. So in Canada, women began to undergo plastic surgery - they wanted cheeks, like mine!

Everything in my life collapsed in 1993. First my mother died, she was seriously ill. Alexey was shocked by the death of the mother in law. At her funeral drank, heart stopped. It seemed to me that I died with him.

I was just killed. Lost loved ones, the soil under their feet. Mom was sick before her death, called for help from relatives, signed a power of attorney for them, and they copied everything to themselves. I was left without anything at all. Gorgeous apartment, our mother and I went to other people, and everything in it, including my mother's awards ...

When I lost my mom and Alexey, it was such a trauma that I could not survive. She went to the hospital, was in intensive care in a coma. Pumped out.

Olga Prokhorova, 70-year-old, dreams of returning to Russia. Photo: Personal Archive

Year huddled at the Gypsies

- I decided that I needed a change of scenery. The Canadians tried to dissuade me, but I still went to America - to somehow relieve the pain. I wrote the script in English, the producers promised to help. Alas, the project failed.

After a failure with the cinema, she began to work with cosmetics - she represented a Swiss cosmetic company. She also worked as a translator. It happened to come to the police to translate, and to prisons ...

Once my boyfriend Alex and I rented an apartment from a company, and we were given a house in which the window turned out to be faulty. And my boyfriend fell out of him. They took me to the police - they suspected that I could have pushed him, although at that time I was at work. Because of the scandal, they threw me out into the street, recorded in the worst non-payers. For a long time I could not rent an apartment, for a year I huddled with gypsies, slept on a chair.

Now I rent a house in half with an immigrant from Belarus - that is cheaper. Recently we were flooded, and now there is such dampness, mold on the walls that I started to have an allergy. I remember my past: I lived in Moscow, at home there were silver spoons, porcelain cups with gilding, a Chinese service. And now I use disposable dishes!

In 2005, I had my first stroke, then the second. She was partially paralyzed. I got a huge bill for a future rehabilitation course. Then I limped home, put on Yuri Antonov “You came out of May with a flying gait” - and for six months in a row I studied for eight hours. Has restored memory to muscles. True, I can't walk in high heels now. And I see very badly ...

I live on disability benefits - $ 900. And you have to pay 1600 for housing. And I pay in half with another person with whom I have to share a small apartment. It saves me that from time to time I am invited as a simultaneous interpreter. Or those who want to learn Russian apply.

- You have worked for many years, have you really not accumulated anything?

- I had 80 thousand dollars, and I invested them in my film project. And I was deceived. How it happened, a whole detective story, a separate story ...

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