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'Married the country': Soviet artists married to foreigners

'05.06.2021'

Source: Culturology

During the Soviet era, marriages with foreigners were very rare, but exceptions to the rule did occur. Some artists used them as an opportunity to leave their countries and find creative freedom, while for others it was just a coincidence and a desire to find family happiness, says Culturology.

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Which of the famous Soviet directors and actors risked to go against the generally accepted rules, who had to pay for it, and who never regretted it, is further in the review.

Andrei Konchalovsky and Vivian Godet

Andrei Konchalovsky never hid his views on the Soviet system and repeatedly told his father and wife, Natalya Arinbasarova, that it is simply impossible to create freely in the USSR. Recently, in an interview, Arinbasarova spoke about the reasons for their separation: “He constantly said that you need to go abroad, that only there you can advance in a career. Of course, the easiest way to achieve the desired was a marriage with a foreigner. At some point, I felt that my son Yegor was an obstacle for him. I remember how I closed it in the room and said that I wouldn’t let it go until he wrote his consent to the divorce. He wrote me something there and happily ran away from home. ”

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Konchalovsky had an affair with French actress Masha Merrill, but their relationship did not work out. And then he met a Frenchwoman Viviane Godet, who received the profession of an orientalist translator at Moscow State University, made her an offer. Konchalovsky's parents sympathized with the former daughter-in-law and were against his marriage to a foreign woman. And when in 1969 he did it, Sergei Mikhalkov in his hearts said to Arinbasarova: “What do you think he married Vivian? In France! " Nevertheless, this marriage lasted as much as 11 years, despite the spouse's infidelity. A year after the wedding, Vivian gave birth to his daughter Alexandra and divorced him only when Konchalovsky went to conquer Hollywood in 1980.

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Andrey Martynov and Francis Thun

The roles in the films "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" and "Eternal Call" brought popularity to the Soviet actor Andrei Martynov. In 1972, at the film festival, he met the daughter of a German diplomat, Franziska Thun, who graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University and spoke good Russian. Later she defended her dissertation on the work of Vasily Shukshin. After the wedding, the couple stayed in Moscow, they had a son, Alexander, who, according to the actor, was German not only by passport, but also by spirit: "Sasha has a Russian surname and type, and culture and upbringing are German."

Martynov's wife was never able to get used to life in the USSR. When the time came for her son to get an education, she left with him to Germany. Andrei Martynov felt like a stranger there, but he never wanted to emigrate from the USSR, since he understood that he could not be realized abroad as an actor. Due to disagreements over the place of residence and long separations, the couple broke up. Franziska soon found her happiness with another man, and Andrei Martynov was never able to arrange his personal life. Marrying a foreigner became the reason for his failures in the acting profession: many colleagues condemned him and gave him a real persecution in the theater. Because of this, he had to resign from the Youth Theater. In the 1990s, he stopped acting and started dubbing. And after retirement, he left the cinema forever.

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Yuri Lyubimov and Katalin Kunts

People's Artist of the Russian Federation, actor, director of the Taganka Theater Yuri Lyubimov was married 4 times. His last wife was the Hungarian journalist and translator Katalin Kunz, whom he met in 1976 during the theater tour in Budapest. They got married in 1978, when Lyubimov was 60 years old, and his chosen one was 32. Katalin moved to her husband. A year later, their son Peter was born. Colleagues reacted to his choice ambiguously: some argued that his wife constantly interfered in her husband's affairs, sowed discord between the director and the actors, that she established a dictatorship in the theater, caused scandals and a split in the troupe. Others were sure that only thanks to his wife, Lyubimov lived to be 97 years old, because she was always there for almost 40 years and took care of his health.

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In the early 1980s, Lyubimov started having troubles in the theater. After the death of Vladimir Vysotsky, the director was preparing a performance in honor of the actor, but the censorship did not let him through. The revolutionary spirit was also discerned in the production of Boris Godunov, and it was also banned. In 1984, while on tour in London, Lyubimov learned that he had been deprived of his USSR citizenship. This happened after he gave an interview to The Times, in which he allowed himself to criticize the cultural policy in the USSR. Katalin said that emigration was not part of their plans: “If we wanted to emigrate, we would have done it much earlier and on much more favorable terms. We left with a small child and with one single suitcase, which contained only summer clothes. Is this how people prepare to leave their home, country? They just threw him out, announced that he was no longer the main director of Taganka, and were very pleased that there was one less recalcitrant person ”.

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The director spent 7 years in forced emigration working in Israel, Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and America. In Europe and the United States, he enjoyed tremendous success. Only during perestroika, his citizenship was renewed, and he was able to return to his homeland. But after his return, a conflict broke out in the theater and a split occurred, as a result of which part of the troupe separated.

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