Kedrova biography

Do not believe the Wikipedia - today, October 9, it is performed by the birth of the brilliant star of the Greek Zorba, the charming episode in the Hitchcokovsky “Torn Curtain”, Madame Gadereyan in Polansky’s “Lily, Lily Kedrova. In honor of this significant date, read the article by Christina Tanis. Employees of the film company "The Twentieth Century of Fox" are busy preparing press materials for the premiere of the new film "Greek Zorba".

The dossier for journalists contains a press release, information about the creators of the film, the biographies of actors. In the atmosphere of chaos, characteristic of the premiere, one actress complicates the work - she cannot name the date of her birth. She doesn't remember her. So you see, dates and I ... "" A torn curtain. " Alfred Hitchcock. Soon this press release will fly around the editorial offices of the whole world.

As it is written in a copy discovered in the French cinema: "On October 9, the great actress Lily Kedrova was born in Petrograd." She was born in Russia, but became famous as a French actress, did not think of herself outside the theater, but received the most desired reward of all filmmakers-“Oscar”, in her career you can study the history of cinema: Robert Wine gave her the first role, and one of the latter-Costa Garavas.

Among the dates of the birth of Elizabeth Nikolaevna Kedrova appear Y and th, but we will take her word for her word. Sitting for the biography of Lily Kedrova, one can find that after her there were no diaries, no memoirs, nor documents. The latter were lost during emigration to France, which provided her with the opportunity to choose her age at her own discretion.

In numerous interviews, mainly in the years, she retells the story of her success in different ways - shooting in the film "Greek Zorba". It was forty -five Lily Kedrova when Mikhalis Kakayannis called her and invited Madame Hortensi to the role of Madame. He specified whether the actress said in English, “OUI”-lied to Kedrova and flew to Crete, where the film was shooting.

Upon arrival, she pretended to be a sick and, lying in bed, memorized all the phrases in English. The touching role of the aged prostitute brought her the Oscar for the best female supporting role and proposals from film studios around the world. It is all the more surprising to discover that Lileu Kedrova’s research is practically not written, but her biography is strangely gathering in the texts of others.

Mikhalis Kakoyanis. In addition to His Majesty, there are few guests, "the whole man." When those who come take places in the auditorium, the performance begins. Nikolai Kedrov and his wife Sofya Gladky perform the opera pergolets “The Minus Servant” under the piano accompaniment of Professor Mikravsky. Her mother is the singer of the Mariinsky Theater, her father is a composer of spiritual music, the founder of the famous St.

Petersburg Russian Vocal Quartet. In years, the quartet participates in the “Russian seasons” by S. Diaghilev, in the Kedrov house on the Kanuerskaya street there are S. Prokofiev, F. Chaliapin, A. The latter carefully recorded in his diary devastation, the unsteady and instability of existence in the post -revolutionary Petrograd. In the same mood, the Kedrov just returning, looking for his library, part of which saved the theater.

” Nikolai Kedrov manages to avoid execution by pure chance. Faced on the street with a distant acquaintance, he suddenly finds out that his candidacy was included in the shot lists. The family emigrates to Berlin, then to Paris, where soon Nikolai Kedrov will create a Russian conservatory and will become one of the key figures of the culture of the Russian abroad. In the x years, the famous quartet of Kedrov will even play a concert for the King of Great Britain George V.

In the meantime, on November 5, the young son of Nikolai Kedrov, Kolenka Kedrov Jr. tells Sergey Prokofiev about the new, Soviet life of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, from where the family had just left. The vocal quartet of Nikolai Kedrov. From left to right: V. Castorsky, N. Safonov, N. Kedrov, M. Pupils more follow their clothes, so they look almost the same as before.

But there are communists among them, very confident in themselves. And life flows with its turn and pulls, so Kolya did not want to part with the conservatory when it was time to leave, although now he is glad that abroad. ” Lily was supposed to become a pianist, but at eight years he escapes with a circus, pretending an orphan. When the police returns her to her parents, he says that she wants to get enough sleep, because she drove all day on a circus bear chain.

At the age of fourteen, she begins to take lessons from the Moscow Art Theater emigrated to Paris, and at the end of the 10ths he was already playing at the Russian Theater of Paris. In one of the letters to his wife, Vladimir Nabokov says that Kedrova, "a very eye actress, whom Aldanov considers the new commissarzhevskaya, shamelessly begged his role." And I received it - in the play based on Nabokov’s play “Event”, the premiere of which took place in Paris in the year.

Kedrova studied with the best. At the end, she is connected by a stormy romance with Grigory Khmara. The Khmara film career ended with the spread of sound, in years he lives in Paris, earns a living by singing romances and participating in the performances of Russian theaters.At contemporaries, the Union of Kedrova and Khmara makes a wild impression. In the year, Serge Lifar arranges in Paris the exhibition “Pushkin and his era” to the centenary of the death of the poet.

At this time, the unknown autograph of Pushkin is found in Vyborg - two stanzas of the sixth chapter of Evgeny Onegin. They manage to deliver a unique find to Paris after the closing of the exhibition. The poet and Pushkinist Modest Hoffmann prepares a new publication Eugene Onegin, which includes the autograph and commentary on him. In the year, Serge Lifar publishes this book with numbered circulations in copies, one of which is still stored in Lily Kedrova’s apartment on the Boulevard Monparnas with the signature of “Dear Hmarushka.

Serge Lifar. " The number of large contexts, which, like circles on water, begin to disperse, you just have to touch on the biography of Lily Kedrova, cannot but surprise. Here is the beginning of the Bolshevik terror, and the Russian Monparnas, and the desperate, obsessed with the hope of the white emigration for return, and the Second World War. Linguist Vladimir Toporov once wrote about the flickering code of the language of Kuzminsky prose.

Analyzing the work of Mikhail Kuzmin, he noticed that the writer was depicting, he made puzzles from the present. The peculiarity of Lily Kedrova is not that her life affects large historical narratives, a similar view, in principle, is possible on any biography of the 20th century - the history of the last century gives enough space for such interpretations due to cedar, which is interesting on the periphery of historical events, it very accurately managed to convey this borderline state in the cinema, weaving through secondary roles.

peace transformed in creativity. And if, taking advantage of Toporov’s term, to talk about the flickering code of Lily Kedrova as a film actress, then in the paths of the fate of her characters, entire eras flicker - the era of the “great dumb”, Russian Montparnas and white emigration, the Second World War, the crashes of all the hopes of post -war Europe ...

In other words, playing, of course, loses the tea and dreams of the world of the first half of the 20th century. From this prospect, the general is logically built, the vibrant if the film is read as the text of the arc of her character, his mythology, which, regardless of the stories told from the screen, already has its own fate. Fate is in the sense in which Andre Bazin spoke of her, explaining why the heroes of Jean Gaben always die.

This fate is dictated by the most texture of the face with whom the scriptwriters and directors are simply forced to reckon, often completely unconsciously. Henri Decuan. The actress is always the second plan, Lily Kedrova played the characters existing on the periphery - whether it was the dramatic space of the film or the space of social ties. Her heroes are usually borderline, even marginal.

As, for example, the heroine drug addict Lea from the French Nuar “Family on the thieves”, which not only becomes a guide for the hero Jean Gaben into the space of Parisian slums, but also manages to dance in a world where “smells of urine”, as one of the critics puts it. Moreover, internal instability is emphasized by the intentional expressiveness of the game, brought almost to the grotesque.

The old prostitute from the Greek Zorba, who once came to Crete with a British fleet, in a cracked voice tells how she drank champagne, smelled of other people's spirits, was loved by three admirals. But the ship left, and she is still waiting for someone to come for her. Death comes. The final scene in which Madame Hortensi in the dying agony beats on the bed, while the old women in black, without even waiting for her death, begin to plunder the boudoir - this is not only the history of her heroine, it is also the quintessence of the fate of the Russian nobility and Russian culture of the 19th century.

Luciano Salce. Or a mother from the film “Dear Mom on Birthday”, obsessed with a love for her son so much that she can kill him, but not let go. Her heroines always realize the futility of their attempts, but prefer to pretend that they know nothing about failure, and try more and more. In the mythological arc of the characters, Lily Kedrova closes - her heroine begins to belong to the otherworldly space, being the main character in view of the ghost “some girls”, a metaphor, beating in the forehead, if not a lot, becomes a literal embodiment of another world, which remained on the other side of the border.

The borderline of its existence acquires a new dimension, shifting to the periphery of historical eras. In one of the scenes of the film “Greek Zorba”, the main character performed by Anthony Kuinna, distinguished by animal vitality, in response to the intricate phrase of the writer, hero Alan Bates, exclaims: “Ah, master! If you could only dance everything that you are talking about, then I would understand!

Lilya Kedrova was able to. The world understood.