Tamara Makarova Biography

Born on July 31 on August 13 in St. Petersburg-died on January 20 in Moscow. Soviet film actress, teacher, professor. People's Artist of the USSR Hero of Socialist Labor Tamara Makarova was born on July 31 on August 13 according to the new style of the year in St. Petersburg in the family of a military doctor.

She had a younger brother and sister. Tamara's childhood passed in the romantic atmosphere of Russian military traditions. From an early age, she loved to sing a gramophone pipe. I tried to imitate Barbara Panina - the popular performer of gypsy songs and romances at that time. In adolescence, she became interested in pantomime and ballet. She danced well and gave great hopes.

The girl was given to a ballet school - there she acquired a posture and honeness of the gesture that she has preserved for life. The October Revolution has changed a lot in the life of the family. Her father died. The family plunged into poverty. However, the love of creativity did not run out of her. At the age of 14, Tamara was carried away by the theater and even created her own troupe, collecting neighboring guys.

On one of the performances of which the young writer Alexander Bronstein entered. According to her recommendations, Tamaru was summoned to the department of public education and offered new plays. Now young actors increasingly began to speak in front of an adult audience and even receive a reward for a bread ration for this. At that time, there were such masters as Eisenstein, Yutkevich, Khorov.

In the workshop, they devoted a lot of time to plastic, fantasized on the topics of historical and constructive dances, the actors showed, for example, various mechanisms, Makarova herself in a spectacular gray coco depicted a transmission. From the years - actress of the film studio "Lenfilm". In the year, she entered the film department of the technical school of stage arts, which she graduated in the year.

Tamara Makarova in the cinema in the cinema debuted in the same year in the film "Alien Jacket". The factory “Skikino” that produces this film, she fell by accident, literally from the street: she was brought by the assistant G. Kozintsev and L. her heroine, a woman -vamp, seducing everyone around. And her future husband Sergei Gerasimov played the role of agent Skalkovsky.

At that moment, Makarova got a second -wing roles. Tamara Makarova in the film "Deserter" soon Gerasimov turned into directing. In the year, he first shot Tamaru Makarova in his picture - she played her first main role in his film “Do I love you? It was difficult to squeeze a tear from it. And the all kinds of phantasmagoria, which we were then fond of, left her almost indifferent - it was a sober head.

But precisely because of her sobriety, she accepted the world as he is, ”said Sergey Gerasimov about her. Wide fame and all -Union glory came to her for a year with the release of the film“ Seven Brave ”, in which she played the doctor Zhenya Okhrimenko. While working on the tape, the filming group went a lot during the filming on the expedition, trying to recover the real environment of In the film, the actors rose to the Elbrus glaciers, lived on the islands of the Barents of the Sea among non -frightened birds, mastered the ski and parachute sport in the khabins.

For playing the role of Agrafena Shumilina in the film "Teacher". Makarova took an active part in the defense of the city - she worked as an instructor in the Front Political Administration, a Sandvinitsa in one of the hospitals, a nurse. In the year, Sergey Gerasimov, together with Mikhail Kalatozov, made a film about the defenders of Leningrad - the drama "Invincible", in which Tamara Makarova played one of the main roles.

Member of the CPSU B from the year. Spouses remained in the besieged city for a year. Then we went to Tashkent. The painting "Big Earth" was shot there. The actress had military awards: medals “for the defense of Moscow”, “For the defense of Leningrad”, “For valiant work in the Great Patriotic War - GG. After returning from the evacuation, the spouses settled in Moscow.

Tamara Makarova in Tamara Fedorovna was shot not only by her husband, she successfully worked in the films of other directors - “first -grader” by Ilya Fras, the fairy tale “The Stone Flower” by Alexander Ptushko, the painting “Oath” by Mikhail Chiaureli and others. In the year, for the performance of Ksenia in the film “Oath” she was awarded the Stalin premium of the first degree.

In Cannes, the Stone Flower received a prize of an international jury. There, one Hollywood director offered her the role of Anna Karenina, but the consent would put a cross on her husband’s career and Makarova. Tamara Makarova in the film "Stone Flower" also Sergei Appolinarievich often shot his famous films without the participation of his wife - "Quiet Don", "by the lake", "Red and Black", etc.

In the year she became a professor of this educational institution. They led teaching together with their husband, led the general workshop. Among their students are such famous artists as S. Bondarchuk, I. Makarov, L. Gurchenko, Z. Kiriyenko, N. Fateeva, J. Bolotov, N. Gubenko, E. Zharikov, S. Nikonenko, G. Polskikh, L. Fedoseeva-Shukshin, N. Aryrinbasarova, N.Belokhvostikova, N.

Gvozdikova, N. Eremenko Jr. and many others. The Gerasimov teaching business was given to the end, they were one family with students, they loved to use them in their films. The most striking example is the “Young Guard”, which brought a whole galaxy of young actors who were students of VGIK to Kino -Orbit: I. Makarov, N. Mordyukov, S. Gurzo, S. Bondarchuk, V.

Tikhonov, K. Luchko, V. Avdyushko and many others. Since the beginning of X, Tamara Makarova began to act much less often and mainly in the films of her husband. She acted as a co -author of the script of the debut film by T. Liosnova “Memory of the Heart” and the author of the libretto of the film “People and Beasts”. She played in the lead roles in Sergey Gerasimov’s optimistic drama “Rural Doctor”, the drama of Jan Frid “The Road of Pravda” and the heroic film Poles of Tatyana Liozosova “Memory of the Heart”.

Sometimes appeared on the screen in E in the films of Sergei Gerasimov. Tamara Makarova in the film "At the beginning of glorious deeds" in the year Sergey Gerasimov set the biographical film "Leo Tolstoy", telling about the last days of the life of the great Russian writer. In the same year, the picture was awarded the Prize "Crystal Globe" at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary.

Tamara Fedorovna until the end of her days was no longer in the cinema. In the last years of his life, Makarov appeared little in public. In May of the year, by the anniversary of Sergei Gerasimov, she published a book of memoirs “Afterword”, which ends with an “indispensable letter” of Makarova to her husband: “I thank you for everything! And I’m sure that we will certainly meet. Tamara Makarova died on January 20 by other sources - January 19 in Moscow.

Gerasimov and T. Makarova, a memorial plaque was opened in the year. There is also a memorial plaque in Moscow - on the house in which they lived at Kutuzovsky Prospekt, the village of children did not have their children. Gerasimov drew attention to the beginning actress during her speech: Makarova danced Charleston in the pop miniature "Modist and the lifter". At that time, he was already quite famous thanks to roles in silent films.

But then their relationship did not result in nothing.