Frustrated role of Soviet movie stars

• Frustrated role of Soviet movie stars

Priceless archival photographs of famous Soviet actors in the roles that they have not played.

The USSR did not know the word casting. Actors applying for a role in the movie, passed fotoproby film and in exchange for a fee 20-30 rubles.

At the same role sometimes auditioned dozens of actors, which are now quite simply impossible to imagine in these images. D'Artagnan, for example, could have played Vladimir Vysotsky, and Anna Karenina - Alla Pugacheva.

Watch amazing footage fotoproby unrealized and little-known projects of the Soviet cinema.

fotoproby Mironov, the Innocent and the role Kuravlev Miloslavsky in the film "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation". Played Kuravlev.

fotoproby Ryazanov Gurchenko in the film "Hussar Ballad" (played Golubkina)

Fotoproby Nonna Mordyukova the role of Madame Gritsatsuyeva

Natalya Selezneva. Fotoproby on the role of Nina in the "Caucasian captive" Gaidai

Natalia Kustinskaya. Fotoproby on the role of Nina in the "Caucasian captive" Gaidai

Marianne Vertinskaya. Fotoproby on the role of Nina in the "Caucasian captive" Gaidai (eventually played by Nina Natalya Varley)

fotoproby Oleg Vidov on Shurika role in the "Caucasian captive" Gaidai

fotoproby Kaidanovsky Alexander and Vasily Livanov at the role of Sherlock Holmes. If Holmes became Kajdanovsky, it could be considered a forerunner Cumberbatch.

fotoproby Alla Pugacheva on the role Karenina

All the winning Tatiana Samoilova

A couple of failed Pinocchio

Another three candidates for the role of the Shura Azarova - Alisa Freundlich, Svetlana Nemolyaeva Valentina Malyavina

fotoproby Evgeny Lebedev, Yuri Yakovlev and Evgeny Evstigneev the role of Ivan. (In the film "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation" starred Yakovlev)

fotoproby Natalia Gundarevoj Zinochka for the role in the film "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation" (played Selezneva)

Three Queen - Gundareva, Svetlichnaya, Seleznev - also a legacy of "Ivan".

Svetlana Svetlichnaya also auditioned for the role of the Queen in "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" Ptushko (played Golubkina).

Nonna Mordjukova, fotoproby the role of Nadezhda Petrovna, a film by Alexei Saltykov "petticoat" (this role was brilliantly played Rimma Markova)

fotoproby Valentina Tosi Malyavina the role, the film "The Girls" (played by Hope Rumyantsev)

Those "Girls", fotoproby Alla Larionova to the role of Anfisa (played by Svetlana Druzhinin)

Oleg Yankovsky auditioned in "Eternal Call" on Jacob Oleynikov, "Once again about love" at Vlad, "Special signs no" to the role of Dzerzhinsky. (These roles are played respectively Vladlen Biryukov Vladimir Comrat, Peter Garlicki.)

fotoproby the role Katyusha Maslova in the film "Resurrection" Schweitzer - Tatyana Lavrova, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Malyavina Valentine (played by Tamara Semina)

fotoproby Lyubov Polishchuk and Elena Tsyplakova the role of Kate in "We Are from Jazz" (played Tsyplakova)

Kirill Kazakov, the son of the director. Fotoproby contenders for the role Kostik in "Pokrovsky Gates" (played by Menshikov).

Valery Storozhik. Fotoproby contenders for the role Kostik in "Pokrovsky Gates" (played by Menshikov).

Andrey Urgant. Fotoproby contenders for the role Kostik in "Pokrovsky Gates" (played by Menshikov).

Nikolay Denisov. Fotoproby contenders for the role Kostik in "Pokrovsky Gates" (played by Menshikov).

Sergei Koltakov. Fotoproby contenders for the role Kostik in "Pokrovsky Gates" (played by Menshikov).

A few examples of excellent make-up:

Leonid Bronevoy auditioning for Lenin

fotoproby Oleg Dal in the role of Mark Twain (played Tabakov)

Mikhail Ulyanov, fotoproby the role of Rasputin in "Agony" (played by Alexei Petrenko)

Unknown Vysotsky

According to make-up on the first two shots - a theatrical role.

On the role of a centurion in Stepan "Andrei Rublev" Tarkovsky (played Nikolai Grabbe).

fotoproby Vysotsky Blucher role in the "Marshal's Star" (played Hubenko). And, perhaps, to the role of General Charnota in "Boege" (played by Ulyanov).

fotoproby the role of Pugachev (played by Yevgeny Matveyev)

On the role of Cyrano de Bergerac (frustrated film Ryazanov).

Unknown Vysotsky very much. It is strange that there are well-known. Beautiful and unidentifiable.

On the role of border guards in the "Over the Tisza," D'Artagnan, sailor-anarchist "Red Square" (the sailor played Nikonenko).

Fotoprobnye search for a husband for heroine Ina Chourikova in the "Request to speak" Gleb Panfilov. There are tried and Vysotsky Shirvindt (played by Nicholas Hubenko).

Expressive fotoproby Ekaterina Savinova

fotoproby Gurchenko (role could not be identified)

Kustinskaya Natalia and Elena Sanaeva. Fotoproby the role of Natasha in "War and Peace" Bondarchuk (played Saveliev)

Larissa Golubkina and Lyudmila Marchenko. Fotoproby the role of Natasha in "War and Peace" Bondarchuk (played Saveliev)

Valentine Malyavina and Lyudmila Gurchenko. Fotoproby the role of Natasha in "War and Peace" Bondarchuk (played Saveliev)

Kirill Lavrov and Innocent Smoktunovski. Fotoproby the role Bolkonsky.

Eduard Martsevich and Yuri Solomin. Fotoproby the role Bolkonsky. (Martsevich eventually played Drubetskoy)

Andrei Konchalovsky, fotoproby on the role of Pierre Bezukhov.

Nikita Mikhalkov became almost Petya Rostov.

And a bonus for nelenivyh: estimated, from which you can, strained, know that the "Hound of the Baskervilles" for the role of Stapleton auditioned Kajdanovsky, Dahl and Bogatyrev, in the role of his sister - Anastasia Vertinskaya Barrymore could be Porokhovshchikov and Henry Baskerville - Nikolai Hubenko or Igor Vasiliev: