Assays role in the USSR

In the USSR, the word casting did not know. Actors, claiming to be in the film, the movie took place and fotoproby in exchange for a fee of 20-30 rubles.

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

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

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






Fotoproby Nonna Mordyukova the role of Madame Gritsatsuyeva



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



Fotoproby Oleg species Shurika role in "Caucasian captive" Gaidai



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



Fotoproby Alla Pugacheva on the role Karenina



All winning Tatiana Samoilova



A couple of failed Pinocchio



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



Three more candidates for the role of Shura Azarov - Alisa Freundlich, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Valentine Malyavina



Fotoproby Evgeny Lebedev, Yuri Yakovlev and Yevgeny Evstigneeva the role of Ivan. (In the movie "Ivan Vasilievich" starred Yakovlev)



Fotoproby Natalia Gundarevoj Zinochka the role in the film "Ivan Vasilievich" (played Selezneva)



Fotoproby Mironov, the Innocent and the role Kuravlev Miloslavsky in the film "Ivan Vasilievich". Played Kuravlev.



Three Queen - Gundareva, Svetlichnaya, Seleznev - also legacy "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 by Rimma Markova)



Fotoproby Valentina Malyavina the role of Toshi, the film "Girls" (played by Hope Rumyantsev)



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



Oleg Jankowski tried in "Eternal Call" on Jacob Oleinikova, "Once again about love" on Vlad, "Distinguishing features no" to the role of Dzerzhinsky. (These roles are played respectively Vladlen Biryukov Vladimir COMRAT, Peter Garlicki.)



Fotoproby the role Katusha Maslova in the film "Resurrection" Schweitzer - Tatiana Lavrov, Zinaida Kiriyenko Malyavina Valentine (played by Tamara Semin)



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



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



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



Andrew Urgant. Fotoproby contenders for the role in Kostya "Pokrovsky Gates" (played Menshikov).



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



Sergey Koltakov. Fotoproby contenders for the role in Kostya "Pokrovsky Gates" (played Menshikov).

A few examples of excellent makeup:


Leonid Armour auditioning for Lenin



Fotoproby Oleg Dal on the role of Mark Twain (played Tabakov)



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

Unknown Vysotsky



Judging by the make-up of the first two shots - a theatrical role.



On the role of Stepan in "Andrei Rublev" Tarkovsky (played by Nicholas Grabbe).



Fotoproby Vysotsky Blucher role in "Star's" (played Hubenko). And, perhaps, to the role of General Charnota in "Boege" (played 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 "Above the Tisza," D'Artagnan, sailor-anarchist "Red Square" (sailor played Nikonenko).



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



Expressive fotoproby Catherine Savinova



Fotoproby Gurchenko (role identification failed)



Natalia and Elena Kustinskaya 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 Smoktunovskij. Fotoproby the role Bolkonsky.



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



Andrei Konchalovsky, fotoproby the role of Pierre Bezukhov.



Nikita Mikhalkov became almost Petya Rostovs.

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