Such casting you have not seen! Rare archival fotoproby famous Soviet actors.

Now young talent is much easier to show itself to the world than it once was. Today there are all kinds of talent show, which reveal the potential of young talents. Moreover, the world is constantly arrange various auditions to help choose the best of the best. But some two decades ago, everything was different. Soviet artists newfangled word "casting" was not familiar. Instead, they held a special film and fotoproby, claiming a role in the film. As a rule, for their participation in a selection of Soviet actor received a fee of 20-30 rubles.

I decided to share with you the secrets that hide the movie sets of those times. This is a rather unexpected trials of Soviet favorite actors. Could you now imagine that Anna Karenina in the film Alexander Zarkhi play Alla Pugacheva and Lyudmila Gurchenko will Natasha in "War and Peace"? Look at these archival photos, they tell a lot of interesting.

«Prisoner of the Caucasus»
Fotoproby Oleg Vidov the role Shurika.



fotoproby Marianne Vertinskaya the role of Nina.



Natalia Kustinskaya also auditioned for the role.

Natalya Selezneva and Nina did not in this movie.



«The Adventures of Pinocchio»
The actor, who was unable to play the main character.



«Girls»
Valentine Malyavina auditioned for the role Toshi and Alla Larionov - the role of Anfisa in the blockbusters.



«Anna Karenina»
On the role of the heroine she auditioned Diva.



«We're from Jazz»
On the role of Kate once auditioned Lyubov Polishchuk and Elena Tsyplakova. The latter received the role.



«War and Peace»
The legendary film in the role of Natasha Rostova could remove Larissa Golubkina or Lyudmila Marchenko.



In addition, Valentine Malyavina and Lyudmila Gurchenko also auditioned for the role.



Kirill Lavrov and Innocent Smoktunovskij - contenders for the role of Andrei Bolkonsky.



Also auditioned for the role Edward Martsevich and Yuri Solomin.



Andrei Konchalovsky claimed the role of Pierre Bezukhov.



Young Nikita Mikhalkov managed to become almost Petya Rostovs.



The unknown sample Vysotsky
Vladimir Semenovich auditioned for the role of border guards in the "Above the Tisza," D'Artagnan, anarchist sailor in the "Red Square».



Vysotsky almost became Cyrano de Bergerac.



The popular actor auditioning for the role of Pugachev.



So Vladimir Semenovich you just could not imagine (fotoproby the role Blucher in the "Marshal's Star" and the role of General Charnota in the movie "Running»).



Auditioned for the role in the film-drama centurion Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev».



Attempts Jankowski
Oleg auditioned for the role of Jacob in Oleynikov "Eternal call of" Vlad in "Once Again About Love" Dzerzhinsky "special will no».



«Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation»
Fotoproby Evgeny Lebedev, Yuri Yakovlev and Yevgeny Evstigneeva the main male role in the film.



Andrei Mironov, Vyacheslav Innocent and Leonid Kuravlev auditioned for the role Miloslavsky.



Three queen from there - Natalia Gundareva Svetlana Svetlichnaya, Natalya Selezneva.



Probably many of these photographs have become a real discovery for you. For example, I can not imagine who could just as well play Nina in "Caucasian captive", as brilliant Natalya Varley. And, frankly, I do not see absolutely Andrei Mironov as Miloslavsky. Apparently, a hundredfold watching your favorite films did his thing: now we have no idea how the legendary characters could play someone else. Be sure to share this article with your friends - it would be very interesting to see familiar actors in unfamiliar images!

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