The Soviet audience loved the film “Winter Cherry”, but few people know that it became prophetic for actors.

In 1985, from the pen of director Igor Maslennikov, the first part of the film history “Winter Cherry” came out, which attracted and hooked millions of Soviet minds and hearts. The story of the forbidden love of young Olga and indecisive married Vadim was called the anthem of single women.



Instagram is amazing. Irina Miroshnichenko in "Winter Cherry" She shone with Larisa Udovichenko, Elena Safonova, Nina Ruslanova and Vitaly Solomin. Initially, the main roles were written for Natalia Andreychenko and Sergey Shakurov. Both refused to shoot. As a result, the hot recognition, audience love and film awards were received by Elena Safronova and Vitaly Solomin – the magnificent Soviet doctor Watson.

It is amazing how the main characters shared the fate of their characters. Let's see what happened in their lives.

Miroshnichenko in “Winter Cherry” Irina Petrovna appeared in the second series of “Winter Cherry”, where she played careerist Julia, the wife of the main character Vadim. The actress described the heroine as a woman “in curls, cream and socks, from which you will definitely escape to your mistress.”

This role was originally written for another actress. Before the start of filming, Miroshnichenko refined the image, making Yulia more human. She tried to justify her sharp disposition with deep spiritual sadness and a kind of love-pity for her husband.



Some of the scenes were born on their own. For example, when a red kitten appeared in the apartment and how Vadim rejoiced. This subtle episode showed how much the man starved for warmth and tenderness and to what this family lacked children. In her personal life, Miroshnichenko repeated the experience of her heroine, never becoming a mother.



In relations with men, she herself became a separation, fleeing from her first husband, playwright Mikhail Shatrov, to married Lithuanian director Vytautas Zhalakevichius. Passionate romance turned domestic and divorce. With the third husband, actor Igor Vasiliev, rolled the long-awaited happiness. Until the husband demanded to exchange the scene for diapers and openers. Like her character from Winter Cherry, Miroshnichenko chose a career and was once again left alone.

The fate of Elena Safonova and Vitaly Solomin The role of Olga in many ways became prophetic for Elena Safonova. She also fell in love with a married man and was left alone with her son, then married a foreigner - French actor Samuel Labart - and went with him to France.



Married happiness lasted only a few years. Having given birth to a son, Safronova almost immediately returned to work, not wanting to remain on maternity leave. She was favored by foreign directors and promised new roles. However, the husband gave Elena a condition - either family or career. Choosing a vocation, the actress returned to Russia in 1996 and continued to act in films.

Their common child, Alexandra, Labart did not give up: French law obliged the boy to stay with his father until the age of 18. Since then, Safronova has been visiting her youngest son at every opportunity. Labart Jr., by the way, also followed in the footsteps of his mother and father and made a career as an actor.



Instagram “Winter Cherry” left a stamp on the fate of Vitaly Solomin. The actor admitted that he had many similarities with the hero. After the death of the artist’s wife, Maria, once admitted to journalists that during the filming the husband fell in love with another woman and even tried to leave the family – just like on-screen Vadim. Fortunately, God saved the couple from divorce.

The audience met his ambiguous character twice. Many criticized his weak character and indecision, others warmly saw in the hero of Solomin a man soft, kind and touching. In other words, the type of man of the time who suffered and tossed his whole life between high thoughts and harsh reality.



Vitaly Solomin starred in movies and performed on stage until the last days. In 2002, the actor died a month after suffering a stroke.

The stunning success of the first part inspired the creators of the picture to release the second and third series in 1990 and 1995. Unfortunately, the audience met both films coolly. The story of the grand return of a successful and rich main character in order to take revenge failed.



Olga was never able to find her happiness in the fourth episode of "Winter Cherry" - it was frozen due to lack of funding. Igor Maslennikov planned to shoot a sequel in 2016 and show how modern society lives in more or less stable conditions. The director wrote the script himself - in 2015, the playwright Vladimir Valutsky did not become, who composed the entire "Winter Cherry" from and to.



It has been almost 20 years, and a curious viewer is still eager to learn the continuation of the novel. Director Maslennikov encourages: there are chances, and he does not plan to write off the project from the accounts. The main thing is to collect the necessary budget.

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