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Faina Ranevskaya

Faina Ranevskaya

Oyuncu · 1896 – 1984 · Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]

Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (born Faina Girschevna Feldman, on August 27th, 1896 in Taganrog), was a Soviet theatre and film actress. She is also very well known for her cheeky aphorisms. In childhood, she attended the Mariinskaya Gymnasium for Girls, receiving additional education usual for someone from an affluent family (music, singing, foreign languages). Heavily influenced by her mother's love for the arts, Ranevskaya had a budding interest in theatre and by the age of 14 was attending classes at the private theatre studio of A. Jagiello (A.N. Govberg), graduating in 1914. In 1915 she decided to move to Moscow, becoming estranged from her family due to her choice of career. During these years she met M. Tsvetaeva, O. Mandelstam, V. Mayakovsky, and V. Kachalov. In the post-revolutionary years, her family left Russia and settled in Prague, but she stayed to continue pursuing theatre. She worked in the theatres of Kerch, Rostov-on-Don, at the mobile theatre "The First Soviet Theater" in Crimea, also in Baku, Arkhangelsk, Smolensk, etc. In fall of 1915, Ranevskaya signed a contract to work in the Kerch troupe of Madame Lavrovskaya. Sadly, the public did not express great interest in the new troupe. Ranevskaya chose her stage name in honor of the main character in Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard. Once, on a walk with a fellow troupe member, Ranevskaya decided to check into the bank. The actress recalls the birth of this pseudonym: "When we came out of the massive bank doors, a gust of wind tore the banknotes out of my hands – the entire amount. I stopped, and, looking at the flying banknotes, said: 'Shame about the money, but how beautifully it flies away!' 'But indeed, you are Ranevskaya!' exclaimed her companion. 'Only she could say that!' When I later had to choose a pseudonym, I decided to take the surname of Chekhov's heroine. We have something in common–but far from everything, far from everything..." Ranevskaya also used to joke about herself, saying that she was Ranevskaya because she had butterfingers. Ranevskaya's mother and her had both greatly admired the writer himself. In 1934, she made her debut in film as Madame Loiseau in Pyshka (dir. Mikhail Romm), based on Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant. Romain Rolland, a French writer, loved the film (his favorite actor in the movie was Ranevskaya). At his request it was shown in French cinemas and became a box-office hit. She remained both prominent film and theatre actress, although most of her work remained in theatre. In her later years, Ranevskaya professed that meeting Pavla Woolf drastically changed her fate; it was thanks to Woolf that she became an actress. They met in 1918, when Ranevskaya worked as an extra for a circus production. She happened to see Pavla Woolf in "A Nest of the Gentlefolk", which left upon her a big impression. She asked the actress to help her (who willingly accepted), and from that day on they remained very close friends.

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    The Foundling

    Подкидыш

    1939 · 25 votes

  • Film7.1

    Wedding

    Свадьба

    1944 · 12 votes

  • Film6.6

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    Золушка

    1947 · 51 votes

  • Film4.2

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    Осторожно, бабушка!

    1961 · 5 votes

  • Film6.3

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    Весна

    1947 · 19 votes

  • Film6.2

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    Как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем

    1941 · 5 votes

  • Film6.2

    Boule de Suif

    Пышка

    1934 · 19 votes

  • Film5.3

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    Девушка с гитарой

    1958 · 10 votes

  • Film6.6

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    Небесный тихоход

    1946 · 22 votes

  • Film7.1

    Karlson Returns

    Küçük Ufaklık Çocuk ve Carolson 2 Carolson Geri Dönüyor ve Ufaklığın Köpegiyle Dadi Macerası

    1970 · 107 votes

  • Film4.9

    Meeting on the Elbe

    Встреча на Эльбе

    1949 · 7 votes

  • Film5.8

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    Легкая жизнь

    1964 · 14 votes

  • Film10.0

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    У них есть Родина

    1949 · 1 votes

  • Film4.7

    Drama

    Драма

    1960 · 3 votes

  • Film5.0

    Native Shores

    Родные берега

    1943 · 1 votes

  • Film6.6

    The New Adventures of Schweik

    Новые похождения Швейка

    1943 · 5 votes

  • Film4.3

    Man in a Shell

    Человек в футляре

    1939 · 5 votes

  • Film5.5

    Dream

    Мечта

    1943 · 10 votes

  • Film8.0

    An Elephant and a Rope

    Слон и веревочка

    1945 · 1 votes

  • Film2.0

    The Rest Is Silence

    Дальше – тишина

    1978 · 2 votes

  • Film5.9

    New Attraction Today

    Сегодня новый аттракцион

    1966 · 5 votes

  • Film5.1

    Aleksandr Parkhomenko

    Александр Пархоменко

    1942 · 8 votes

  • Film1.0

    The Tale of Tsar Saltan

    Сказка о царе Салтане

    1943 · 1 votes

  • Film5.7

    The Ballad of Cossack Golota

    Дума про казака Голоту

    1937 · 3 votes

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  • Dizi7.6

    Fuse

    Фитиль

    1962 · 8 votes