On August 16, after a long illness, the talented actress and director Vera Glagoleva passed away. The cause of death was cancer.
Vera Glagoleva was 61 years old. She has 3 daughters - 38-year-old Anna, 37-year-old Maria and 23-year-old Anastasia - and three grandsons. The actress's son-in-law is the famous hockey player Alexander Ovechkin.
Despite the fact that Vera Vitalievna did not have an acting education, she was very talented and remarkably embodied on the screen psychological and deep images. Usually she was given the role of fragile and touching women with a strong inner core. Let us recall the brightest of her works.
Sima, "To the End of the World" (1975)
In the film "To the End of the World" Glagoleva played a simple girl Simu from a small Ural town. Her heroine is naive, but full of selflessness, inner strength and purity.
With this film began the career of Vera Vitalievna. She got to the shooting quite by accident. In the cafeteria "Mosfilm" 18-year-old Vera caught the eye of the operator, who suggested the girl to play up to the actor who was auditioning for the main role. On the tests, Vera acted so naturally and uninhibitedly that the director of the film Rodion Nahapetov insisted that she play the main role. After the filming, Nahapetov made a proposal to Vera, which she accepted. In the marriage two daughters Anna and Maria were born.
Varya, "On Thursday and Never Again" (1977)
In this unusually deep and psychological picture Glagoleva played naive girl Varya. Varya waits for the child from the protagonist, who hides from her his engagement with another woman. Young Glagoleva perfectly fit into the brilliant cast of the ensemble (her partners in the film were Oleg Dal and Innokenty Smoktunovsky).
Shura, "Torpedo Bombers" (1983)
According to veterans, this picture has become the most realistic of all films about the Great Patriotic War. Vera Glagoleva coped brilliantly with her role.
Elena Zhuravleva, "To marry the captain" (1986)
This film made Glagoleva a popular favorite. Her strong heroine, photojournalist Elena, was close and understandable to millions of Soviet women. According to the results of the magazine "Soviet Screen" Glagolev was recognized as the best actress in 1986.
Masha Kovaleva, "Descended from Heaven" (1986)
The film, in which Vera Glagoleva plays in a duet with Alexander Abdulov, literally makes you cry. Actors play a couple in love, which is trying to return to normal life after the difficult events of the Great Patriotic War ...
Olga Vasilievna, "Poor Sasha" (1997)
In this New Year comedy Vera Vitalievna played the role of a businesswoman who does not have time for her daughter Sasha ... The film is often shown on television on New Year's holidays.
Directed by Maria Semenova, "Waiting Room" (1998)
This series is also called "an anthology of Russian life," because every character in the film reflects a social group. According to the story, the train, in which very influential people are traveling, has to stop for a few days in the provincial town of Zarechensk. Among the stuck passengers - director Maria Semenova, going through a personal drama. The painting was also played by Mikhail Boyarsky, who spoke very warmly of his work with Vera Vitalyevna:
"The meeting with her was very pleasant, because working with such a partner is a pleasure. She is very soft, thin, and at the same time she had such a wonderful rod ... "
Vera Ivanovna, "It is not recommended to offend women", 1999
Vera Glagoleva plays the role of a modest mathematics teacher, who suddenly becomes the owner of a controlling stake in a large shipping company. Critics and viewers praised the work of the actress in this film.