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Keywords:
The Great Purge– enemies of the people - cinema - Boris Gorbatov –
Stalin – Eisenstein – Dovcenko – Berya – gulag – film Hot Days
– film Nights over Belgrade – Tito – Molotov – Yugoslavia –
rehabiliation - book The Day of Tatiana – actors – directors.
synthesis:
Parents accused of being enemies of the people undergo the Great Purge
– casually casted for her first film – claims being saved because of
her acting profession.
First marriage – film Hot Days – becomes a diva – film
Nights Over Belgrade – trip to Yugoslavia – Tito falls in love and
proposes – second marriage to writer Boris Gorbatov. Soviet censorship
– Communist ideology – Climate of suspicions instilled by Stalin -
recollections of soviet actors and directors: Arlova, Alexandrov,
Eisenstein, Dovcenko – love for her audience – robbed and raped
because of Berya – arrest – espionage accusations – gulag –
prison meeting at Lubjanka with the wife of Molotov, also fallen in
disgrace and arrested – torture – father's teachings – a platonic love
in the gulag - rehabilitation. Finds the tombs of executed parents –
admirers – hate for Communism – Considerations for the communist
director's wive's roles – first book The Day of Tatiana
- photos.
subject
biography:
Born in the region of Moscow on 3/03/1914. Difficult adolescence
because of the accusation of parents as enemies of the people.
In 1934, almost accidently, lands her first role, Hot Days, and
she becomes a star overnight. After her second film, Nights over
Belgrade, she gets to go in Yugoslavia for its presentation. In
Belgrade, Tito falls in love with her and tries to convince her to stay in
Yugoslavia by building film studios just for her. Tatiana,
however does not want to leave her homeland, even if the Stalinian
terror starts to heavily make its presence. She married Boris Gorbatov,
a famous writer in the thirties, later on a receiver of the Stalin
Prize. With him, she participates in the sumptuous parties given by the
Kremlin. In 1945 the powerful Berya lays an eye on her,
forcefully takes her to the Kremlin and then rapes her. Fallen in
misfortune, she becomes a victim of the Great Purge. The day of her
arrest, the husband, conscious of the situation, walks out in the early
morning with an excuse. She gets sent to the Lubjanka prison where she
meets Nina Molotova , also arrested by Stalin. Then in the
gulag, the solidarity of the companions of forced labor and the
platonic love "that gives you the strength to survive". Her films
disappear from the screens. Then, the death of Stalin, the fall of
Berya (June 1953), and her liberation. She resumes her career as an
actress. Currently she lives in Moscow. |
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