Excerpt from the movie “Carnival Night”Actress and singer Lyudmila Gurchenko disappeared from big cinema for ten years after the success of Carnival Night. We know why the celebrity disappeared from the screens for so long.
After the release of Carnival Night, the script for the film Girl with a Guitar was written especially for Gurchenko. However, the tape did not achieve such popularity as the success of Eldar Ryazanov’s film. In addition, Gurchenko gained a reputation as an artist in the genre of light dance.
The actress was in a difficult financial situation. She had to earn money by performing in factories and mines while traveling around the country. The singer took part in the so-called “actor hacks” – creative meetings with the audience. For this reason, Gurchenko was hounded in the Soviet press.
While in 1957 the filming of “Girl with a Guitar” was still underway, the artist was summoned by the Minister of Culture of the USSR Nikolai Mikhailov. He offered the singer to cooperate with the KGB and become an informant at the VI International Festival of Youth and Students, but she refused. This was the main reason for the period of oblivion that began in Gurchenko’s life after the release of “Girl with a Guitar”.”There is cruelty in the fact that in my best period, when the good days of a man, of a woman, when there is health, and… of not acting for ten years! Some Could anything be worse after that? — shared the actress.
From 1959 to 1969, the artist starred in five films, made mainly in Republican film studios. These tapes did not achieve great success with the public.
Until the early 1970s, Gurchenko kept a low profile. The end of the period of oblivion can be considered 1974, when the movie “Old Walls” was released. In it, the actress played the main role – the manager of a weaving factory.
