Natalia Ryazantseva: photo, biography, filmography

Natalia Ryazantseva always seemed one of the most mysterious and reserved people in Soviet cinema. This is the greatest modern writer, from whose pen the scripts for such films as "Wings", "Parent's Day", "Alien Letters", "Portrait of the Artist's Wife" were born. One of her last works was the script for the film "Fires of the brothel," which was screened in 2011. Despite the tremendous talent of the writer and screenwriter, Natalia Ryazantseva, whose photo will be presented in our article, always attracted the attention of a wide audience with her personal life. This woman had two official marriages, both times her favorites were cult Russian directors - her first husband was G. Shpalikov, and the second became I. Averbakh. Also for many years she was a faithful companion and interlocutor of one of the greatest philosophers - Merab Mamardashvili.

Natalia Ryazantseva: Biography

No wonder this woman has some mysterious image. Even in our time of developed information technologies and open access to all kinds of data, it is not very easy to find detailed information about her biography. It is known that she was born in 1938. Natalia Ryazantseva is a native Muscovite, she spent all her childhood and youth in the capital. It is known that the family of the future screenwriter was educated and intelligent, her great-grandfather - Sergei Rzhevsky - at one time was the governor of several regions, including Ryazan, Tambov and Simbirsk.

Being already an adult woman, Natalia Ryazantseva in her interviews repeatedly proudly recalled her noble roots. And even in Soviet times, at the height of communism, she said that she was always proud of her origins, which was far from the working class. The same position was followed by her second husband - Ilya Averbakh, who all his life dreamed of putting the "White Guard". Once, when he met with the poet V. Nekrasov in an informal atmosphere, he proudly announced that he was a true White Guard.

Education received

In 1962, she successfully graduated from VGIK, namely its scenario faculty. During this period, as a student, Natalia Ryazantseva met her future first husband - Gennady Shpalikov, who will eventually be called the best screenwriter and songwriter of the sixties. Almost 20 years later, becoming a recognized screenwriter, Natalya returned to her native VGIK, but already as one of the most powerful teachers of script art.

A difficult profession

In cinema, there is almost always a regular injustice: when an interesting film comes out on the screens, popularity comes to actors who played the main roles. Also, the audience is usually appreciated as a director. But few people are interested in script writers who prescribe the main idea, structure and dialogues of all the characters in this film. Most of the script writers, alas, remain in the shadows. But Natalia Ryazantseva is a screenwriter, a talented author who managed to avoid such an unfair forget. In the cinematographic circle, her work is deservedly appreciated, and she herself has an unshakable reputation as an undoubted professional.

For example, Sergei Solovyov in the foreword to the book "The Voice" says that Natalia Ryazantseva is a scriptwriter who can painfully and painstakingly copy and rewrite the same dialogue dozens of times until he ideally fits under a certain actor, director, or even weather Conditions of filming. In order to receive such high marks among colleagues, Natalia had to write a lot of brilliant works.

For the first time as a screenwriter, she made her debut not in a feature film. Then she became one of the screenwriters of Zastava Ilyich's tape and even played one of the roles in it. Unfortunately, this film could not stand the censorship of Khrushchev, his full version was shown on wide screens many years later, in the late 80's.

After that, Ryazantseva Natalia Borisovna continued her creative career and in 1966, in co-authorship with V. Yezhov, wrote a script for the film "Wings".

Filmography

In addition to the already mentioned films, Ryazantseva at different times wrote scripts for such tapes as:

• "The Scarlet Flower";
• "Foreign letters";
• "Long Seeing Off";
• "Open book";
• "I'm free, I'm nobody's";
• "Portrait of the Artist's Wife";
• "Vote";
• "Parents day";
• "Own shadow";
• "No one wanted to leave."

In total, after the written in 1966, "Wings" from the pen of Ryazantseva came 16 more scenarios.

Relations with men

Those who know Natalia closely, they say that she is a very deep personality and refers to that rare kind of person who is capable of sincere sympathy. She has a kind of magnetic charm, because she sees a lot of things that are not understood and not noticed by the rest. Ryazantseva assesses everything correctly enough, coldly and soberly and therefore creates the impression of a hard man. Many mistakenly take this for some arrogance. Since Natalia Borisovna is a creative person, in every person she is looking for a prototype of a possible hero for her scenarios and considers people in terms of how much this personality can be interesting for building a future image. It becomes obvious that it will not be easy for any man to live with such a wife. In addition, many people say that Natalia creates the impression of a person who is always concentrated on something and is slightly detached from everything around what is happening.

At first glance, it may seem that such a person can not have a constant pair at all. But at the same time Natalia was always a mystery for men, which it was impossible to unravel until the end, which attracted them to her.

The history of the first marriage

The first choice of this fatal woman was the student Shpalikov, who eventually turned into a well-known for the whole Soviet Union scriptwriter and director.

Young people turned their attention to each other in Leningrad, where they were reduced by chance. Gennady Shpalikov and Natalia Ryazantseva, having felt not only mutual sympathy, but also a certain affinity, got married very quickly. Over time, Ryazantseva writes in her memoirs that she really could not love Gennady. But at that time their novel was not student in the classical sense of this expression. Young people took each other quite seriously and decided to formalize their relations without losing time. They were married in 1959.

Their life was quite light and cheerful, but the general picture was clouded by widespread pennilessness. The spouses were pleased with any work. Natalia Ryazantseva recalls that she and her young husband were happy to work even on primitive advertising.

Many friends considered them an ideal pair, as the young couple seemed to be really, ideally complementing each other: they were talented, energetic and full of enthusiasm. Those who witnessed this relationship remember that Gennady did not see the soul in his wife, and Natalia answered him with complete reciprocity. Over time, the financial position of the couple began to improve significantly, due to the fact that the spouse began to write songs-hits for Soviet films (for example, he is the author of the legendary song "And I'm Walking, Walking in Moscow").

But, strangely enough, this marriage did not last long, and the young people divorced two years after the wedding. They say that the cause of the divorce was Shpalikov's love of drinking, and it was for this reason that Natalia decided to divorce.

The second spouse of the writer

Ilya Averbakh became the second man for whom Natalia Ryazantseva officially married. This man was known as a film director, screenwriter, he was often called the "idol of an intelligent spectator". They were married in 1966 and lived together for almost 20 years. This marriage ended in 1986 with the death of Elijah.

Today's life of the great screenwriter

Since Ryazantseva became one of the most talented and experienced female screenwriters of Soviet, and later Russian, cinema, it would be unfair if she did not transfer her knowledge to the younger generation. After the death of her husband, since 1988, Natalia Borisovna began her career as a teacher. At first she taught at the Higher Courses of filmmakers and screenwriters. And almost in 10 years began to conduct its own scenario studio in VGIK.