Acting is noble and at the same time quite risky. In the case of our country, especially many sad cases happened to actors who were popular in the USSR, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were forgotten and useless to anyone.
10. Nonna Mordyukova
Nonna was truly a legendary actress, her name was on the lips of all movie fans, not only in Soviet times, but even in the “new” time after perestroika. But over the years, fame waned, her health also, and playing in her latest work entitled “Mom”, where Mordyukova collaborated with young promising actors, she decided to leave the acting profession. Before her death, she often gave an interview where she complained of distress and living on a tiny pension. Nonna claimed that she often took pineapple in supermarkets to feel its aroma, and put it in place.
9. Borislav Brondukov
Borislav mostly played not very large roles, but this did not diminish his popularity at all. Fans recognized him on the streets, and he was most remembered by the world for his role as Lestrade in the famous Soviet version of Sherlock Holmes. At more than 40 years old, Brondukov suffered his first stroke, and this greatly undermined his health for the rest of his life. However, he continued to work actively and did not think about his health. Subsequently, this turned into three more strokes that hit the actor one by one. And the actor could no longer get out of bed. There was no money, friends and fans forgot about Brondukov. His wife said that they cooked the bone soups that the local butcher brought them for free. This continued until the death of Bronislaw in 2004.
8. Alexey Smirnov
An interesting fact is that the Soviet people could not even name Aleksey Smirnov's name and surname. But then everyone was very warm about his heroes, one of which was Fedya from Operation Y. Alexey has a very difficult fate. In life, he was quite lonely, because, as he himself said, he could not build relations with women correctly. After participating in the war and being wounded, he realized that he was barren. This finally put an end to his personal life. Then his close friend died, and Smirnov began to drink. He died being a drunkard that everyone forgot. Nobody visited his grave; it was overgrown and unrecognizable and was accidentally found many years later.
7. Tamara Nosova
Everyone remembers Tamara Nosova thanks to her charismatic characters, in which the actress looked especially organically. Tamara got married three times, but all marriages were extremely unsuccessful. After the last separation, the woman began to lead a separate lifestyle, she was constantly depressed, became closed. She left the theatrical stage, began to receive a meager pension and live only on it. Due to the diagnosed coronary heart disease, a woman began to clouding her mind. And since then, until the end of her life, Tamara almost did not leave the house, the toilet did not work for her, rats settled in the apartment.
6. Vladimir Ivashov
The appearance of Vladimir Ivashov in his youth was insanely beautiful, and he was snapped up. He received his first major role at the age of 19, which caused the envy of less successful fellow students. Then came the time of wild popularity. Thanks to his beauty, he easily got the role of Pechorin. However, later skeptical people said that fans and directors value him more for his appearance than for his talent. In the nineties, he was fired and left the acting profession, and in 1995 Ivashov died due to complications of a stomach ulcer.
5. Alexander Belyavsky
The most charming and beloved role of Belyavsky was a kind of charming "bad guys." After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the actor began to act less and less. He was getting older, he had a lot of diseases. Then he completely left the movie, and by 2009 he could be seen walking with a cane due to a stroke. Next was survival on a tiny retirement and a complete lack of money and opportunities. And in 2012 he was found falling out of the window, but his friends said that, most likely, it was a conscious act, and not an accident.
4. Sergey Filippov
All around noted the incredible acting charisma of Filippov, when he was at the peak of popularity. It would seem that he almost always played small roles, but his energy on the screen was so strong that his characters fell in love with the viewer, and their quotes became winged expressions. He was always surrounded by friends and fans, but Sergey spent the end of his life alone and lack of money. And on his death, money was collected by Alexander Demyanenko, who was a good friend to Sergei.
3. Mikhail Kononov
Kononov was a rather popular actor, however, he gained the greatest fame thanks to his role in the series "Big Change". The actor had a very unusual appearance and an interesting facial expression, which allowed him to easily and skillfully play back non-standard and often funny characters. However, this same unusual appearance subsequently failed him - no one in the 90s needed actors with a similar face. It got to the point that he did not have money in the last years before his death in order to buy the necessary medicines for pneumonia. Due to the lack of proper treatment, he died.
2. Tatyana Samoilova
In the post-war period, Tatyana played a major role in her life - the role of Veronica in the famous painting "Cranes Are Flying." Her magical beauty mesmerized the audience and attracted the attention of eminent directors. After the release of the film, she even received offers from Hollywood directors, because the film became widely known not only in the USSR, but throughout the world. She wanted to agree, but she was not released from the country, fearing that the actress would not return. In the seventies, the career began to decline, and Samoilova plainly stopped appearing on the screens. She died forgotten by everyone and very lonely in 2014.
1. Tatyana Peltzer
Tatyana Peltzer is known to everyone as the “youngest grandmother” in the movie. Due to the fact that she received the "senile role" at a young age, she attracted attention and won the love of viewers and directors. Peltzer worked until the last in the theater of Mark Zakharov, but then the woman began to overcome dementia. She did not remember the word and eventually left the theater. Tatyana in 1992 went to the examination in the neuropsychiatric department. There she died of pneumonia. It was rumored that the actress was buried in a closed coffin, because they tried to hide the beatings on the body. But these rumors are not confirmed.