Maria Smolnikova: Katya from the cult film of Fyodor Bondarchuk

Smolnikova Maria Alexandrovna, a Russian actress of theater and cinema, was born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) on December 17, 1987. Masha's childhood was spent in an atmosphere of love and mutual understanding. Parents loved theatrical art and tried to instill this love for their daughter.

Maria Smolnikova: Biography

Thus, Masha grew up as a creative artistic child, even her dolls were the characters of the home theater scene, and she herself staged improvised children's plays, sitting on the floor in the living room.

When Masha was eight years old, she began attending the theater studio. Studying at school was given to the future actress easily, and the girl spent all her free time studying the stage and ballroom dances. Before the final exams, she took part in the production of the play "West Side Story", in which the dancer Maria Smolnikova performed one of the main roles. The classical musical of Leonard Berstein decided the fate of Masha, she went to Moscow and submitted documents to GITIS. However, the first attempt failed, the girl was not accepted.

Nizhny Novgorod

The following year, Maria Smolnikova again tried to enter the capital's theatrical high school, and again to no avail. Then the young Smolnikova decided to go to the school of culture in Yekaterinburg, and it succeeded.

At that time, the artistic director of the Sverdlovsk Youth Theater Vyacheslav Kokorin, who Masha knew and considered her a promising actress, already worked in Nizhny Novgorod. He invited Maria to her theater to play several performances.

Admission to GITIS

However, Maria Smolnikova continued to dream about GITIS, a year later she again went to Moscow and she, finally, managed to enter the course of Dmitry Krymov. As the group was recruited experimentally, at the entrance examination Masha was offered to depict, no less, a shooting Kalashnikov assault rifle, and she coped with the task.

In 2011 Maria Smolnikova graduated from GITIS and began to work in the theater "School of Drama Art", which was directed by Dmitry Krymov. Maria's roles were sometimes the most unexpected, for example, in the play "Gorki-10" she played Lenin. Experiments on the stage of Shid are simply off scale, but the creative atmosphere is such that any Moscow theater will envy it.

Maria Smolnikova: Filmography

As it is usual in the actor's environment, Masha from time to time is removed to the cinema.

List of films with Maria Smolnikova:

• "Daughter" is the year 2012.
• "God has his own plans" - the year 2012.
• "Melisenda", short film - the year 2012.
• "Stalingrad" is the year 2013.
• "Kuprin", the series - the year 2014.

The film "The Daughter" directed by Natalia Vadimovna Nazarova and Alexander Kasatkin is the first dramatic experience of Smolnikova. Her character is sixteen-year-old Inna, who has fallen into a difficult life situation. Girlfriend girl dies at the hands of a maniac, which becomes a real shock for the heroine. Then she meets Ilya, the son of a clergyman, and learns that his sister was killed by the same maniac. The common grief brings young people together, but the girl does not yet know what a cruel blow fate has prepared for her ...

In 2012, Maria Smolnikova played the part of Vicki in the film "God Has His Plans" directed by Dmitry Tyurin. This is a picture of the tragedy of a 35-year-old woman who earned a living by surrogate motherhood.

In the same year, the actress participated in the shooting of the short film "Melisenda" directed by Natalia Taradina.

The main role in the creative life of the actress

The whole of 2013 was held for Maria Smolnikova under the sign of the film "Stalingrad", in which she played her main kinolol to date. This is the role of Katya, a girl who lives in a house on the banks of the Volga River, which the horrors of the war have not escaped. The psychology of her character completely fits the creative intent of the director Fyodor Bondarchuk.

October 1942, the offensive of the 6th Wehrmacht army, and love, over which even death is powerless. This is the plot of the picture "Stalingrad", the most cash film in the history of Russian cinema.

Fyodor Bondarchuk in the fate of Maria Smolnikova

The young actress Maria Smolnikova behind her shoulders was, in fact, only one characteristic role in the film "Daughter", and a deeply psychological picture of "Stalingrad" required the highest acting skills. But Smolnikova did not doubt for a second that she would cope with the task. The euphoria that the young actress experienced after learning that she was approved for Katya's role was already the key to success, as she gave her self-confidence. Maria rushed to the phone, she wanted to share her joy with her mother.

The actress read the script of "Stalingrad" without end, trying not to miss a single detail. She understood that she had one of the most important roles of the future film, the role of a Russian war-time woman, whose tragic fate not only did not break her, but even gave her love. It's one thing to play a high sense in a peaceful life. And quite another - to love in an environment of deprivation and constant danger. The task is arhislocious, but noble. And Maria ultimately coped with it brilliantly.

On shootings Smolnikova was nervous, she literally shook from the consciousness of her responsibility. Fortunately, the director Fyodor Bondarchuk in time noticed the state of Masha and very tactfully reassured her. The entire film crew, consisting of experienced filmmakers, actors and directors, amicably supported the young actress at a difficult moment for her. "Stalingrad" became her star hour, Maria Smolnikova gained popularity. In the future, it expects the main roles, universal acceptance and love of a grateful audience.