Anastassija Alexandrovna Wertinskaya

Anastassija Wertinskaja 2011

Anastassija Alexandrovna Wertinskaja ( Russian Анастасия Александровна Вертинская ), also known as Anastasia Wertinskaja , (born December 19, 1944 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a Russian actress .

Anastassija Wertinskaja was born in Moscow as the daughter of the actor couple Alexander Wertinski and Lidija Wertinskaja and the younger sister of the actress Marianna Wertinskaja (* 1943). Her father, a Russian, was also a songwriter and her mother Georgian.

She made her film debut at the age of 15 in 1961 as Assol in Alexander Ptuschko's The Purple Sails . Her next leading role was the Gutiiere in the science fiction adventure The Amphibian Man . Her most famous role in the cinema is Ophelia in Grigory Kosinzew's award-winning film adaptation of Hamlet with Innokenti Smoktunovsky from 1964. After her critically acclaimed portrayal of Ophelia, she studied at Moscow's Shchukin Drama School. One of her fellow students was the director Nikita Michalkow , whom she married in 1966. The marriage ended in divorce three years later.

In her few, but impressive film roles, Anastassija Wertinskaya was particularly convincing because of the delicate femininity of her heroines. In the internationally successful period films War and Peace by Sergej Bondarchuk (as Princess Lisa Bolkonskaja) and Anna Karenina (as Kitty), she played the delicate counterparts to the heroines Lyudmila Saweljewa and Tatjana Samoilowa . Especially in war and peace it was her sensual, touchingly naive portrayal of Lisa that gave this character a new, humane dimension that did not exist in Tolstoy.

Other highlights of her career were The Banquet of the Rose (1969), The Lovers (1969), The Event with a Pole (1970), A Person in His Place (1973), New Adventures of a Yankee at King Arthur's Court (1983) and television films such as Stern ohne Namen (1979) as partner of Igor Kostolewskis and as Margarita in Der Meister und Margarita (1994).

In addition to her film career, her artistic home was the Sowremmennik Theater and the Moscow Art Theater (MCHAT). There she had u. a. Success as Elmire in Molières Tartuffe , as Nina in Die Möwe , in Der Leben Leichnam and in plays by Michail Rostschin.

In the 1990s Anastassija Wertinskaja was also an acting lecturer at Oxford for a time and lived in England, France and Switzerland for twelve years.

Honors

• 1981 Honored Artist of the RSFSR
• 1988 People's Artist of the RSFSR

Web links

Commons : Anastassija Wertinskaja  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Anastassija Wertinskaja in the International Film Lexicon

Individual evidence

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