The upcoming New Year for Barbara Brylskaya is doubly jubilee. 45 years ago, the film The Irony of Fate was released, turning the Polish beauty actress into an all-Union favorite. In the summer, Barbara Brylska herself will turn 80 years old. Unfortunately, her own life turned out to be a little like the plot of the legendary tragicomedy. At least there was much more tragic in her. Anatomy of Love Eldar Ryazanov invited the Polish actress to the main role in his new comedy not because of a good life. Neither Lyudmila Gurchenko, nor Alisa Freindlikh, nor Svetlana Nemolyaeva, nor the other applicants suited the director. Ryazanov needed an actress, looking at whom, the audience would believe that the hero could fall in love with her overnight. But at the same time, she should not be too spectacular - after all, Nadia did not marry for so many years not by chance. And then the director remembered the actress from the Polish film "Anatomy of Love", who, in Ryazanov's opinion, demonstrated "amazing delicacy in intimate scenes." As it turned out later, after learning that she was going to be completely naked in "Anatomy of Love", Barbara asked the director to shoot her with a backlight, so that the naked figure could be seen only in the contours. And in the episode where she and the main character are making love, she asked the actor to pull on women's colorless tights. On the screen, all these tricks remained invisible. In "Irony" Ryazanov approved Barbara practically from the first try. True, the officials hostilely accepted the candidacy of the Polish actress, and the director had to work hard to convince them that the best Nadia Sheveleva could not be found. The audience accepted Barbara Brylska unconditionally. Perhaps a big role was played by the fact that Barbara herself, like her Nadya Sheveleva, knew perfectly well what love at first sight was. She met her first husband at the age of 17. Together with her classmates, young Barbara was returning home after an excursion to Krakow. All the way, the guy sitting in front of her did not take his eyes off her. Tall, black-haired, handsome - Brylska has always fallen in love only with this type of man. A few minutes before the train arrived, he handed her his business card and asked her to write the address. True, the vigilant teacher took the business card away, but the handsome fellow traveler still found a pretty schoolgirl. His name was Janek and he was 23 years old. They were each other's first love. Their marriage lasted eight years. As Mrs. Barbara later recalled, Janek was a kind and wonderful person. He was sympathetic to her secular lifestyle, fame, filming in love scenes. He endured the constant traveling of his wife, her aloofness and even betrayal. For example, Jan pretended not to know about Barbara's romance with Jerzy Zelnik, a partner in the acclaimed film "Pharaoh". Two years later, the novel came to naught. And then Barbara fell in love with the Yugoslav actor Slobodan Dmitrievich. For his sake, they say, she was even ready to divorce her husband, but Slobodan never married Barbara. However, the marriage with Jan was not destroyed by treason. She and Barbara had no children, and both really wanted to become parents. Because of this, they parted. Janek left for Germany after the divorce. But, as Brylska recalled, they then missed each other for a long time. The second husband fully corresponded to the ideas of Mrs. Barbara about the male ideal. “The main thing for me in a man is his appearance. I will never sleep with an ugly person,”the actress admitted in an interview. Her new chosen one - a gynecologist by profession - was handsome and popular with women. But then Mrs. Barbara was not embarrassed.“I was madly in love with him once,” she recalled in an interview. - He was a good, sweet and handsome man. For me he was like Jean Marais. Although Marais is gay, I didn’t know about it then.” It was in her second marriage that she was finally able to fulfill her long-term dream. At 32, she had a daughter, and at 42, a son. “A man at this age loves children like crazy,” the actress recalled. Children she and her husband named after themselves - Barbara and Ludwig. Someone tried to say that this is a bad omen. But they were too happy to seriously think about the bad Dream collapse The second marriage was less happy than the first. As the actress recalled, her husband was only determined to take and did not seek at least something to share with her. “It's not just about finances, although I was the cheapest woman in his life! - shared Brylska. - He did not invest a penny in me, I always had my own money. I mean other problems - emotional. " In addition, the handsome husband turned out to be a rare womanizer. Tired of the constant pangs of jealousy, Barbara decided to divorce. Then she fell in love several more times. In total, according to the actress herself, she had five serious hobbies in her life. The greatest love of her life, according to Barbara Brylska, she met in Russia. According to the actress's recollections, it was a Yugoslav with unforgettable black eyes. “We were made for each other,” assured Mrs. Barbara. However, the mother of her beloved was against their marriage. And he was too good a son. The lovers had to leave. But on the set of "The Irony of Fate", contrary to numerous rumors, Brylskaya did not have a single romance with partners. Since neither Andrey Myagkov nor Yuri Yakovlev corresponded to Brylskaya's ideas about the ideal man. She even refused to kiss Yakovlev on the set, but the director was relentless. But after the release of the picture, Barbara had a crazy affair with a fan from Yerevan. They met in Lithuania, where Brylska was on the set. As always, Mrs. Barbara had love at first sight. She flew to her Ruben in Yerevan and was ready for any madness for him. However, when he invited her to move to Armenia with her children, she refused. The reason for the refusal, according to Barbara, was primarily the age difference - Ruben was 20 years younger than her. And then, the husband would not have allowed to take the children out of the country. And she would not exchange her Basya and Ludwig for any man in the world. Life after life All hobbies and men of the world at once ceased to exist for her one morning in May. Her twenty-year-old daughter, the beautiful Barbara, died in a car accident. Behind the wheel was Basya's friend - the son of the famous director Zhulavsky, who got his driving license only six months ago. He escaped with scratches. Basho was predicted a bright future. She has already worked as a model in one of the prestigious agencies in Paris. Ahead was the shooting of Jerzy Hoffman in the film "With Fire and Sword". All these hopes were dashed in an instant. And along with them, the life of Barbara Brylska herself. For three whole years she lived on pills. Her eyes barely dried out. Barbara even contemplated suicide. She then remained to live only for the sake of Ludwig. He was still too young to be alone in this world. She did not fall in love at first sight anymore. It did not work, and there was no one. “I have grown old,” the actress sighed in her time. - The soul only remained young. What can I do if I only like handsome young men all the time, and I don’t categorically perceive men of my age”The ex-husband, having finally walked up, again wanted to return to his wife. However, Barbara didn't need it anymore. She sadly admits that the ideal man in her life never met - for some reason she fell in love with womanizers all the time: “Womanizers are very good men. They love women - how can you not love them for that? " But nevertheless, the favorite of Russian viewers does not regret any of her novels.“At least a year with a good man to live with than I don’t know what it is, until the end of my life!” - shared Mrs. Barbara. The last few years, she stopped celebrating birthdays, because the years, according to the actress, are making themselves felt. And then there's cancer, which the brilliant actress has been struggling with in recent years. But the spirit of Mrs. Barbara does not fall - the doctors assure that everything will be fine, only time is needed. And we really hope that the cinematic legend of two countries at once has plenty of this time.
