Her career cost her family.
The brilliant role of Lyudmila Prokofievna was not a film debut for Alisa Freindlich. But it was this image that made her an all-Union star. However, agreeing to filming, the actress did not even suspect that the fatal picture would break up her family.
And the point here is not some kind of intrigue on the set of “Office Romance.” By the time of the premiere of the film, Freundlich occasionally acted in films, but mostly shone on the stage of the Lensovet Theater. She came to the troupe following her beloved director Igor Vladimirov.
The director was able to reveal the actress’s full potential and made her a stage performer. In addition, he jealously ensured that performances occupied a central place in his wife’s career. That’s why he insisted that Freundlich refuse Eldar Ryazanov’s proposal. The director had to personally persuade Vladimirov to let his wife go to Moscow for filming.
The subsequent collapse of popularity made the actress the main Soviet star. They began to shower her with offers for new roles. And critics did not forget about Freundlich’s stage role: the term “one-woman theater” flashed in one of the articles.
Vladimirov could no longer come to terms with all this. He began to distance himself from his wife, and after some time he filed for divorce. Alisa Freindlich’s marriage ended in the same year when she was awarded the title of People’s Artist of the USSR.
