24 October 2022 20:15
The director objected to meeting a girl.
It was Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich who presented the film adaptations of Dumas’ novels to Soviet viewers. “D’Artagnan and the three musketeers”, “The prisoner of the castle of If”, “The musketeers twenty years later”, “The secret of Queen Anne” and many other tapes have made the director famous as a master of historical painting. And not everyone imagined it in Jungvald-Khilkevich’s personal life, far from less adventures raged.
The director first married in the late 1950s. Her chosen one was young Svetlana Markova, who, together with her husband, moved from Tashkent to Odessa, where she began working as a costume designer in a local film studio. In 1960 their daughter Natalya was born. Despite a strong marriage, the director could not resist the charm of the ballerina Tatyana Chernova. He had indulged in intrigues before, but this time he soon realized that he wanted to marry his beloved of hers. After the wedding, Tatyana began working as her husband’s assistant on the set of her films. Yungvald-Khilkevich would not have cheated on his wife, but she herself accidentally pushed him into another’s arms.
For the film “The Prisoner of Se Castle” the team for a long time could not match the actress for the role of the young Gaide. In the Tashkent choreography school, the assistant director found 17-year-old ballerina Nadira Mirzayeva. The director would not have approved of the beauty of the tape, as he understood that he would not be able to cope with the temptation. But Tatyana Chernova insisted on Nadira’s participation in the work, saying that she would not find a better option.
A warm romance broke out immediately between Mirzaeva and Yungvald-Khilkevich. The director was not embarrassed that his mistress was suitable for his daughter. They met in secret for several years before George divorced and married Nadira in 1995. Two years later, the dancer gave birth to a daughter, Nina.
