Time has no power over the star of Soviet fairy tales.
Natalya Sedykh was supposed to become a figure skater or a ballerina. But if things didn’t work out at the rink, then in the Bolshoi she soon became a soloist. The main roles in Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and The Seagull – the future movie star toured all over the world until director Alexander Row saw her on TV.
He was looking for Nastenka in his fairy tale “Morozko”. Seeing a dying swan performed by a fragile artist, Rowe realized that Sedykh should be removed from him. On the set, the young actress was so fascinated by Eduard Izotov that she almost fainted in the kiss scene. And once the artist was almost left without eyelashes. Then Natasha had to jump into the leech pond, and Rowe yelled at her because she couldn’t make up her mind.
After the resounding success of “Morozko”, the actress appeared in the films “Fire, Water and … Copper Pipes”, “Children of Don Quixote”, “Blue Ice” and “Love for Three Oranges”. And then she decided to return to ballet. Probably, many hours of training at the machine and iron discipline help the 74-year-old artist to maintain amazing fragility, a slender figure, as if carved from stone, and youthfulness, uncharacteristic for such a venerable age.
The artist leads a closed lifestyle and almost never appears at creative events and television. Her last appearance in the cinema today was the role of a doctor from Moscow in the feature film by Svetlana Proskurina, where Ivan Dobronravov and Sergey Shnurov also starred.
