Actor Vyacheslav Tsarev, who we remember as a boy with a net in Elem Klimov's film "Welcome, or No Trespassing", ended his life not in the glory, but in a small apartment on the outskirts of Moscow. About how the fate of the actor, will tell this post.

“Mom worked as a watchman at the second thermal power plant near the Kiev railway station,” recalled Vyacheslav Valentinovich. “Daddy was also a commoner. ... I am from the peasants, Lord my God! We then lived in the village of Troitse-Golenishchevo near Mosfilm.
Somehow we rode with friends on a trolleybus, a “hare”, of course, and suddenly - the controller: “Your tickets ?!” Everyone was scared, and he asks me: “Do you want to act in films?” I came home and said: “Mom, one uncle invited me there, Klimov.”

Well, can you imagine? She was frightened: “Glory, but where?” She went with me to the studio almost in an apron. There, bl..., everything is in bows, back and forth... And I'm the only one - like an idiot. Funny..."

Two years later, Andrei Tarkovsky invited Slava to star in his film. The boy was then 15 years old.

“He was demanding,” recalled Vyacheslav Valentinovich. - Be gentler with me, because I am smaller in stature and younger in age. […] But he didn’t let the kids down either. I, they say, spend film on you, light, make-up there ... How much money everything costs! Get it together, get a grip! He was a psychologist...

After graduation high school Tsarev served in the Navy, got married. Then he worked as a loader in a wine store, as a cleaner in a psychiatric clinic near Moscow, as an ice cream seller, and as a caretaker.
Shortly before his death, cunning Moscow journalists sought him out, mercilessly describing the life of Vyacheslav Valentinovich:

“... In the Moscow district of Butovo, we with great difficulty found a multi-storey building in which Vyacheslav Tsarev lives with his wife Lyudmila, an old cat and her two fat cat sons.
- I live simply. Wretched. There is nothing to eat. Drink - a lot.
Inviting us to go into the only small room, Vyacheslav Valentinovich began to talk about himself. It seemed to be justified.
Kind of tired, as after a night shift, a person. Sad smile. Toothless mouth. Old clothes. Of the furniture - a bulky antique chiffonier, a sideboard, a table, a couple of chairs, three beds (one has bricks instead of legs).
This is how a man lives, who once starred with the masters of Russian cinematography.

In 2012, under the care of the Necropolis Society, a black stone stele was installed on his grave with a frame from the film by Elem Klimov and the famous remark of his hero: “What are you doing here, huh?”

Filmography

1963 - Short stories(episode "In Court") - schoolboy
1964 - Welcome, or no outsiders allowed - a boy with a net
1966 - Andrei Rublev - Andreika, foundry assistant
1967 - Tashkent - the city of bread - a swindler
1969 - At the thirteenth hour of the night - Anchutka

October 9, 1964 premiere of the film Elema Klimova"Welcome or No Trespassing." It was a debut. The director was worried. And not in vain. IN deathly silence members of the artistic council looked at the picture and just as silently left. The film was postponed ... And after some time they showed Khrushchev, and he had fun from the bottom of his heart: it's funny, let it be for rent! ..

Five days after the premiere, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU decided to remove Khrushchev from office. But that's a completely different story.

About how the film "Welcome, or No Trespassing" was filmed, about Elem Klimov and about himself, he told Vyacheslav Tsarev- the performer of the role of a boy with a butterfly net, remembered for a single, seemingly simple, but such a colorful phrase: “What are you doing here, huh? ..”

In the 60s, he starred in five films, including Klimov, Tarkovsky And Shepitko. Fate gave him a great chance to break out "from rags to riches", and then lowered him to the very bottom. And now it's time to make a movie about him - how not to live ...

One is an idiot...

Slava was 12 years old when VGIK graduate Elem Klimov started filming thesis"Welcome or No Trespassing." Slava went to school, was a pioneer, lived in the village of Troitse-Golenishchevo not far from Mosfilm, and after school rode a “hare” on a trolleybus with the guys.

Strict voice: “Your tickets?!” scared the boys to death. But a minute later, the “controller” left the role and, turning to Slavik, asked kindly: “Do you want to act in films?” As it is, the boy imagined badly.

“My mother worked as a watchman at the thermal power plant, my father is also a commoner,” Tsarev said. - I say - I'm from the peasants, Lord my God!

Following Slava, a little sister was born. There was no wealth in the family.

Well, I passed the selection. He sang a song (the anthem of the pioneers “Fly up the bonfires!”), Danced, recited the poem “Dragonfly and Ant”. At school I studied like myself. But he did everything that was asked. But how!

- Were you hooligans at school?

- And what is it immediately "hooligan"? So far, it has not been stopped, nor attracted ...

Klimov made strict demands on applicants for roles and did not immediately consider little Slava.

“Three hundred children came to audition. Elite, dressed up. Many parents have big shots ... I'm the only one - like an idiot ... I remember coming home: "Mom, they invited me to shoot there ... Uncle alone ... Klimov." She was alarmed: “Slavochka, why? where?". What was at home, she went with me to Mosfilm ... Well, what can I say, we lived in the village, which means it was poor.

He never found out how much he received for the film that made him famous in 1964. The parents got paid.

- I was the 13th number, pah, Lord. Was involved throughout the film. Filmed in the pioneer camp "Eaglet". Then I even dropped out of school.

Klimov - dad in art

When the picture, having overcome bureaucratic obstacles and freed itself from the labels of “anti-Soviet” and “anti-Khrushchev”, nevertheless came out on the screens, Slava Tsarev began to be recognized on the street. And even at the age of 50 they stopped: we grew up on your films.

— kind picture, I like. What's the point there? Do you understand? “Children, you are the masters of the camp!” What kind of camp? Socialist, communist... Back then we did not know much, did not understand.... Klimov was a genius. I called him dad in art. And he said: "I gave birth to you, I will kill you." And I didn't want to sound scared. Well, what child likes to be beaten?

“Were they really beaten?”

— But how! I was supposed to scream, but it just didn't work. Klimov was generally strict. He gave slaps...

Fate was favorable to Tsar. Saying: “You will be good,” she gave him a second chance and sent him to Tarkovsky in the painting “Andrei Rublev”. Glory had only to listen to her ...

- Tarkovsky is also a great director. I played Andreika, a friend of Boriska (I starred in this role Nikolai Burlyaev. - Auth.). Oh, well, it was more difficult for Andrey Arsenievich. We then traveled half the country: Kizhi, Vladimir, Suzdal, where one square. there are almost 37 churches km... And the film is generally cruel. So much blood! Tatar Mongols. Slaughtered horses...

- How did Tarkovsky treat actors?

- Very nice, very nice! But at the same time, he was demanding. To me - softer, after all, I'm both smaller and younger. And there were, after all, such as, for example, Solzhenitsyn...

— Anatoly Solonitsyn?

- Ugh, you, Lord, Solonitsyn, of course ... The director was kinder with the kids. And still didn't let go. If something was wrong, he scolded: I spend film on you, light, makeup. Well, pull yourself together! The psychologist was excellent. When they parted, I got to Yusupov, in the film "Tashkent - a city of bread" ...

In fact, this picture was shot by an Uzbek director Shukhrat Abbasov. Tsarev probably messed up, forgot. He also said about the Klimov film that he had to scream there. But why, if there are only two phrases in the role: “What are you doing here, huh?” and after being chased away, "Okay, okay." On the contrary, Andreika is being flogged in Rublev, and, quite likely, Tarkovsky demanded a natural ora.

There was a feeling that Tsarev did not want to remember anything. After serving three years in the Navy, he gave up filmmaking. Once and forever.

Cats and dolls

Having traveled up and down Butovo, the photographer and I finally found Tsarev's house. We went without an invitation. The artist did not have a phone ...

It was not difficult to recognize the boy with the butterfly net. Same look, same smile. Unless he asked: “What are you doing here, huh?”

However, no. The look was unbearably tired of human life. A sad smile betrayed a fierce hatred of dentistry.

Short stature. Rumpled, wrinkled face. An old, tattered sweater, whitish with cat fur. Rolled up jeans look like they're rented. Boots from somewhere in the mezzanine, one for the house and the street. If you meet someone like that in the city, you will shy away from inertia...

Andrei Rublev "(1966-1969)

The atmosphere in the apartment is a silent, but bright addition to the image of the owner.

I live simply, even miserably. There is nothing to eat. But drink a lot, he seemed to justify himself.

A huge closet, a sideboard, a table, a couple of chairs and three beds (one on bricks) - that's the whole interior of a one-room small-sized apartment, in which Tsarev, his wife Lyuda, an old mother cat and her two fat sons lived. It seems that animals only helped him to remain human. They need to be fed, walked - a huge responsibility. Tsarev did not have to show care and love for the children.

- The first wife worked as a head waiter in a restaurant. But, apparently, did not suit her former entertainer I found someone better. And my army friends introduced me to Lyuda. We've been together for half a lifetime. She worked as a dispatcher at a construction site, and she got this apartment there. But now on disability. My Luda is a manufist—do you know what it is? She collects little dolls, and I help her! Not a single one in the collection is the same! Look, the little mouse is sleeping in a berry...

Showing toys, Tsarev instantly changed! Eyes on fire! Laughter, smile - well, just like in childhood. And he began to talk about life - and again turned sour.

Having repaid his debt to the Motherland, he immediately got a job as a loader. Directors, if offered roles, refused. But why? Why didn't you choose the best the best place under the sun? There is absolutely nothing in his life...

There will be no better life

Well, I didn't want to act anymore. Did not want!

- What did you plan to do?

Well, don't steal. I'm currently unemployed...

- It's sad of course. Well, it's started!

- I started well, but I end badly.

- Maybe, excuse me, they were stupid, they didn’t think that it was worth continuing? Was there anyone to advise?

- But this - maybe! Yes! Probably stupid. I just put some shit in my head. I thought: why should I?

- Better as a loader?

- May be.

- It's hard work.

- And there - mental. Here they press on the hands, there on the brains.

Tsarev said that every time something didn’t suit him in his work, that’s why he quit, moving to another. In truth: often - kicked out. Including for drinking.

We barely found you. They said you drank, you died...

- Yes you?! Did they say that? No, as you can see - alive and well ...

- Do you like to drink?

- And who doesn't love? .. And why not drink, if there is one?

Tsarev was not drunk, and therefore, probably, he was not talkative and sentimental. Sitting sad...

- And now you could play if you were invited?

I'm probably scared of the camera too. They haven’t called for a long time ... And the type is not the same. If only there is a role for me, they will make up like Baba Yaga ... But no ... I am worthless: old, without teeth ...

Tsarev's parents, who at first were distrustful of the fact that their son was filming, then were proud of him. But they have been gone for many years. There are no friends left from the world of cinema. Army - who drinks, who injects. Yes, and from relatives - only a wife and a sister. Because, probably, to the question: “How do you live without a phone?” - the artist sighed: "Who should I call?" And in his words there was such genuine longing! Such loneliness!

At that moment, he had been unemployed for two years. Occasionally someone trusted to unload something, gave money or food. And so ... Tsarev lived as a recluse. Wanted nothing. Didn't hope for anything.

— What to dream about? better life probably won't be anymore.

At the same time, he did not complain, like many who remained out of work. Not embittered, not cursing the authorities. And despite all the troubles, he managed to remain a man. Sincere, naive and kind.

June 28, 2006 Vyacheslav Tsarev passed away. He was only 55. Or 54... The date of death is known, but the day and month of birth are not in the reference books. Such a fate...

Soviet comedy movies are distinguished by such plots familiar to every person who grew up on them, slight irony and that indescribable flavor that turned them into an epoch-making phenomenon in the history of world cinema. Each of them has long been disassembled into phrases that have become winged. We watch such beloved films again and again, although we have seen them far more than once, laughing and experiencing together with their heroes.

In 1964, director Elem Klimov's debut full-length work was released, which was simply doomed to success - "Welcome, or No Trespassing."

The events of this legendary film take the viewer into the atmosphere of a classic pioneer camp. As expected, in every tape about children there is a wayward hooligan - in this case, it turned out to be Kostya Inochkin. The tomboy, contrary to all the requirements of the administration, left the bathhouse and swam across the river, for which he was expelled without delay. Afraid of the reaction strict grandmother, the boy sneaks back to the camp and tries to "last" until the end of the shift, enlisting the help of friends. But our story is not about him.

“What are you doing here, huh?” - one of those same phrases that we have already mentioned. The boy with the net was talking to her - funny, curious, and at the same time surprisingly cute. He was played by a little-known actor with a difficult fate, Vyacheslav Tsarev, who was remembered by millions of fans of Soviet cinema for this particular role.

He was only 13 when he was chosen from three hundred applicants. The comic image, which would most likely become Tsarev's permanent role, was not considered the most prestigious at that time, but the boy was predicted to have a successful future, at least he could repeat the success of Savely Kramarov. However, he himself decided otherwise.

In those days, the Mosfilm film studio was located on the outskirts of the city. When castings were announced among child actors, the most frequent visitors were guys from nearby villages. In one of them, Troitse-Golenishchevo, Vyacheslav Valentinovich was born in 1951. Despite the fact that the role of the boy with the net made him famous, after leaving school he went to serve in the navy, fearing that in theater institute I had to unlearn another six years.

In total, he has 5 films under his belt. Although Tsarev was invited to work that was completely insignificant at first glance, each of them was memorable - he perfectly got used to the image. So, in the film "Tashkent - the City of Bread" the guy played a charming swindler - it seems that no one could better embody this character.

His hero Anchutka from last movie actor "At the thirteenth hour of the night", filmed in the genre of New Year's revue, also immediately fell in love with the viewer. However, he was no longer invited to the cinema - the guy is too early age pernicious habits appeared, from which he could not give up even for the sake of all-Union glory.

After serving in the Navy, the young man got married, however family happiness turned out to be short lived. After 5 years, the wife filed for divorce and took their only son. Tsarev never saw him again. The former actor had no opportunity to get a stable job - he never received a higher education. At different times, he sold ice cream, swept yards, loaded boxes in a liquor store, worked as a watchman and even as a cleaner in one of the psychiatric hospitals near the capital. However, the man did not stay anywhere for a long time - his progressive addiction to alcohol was to blame. It even got to the point that he, being out of his mind, rewrote his apartment for a swindler and ended up on the street.

In one of the basements, Tsarev met a woman who was there for the next 25 years of his life - Anyone. It was she who gave him a roof over his head, the couple even dreamed of a child who was never destined to be born. Unfortunately, the woman could not have children, besides, she gladly shared her chosen one's love for strong drinks.

Both of them "worked" in the garbage heaps - they collected and handed over bottles, things that were still usable, and they preferred to spend the proceeds on alcohol. Nevertheless, the couple's neighbors always spoke of Tsarev as kindest person- he could not pass by a destitute animal, he was always ready to provide all possible assistance.

With the advent of retro fashion, journalists remembered the boy with a net, who from time to time visited his poor house. Tsarev was looking forward to the directors seeing a story about him and starting to invite him to the cinema again, but this never happened.

On the 25th anniversary life together the couple planned to legalize their relationship, but this was not destined to happen. On June 28, 2006, without regaining consciousness after a second stroke, Vyacheslav Valentinovich died. She died two months later and faithful Lyuba. They were buried in different cemeteries - the woman's relatives insisted that she, at least after death, be as far away from her common-law husband as possible.

“What are you doing here, huh?” - that's all that the audience remembers as a promising young actor who made the wrong life choice. It is she who can be read on the tombstone just below the photograph of that same lop-eared boy with a net.

The fates of child actors often turn out quite differently than they themselves and the adults who place their hopes on them expect. They remain hostages to their most vivid characters, who remain the same in old films while their own lives turn completely the wrong way.