In the USSR, such a convenient phenomenon, as the database of actors, with portfolio, photographs, video and other things - of course, was not, and instead of a modern casting there was a practice of the so-called photograph. It was that the actors applying for a certain role are preparing a special portfolio, photographing already in makeup, "in the image" of its still potential hero. The director is watching who from the candidates is better "got into the image" - and already according to the results of such a photographic chosen the most suitable, in his opinion, the actor. Of course, the procedure is long, extinguishing, costly and not deprived of its drawbacks - it is precisely thanks to the existence of such a phenomenon as photographic products, today we can try to imagine how cultivated Soviet films with other actors would look (the benefit of these actors in the respective images were preserved Now - let the role in the end and got completely different people).
Caucasian Captive
Long before Rose and Jack, we had a completely different favorite film - Shurik and Nina, the heroes of the Caucasian Captive, brilliantly played by Alexander Demyanenko and Natalia Valaley. But what actresses claimed the role of "athletes, Komsomolski, Beauty," in addition to Natalia Varla, initially:
Natalia Selezneva
Natalia Kustinskaya
Marianna Vertinskaya
But it could look like a Schurik Oleg species, the star of Soviet ceremonies:
"Hussarskaya Ballad"
Eldar Ryazanov, Eldar Ryazanov, eventually chose Larisa Golubin, and initially a special star of Soviet cinema, from Gurchenko to Freundlich, originally in the list of candidates. So in the image of Shura looked Lyudmila Gurchenko:
And this is photographic transactions for the role of Spurok Alice Freundlich, Svetlana Neslaeva and Valentina Malavina:
"Ivan Vasilyevich is changing profession"
Another cult Soviet comedy could look quite different if Leonid Gaidai had a little differently ordered samples. So, for example, Evgeny Lebedev, Yuri Yakovlev, looked in Ivan Vasilyevich, Yuri Yakovlev (who eventually went to the role) and Evgeny Evstigneev:
Natalia Gundarereva could fulfill the role of Zinok, as a result, Natalia Selezneva:
Along with Leonid Kuravlev, Andrei Mironov and Vyacheslav innocent were also tasted for Miloslavsky's role:
And finally, three contenders for the role of the Queen: Natalya Gundareva, Svetlana Svetlynaya and Natalia Selezneva:
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"
For someone, Sherlock Holmes is Benedict Cumberbatch, but for us it is now, probably forever, first of all, Vasily Livanov. And it is almost impossible to imagine that the role of the legendary detective in the Soviet television film could get some other actor - for example, Alexander Kaidanovsky, who, too, at the photographs, the image of Sherlock:
"We are from jazz"
The role of Kat in "We from Jazz" had two main applicants - the love of polishchuk and Elena Tsaplakov. As we know, as a result, the director stopped at the candidacy of the latter:
"The Pokrovsky Gate"
The role of Kostik in the "Pokrovsky gate" was so enviable that there were dozens of actors who were claimed - including the most famous representatives of the Soviet cinema. The bone eventually played Oleg Menshikov, but the photographs of those who lost to him compete:
Kirill Kozakov (Son film director)
Valery Storozhik
Andrey Urgant.
Nikolay Denisov
Sergey Koltakov
"War and Peace"
Soviet epic boasts not only "Oscar", but also a perfectly selected acting ensemble - and if it seems to you that the casting "War and Peace" could actually be better, take a look, as in the role of Natasha Rostova instead of Lyudmila Savelyeva looked like other actresses :
Natalia Kustyanskaya and Elena Sanaeva
Larisa Golubanka and Lyudmila Marchenko
Valentina Malyavina and Lyudmila Gurchenko
In the role of Prince Bolkonsky to imagine anyone except Vyacheslav Tikhonov, it is determined, and the photographs "In the image" of Kirill Lavrov and Innokentia Skutunovsky once again prove that the actor on the role of Bolkonsky was picked up perfectly:
Also, applying to the role of Eduard Martsevich and Yuri Solomin (Mauntsevich in the end in the "War and the World" still starred - played Drubetsky)
Andrei Konchalovsky was tried to play the role of Pierre Beshovahova (which director of "War and Peace" Sergey Bondarchuk eventually played personally)
