10 hunks of Soviet cinema (PHOTOS)
We remember some of the most famous actors, who all the women of the USSR were crazy about.
1. Mikhail Boyarsky
The main D'Artagnan of the country, who played the romantic Teodoro in ‘The Dog on the Seine’ (1977), the poet and duelist Don Cesar de Bazan and also the most charming French spy from ‘Midshipmen’ (1988). Mikhail Boyarsky played a whole gallery of hunks who broke the hearts of ladies, fought with swords and also sang ballads and romances.
2. Igor Starygin
The role of Aramis in the musical movie ‘D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers’ secured the actor's fame as a sex symbol. He played white guard officers, nobles, aristocrats and returned to the role of Aramis more than once. The last time was in 2007, in a movie based on the novel ‘Vicomte de Bragelonne’.
3. Igor Kostolevsky
A Decembrist, a cavalry guard, a rebel – after the role of Decembrist Ivan Annenkov in ‘The Captivating Star of Happiness’ (1975), the actor became famous. And the role of a spy in ‘Tehran-43’ (1981) only confirmed that, even in a thriller, there is a place for a romantic character.
4. Alexander Abdulov
The charming and unsociable Bear from ‘An Ordinary Miracle’ (1978), the piano tuner Vanya, trying to disenchant his bride in ‘Magicians’, the eccentric Jacob in ‘Formula of Love’. Abdulov's characters were not afraid of either a bullet or a magic wand.
5. Nikolay Eremenko
The status as a sex symbol was established after his role as Julien Sorel in the screen adaptation of Stendhal's novel ‘The Red and the Black’ (1976). Eremenko's characters were ready to fight enemies and protect their chosen ones, be it artist Sam Panty from the movie ‘June 31st’ (1978), who rushed after his beloved from the 21st century into the distant past, or Lord Glenarvan from ‘In Search of Captain Grant’ (1986).
6. Vladimir Vysotsky
The stern investigator Zheglov, the underground activist Brodsky, the coupletist Bengalsky in ‘Dangerous Tours’ (1969) and Don Juan in the screen adaptation of Pushkin's ‘The Stone Guest’ – Vysotsky did not always play positive characters, but all his heroes were incredibly charismatic.
7. Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
In Andrei Tarkovsky's ‘Solaris’ (1972), he played the role of pilot Burton, who was one of the first to discover the unusual properties of the planet. In the movie adaptation of Bulgakov's ‘Run’ – General Khludov, homesick. Dvorzhetsky was also known for his role in the movie ‘Sannikov Land’ (1974) about the search for the Russian Shambhala, a paradise island in the Arctic Ocean. And the revolutionary inventor Captain Nemo, played by him, turned out to be an ideal match for Jules Verne’s mysterious character.
8. Nikolai Karachentsov
He was created for costume roles: half of the female viewers of ‘The Dog in the Manger’ (1978) sighed, pining over Mikhail Boyarsky as Teodoro, while the other half – at the Marquis Ricardo played by Karachentsov. With the same success, the actor succeeded in the roles of swindlers, gangsters and cowboys.
9. Andrei Sokolov
In the 1980s, there was no more popular actor. His role in ‘Little Vera’ (1988) with fights and romance made hundreds of women's hearts beat faster. Later, there were other images – lawyers, actors, aristocrats and even Vicomte de Bragelonne, but student Sergei remained the most recognizable.
10. Oleg Dal
The Merry Soldier in ‘The Old, Old Tale’ (1968), the duelist Laevsky in the movie ‘The Bad Good Man’ (1973), the recidivist Brunov from ‘The Omega Variant’ (1975) and the inimitable Prince Florizel in the movie adaptation of Stevenson's novels. Oleg Dal equally easily transformed into fairy-tale characters, Byronic heroes and terrible criminals.
