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Where does childhood go? The tragic fate of famous children. Irina Petrovskaya: Incredibly piercing and mournful stories, stories about the blockade of those who survived it Works by Ionesco as a posthumous image

Irina Bezrukova is one of the most seductive domestic actresses. Admirers of the artist are convinced that the ex-husband Sergei Bezrukov dropped his dignity by exchanging the brilliant Irina for another girl.

Most admirers of the actress agree that the divorce suited her - she seemed to freshen up and become even more beautiful.

The life story of Irina Bezrukova

Irina Vladimirovna Bezrukova is a famous domestic theater and film actress, public figure, popular TV presenter. An audio descriptor of the highest category, for many years he has been fruitfully engaged in concise translation for a visually impaired audience.

Ira was born on April 11, 1965 in an ordinary family. The father and mother of the baby, a medical officer and a chamber musician, raised the youngest daughter Olya, Irina's sister, in the family. From a young age, the girls were involved in music, studying the violin and piano.

When Ira was 11 years old, her mother passed away after a serious illness. Soon, the father arranged his personal life with another woman. In the future, the sisters were brought up by their grandmother, they lived together, but extremely poorly.

At a young age, Ira was a fragile and emaciated child, it seemed that all diseases stuck to her, in connection with this, she grew up as a closed and unsociable girl. She found all her childhood fantasies and dreams, friends and communication through reading her favorite books. Despite the wild way of life, the girl decides to try herself in theater circles. Meanwhile, she was not accepted into the school union, advising her to enter the district arts college. Subsequently, she became a student of this theatrical institution.

The creative path of Irina Bezrukova

The debut role of the actress took place during her studies. 1988 was marked by the successful completion of a higher educational institution. The actress played for some time in the Tula Drama Theater, where she met her first love and husband Igor Livanov.

Later, the couple moved to the capital. There, Irina continued to improve her acting skills in the theater complex of Oleg Tabakov.

Irina Bezrukova in the acting field

Having gained experience on the stage, the artist received invitations to audition for films. The beginning of the nineties was marked by the successful work of the actress in the film "Talisman", in which she had the honor to play next to eminent actors of Russian cinema. The bright appearance and luxurious figure of Irina were imprinted in the memory of the directors and directors of the film.

This was followed by the masterpiece work of the actress, supported by high-profile premieres and the recognition of the audience. After the end of one of the filming processes, the tired actress returned home and found herself on the same plane with Sergei Bezrukov.

Private life of Irina Bezrukova

The first official husband of the actress, the famous actor and acting teacher Igor Livanov. The star couple had a common son Andrei.

With her second husband, eminent actor Sergei Bezrukov, the TV presenter lived in a happy marriage for 15 years.

The actress showed herself as a loving, faithful and devoted soulmate, adapted her busy acting schedule to her lover, arranged sudden surprises, met him with love after long filming processes.

The couple did not have joint children, but later it became obvious that the actor had two illegitimate babies.

After long and painful proceedings, the couple formally terminated the relationship.

In the spring of 2015, a terrible tragedy occurred in Irina's life - the lifeless body of her only son was found in the artist's apartment.

The causes of death still remain unclear, although there were a great many assumptions: from drug addiction to death.

However, the actress herself claims that her son died in an accident.

Irina Bezrukova at the moment

The painful break in relations with the second spouse and the loss of her son did not have a detrimental effect on the creative process of the actress. She continues to vigorously act in films, play in the theater, attend social events and luxurious parties.

Possessing spectacular external data and natural magnetism, Irina constantly accepts invitations to participate in fashion shows of branded evening dresses and elegant hairstyles.

Norman Mailer said in 1971 that "giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a grenade in the hands of a child." She was drawn to perverts, outcasts, transvestites, problem children, circus performers and freaks. Arbus would be 92 today. In memory of her and her work, we have compiled a list of the most controversial photographers in history.

1. Diana Arbus. Diana was a strange character. She gained fame by photographing various freaks and freaks.

2. Joel-Peter Witkin. Brooklyn-based photographer Witkin loved to shoot in Mexico. Sometimes he used corpses and parts of their bodies in his works.

3. Irina Ionesco. French photographer Irina Ionesco has been criticized for taking pictures of her own child. She turned her five-year-old daughter Eva into her muse and model. The photos turned out beautiful - but extremely cryptic. Eva sued Irina three times.

4. Jan Saudek. The Czech photographer exploited symbolism, political metaphors and sex in his photographs. There was a lot of sex in his work.

5. Robert Mapplethorpe. Photographed such legendary personalities as Andy Warhol, Deborah Harry, and his girlfriend Patti Smith. He was distinguished by his love for homoerotic and sadomasochistic aesthetics. There is a photograph, for example, where Mapplethorpe sticks a whip up his ass.

6. Andres Serrano. American photographer Andres Serrano experimented a lot with corpses and feces. This picture from the morgue is not the most striking example of his scandalous work.

7. Gottfried Helnwein. He is called a friend of Marilyn Manson. If you don't like theatrical violence, mixing innocence with blood, and a touch of fascism and consumerism, you may not like this photographer.

8 Steven Meisel One of the most famous fashion photographers, he regularly works with the American and Italian editions of Vogue. Photographed Madonna for her book "Sex".

Once again, the theater of the absurd within the framework of the Open All-Russian Forum of theatrical groups "Wing Wing" impressed the audience of the Theater Center "Larks". Moscow Theatre. On January 20, Leonid Andreeva presented the premiere performance "Interview with Ionesco". The scriptwriter, director and at the same time the performer of one of the main roles Andrey Babaev presented an unusual production to the audience.

The exploitation performance is an interview with famous playwrights, but no one can be sure if this is Eden Ionesco. The spectators of the performance literally found themselves in the mid-90s of the 20th century. Extraordinary images of the correspondent, the enigmatic Ionesco and the crow were professionally played by the actors who got used to their roles beyond recognition. The production contains many references to the work of the famous playwright, who is involved in the theater of this genre.


Bewitched spectators witnessed extraordinary events. It seemed that the correspondent and Ionesco were one and the same person. Extraordinary costumes and make-up created a deep impression of the whole picture. The performance was complemented by small videos reflecting the fact that all the action on the stage is an absurd projection of the reality that takes place in our lives. At the end of the performance, the audience left the auditorium, immersed in philosophical reflections, which were prompted by an interesting play.


The organizers are very pleased that an extremely impressive production has become the end of the festival review. On February 5, the final theater week will begin on the stage of the Zhavoronki Theater Center the best works Forum "Wing flap". Do not miss!

Anna Saygina
Photo: Alexander Gurtovoy
Press service of the Zhavoronki shopping center,
January 20, 2019.

Some parents want to raise a real celebrity out of their child, and thereby translate into reality own goals. However, for a baby, the price of popularity may be too high. And so it was with these children.

Eva Ionescu







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Eva's mother, Irina Ionesco, was a professional and very famous photographer in France and chose her daughter as her favorite model. But she preferred to shoot her daughter naked or half-dressed, in obscene poses. The girl was only 4 years old when her mother started selling her photographs, and at the age of 11, the girl's pictures appeared in Playboy. At the same time, Eva made her film debut in Roman Polanski's The Tenant. Then there was the erotic film "Dissolute Childhood". After that, a scandal erupted, Irina Ionesco was deprived parental rights and forbade taking pictures of her daughter, but she continued to sell pictures of the girl secretly. In 2011, Eva released an autobiographical film called "My Little Princess", which, apparently, wanted to explain to her mother how wrong she was. Apparently, several trials with her daughter did not convince Irina Ionesco of anything.

Alana Thompson ("Cute Booboo")







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Alana's mother, June, always dreamed of becoming famous and therefore sent her daughter to beauty contests from the age of six. And, it should be noted, she achieved her goal: the producers noticed the family and offered to shoot a reality show about their life, “Here comes Cutie Bubu!” It really was a goldmine: the show is not about celebrities, but about typical rednecks: alcoholism, slovenliness, early marriages and pregnancies, junk food, scandals and obesity - a full range of vices that are so interesting for everyone to watch. But during the show, Bubu's mother seems to have broken all records. Before filming, she gave her daughter a mixture of lemonade and energy drink to drink so that Honey Bubu was “alive”, fed her daughter to a solid stage of obesity, and then completely committed an act that amazed all of America: they refused to shoot the next season of the show when June began to live with her ex-boyfriend, who served 10 years on charges of corrupting an eight-year-old girl. And that girl was... June's eldest daughter! Now Cutie Bubu is unsuccessfully trying to lose weight, and her mother answers all the attacks of journalists with one thing: “What did I do? I didn't give her alcohol. But it could!”

Richard Sandrak







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Richard's father, a former martial arts champion, always dreamed of raising his son to be "the strongest child in the world"! When the boy was two years old, the family moved from Ukraine to the USA and Richard began his daily workouts. Subsequently, Richard's father was accused of child abuse: Richard was not allowed to play, walk on the street, eat unhealthy, but delicious food, and, of course, shirk training. But already at the age of eight he could squeeze his double weight from his chest, and at 11 he pressed triple. At the age of eight, Richard became the strongest child in the world: he was invited to TV shows, training and competitions, and was called "little Hercules."
But soon "little Hercules" severed all ties with his father: the man was jailed for three years for violence - he beat his wife. Richard himself called the police. Then the training came to naught.
Now the former bodybuilder is 26 years old and he does not look at all as cool as in his youth. “I am very proud of my childhood achievements, I am not ashamed of them, and I am not trying to hide this page of my life from someone. he says. “I just don’t want to live like this anymore.” Richard still does not communicate with his father, who has long been released from prison.

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When Bjorn was six years old, his mother was deprived of parental rights and his grandmother took care of the boy. The boy himself dreamed of becoming a pianist, but his grandmother, who worked at the Stockholm film studio, dreamed of her grandson's film career, especially since he definitely had external data. Almost at the first casting in Bjorn's life, director Luchino Visconti chose him for the role of Tadzio, in his film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice: this is the story of the unhealthy passion of the writer Gustav von Aschenbach for the young Polish aristocrat Tadzio.
Filming was difficult for Bjorn: the director forbade the child to sunbathe, swim in the sea, play with other children, and especially flirt with girls: as soon as Visconti noticed this, he rolled up a scandal and stopped filming. Andresen was strictly forbidden to leave the image of a young aristocratic homosexual.
After the premiere, fame fell upon Bjorn, they began to call him "the most beautiful boy of the 20th century." At the same time, journalists constantly tried to catch him in touch with men, which was also facilitated by the director of the film: after the premiere, he invited Bjorn to a gay club.
As a result, Bjorn, unable to withstand such stress, really began to meet with men, but later regretted it: “The homosexual experience that I had as a teenager had a very strong impact on my psyche in a negative way. I succumbed to the general influence and simply caused myself physical and moral harm, ”he said after.
As a result, Bjorn managed to cope with this and return to music and get married. But he still remembers his youth with regret.

Lindsey Lohan







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Lindsey began her career at the age of three. At first, the baby worked as a model, then switched to TV shows, and at the age of 11 she played a major role in the comedy The Parent Trap, which opened her way to a big movie. One of the most successful projects of young Lindsay was the comedy Mean Girls, after which the paparazzi began to pursue 16-year-old Lohan. And that's when something went wrong ... Transitional age and the stress of her new superstar status reacted with the feelings of the first unsuccessful role: after awards, applause and praise, Lindsey first received the Golden Raspberry anti-award for the comedy "Kiss for Luck" in 2006 year. At the same time, the actress begins to attend meetings of anonymous alcoholics, and a year later she decides to undergo rehabilitation in a clinic for drug addicts. What happened next, everyone knows. Arrests for drunk driving and car accidents, scandals on the set due to stolen items, escapes from rehab, community service in the morgue. Yes, they continue to talk about Lindsey, but not in connection with her work in the cinema.

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The story of Macaulay Culkin, who became popular and rich after the release of the comedy Home Alone, is a classic example of the tragic fate of a child who could not stand his early glory. Moreover, Kalkin cannot be called an actor of one role - he had every chance to get out of a comedic image. For example, in 1993 Macaulay played negative role in the dramatic thriller The Good Son. The directors did not refuse to work with young talent, but the boy, inspired by success, asked for millions of fees for his participation in projects, while his parents were on the verge of divorce due to a conflict over the right to dispose of their son's money. Culkin was forced to temporarily suspend work in the cinema so that his parents would allow financial questions. Parents eventually divorced, the money went to the already matured Macaulay, but the directors forgot about the young talent for a long period of inactivity. Moreover, the talent itself had already lost its freshness and youthful charm, became addicted to alcohol and drugs, managed to marry actress Rachel Miner at the age of 17 and divorced two years later. The only notable film work for an adult Culkin was the role in the tragicomedy Club Mania, where he played the infamous promoter Michael Alig, who killed his drug dealer. Critics and viewers called the role of the lonely ravers mired in parties and addictions a reflection inner world Kalkin himself. In December 2012, it was reported that Macaulay tried to commit suicide due to depression after breaking up with actress Mila Kunis.
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Today, "My Little Princess" by the French director Eva Ionesco comes out in our rental. Eva has become widely known in Europe since the mid-1970s. And not even because at the age of ten she made her film debut in one of the most famous films by Roman Polanski "The Tenant". And because in the early school age became the star of glamor and eroticism, the youngest model in history, whose photos were published by Playboy and Penthouse. She was mainly photographed by her mother, a French photographer, Romanian by birth, Irina Ionesco. In an interview with MN, Eva IONESCO spoke about what made her make a picture about her scandalous childhood and why she came out so impartial in relation to her mother.

- As a product of the communist era, I, to tell the truth, had not heard anything about Eva Ionesco and her fame until recently.

Yes, I was on the other side of the wall.

- But for me it was a revelation that you have a lot of fans on the Russian Internet, and these are clearly not pedophiles, but moviegoers who are interested in what your interpretation of your own childhood will turn out to be.

- This is good. Because I am against pedophilia and I fight it in every possible way.

I'll start with a provocative question. Today, people often tend to condemn the 1960s and 1970s from the standpoint of modern morality. After the recent pedophile scandals, for example in Belgium, even the great Nabokov began to be accused of the devil knows what. But the times were completely different - with a different looseness, different ideas about what is acceptable in art and artistic provocation. Judging by the film, the mother-photographer is a clear product of these most crazy 70s. Maybe what she does with her daughter was considered quite normal by the standards of the 70s? And it turns out that you condemn the mother (according to the film, she mercilessly exploits her daughter's appearance and her girlish body for the sake of her own career and money) from the standpoint of today?

- No, no, it was never normal to shoot children naked (in parentheses, we note that there is still no nudity in the film. Another thing is that the mother in the photographs turns her daughter into a female girl, a seductress, sometimes almost copying the photo with Marlene Dietrich: painted lips, silk stockings, coquetry, affectation - "MN"). It was not for nothing that my mother was first forbidden to take pictures of me, and then she was deprived of her parental rights. At the same time, she continued to secretly sell my pictures. They can now be found on the Internet and, with all diligence, it will not be possible to completely remove them from there - this was explained to me both in the French and in the European police authorities. Pedophiles, unfortunately, enough. So there will always be users at the sites where these photos are posted, although this is punishable. As for the 70s, theories were fashionable among intellectuals then that sleeping with children is quite acceptable. And there was even an organization that called itself the Pedophile Liberation Front.

How big is the gap between you and your character? In the film, only her mother photographs her. In reality, you worked with other photographers as well. And besides, immediately after the "Resident" starred in several candid films.

— There is a gap, but it is unprincipled. The main thing is the accuracy in the image of the mother. I wanted to convey its inconsistency, largely generated by that very era of the 70s. She photographed for the needs of men, but at the same time considered herself a feminist who was fighting for the liberation of women. She believed that she was serving radical art, the books of the philosopher and culturologist Georges Bataille were everything to her, but she is lost from the words that her daughter says in the film: “You repeat to me: Bataille, art, art But my pictures are in the porn shops, right?” One of the questions that I wanted to ask in the film: where is the line beyond which art turns into something immoral and illegal?

- I will formulate the question harshly: so, after all, was your mother an artist or a pornographer?

- There is a concept of law. The law clearly defines what pornography is. If certain parts of the body are visible and the pictures are taken with the intent to excite someone, then this is pornography. Those who call this art are simply clowns. Some things cannot be done. It may not be fashionable to say this now, but this is my position.

You are talking about illegality. Is it okay that the little girls on your screen are smoking? Now, after all, smoking is prohibited everywhere, and this is shocking in the film, almost more than erotic filming.

- Yeah, so girls with pistols can walk around on the screen, but you can’t smoke? But still know that many teenagers smoke. In addition, I confess, fake cigarettes are being smoked on the screen.

“Then one more insidious question about the mother. And would you have become a successful director without such a childhood (Eva Ionesco already has two films and plans for a third)? It is known that people who become stars early - cinema, stage - often end up as losers and alcoholics. I believe that if your mother hadn’t stuffed you with Bataille in your youth, if you didn’t know who Polansky and photographer Richard Avedon were, then you wouldn’t have gone to acting classes with the famous director Patrice Chereau, you wouldn’t have played in his performances based on plays Chekhov and Shakespeare, would not actively act in films. Finally, they would not have found in themselves the talents to make a hard film about their own childhood. Without such a mother, there would not be such a daughter.

“But it’s not good in itself that she made me famous. It's a tabloid misconception that it's great to be famous. A celebrity dooms young people to discord with the outside world. At school, the heroine of my film feels like a stranger. They fight with her there, they call her a whore. If a person becomes famous early, then this almost always means that he will collapse in the future.

- Then another strange question: we know two adaptations of "Lolita" - Stanley Kubrick and Adrian Lyne. Both are quite compromise, and most importantly, in both, the failure is with Lolita. A funny assumption came across on the Russian-speaking Internet: if someday they dare to film Lolita for the third time, then the heroine will be made digital for legal reasons. And in this case, they will certainly copy from Eva Ionesco of the 70s, who was the ideal Lolita.

- It's really funny! I wonder if anyone will ask for my consent.

- Finally, two clarifications. First. In the film, your character has a risqué shoot with a man who looks like Sid Vicious (played by Nick Cave's son, by the way). Did you really film with Vicious?

- No, although my mother and I crossed paths with him in clubs. This is a notion - an image of the fact that at that time I was often photographed with different famous people. With Salvador Dali, for example. But in fact, I don’t even remember exactly with whom, because I was small.

- And further. In connection with the grandmother of the heroine, a Russian church choir sounds off-screen. Where did it come from?

— My Romanian grandmother and I went to the Russian school every Sunday. Orthodox Church on Rue Daru in Paris. Why she preferred this particular church, I don't know.

- Thanks for the interview.

“Just don’t publish nude photos of me taken by my mother as an illustration for it. And then one respected French magazine took and published.

About the courage of actresses

Both leading roles in "My Little Princess" required courage from the performers. It's no secret that Isabelle Huppert is one of the bravest - and best - actresses of our time. By the way, in accordance with the role, she looks amazingly young on the screen. But the fact that a young non-professional Anamaria Vartolomei made up a worthy company for her is, of course, a revelation. It is she who portrays Eva Ionesco (the names in the film are changed, but, apparently, only for the sake of greater creative freedom). Anamaria, like Eva, also comes from a family of Romanian immigrants. Studying "excellent". But after some daring scenes from My Little Princess, she might have the same problems with her classmates that Eva had.