The married couple Veniamin Skalnik and Anastasia Nemolyaeva are two talented people who changed the theater to a design business and succeeded a lot in this field. This article is dedicated to their biographies and creativity.
Who is Tsutomu Isijima
As you know, in life something often happens that even a screenwriter with the most sophisticated imagination cannot come to mind. So, more than half a century ago, the Japanese girl Yutaka Isijima won the Russian language Olympiad. As a prize, she was awarded a ticket to the Soviet Union. Arriving in our country, she met a young man from the forgotten city of Birobidzhan, whom she married. Soon, a boy was born, who in Japanese was called Tsutomu Isijima, and in Russian, Benjamin Skalnik.
early years
The family often moved, so Venya, aka Tsutomu, changed three schools. After serving in the SA, where a young man with a Japanese appearance had to learn all the "joys" of hazing, Benjamin entered GITIS with the firm intention to become a director. He was lucky, and the young man was enrolled in the workshop of Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko. After graduation, Veniamin Skalnik became the director of the Moscow theater-studio "Black Square". Once he was offered to act as a translator during the filming of the film "Dreams of Russia." Agreeing, Benjamin Skalnik did not yet know that fate had prepared for him the most important meeting in his life. The film "Dreams of Russia" was shot based on the novel by writer Yasushi Inoue. Along with the stars of Japanese cinema, Oleg Yankovsky, Marina Vlady and other Russian actors and actresses, including Anastasia Nemolyaeva, were invited to it. The girl was then only 23 years old, but at that time she had already played in 15 films.
Dynasty
If little is known about the Veniamin family, then the cinematic dynasty of the Nemolyaevs declared itself in the late 20s of the last century. Anastasia’s grandfather - Vladimir Viktorovich - made his first film back in 1927. Among his most famous works is the children's film “Doctor Aibolit”, which has become a film classic, whose screenwriter was Eugene Schwartz himself.
Vladimir Viktorovich Nemolyaev and his wife Valentina Lvovna Ladygina had two children - daughter Svetlana and son Nikolai. Both followed in the footsteps of their parents and connected their lives with art. People's Artist of the RSFSR Svetlana Nemolyaeva played more than one and a half hundred roles in cinema and in the theater. Her brother Nikolai has repeatedly received state awards and other professional awards as a cameraman. Among his most noteworthy works are Pokrovsky Gate, Courier and others. The dynasty and their children continued. And the son of Svetlana Vladimirovna Alexander Lazarev, and the daughter of Nikolai Vladimirovich Anastasia Nemolyaeva became very successful actors. Today, the third generation of this talented dynasty makes the first steps in the theatrical field.
Biography of Nemolyaeva Anastasia: childhood
Nastya was born in 1969 in the capital. Already in elementary school, she began to draw pretty well and constantly made toys, home decor items, etc.
In adolescence, the girl began to be actively filmed in the movies. The debut work of Nastya was the role of Lisa Sebeikina in the film "Old New Year", where her partners were Vyacheslav Nevinny, Evgeny Evstigneev and Alexander Kolyagin. Other films followed. However, the burden of popularity fell on Anastasia after the girl starred in the main role in Karen Shakhnazarov’s courier. After its release on the screens, the girl began to receive bags of letters from fans and she even sang serenades.
Further career
Early glory played a cruel joke with Nastya. When after school she submitted documents to several theater universities, members of the examination commissions were biased towards the young star and tried their best to put her in her place. As a result, the girl was cut off in the first round at the Shchukinsky school, and in Shchepkinsky she did not pass the last tests. Only a year later Nemolyaeva was able to enter GITIS on the course of M. Zakharov.
As a student, Anastasia accepted the offer to star in one of the most scandalous films of the perestroika period - in the Interdevochka by Pyotr Todorovsky. Although the role of Lyalka was not the main one, she consolidated the glory of Nemolyaeva as a talented, diverse actress. After graduating from GITIS in 1991, Anastasia appeared on the screens in the films “Wife for the head waiter” and “Regicide”. In 1992, she was invited to play the role of Irkutsk Tatyana in the joint Japanese-Russian film project Dreams of Russia.
Fateful meeting
According to Anastasia herself, on the set of the film “Dreams about Russia”, which took place in Japan and in Leningrad, she had to constantly deal with the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun, but she did not communicate directly with them because of her lack of knowledge of foreign languages. Once during a break, a Japanese approached her, who examined her for a long time, and then uttered a phrase. The girl did not hear that the young man spoke in pure Russian, and loudly uttered the word "what", indicating a reluctance to communicate. The Japanese turned out to be Benjamin Skalnik (biography in his youth, see above). The young man who wanted to meet and simply named Fyodor Dunaevsky as a mutual acquaintance, was simply taken aback by the rudeness of the beauty. However, the misunderstanding was corrected, and on the same evening, Benjamin invited the girl to take a walk around the city in order to pass the time before leaving for Moscow. Since then, the biography of Anastasia Nemolyaeva began to be written in a completely different way.
Telephone romance
Anastasia made a lasting impression on Benjamin. At first, they did not have the opportunity to see each other often, so young people talked mainly on the phone. However, one fine day, Nemolyaeva learned that she was included in the delegation, which will represent our country at the presentation of the film "Dreams about Russia." Benjamin was thrilled. In the Land of the Rising Sun, he introduced Nastya to members of the large Ishijima family, and upon returning to the capital, young people went to the registry office and formalized their relationship.
Living together
Two years after marriage, Anastasia gave birth to a daughter. Later, with large interruptions, two more girls appeared. Benjamin Skalnik, whose children are surnamed Isijima and have dual citizenship, repeatedly tried to find himself in the field of directing. However, the beginning of the 90s was not the best period for domestic theater and cinema.
As for his wife, family life did not stop Anastasia Nemolyaeva from playing in several more films. However, over time, the actress decided to radically change the scope of her activity, especially since she never forgot about her passion for drawing and decoration. Her husband followed her example. So the workshop of Veniamin Skalnik and the design studio of Anastasia Nemolyaeva appeared. The business of the spouses brings them not only a good income, but also the joy of creativity. In addition, since the mid-2000s, the actress has occasionally accepted invitations to star in feature films, so her film career cannot be considered complete.
