Documentary film Red Queen Regina Zbarskaya. Documentary film "The body of national importance. The true story of the red queen" (2016)

This documentary is dedicated to the life story of the Soviet fashion model Regina Zbarskaya. Here's what they say: "The one who burns brightly burns out quickly" . Well, even if we actually talk about stars, and consider them from the standpoint of the science of astronomy, we can say that new stars - which are bright at the beginning, burn out very quickly and go out turning into "White dwarfs" at the end. So the life of Regina Nikolaevna Kolesnikova was bright and rich, and then suddenly went out. Regina bore a royal name, which in translation meant "queen", her father called it that at birth, at that time very rare name. And for a reason, she then received the name of the "Red Queen" in fashion circles. In general, about this fashion model, or as they said in Soviet time "clothing demonstrator"There is little information, she died and everything about her was cleaned, deleted, erased, and the creators of this documentary bit by bit collected unique data about famous woman Soviet Union.

Regina Kolesnikova (later Zbarskaya in marriage) was a very beautiful and outwardly extraordinary person. She was even compared to Sophia Loren, an Italian film actress. What is the Scythian cut of the eyes worth.

Regina represented Russian fashion at European fashion shows, she was filmed for magazines that sold out in millions of copies, but few people know that in fact the names of fashion models were not known to all people, as, for example, in our time. In magazines, next to the outfits, they simply wrote the names of fashion designers and designers of the collection.

At one of the fashion shows, Regina Kolesnikova found, as it seemed to her, her soul mate - Lev Zbarsky and they got married, after which she began to bear his last name. Lev Zbarsky was a very rich man, since he came up with the formula special composition, with the help of which V.I. Lenin was embalmed. There are many opportunities for Regina and her career.

But was she really happy? At 32, she had an abortion for the sake of her career, after which she was unable to have any more children. And then her beloved husband also abandoned her, deciding to emigrate to England without her. Regina Zbarskaya quit fashion for a while, she had several suicide attempts, the last third turned out to be fatal. From depression, she underwent a course of rehabilitation in a psychiatric clinic and not once. She passed away at 52. This is how external circumstances and the departure of a beloved man broke fatal beauty . She still had love in her life, but she loved, and she was simply used for political purposes.

To be honest, I am of the opinion that the one who cultivates the body, and not the soul, passes away very quickly, and more often after suicide. After all beauty is not eternal the body gets old fashion is changing, and fashion models are already considered 30-40 years old for the podium, they are replaced by young ones. Therefore, this profession, like beauty, is not for life, and you always have to think about what else you can do. Regina did not have children of her own free will, because she went for an abortion at a conscious age, she had money, she could have taken a child from an orphanage. It was possible to open some kind of clothing salon or something else, because she had many friends and even the same Vyacheslav Zaitsev, for whom she was the prima all the time, was ready to help her in everything. But she was empty inside and it was from this emptiness that there was depression and suicide attempts. It was with these attempts that she tried to attract attention to herself, as, by the way, she was used to always being in sight. She had a demonstrative suicide, she would cut her veins, call her friends, they would save her. I personally think that ending one's life with suicide is stupid, but this is my personal opinion and I do not impose it on anyone. Therefore, I feel sorry for Regina only in part, I would not call her fate tragic, she built it herself in essence. Man is the creator of his own destiny.

In this 45-minute documentary, I didn’t like the escalation of the situation from the very first shots, although the voice-over is good, many documentary shots are well edited, but here’s the musical accompaniment, like in a horror movie. Of course, cheerful music will not suit such a story either, but it could be made muffled, neutral and not so intrusive.

The film shows tragic fate one of the first fashion models of the USSR of the 60s, the real queen of the catwalk Regina Zbarskaya against the backdrop of a secret and cruel world Soviet fashion. She was destined to become the embodiment of the myth of "Soviet beauty", she was applauded by Western bohemia, Yves Montand and Federico Fellini were struck by her beauty. But for the dizzying success had to pay the price of his own life.

She was a European style model. The standard of elegance for the House of Models on Kuznetsky Most. In the sixty-fifth year, Pierre Cardin himself came to Moscow. And it was Zbarskaya who became the one calling card Russian fashion, which was presented to the French couturier Vyacheslav Zaitsev.
Regina, of course, attracted attention with her train of extraordinary personal life. Her second husband was Lev Zbarsky, a famous graphic artist. He introduced her to the circle of Moscow bohemia, it was bright couple beau monde. Regina, according to many memories, was known as an intellectual, was the star of the salons. She was treated in the same way abroad, where she was the personification of an unknown country. Regina was recognized, but little was known about her. It was said that her mother danced under the dome of the circus and crashed. And Regina herself, the fruit of the love of a dancer and an Italian gymnast, was brought up in an orphanage.

In the mid-seventies, Lev Zbarsky left for America forever. The marriage broke up. It was then that she met a Yugoslav journalist. The reaction of certain services followed immediately - Regina was made "not allowed to travel abroad". And then in Yugoslavia the book "One Hundred Nights with Regina" appeared, where were all her revelations about the then highest echelon of the country. She was called to the KGB. Regina could not stand it and opened her veins. The door of the apartment was left open and, quite by chance, a neighbor who came to her managed to call for help, they managed to save Regina. But it was clear that she was broken. However, whether this book and this Yugoslav actually existed, no one knows for sure. remains unknown and exact date Regina's death, it is only certain that it was preceded by a psychiatric clinic and a series of suicide attempts, the latter turned out to be fatal.

Soon after her death, the doors of world podiums opened for models from the USSR. But the tragic name of Regina Zbarskaya will remain in the history of Russian fashion forever.

About movie: This beauty with Scythian eyes was once considered the face of the Soviet Union. Her name was Regina, which means "queen". She was called the Red Queen. Her fate became the basis of an incredibly dramatic series that attracted millions of viewers to the screens. But true story Regina Zbarskaya is even scarier and more dramatic. When her photo was printed on the pages of the Paris press next to the image of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev, they signed at the bottom: "Her lover's father froze Lenin, and she melted Paris." In fact, it was about the father of Regina's husband - the world famous scientist Boris Zbarsky, who found a way to save the body of the leader of the world proletariat from decay - the body national importance. But the living body of Regina Zbarskaya also had a huge political significance. However, one can only guess what missions were entrusted to the Red Queen. She was dressed by world famous couturiers. She was filmed the best photo artists. She has performed on London Radio and at the Montreal World's Fair. Our film crew spent a year to find references to Regina in the archives of VGIK, Mosfilm, London Radio and many other sources. The result was amazing. What secrets did the Red Queen hide? What was she really like? Based on reliable data, the film tells about the biography of a fashion model and possible reasons her voluntary departure from life. The film was attended by: Ksenia Lukyanchikova, Vyacheslav Zaitsev, Alexander Igmant, Tatyana Mikhalkova, Rumia Rumi Ray, Eduard Krastoshevsky and others.

Genre: Documentary, educational
Year of issue: 2016
Released: Russia, Studio Galakon
Producer: Petr Pchelkin

This beauty with Scythian eyes was once considered the face of the Soviet Union. Her name was Regina, which means "queen". She was called the Red Queen.

Her fate became the basis of an incredibly dramatic series that attracted millions of viewers to the screens. But the true story of Regina Zbarskaya is even scarier and more dramatic.

When her photo was printed on the pages of the Parisian press next to the image of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev, they signed at the bottom: "Her lover's father froze Lenin, and she melted Paris." In fact, it was about the father of Regina's husband - the world famous scientist Boris Zbarsky, who found a way to save the body of the leader of the world proletariat from decay - a body of national importance. But the living body of Regina Zbarskaya also had great political significance for the country. However, one can only guess what missions were entrusted to the Red Queen.

She was dressed by world famous couturiers. It was shot by the best photographers. She has performed on London Radio and at the Montreal World's Fair.

Our film crew spent a year to find references to Regina in the archives of VGIK, Mosfilm, London Radio and many other sources. The result was amazing. What secrets did the Red Queen hide? What was she really like?

Based on reliable data, the film tells about the biography of the fashion model and the possible reasons for her voluntary death.

The film was attended by: Ksenia Lukyanchikova, Vyacheslav Zaitsev, Alexander Igmand, Tatyana Mikhalkova, Rumiya Rumi Ray, Eduard Krastoshevsky and others.