He disappeared and left the cinema: what happened to the children of the popular movie “Foundling” Stars

The main role went to Veronika Lebedeva, who was 4.5 years old at the time of filming. Despite such a young age, the little actress received a fairly “adult” fee – 75 rubles per day of filming. By the way, the acting assistant noticed Veronica in the cinema, where the girl came with her parents. Although Veronica in the form of Natasha completely fascinated the audience, the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War prevented her from further career.

The family of the young actress went to the evacuation – there was no time for the cinema. And later, when it was time to go to college, Veronika had already abandoned her childhood dream of becoming an artist and chose the more necessary profession of a teacher. She was married but widowed in 2008. Today, Lebedev is already 88 years old. She has been seriously ill in recent years, suffered several strokes and now lives in seclusion.

The role of Natasha’s brother’s friend remained the only one in Elina Bykovská’s filmography. She was 13 years old at the time of filming. Elya studied at a ballet school, and before “Foundling” she was invited to a cameo role in the film “Mayakovsky”, but the footage with the girl was eventually cut and did not make it into the picture. During the Great Patriotic War, Eli’s tracks were lost. According to one information, she died during the bombing on the way to the evacuation, according to the other, she joined the partisans, became a brave intelligence officer and was hanged by the Germans in 1943.

Some old-timers said that Elya survived the war years and returned to Moscow, but soon died of oncology. Reliable data has not reached our days, but one thing is clear – Elya really died young, since all data about her at that time disappeared.

The role of Natasha’s brother, whose fault the girl runs away from home, was played by 13-year-old Dima Glukhov. It was the first film role for the boy – it also became the last. Despite the bright appearance, Dima did not continue in films. He worked all his life as a simple communications engineer in Khimki. Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about his adulthood. He died in 2006.

In the film, Vita Bojko was given the charismatic role of a chubby boy with a dog who took part in the search for Nataš and dreamed that his pet would serve at the border. After “Foundling”, already in the war years, Vitya starred in another film – “Fight under the Falcon”, which was released in 1942. There is information that in the same year Boyko went to school on the Arbat and lived nearby with his mother. His classmates remembered him as a cheerful and cheerful boy. But after his tracks are lost – Vitya no longer acted in films.

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