“Do not wake up dashingly, while it’s quiet,” says popular wisdom. But at all times there were people who had the imprudence to invade the possessions of the dark forces. And they inevitably paid for it with health and life. Let's leave out all sorts of sorcerers and dark magicians. It will be about people of creative professions who dared to lift the veil that separates our world from the other world.
The dark forces take cruel revenge on those who, without being initiated, try to reveal their secrets. An example of this is the fate of Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Vrubel, Mikhail Bulgakov … And nowadays all sorts of disasters befall the artists who act in films "with devilry." One of the last victims is Zhanna Friske.
The beauty and the Beast
Zhanna Friske, a pop diva, an actress, an elegant and charming woman, for whom many fans sighed throughout the post-Soviet space, left for another world. The beauty was killed by a terrible monster - glioblastoma. It is one of the most aggressive malignant brain tumors. She has caused the death of many talented people.
Cancer is an insidious disease, sneaking up unnoticed. It slowly destroys the body, and the person does not even know about it. So the singer had gliobastoma found too late, when the disease had already reached the fourth stage and there was practically no hope of salvation. In the fall of 2013, Zhanna stopped appearing in public and posting her photos on social networks. In early 2014, reports of her illness appeared in the media.
And many a question arose: why did the merciless monster attack a young, blooming woman, known for her careful attitude to her body? Throughout her pop career, Friske carefully monitored her health, paying special attention to proper nutrition: not an ounce of smoked meats, sausages, sweets, not a sip of carbonated drinks, no fast food … She did yoga, went to warm islands twice a year, where she cleansed her body, meditated. And suddenly, oncology. Boggles the mind!
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And then the version about the curse of the film "Night Watch", in which Friske played a witch, came to light.
Brilliant debutante
The sensational “Night Watch” is called the first Russian blockbuster, an incredibly successful project in Russian cinema. The film was a great success at the box office, set a box office record for its time.
It was filmed in the genre of urban fantasy based on the novel of the same name by Sergei Lukyanenko and tells about the secret struggle between light and dark mystical forces in modern Moscow.
The dashingly twisted plot on closer examination turns out to be quite ingenuous. Once upon a time, a terrible battle took place between good knights, who call themselves Warriors of Light and cleanse the Earth from all evil spirits, and evil Warriors of Darkness. Blood flowed like a river, mountains of corpses grew. But the commanders of both armies realized that the forces were equal, no one could win, and the battle was stopped.
They entered into a peace treaty between themselves, according to which both sides, called the Others, will no longer wage wars between themselves. The Night Watch was created to control the forces of Darkness and the Day Watch to control the forces of Light. But according to the prophecy, in a thousand years the Great Other will appear, who will be destined to go over to the side of evil, and the world will plunge into darkness.
The film is full of light and dark magicians, vampires, werewolves and witches. Director Timur Bekmambetov managed to assemble a stellar ensemble of actors: Vladimir Menshov, Konstantin Khabensky, Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina starred in the film …
And quite unexpectedly, the role of the witch Alisa Donnikova was entrusted to the pop singer Zhanna Friske, who made her film debut and did not have a dramatic acting education. But she did not hesitate in such a stellar company and played brilliantly.
Probably, many spectators still remember the scene when a young seductive witch rushes in a luxurious red car along Moscow Avenue, and then rushes like a bright scarlet spot along the facade of the Cosmos Hotel. Jeanne was also convincing in the scene of the birth of love between her heroine and the vampire Kostya Saushkin, played by actor Alexei Chalov.
Funnel of damnation
Filming in the "Night Watch" brought a lot of trouble to the actors who dared to play with the other world. So, while working on the film, Alexey Maklakov, who played the chauffeur Semyon, a high-level light magician, lost his mother. She had a stroke. “I am now sure that with these filming we have stirred up some terrible forces. I feel that playing with them is dangerous,”Maklakov recalled. He himself was soon admitted to the hospital with a heart attack.
Rimma Markova, who remarkably played the witch Daria Schultz, to whom at the very beginning of the film a young man Anton Gorodetsky came for a love spell, immediately after filming was in a hospital in serious condition. The disease soon brought her to the grave.
Konstantin Khabensky, who played the main character Anton Gorodetsky, received a whole bunch of misfortunes. During filming, his father died. The actor himself dislocated his leg, then he was bitten by a dog. After the release of the picture, Khabensky's wife fell seriously ill. In 2007 she was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. All the family's forces were thrown into the treatment of Anastasia Khabenskaya, but it was not possible to save her, and in 2008 she died.
In November 2009, Nikolai Olyalin, who played the inquisitor Maxim, died of a massive heart attack.
In March 2013, the performer of the role of vampire Valery Zolotukhin died of a brain tumor. He was killed by the same monster as Friske - glioblastoma.
What caused this chain of misfortunes? There is a version that the dark world does not tolerate invasion of its possessions and takes cruel revenge on those who decided on such recklessness. They talk about the curse gravitating over "Night Watch" and other films "with devilry" ("Viy", "The Master and Margarita", etc.).
I suspect this is not entirely true. Indeed, the Prince of Darkness should only benefit when the attention of the general public is drawn to him and his retinue. Advertising is often not superfluous. The point is different. An actor playing a mystical role is forced to get used to the image of his hero, in part, as it were, to become him - and thereby open up to the influence of the negative energies of the other world.
He becomes an accumulator and conductor of such energies, the terrible force of which falls on those around him and hits him like a boomerang. And when individual carriers of negative energy are united into an "electric circuit" (an ensemble of actors), a real "funnel of damnation" appears, similar to the one caused by the heroine of Maria Poroshina Svetlana in the "Night Watch". It is no coincidence that many sensitive actors refuse to star in mystical films.
Retribution for insolence
For example, few people know that the brilliant cast of the series "The Master and Margarita" (directed by Vladimir Bortko) - Oleg Basilashvili, Alexander Abdulov, Valentin Gaft, Alexander Galibin, Sergey Bezrukov, Alexander Filippenko and others - is a kind of team of understudies, fallback. Almost all of the actors originally cast as the lead roles refused to appear.
Oleg Yankovsky did not want to play Woland. Alexander Kalyagin, who passed screen tests for the role of Berlioz, suddenly suffered two heart attacks in a row and also said "no". Vladimir Mashkov auditioned for the role of the Master, but a sudden car accident forced him to refuse.
And on those who agreed, all sorts of troubles were not slow to fall. For example, Alexander Galibin (Master) during the filming suffered from severe bronchitis (“I coughed so that the walls trembled!” - he recalls). And immediately after filming, he got into a car accident.
Oleg Basilashvili delivered Woland's monologue on the set. And suddenly his throat cramped, he began to wheeze, and then completely lost his voice. The doctors diagnosed a hemorrhage in the right vocal cord. The actor was prescribed complete peace and absolute silence for several months.
Alexander Adabashyan (Berlioz) suffered a heart attack. Valery Zolotukhin, who played Nikanor Bosoy, had a son who committed suicide soon after filming. For nine years after the release of the series, 18 actors died (Vladislav Galkin, Alexander Abdulov and others).
You can also recall the classic example, how Natalya Varley, who played Pannochka in the film "Viy", miraculously did not die on the set, falling out of the coffin, which rushed at high speed in a circle.
Abroad - the same thing. For example, Linda Blair, the performer of the role of a witch in William Friedkin's blockbuster "The Exorcist" ("The Exorcist"), was hospitalized after filming with a serious mental disorder. And Robert de Niro, who played the devil in the American film "Angel Heart", spent six months in the hospital after that, barely saved.
It can be seen, and in fact, flirting with evil spirits is fraught with the most serious consequences!
Nikolay SANTALOV