Elena Metelkina - “Soviet alien” (23 photos)

Elena Metelkina: biography

Elena Vladimirovna Metelkina is a Soviet and Russian film actress, fashion model, one of the heroines of the TV show “Fashionable Sentence”. She gained the greatest fame thanks to her roles in films based on the works of Kir Bulychev.

Elena Metelkina was born on October 23, 1953 in Moscow into the family of a military engineer. The girl grew up very obedient and quiet, spent a lot of time at home reading, was flexible and calm. Elena's father went through the entire war, was a participant in the battle of Stalingrad, and had seven inventions in the field of construction and engineering.

Elena Metelkina in her youth | Gossip

In the early eighties, Vladimir Metelkin was dragged into a scandal with embezzlement of funds, and he died by stabbing himself in the heart with a dagger. After the death of her father, Metelkina began to live permanently with her mother, taking on the responsibilities of the head of the family.

Biography

Born in Moscow into a military family. Father - Vladimir Dmitrievich Metelkin, guard major, military engineer by training, participant in the Great Patriotic War since September 1942, was a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad. Mother - Ninel Petrovna Metelkina.

After graduating from school, she worked as a librarian. In 1973, at the age of 20, she starred in a short episode in the film “Shores.”

In 1974, she appeared on the podium for the first time, having mastered the profession of “clothing demonstrator” in a week. She worked as a fashion model in GUM and as a fashion model. In 1979, writer Kir Bulychev and director Richard Viktorov, while looking through one of the fashion magazines, came across a portrait of Elena Metelkina and realized who could play the alien Niya in their future film “Through Hardships to the Stars.” The film, released on the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight on April 12, 1981, attracted 20.5 million viewers in its first year of screening. At the end of the year, Elena Metelkina took fourth place in terms of popularity among film actors. In 1982, at the annual international science fiction film festival in Trieste (Italy), Elena was awarded the Silver Asteroid special jury prize for best actress in a science fiction film.

In 1983, Metelkina’s film career continued with the role of the daughter in a family of foreigners in the short film by Alexander Mayorov “Goldfish” based on the story by Kir Bulychev, but all episodes with foreigners were cut out at the request of the editorial board. In 1984, Elena played the roles of music teacher Irina in Evgeniy Gerasimov’s film “Very Important Person” and employee of the Moscow Institute of Time Polina in Pavel Arsenov’s children’s TV series “Guest from the Future,” based on the fantastic story “One Hundred Years Ahead” by Kir Bulychev ( 1977)[K 1]. After filming, she returned to work as a model.

Outside the cinema

In the early 1990s, she got a job as a secretary-assistant for businessman Ivan Kivelidi. After the death of her boss, she worked as a cleaner in the church of the Moscow courtyard of the Valaam Monastery and in the League of Cooperators, as a teacher in a boarding school for sick children, as a fashion model and saleswoman in a clothing store, as a saleswoman in a shoe store[2], as a customer service manager in an educational, educational, "VKS-International House"[3]. Participates in the choir of the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pokrovsky-Streshnevo[4].

In 2020, she became a muse and ambassador of the clothing brand for women of elegant age Garnet Garden Fashion Art (founder and creative director - Anastasia Lavrova). The shooting of the premiere collection took place in Les Jardins d'Etretat (France).

Personal life

She was married, but her husband turned out to be a marriage swindler, and the marriage was declared invalid by the court. Son Alexander works as a car mechanic[2].

Movies

Elena Metelkina twice tried to enroll in a theater university. The dream of becoming an actress haunted her from her early youth, when the girl suddenly turned from an ugly duckling into an attractive young lady. Elena made her first attempt in 1972, when she came to audition for Pike. The girl failed to enter the theater institute, but she was noticed and offered to appear in a movie in a cameo role. This is how Metelkina made her film debut. She got a small role in the 1973 film called “Shores.”

Elena Metelkina in the film “Through Thorns to the Stars” | Cinema

Elena did not lose hope of getting an acting education and a year later she tried to enter VGIK. The girl failed the audition again, after which she decided to work as a fashion model. In 1980, the film “Through Thorns to the Stars” was released, in which Metelkina had the main role. She got into the picture thanks to her unusual appearance.

At a time when the filmmakers were looking for an actress to play the role of an alien girl, Elena’s photos were the decoration of fashion clothing catalogs. Within a few years, the girl became a successful fashion model. Her unusual appearance was noticed and she was invited to audition. After several months of considering options, the filmmakers chose Metelkina. Thus, the model got the role of Niya, which brought her fame. The film was watched by more than twenty million people, and the young actress began to be recognized on the subway, on the street, and in the store.

Elena Metelkina in the film “Guest from the Future” | Cinema

On the set, Elena became friends with Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko, who is better known under the name Kira Bulycheva. Three years after the release of the film “Through Thorns to the Stars,” Metelkina again received a role in the film adaptation based on the works of the famous Soviet writer.

Elena played Polina, an employee of the Institute of Time, in the film “Guest from the Future.” She was that distant and unattainable beauty who appeared to take Alice away in her time. The film “Guest from the Future” was released in 1984, in the same year Elena had another notable film work. She starred in Evgeniy Gerasimov’s comedy “Very Important Person.”

Elena Metelkina in the film “Very Important Person” | Cinema

The actress worked on the same set with Yuri Nazarov, Nina Ruslanova, Vyacheslav Nevinny and Nikolai Parfenov. It is interesting that Evgeny Gerasimov, who was the director of this film, also starred in a small role in the film “Guest from the Future”, he played the robot Werther.

Elena Metelkina’s further acting career did not work out. She appeared in a small role in the film “Touch” in 1992, in an episode of the drama “War” in 2002, and starred in the short film “Simple Women’s Happiness” in 2013.

Elena Metelkina

Elena Metelkina was born on October 23, 1953 in Moscow.
From early childhood, the girl stood out among her peers for her unusual appearance, fragility, swan neck, and huge eyes that looked at the world with a pure and shy smile. Lena was unsociable, dreamy, and therefore preferred solitude and constant reading of books to noisy companies and children's games. She had no friends. Her only childhood friends were books. She was not like everyone else. After graduating from school, Lena chose the modest and inconspicuous profession of a librarian. But before our eyes, a miracle happened: from yesterday’s thin, awkward schoolgirl with huge glasses, Elena turned into a charming woman, into a truly unearthly creature. Elena's unusual appearance, which previously caused surprise, rejection and even ridicule, now aroused admiration and envy, and quite naturally attracted the attention of clothing designers.

So Lena became a clothing demonstrator for the Moscow House of Models.

But when in 1973 she managed to flash in a matter of seconds in an episode of the lyrical film comedy “Shores” directed by Ekaterina Stashevskaya, she did not think about any glory and fame, especially about cinematic glory. Among a gaggle of girlfriends trying to attract the attention of a young officer, her heroine, who does not utter a single word in the frame, stands out not so much for her appearance as for her eyes, looking from the screen with timid, almost hidden delight.

The year 1976 became a turning point in Elena’s life. She walked onto the podium of the country's main store, GUM, and soon became one of the leading clothing demonstrators there. Elena was considered a very promising model, and in the second half of the 1970s she shone not only at GUM shows. Her photos adorned the covers and pages of fashion magazines and albums published in Moscow, Riga and other cities.

But no one, not even she herself, yet suspected that the most important event in her life was yet to come...

In 1978, director Richard Viktorov began work on a new film, called “Through Thorns to the Stars.” The co-author of the script for the new science fiction film was the Soviet science fiction writer Kir Bulychev.

The film's production designer Konstantin Zagorsky, in the image of an alien, depicted a “portrait” of a thin, fragile girl with an absolutely proportional build, a long neck, a small bald head, a beautiful but unusual face, huge eyes and, importantly, almost no sexual characteristics.

The search for the main character continued long and painfully. Even the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper published a notice-announcement: “Do you know an alien?”

And suddenly the director's assistants, looking through a fashion magazine, accidentally found a photograph of Elena, immediately recognizing her as a depiction of an alien! After reading the script, Lena felt that she would have to play herself. That not only was the sketch copied from her “in absentia,” the entire role was written off from her life... And in order to play it, without having any cinematic experience, she decided to simply completely trust the director. “I couldn’t cover the whole role at once, because I was small and stupid, but he saw further. I obeyed, and everything worked out,” Elena later recalled.

“The actress is outwardly restrained, but internally she is seething, all in impulse and dynamics. Her unusual appearance immediately attracts attention, her behavior in the frame is surprisingly harmonious and natural,” wrote one of the newspaper reviews on the fourth day after the film was released in Moscow.

Elena's unusual appearance, her visible and not everyone understands unearthly beauty and peculiar plasticity, her eyes, capable of containing everything from tender and timid love to the frightening cosmic abyss, her diligent adherence to the plans of the director and screenwriter, her inner world that cannot be revealed on the podium , allowed us to show on the screen the true embodiment of ideas about an unearthly creature.

The film “Through Hardships to the Stars” was released in Moscow on the day of the 20th anniversary of Gagarin’s flight, April 12, 1981, recouping the costs of its filming on the same day. In just one year, Richard Viktorov’s film series attracted 20,500,000 viewers. And the previously unknown Elena Metelkina took fourth place in the list of the most popular actors of the year, ahead of even Innokenty Smoktunovsky himself. Not to mention that the acting tradition considers the highest recognition to be the viewer’s identification of the actor with his character...

In 1980, during filming in Crimea, Elena met a man from Zaporozhye. For her it was true love. For him, it’s just a free opportunity to get an apartment in Moscow and Moscow registration. Elena's son, Alexander, was born in 1982 after the marriage was declared invalid...

In 1982, at the annual international film festival of science fiction films in Trieste (Italy), Elena was awarded the Silver Asteroid special jury prize for best actress. In the same year, the creators of the film “Through Thorns to the Stars” were awarded the USSR State Prize, but Elena was not among those awarded. Filmmakers admired her, but did not invite her to act. Elena’s image was firmly established as an “alien”, but science fiction films were almost never made back then...

Only in 1984, Elena played the role of Polina, an employee of the Institute of Time, in the children's television film “Guest from the Future,” directed by Pavel Arsenov based on the story by Kir Bulychev.

The writer, solely for the sake of Elena, instead of Nikolai Nikolaevich, introduced the image of Polina into the script. Despite the fantastic nature of the plot, Polina is unexpected in many ways. This is no longer a scared and lonely test tube girl. Behind the charm, femininity and fragility, soft voice that never rises, there is a complex, tough character, the strength of which is visible in the fast, decisive and graceful gait, and sometimes in the cold, penetrating, emphatically direct gaze. Only in everything there remains something from another world, if not another space, then another time. We can say that Polina is largely based on Lena, who managed not only to withstand the test of fame, but also to experience envy, meanness, betrayal...

Stills from the film “Guest from the Future” (1984), from 1 min 31 sec.

In the same year, one of Elena’s partners in “Guest from the Future,” actor Evgeny Gerasimov, already directed the lyrical comedy “Very Important Person.” How unlike Polina is the lyrical image of the young music teacher Ira, who was assigned to the countryside, quiet, metropolitan, hiding behind huge glasses and talking almost in a low voice.

Like another facet of the actress’s talent, reflecting the light from a completely different angle... However, unfortunately, there were no more offers from directors for Lena. She was invited to the State Institute of Theater Arts, but in the artistic environment Lena felt like a stranger. Even then, on the set, make-up artists and costume designers told her: “Why did you decide that you would be in great demand in the cinema? Return to the Fashion House and work as a fashion model."

She returned to GUM, where she worked for another ten years. Her photos again began to appear in fashion magazines and albums, in Margarita Maksimova’s book “The ABC of Knitting,” which went through five editions in Moscow alone, and was incredibly popular among needlewomen.

In the early 1990s, Elena got a job as a secretary for businessman Ivan Kivelidi (head of Rosbusinessbank).

From an interview with Elena EG, 2013:

— Kivelidi was treacherously killed in 1995. They applied poison to the telephone receiver (according to some sources, polonium). Besides him, my colleague, secretary Zara, died, and later the expert who opened their bodies. God saved me then. People around me thought that I was having an affair with the married Ivan, although nothing of the kind happened. He liked that everyone thought so; he and his wife had an open relationship. It happened that the boss gave me a ride in his car. One day I asked Ivan for a large sum, and he gave it without any problems. Without counting, he handed over a stack of banknotes. Then I returned every penny. It so happened that I was the last one to talk to his secretary Zara on the phone. After hanging up the phone, she lost consciousness and could not be saved. The same thing happened with Kivelidi. When I saw the news of their death on TV, I fell to my knees and couldn’t come to my senses for a long time. Later they called me to the police and asked about Ivan’s entourage, but I didn’t say a bad word about anyone...

After the death of her boss, she worked as a cleaner in the church of the Moscow courtyard of the Valaam Monastery and in the League of Cooperators, a teacher in a boarding school for sick children, a fashion model and saleswoman in a clothing store, and a saleswoman in a shoe store.

Elena in the “Fashionable Sentence” program

Elena with her son Alexander

From an interview with Elena EG, 2013:

“Sasha graduated from the Institute of Economics. From the age of 16 he worked as a car mechanic. And he loved this business so much that he still restores rare cars. Now he wants to try himself in something else. It’s a pity that at 31 years old, Sasha is not yet married and has not had children. I ask my son to fall in love!”

Elena with “Alice” - Natalya Murashkevich (nee Guseva, 42 years old)

“Anti-crisis collection of Vyacheslav Zaitsev”, 2009

Currently, Elena works as a customer service manager at an educational center for learning foreign languages.

Model career

Elena was a very successful model and fashion model in the mid-seventies. It was photographs in catalogs of knitted and sewn clothes that became her passport to the world of cinema. Metelkina's father was against his daughter becoming a fashion model, but after several unsuccessful attempts to enter the theater institute, Elena got a job at the All-Union House of Clothing Models.

Model Elena Metelkina | Cinema

At that time, the girl worked as a librarian, but her height and weight corresponded to the model parameters, and her appearance was original. Elena was noticed and invited to work as a freelance model for the “Models of the Season” magazine. The girl quickly got the hang of it and found a position as a fashion model in the GUM showroom.

Elena Metelkina on the podium

To film the film “Through Thorns to the Stars,” she had to give up not only her hair, but also her job; she quit the department store without regret. After completing the painting, Elena returned to the profession of a fashion model. Metelkina got a job at the Moscow House of Models.

Model Elena Metelkina | Gossip

After perestroika, Elena went to work in Mila Nadtochiy’s showroom, but the project turned out to be commercially unprofitable. During Elena's work as a fashion model, she often had to pose for magazines and books on knitting and sewing. Her photo in her youth can be found in the repeatedly reprinted Soviet book “The ABC of Knitting.”

Popular Soviet actress Elena Metelkina spoke about her tragic fate and path to God

Fate sometimes takes such turns that you have to radically change your field of activity. Fans of Elena Metelkina, who are used to seeing her in the image of Niya in the film “Through Thorns to the Stars,” would not recognize her in the image of Polina in the film “Guest from the Future.”

And fans of the alien actress would never have known that she was also the saleswoman in the church shop.

Elena Metelkina has been an alien to those around her since childhood. During her school years, she had no friends, many considered her strange, they did not like her appearance or manner of communication, so Elena preferred to read books. That is why after school she chose the profession of a librarian.

But soon the ridicule of her classmates against her became an object of envy. To work as a fashion model, her tall stature and thin physique turned out to be suitable. Elena always dreamed of being an actress, but due to unsuccessful attempts to enter the theater school, she finally decided to try to become a fashion model. And you know, she did it! She became one of the most sought-after and beautiful models of the 1970s.

Her photographs graced the covers of Soviet magazines. Metelkina got a job at the All-Union Fashion House, and very soon became the leading fashion model in the GUM showroom. Thanks to her unusual appearance, everyone, including abroad, paid attention to her: “You can make millions with her, but not in the USSR.”

Thanks to her photographs, which appeared on the covers of fashion magazines, Elena got into the cinema. The director of the science fiction film “Through Hardships to the Stars” liked the girl. Metelkina successfully passed the audition and was approved for the role of the alien Niya.

Even though she was not a professional actress, she coped with the role with flying colors. “The director asked me to be completely non-sexual. Be obedient and do what he asks. I couldn’t cover the whole role at once, because I was small and stupid, but he saw further. I obeyed, and everything worked out,” this is how the actress later explained the secret of her success.

The film immediately became a cult film, which was released in 1981 and. It brought the actress unprecedented popularity: within a year, the film was watched by more than 20 million people. And in 1982, at the international festival of science fiction films in Italy, Elena Metelkina was awarded the special jury prize “Silver Asteroid” for best actress.

On the set of the film “Through Thorns to the Stars,” the actress became friends with Kir Bulychev, and 3 years later she starred in the film adaptation of his novel “Guest from the Future.” Her heroine Polina seemed like an unearthly creature, as if she had really arrived from another time for Alisa Selezneva.

Elena left her job as a fashion model to star in the film “Through Hardships to the Stars,” and this was the end of her successful career. Later she played several more episodic roles, but there was no such success as in the early 1980s.

Therefore, Metelkina again got a job as a fashion model at the Moscow Model House. In 1994, the GUM showroom was closed, and Elena lost her job.

Elena did not despair and began to learn the basics of a new profession. She completed secretarial assistant courses and got a job with businessman Ivan Kivelidi.

But in 1995, the businessman was poisoned with a potent poison that was used to treat the telephone receiver. The second secretary also died, but Elena miraculously remained alive, because that day she was in another office.

After the tragic incident, she reconsidered her outlook on life and turned to God. She went on pilgrimages to holy places, and then began working as a cleaner - first in the church of the Moscow courtyard of the Valaam Monastery, then in the League of Cooperators.

Then she again got a job as a secretary at the Society of War Veterans and Disabled Persons, then became a teacher in a boarding school for disabled children.

Elena's personal life was also full of drama. While filming in Crimea in 1980, she met a young man whom she married some time later.

But he turned out to be a marriage swindler who wanted to get Moscow registration with her help. Elena gave birth to a son from a swindler, and in 1982 she had to go to court to seek an annulment of the marriage.

Elena only once tried to return to work as a fashion model, but the beautiful alien was no longer in demand by the public, and she was no longer the same age. At the age of 46, she began working as a sales consultant.

After a while, Elena got a job as a customer service manager at a foreign language learning center. Now she sings in the church choir of one of the churches in Moscow and works in an icon shop; Elena will soon turn 64 years old.

Perhaps a person needs to try a lot in life, work in different areas in order to find something he really likes.

Personal life

During filming in 1980, Elena met a young man named Sergei in Crimea. She was fascinated by the gallant courtship and very soon fell in love. After filming ended, the girl returned to Moscow with her boyfriend. She confronted her parents with the fact that she was going to get married.

Elena Metelkina at the time of marriage | Evening Moscow

Elena and Sergei signed without delay. The young husband had a daughter from a previous relationship and was unhappy when Metelkina became pregnant. Elena refused offers to have an abortion, and disagreements began in the family. The pregnancy was difficult, the woman was in confinement for a long time. During this time, the husband found himself a new lover. After the birth of their son Alexander, the husband finally left the family.

Elena Metelkina | TVNZ

The separation from her husband was aggravated by the fact that he turned out to be a marriage swindler and tried to sue the Metelkins for their apartment. During this period, the fashion model’s father became embroiled in a scandal involving embezzlement of funds and, unable to withstand the pressure, committed suicide. The legal proceedings went on for several years, but in the end the apartment was defended, and the marriage was recognized as valid.

The next time Elena heard about her husband was only in 1996, when law enforcement officers came to her house. They asked for a certificate stating that the tenant had been discharged from the apartment, and did not divulge the reason for their appearance.

Elena Metelkina | IT-Ru

One day Elena turned to a fortune teller, because the pain from her husband’s betrayal did not subside for a long time. She was told that her ex-husband died a terrible death. Elena realized that she could have shared her husband’s fate if they had not separated.

The difficult life trials of the fashion model made her despondent and pushed her to search for answers to eternal questions. Metelkina became a very religious person. First she visited the temple, then went on pilgrimages to holy places, and later found a spiritual mentor in the person of Father Mikhail Titov.

Elena Metelkina with her son Alexander | Gossip

Elena Metelkina’s son graduated from the Institute of International Relations. But he preferred a career as a car mechanic to work in his specialty. Alexander dreams of starting his own business.

Elena Metelkina believes that her personal life is not yet a written chapter in the book of her life, and she will still meet a decent Christian with whom she will be happy.

Film crew

• Scriptwriters: Kir Bulychev, Pavel Arsenov
• Stage director: Pavel Arsenov
• Main operators - Sergey Onufriev, Sergey Tkachenko
• Production designer: Olga Kravchenya
• Composer: Evgeny Krylatov
• Song based on poems by Yuri Entin
• Director: Olga Gusakova
• State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography of the USSR Conductor - Sergei Skripka

When Evgeny Krylatov wrote music, in some compositions he used tracks and motifs from his previous work - “The Rings of Almanzor”

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Elena Metelkina now

Elena Vladimirovna could have worked as a fashion model all her life, but her profession has become obsolete due to the massive emergence of ready-made clothing stores. The woman graduated from her modeling career at the age of 46.

Elena Metelkina now | Interlinks

Metelkina worked as a secretary-assistant, a clothing and shoe saleswoman, a teacher at a boarding school, a customer service manager, and even a cleaner. According to some sources, Metelkina now works in an icon shop and sings in the choir of a parish church in Moscow.

Biography[ | ]

Born in Moscow into a military family. Father - Vladimir Dmitrievich Metelkin, guard major, military engineer by training, participant in the Great Patriotic War since September 1942, was a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad. Mother - Ninel Petrovna Metelkina.

After graduating from school, she worked as a librarian. In 1973, at the age of 20, she starred in a short episode in the film “Shores.”

In 1974, she appeared on the podium for the first time, having mastered the profession of “clothing demonstrator” in a week. She worked as a fashion model in GUM and as a fashion model. In 1979, writer Kir Bulychev and director Richard Viktorov, while looking through one of the fashion magazines, came across a portrait of Elena Metelkina and realized who could play the alien Niya in their future film “Through Hardships to the Stars.” The film, released on the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight on April 12, 1981, attracted 20.5 million viewers in its first year of screening. At the end of the year, Elena Metelkina took fourth place in terms of popularity among film actors. In 1982, at the annual international science fiction film festival in Trieste (Italy), Elena was awarded the Silver Asteroid special jury prize for best actress in a science fiction film.

In 1983, Metelkina’s film career continued with the role of the daughter in a family of foreigners in the short film by Alexander Mayorov “Goldfish” based on the story by Kir Bulychev, but all episodes with foreigners were cut out at the request of the editorial board. In 1984, Elena played the roles of music teacher Irina in Evgeniy Gerasimov’s film “Very Important Person” and employee of the Moscow Institute of Time Polina in Pavel Arsenov’s children’s TV series “Guest from the Future,” based on the fantastic story “One Hundred Years Ahead” by Kir Bulychev ( 1977)[K 1]. After filming, she returned to work as a model.

Outside of cinema[ | ]

In the early 1990s, she got a job as a secretary-assistant for businessman Ivan Kivelidi. After the death of her boss, she worked as a cleaner in the church of the Moscow courtyard of the Valaam Monastery and in the League of Cooperators, as a teacher in a boarding school for sick children, as a fashion model and saleswoman in a clothing store, as a saleswoman in a shoe store[2], as a customer service manager in an educational, educational, "VKS-International House"[3]. Participates in the choir of the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pokrovsky-Streshnevo[4].

In 2020, she became a muse and ambassador of the clothing brand for women of elegant age Garnet Garden Fashion Art (founder and creative director - Anastasia Lavrova). The shooting of the premiere collection took place in Les Jardins d'Etretat (France).

Personal life[ | ]

She was married, but her husband turned out to be a marriage swindler, and the marriage was declared invalid by the court. Son Alexander works as a car mechanic[2].

Years of childhood and youth

Actress Elena Metelkina, whose biography is of great interest to the generation who grew up in the era of the 80s, is a native of Moscow. She was born on October 23, 1953. Already in her school years, Lena had a whole arsenal of hobbies. But soon the girl began to show genuine interest in the art of transformation. She, without hesitation, signed up for the drama club.

At school, she tried to participate in all the performances and skits that her home class organized. However, in addition to acting in plays, Elena Metelkina was interested in another, no less interesting activity - photography. But the girl’s leisure activities were not limited to this either. She loved to “show off” in stylish clothes in front of the mirror and was interested in fashion news.

First roles

Many viewers who like Elena Metelkina believe that the actress’s debut was the film “Through Thorns to the Stars.” In fact, the star first appeared on the set already in 1973, having received a small role in the comedy “Shores,” directed by Ekaterina Stashevskaya. It is interesting that her character, who appeared in the frame for just a minute, was noticed by critics due to the actress’s unusual appearance.

Elena was offered to star in the science-fiction drama “Through Hardships to the Stars,” presented to the audience in 1980, by director Richard Viktorov. The model got the role of the alien Niya, which she refused for a long time, citing a lack of serious acting experience. On the set, Metelkina tried to follow the master’s instructions exactly. As a result, it was her Niya who became the favorite of many viewers who watched the film. The “Silver Asteroid” award was also proof of the actress’s talent.

Data

• The Soviet "Guest from the Future" (1984) was filmed eight years earlier than the Australian television series "The Girl from Tomorrow" (1992) [10] - a film with a fairly similar content about the movement of the girl Alana from the year 3000 to 1990 and the subsequent adventures associated with in particular, with the loss and search for a valuable technical device. Both girls, Alana and Alisa, are majoring in biology and studying genetics.
• In 2012, the fake news agency Fognews.ru[11] spread a rumor that the Amsterdam City Court had banned the screening of the film in Holland due to the fact that the film allegedly contained propaganda of a heterosexual lifestyle.[12][13][14]. The fictitious news was, as has repeatedly happened with other comic “news,” reprinted by several media outlets[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. According to the Metro newspaper, the fact of the ban was allegedly confirmed by its own source[22].

Heritage

In 2007, on the NTV channel in the program “The Main Hero”, an episode “Natasha Guseva: Alice has become an adult” was released, telling about the fate of Natalia and the rest of the young actors of the film “Guest from the Future”, about the role of the film for the generation of the 1980s and about the cultural phenomenon "alisomania".[23]