Erast Garin
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Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...
and Sergey Martinson
Sergey Martinson
Sergey Alexandrovich Martinson was a Russian eccentric comic actor, the master of pantomime, buffoonery and grotesque. He became People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1964....
, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold was a great Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer. His provocative experiments dealing with physical being and symbolism in an unconventional theatre setting made him one of the seminal forces in modern international theatre.-Early...
's company and of the Soviet cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
in 1977.
Garin was born in Ryazan
Ryazan
Ryazan is a city and the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Oka River southeast of Moscow. Population: The strategic bomber base Dyagilevo is just west of the city, and the air base of Alexandrovo is to the southeast as is the Ryazan Turlatovo Airport...
as Erast Gerasimov. He started his acting career in 1919 in an amateur theatre of the Ryazan military district. In 1926 he finished his education in the experimental theatrical workshops of the People's Commissariat for Enlightenment. He always looked up upon Meyerhold and Mikhail Chekhov as his mentors, rejecting naturalistic acting techniques propagated by Stanislavsky and paying utmost importance to voice and gesture.
Garin worked with Meyerhold in his theatre until its dissolution in 1936. Among his triumphs was the part of Khlestakov in the 1926 production of The Government Inspector. The trance-like quality of his "grotesquely anxious" performances in Meyerhold's productions could be attributed to an expressionistic acting style.
Nikolay Akimov
Nikolay Akimov
Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov was an experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. His most notorious production was the cynical version of Hamlet , with Ophelia as a drunken prostitute and the king's ghost as a clever mystification arranged by...
's Theatre of Comedy was the next theatre he worked in. In 1946 he gave up stage performances and concentrated on film acting. In 1941 he was awarded the Stalin Prize for the role of Tarakanov in the film Musical Story. Half-blindness prevented him from playing any major roles in the 1960s and 1970s.
Together with his wife Khesya Lokshina he was director of several films, for which he also contributed scripts. They adapted Mikhail Zoshchenko
Mikhail Zoshchenko
-Biography:Zoshchenko was born in 1895, in Poltava, but spent most of his life in St. Petersburg / Leningrad. His Ukrainian father was a mosaicist responsible for the exterior decoration of the Suvorov Museum in Saint Petersburg. The future writer attended the Faculty of Law at the Saint Petersburg...
's novel Respected Comrade in 1930. Garin's memoirs, entitled With Meyerhold, appeared in 1974.
As actor
- Lieutenant KijéLieutenant Kijé (film)Lieutenant Kijé is a 1934 Soviet comedy film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer based on the novel of the same title by Yury Tynyanov. The film was released in the USA as The Czar Wants to Sleep.Sergei Prokofiev composed the score.-Cast:...
(Поручик Киже, 1934) - Женитьба (1936)
- На границе (1938)
- Musical story (Музыкальная история, 1940)
- Швейк готовится к бою (1942)
- Иван Никулин - русский матрос (1944)
- Свадьба (1944)
- Синегория (1946)
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- CinderellaCinderella (1947 film)Cinderella is a 1947 Soviet musical film by Lenfilm studios.It is a classical story about Cinderella, her evil Stepmother, and a Prince.-Cast:* Cinderella - Yanina Zheymo* Prince - Aleksei Konsovsky* King - Erast Garin...
(Золушка, 1947) - Встреча на Эльбе (1949)
- Ревизор (1952)
- Неоконченная повесть (1955)
- Девушка без адреса (1957)
- Beloved BeautyBeloved BeautyBeloved Beauty is a 1958 feature-length stop motion-animated film from the Soviet Union. The film, which was made at the Soyuzmultfilm studio, is based on Russian folk tales.-Creators:-See also:*History of Russian animation...
(Краса ненаглядная, 1958) - Ведьма (1958)
- Шли солдаты (1958)
- Русский сувенир (1960)
- Аленка (1961)
- Водяной (1961)
- Kain XVIIIKain XVIIIKain XVIII is a 1963 film from the Soviet Union, adapted from Evgeny Shvarts' tale Two friends. The Soviet film industry reported that 21.7 million spectators saw the film.-Plot:...
(Каин XVIII, 1963) - Оптимистическая трагедия (1963)
- Обыкновенное чудо (1964)
- Веселые расплюевские дни (1966)
- Два дня чудес (1970)
- Gentlemen of FortuneGentlemen of FortuneGentlemen of Fortune is a Soviet comedy, filmed at Mosfilm. The stars of the film include famous Soviet actors such as Savely Kramarov, Yevgeny Leonov, Georgy Vitsin, and Radner Muratov....
(Джентльмены удачи, 1971) - Если ты мужчина... (1971)
- Нейлон 100% (1974)
- Меняю собаку на паровоз (1975)
- Пошехонская старина (1975)
As director
- Женитьба (1936)
- Доктор Калюжный (1939)
- Принц и нищий (1942)
- Синегория (1946)
- An Ordinary MiracleAn Ordinary Miracle (1964 film)An Ordinary Miracle is a Soviet 1964 lyrical comedy film, a love story directed by Erast Garin based on a play by Yevgeni Shvarts.King's palace was filmed in Vorontsov's Palace.- Cast :* Aleksei Konsovsky* Nina Zorskaya * Oleg Vidov as The Bear...
(Обыкновенное чудо, 1964) - Веселые расплюевские дни (1966)
As script writer
- Женитьба (1936)
- Обыкновенное чудо (1964)
- Веселые расплюевские дни (1966)