Tatyana Pelttser
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Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser ' onMouseout='HidePop("25584")' href="/topics/Moscow">Moscow
– July 16, 1992, Moscow
), was a Soviet theatre and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1960), and People's Artist of the USSR
(1972).
Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser born into the family of the well-known actor Ivan Pelttser first took the stage at the age of nine. Initially she played in provincial theatres, and then was engaged in MGSPS Theatre (Moscow) and in Moscow Theatre of Miniatures subsequently. From 1947 she was a leading actress of the Satire Theatre.
Tatyana Pelttser made her film debut in the satirical comedy Marriage (Svadba) (1944), and then appeared in the drama film She Defends the Motherland (Ona zashchishchayet rodinu) (1943). Her first remarkable film role was that of Plaksina in Grigori Kozintsev
and Leonid Trauberg
’s Simple People
(1945). The actress gained enormous popularity with her role of Lukerya in the stage play Bride with a Dowry (Svadba s pridanym) (1953), which was filmed and demonstrated in the country’s cinemas on a large scale. It was followed by another successful film, namely Soldier Ivan Brovkin (Soldat Ivan Brovkin) (1955), where she played the main character’s mother.
Her first role in the Satire Theatre was that of Mrs. Jacobs in Evgeny Petrov’s pamphlet “Island of Peace”. In her benefit role of Aunt Tonia in the play Wake Up and Sing Tatyana Pelttser would sing, dance and fly upstairs with the sprite of a young girl, though she was already nearly seventy. In the same manner she performed Marselina in the play Crazy Day, or Marriage of Figaro. Among the great number of her roles in Satire Theatre there stood out her lead in Mother Courage and Her Children: it was an aged woman worn out by war and deprived of her children.
In 1972 Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser became the People’s Artist of the USSR, the first one in the 48 years of the Satire Theatre’s existence.
Later the actress followed the stage director Mark Zakharov
who shifted to the Lenkom Theatre
.
In the late years of her life Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser started losing her memory. Specially for her Mark Zakharov staged the play A Funeral Prayer after the scenario by Grigori Gorin
, who made up the character of the old Jewish woman Berta for Tatyna Pelttser.
In 1992 after a nervous breakdown Tatyana Ivanovna found herself in a hospital and died on 16 July 1992.
Tatyana Pelttser was buried at Vvedenskoe Cemetery nearby her father’s grave.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
– July 16, 1992, Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
), was a Soviet theatre and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1960), and 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 :...
(1972).
Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser born into the family of the well-known actor Ivan Pelttser first took the stage at the age of nine. Initially she played in provincial theatres, and then was engaged in MGSPS Theatre (Moscow) and in Moscow Theatre of Miniatures subsequently. From 1947 she was a leading actress of the Satire Theatre.
Tatyana Pelttser made her film debut in the satirical comedy Marriage (Svadba) (1944), and then appeared in the drama film She Defends the Motherland (Ona zashchishchayet rodinu) (1943). Her first remarkable film role was that of Plaksina in Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev was a Jewish Ukrainian, Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts...
and Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Jewish Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.-Filmography:* The Adventures of Oktyabrina ...
’s Simple People
Simple People
Simple People is a 1945 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned...
(1945). The actress gained enormous popularity with her role of Lukerya in the stage play Bride with a Dowry (Svadba s pridanym) (1953), which was filmed and demonstrated in the country’s cinemas on a large scale. It was followed by another successful film, namely Soldier Ivan Brovkin (Soldat Ivan Brovkin) (1955), where she played the main character’s mother.
Her first role in the Satire Theatre was that of Mrs. Jacobs in Evgeny Petrov’s pamphlet “Island of Peace”. In her benefit role of Aunt Tonia in the play Wake Up and Sing Tatyana Pelttser would sing, dance and fly upstairs with the sprite of a young girl, though she was already nearly seventy. In the same manner she performed Marselina in the play Crazy Day, or Marriage of Figaro. Among the great number of her roles in Satire Theatre there stood out her lead in Mother Courage and Her Children: it was an aged woman worn out by war and deprived of her children.
In 1972 Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser became the People’s Artist of the USSR, the first one in the 48 years of the Satire Theatre’s existence.
Later the actress followed the stage director Mark Zakharov
Mark Zakharov
Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian theatrical director and playwright. He was also a professor of the Moscow Theatre Institute ....
who shifted to the Lenkom Theatre
Lenkom Theatre
Lenkom Theatre is the official name of what was once known as the Moscow State Theatre named after Lenin's Komsomol. Designed by Illarion Ivanov-Schitz, it was built in 1907 to house a Merchant's Club, and was home to many theatrical and musical performances...
.
In the late years of her life Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser started losing her memory. Specially for her Mark Zakharov staged the play A Funeral Prayer after the scenario by Grigori Gorin
Grigori Gorin
Grigori Israelevich Gorin was a Soviet/Russian dramatist and a prose writer.-Biography:Graduated from the Sechenov 1st Moscow Medical Institute in 1963, worked as an ambulanceman for some time....
, who made up the character of the old Jewish woman Berta for Tatyna Pelttser.
In 1992 after a nervous breakdown Tatyana Ivanovna found herself in a hospital and died on 16 July 1992.
Tatyana Pelttser was buried at Vvedenskoe Cemetery nearby her father’s grave.