Actors - representatives of the cruel profession.Not all of them manage to play leading roles. Astafyev Yuri Grigorievich is one of those who passed his way in the cinema quietly, unnoticed. It is unlikely that the modern viewer will be able to name the paintings in which he was involved. Meanwhile, Yuri Astafiev is an actor of rare talent and a wide range.
Astafyev Yuri Grigorievich was born in 1949 inDushanbe. He received his theatrical education in Yaroslavl. For several years he worked in Smolensk theater. Then he moved to Moscow, where the director Mark Zakharov drew the attention of Shakespeare’s play to him. Yuri Astafyev until the end of his days worked, or rather lived, on the Lenkom stage. In the movie, he played only nine roles. Among them - not a single star. Astafyev Yuri Grigorievich died in 1990. Buried in Moscow.
Is that really all that can be said about such a wonderful actor as Yuri Astafiev?
The wife of the hero of this article - the actress of the theater. Vakhtangov Lydia Konstantinov. Known for the films "Reference Point" and "In Moscow, travel ...". In addition to these pictures in the filmography of the actress 15 works.
Astafiev did not belong to those bright and shockingto the figures about which the legends were composed. He was not a man of modest acting. Once, when he saw off his wife and son at the station, one of Konstantinova’s fellow travelers took him for a taxi driver. The actor is not only not outraged, but even played up a deluded passenger, naturally fulfilling the role of the driver.
And how do you remember Yuri Astafiev colleagues and fans?
Astafyev Yuri Grigorievich was an actorversatile. But when the young artist, after graduating from the Yaroslavl School, fell into the troupe of the Smolensk Theater, the main director saw him as the first cosmonaut, the pride of the entire Soviet people. Astafyev had a Gagarin smile. In the image of his great namesake, he went on stage for two years.
For more than a quarter of a century, this performance was on stage.theater Lenkom. The simple story of Nikita, Kai, Terenty, as well as a charming and sweet girl named Nel surprisingly aroused unceasing interest of the audience. Critics guessed: what is the success of the play? And the popularity of the production was not in the plot, but in the talent of the actors and the director. Astafyev played Kaya in this performance. For several years, this role was the brightest in his repertoire.
Astafyev was also involved in the performances of The Thief, Romulus the Great, The Star and the Death of Joaquin Mureta. But the main theatrical role was that which he played just a year before his death.
For the production of the play "Cemetery Angel" YuriAstafyev did what the actors never did. He was engaged in search of actors, got stock. Astafyev added to his role poetic compositions from the works of Mayakovsky, Blok, Pasternak. It was his performance. But the play didn’t miss censorship for too long. Astafyev, a man who was distinguished by an extremely serious approach to his business, it was during this period that the first heart attack occurred.
In 1972, Astafiev played a major role in the film based on the novel of the same name by Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.
Then there were a few minor works in the movie.In 1987, the actor was invited to the main role in the film “Looking for a friend of life.” Astafyev played in the film “In the Surf”, voiced one of the characters in the animated film “The Beast”. The role in the film "The Storm over Russia" was his last. During the filming of the actor suffered a heart attack. This happened in November 1990. The film was released a year later. Hero Astafieva spoke in this film with the voice of Mikhail Selutin.
This article outlines the actor's career,who left unnoticed. Fans of Russian cinema sometimes even now, more than a quarter of a century after his death, are surprised to see a modest tombstone at the St. Nicholas Archangel cemetery. Is this the same actor who played in the Surf Strip, Thunderstorm Over Russia?
The tragedy is that he left early, nothaving realized himself in the cinema. And the fact is that even talented roles in penetrating films have gone almost unnoticed. It is worth saying a few words about one of them.
In 1988, a movie came out in whichstarred prominent actors of the Soviet cinema. But the picture did not cause a resonance. In fashion at that time was a detective genre. The story that lay in the plot of the film “Two and One” is simple and tragic. She was not included in the gold collection of national cinema. But this picture is one of the best that was created at Soviet film studios in the eighties.
Once an elderly and lonely man metwoman Loved her, got married. An absurd death deprived the latter of hope for happiness. The protagonist of this story lost his beloved woman, and her little daughter - mother. But he did not despair, but took responsibility for the orphan girl. A windy father lived far away somewhere, but there was little hope for him.
The hero of the film, played by George Burkov,He loved the girl as his own, because, according to him, there was no one to love him more. In this film, Astafyev played the role of a good-for-nothing father, whose feelings for his daughter wake up only after the death of the former wife. He arrives, and a drama called “Two and One” unfolds here.
Игра талантливых актеров придала и без того tragic plot extraordinary penetration. Astafyev is remembered by many today precisely because of the role of Koryakin, which he played two years before his death.
