Video: Why the film intelligence officer "Alex" received the Stalin Prize, but played so little in films: Peter Chernov
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Most of the people mentioned in the novel by Yulian Semyonov and in the film "17 Moments of Spring" are historical figures. True, the names of the German generals and leaders were not a secret, but with the Soviet ones, everything was more complicated. The wonderful actor Pyotr Chernov, who embodied on the screen the image of the head of Soviet intelligence (in the film - General Gromov), could not tell that he was playing the role of a completely definite person, whom, by the way, he was very similar in appearance. Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin, the real "Alex", did not live to see himself on the screen for only a couple of years, but the actor who brilliantly played him in the famous film did not live long either.
The future actor was born on a very memorable day on October 25 (November 7) 1917. The roar of revolutionary upheavals reached the distant village of Medvedchikovo, Kemerovo Region, from afar, and did not directly touch the Chernov family. The boy successfully graduated from the local school and began to think about his future. From an early age, a talented nugget pleased fellow villagers with performances in the House of Miners - he read poetry from the stage, played in an amateur art circle, so at the age of 17, Pyotr Chernov was sent to study in Moscow on a Komsomol ticket as an actor, and he was enrolled in GITIS from the first time - that's such miracles happened in the 30s of the last century.
True, in those years they did not stand on ceremony with young actors, and after graduating from the university, the entire course was sent to work in the Gomel Regional Drama Theater. From there, in 1941, Chernov went to the front, but he did not have to fight for long. The talented artist was quickly returned and sent to travel with the 1st Belarusian front-line brigade. In 1943, the fate of Peter Chernov took another unusual turn. Having arrived in Moscow for a couple of days, he found out that right now there is a recruitment of actors at the Moscow Art Theater. Arriving at the famous theater, Chernov stayed in it for the rest of his life. In total, he played 43 roles on the theater stage.
It is known that Stalin had great respect for theatrical art, and his favorite was the Moscow Art Theater. Perhaps it was the personal intervention of the leader that explained the unexpected revival of this collective in the difficult 43rd year. And with this love, undoubtedly, is connected the fact that the number of laureates of the Stalin Prize at the Moscow Art Theater was greater than in other theaters. Joseph Vissarionovich perfectly knew the cast of his beloved theater and appreciated it according to his merits. In 1951, Pyotr Chernov also received his Stalin Prize for the role of the Altai collective farmer Matvey Rusanov in the play "Second Love".
Tatyana Lioznova admitted that she looked at the actor for the role of the head of Soviet intelligence also on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. Pyotr Chernov in the play "Nightingale Night" very convincingly played a military colonel and bribed the director's heart with this. At the time of filming 17 Moments of Spring, the actor was 55 years old and had serious health problems. As early as 45, he suffered a severe heart attack, and the heart periodically made itself felt.
Unfortunately, the shooting in the legendary film also did not pass without a trace for him - in the mid-1970s Chernov overtook the second worst attack. Doctors strongly recommended ending with emotional stress, but the actor could not imagine his life without his favorite profession. For several more years he continued to work, practically without slowing down, and in 1988 he passed away.
In the cinema, Pavel Chernov played a little more than a dozen roles, because he always considered theater to be his main work. To this fact I really want to add "unfortunately", because almost every appearance of him on the screen was very vivid - for example, all viewers remembered him in the roles of cornet Bunchuk in "Quiet Don" and Semyon Davydov in "Virgin Land Upturned". Most of all, the actor succeeded in strong male images that corresponded to his inner essence. Over time, people's sympathies change, but for several generations of Soviet and now Russian viewers, the legendary "Alex" performed by Pyotr Chernov remains the standard of a wise and sagacious boss.
The fate of General Gromov's prototype was not very successful: Why the head of Soviet intelligence, the legendary "Alex", was in disgrace
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