Video: Scandalous glory of Vladimir Voroshilov: Why the creator of “What? Where? When?" fired several times from television
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Today the famous TV presenter Vladimir Voroshilov would have turned 87 years old, but he passed away 16 years ago. All his acquaintances and colleagues spoke about his difficult and irreconcilable character, but it was not those around him that suffered most from this, but he himself. The creator of the intellectual game “What? Where? When”was fired several times from television, and the audience wondered for many years why he was not shown in the frame, not knowing that the presenter was forbidden to appear on the screens.
Vladimir Kalmanovich was born into a Jewish family in Simferopol, later they moved to Moscow. Scandalous fame accompanied him since his studies at the Estonian Art Institute: for his graduation work in scenography, he chose Oliver Goldsmith's play "The Night of Errors", which caused a scandal. His teacher Boris Bernstein said: "".
After graduation, Vladimir Kalmanovich was sent to East Germany to the theater of a group of Soviet troops, but he was soon fired for the fact that during working hours he often disappeared in shops and restaurants, drawing German girls. Many problems arose because of his nationality: in 1952 he was arrested and kept under investigation for 11 months. Kalmanovich was sure that the only reason for this was his Jewish surname. Therefore, after marriage, he took his wife's surname - Voroshilov.
After returning to Moscow, Voroshilov worked for some time as a production designer in theaters, but in the early 1960s. he was fired again. “” - they said in many theaters, and it was really so. When in Lenkom the director wanted to see a column of night light on the stage, Voroshilov broke through the ceiling, for which he was fired. He was also kicked out of Sovremennik - wherever he worked, he had disagreements with his superiors.
Voroshilov's career in television began in 1962. He shot scientific and educational programs and documentaries, and 2 years later created his own program "Auction". At that time, advertising did not exist on Soviet television, and Voroshilov proposed an advertising and game format: the participants in the game answered questions about various goods, and in the final they received prizes. Only 6 episodes went on the air, after which the program was closed, and Voroshilov was transferred to a freelance employee. He said that this happened because of the "non-Soviet style" of the program and because a forbidden bardic song was sounded in one of the programs.
Due to a conflict with the leadership, Voroshilov was banned from appearing on screens, but he did not leave television - he wrote scripts, worked behind the scenes. He was the creator of the program "Come on, guys!", An analogue of the popular program "Come on, girls!" The presenter was fired again, but after 3 years he returned to television with his most famous project - the intellectual game “What? Where? When?".
Voroshilov was still prohibited from appearing on the screen, so his voice-over was not know-how, as many thought, but simply a necessary measure and the only way out. Voroshilov was not just a presenter - he worked on his brainchild from "A" to "Z", thinking over all the details of the script and selecting questions for the air. Director Georgy Zharinov said: "".
The name of the host of the TV game was first heard only in 1980, when the broadcast ended with the words: “. Thanks to Voroshilov, several more programs appeared - for example, "Brain-ring" and "Love at First Sight", in addition, the presenter became the author of the books "The Phenomenon of Play" and "Riddles of a Theater Director".
The difficult character of Voroshilov manifested itself not only in work, but also in his personal life. The presenter was officially married 4 times, but he did not live with any of the wives - raised in Jewish traditions, he considered it necessary to stay with his mother all his life, who was always an indisputable authority for him in all matters.
In December 2000, the year of the 25th anniversary of the transfer, Voroshilov played his last game, and in 2001 he died of a heart attack. In the same year, the TV show “What? Where? When?" received "Tefi" as the best television program, and Vladimir Voroshilov was awarded the prize "For personal contribution to the development of domestic television" already posthumously.
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