Video: Artists in the War: Why Anatoly Papanov was ashamed of his famous comedic roles
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The war left its mark on everyone who went through it. The famous Soviet theater and film actor was also a front-line soldier. Anatoly Papanov … The audience was accustomed to seeing him on screens in a comedy role, and he himself considered these roles unsuccessful and could only be himself in films about the war. His relatives said that the war years influenced his entire life.
Anatoly Papanov was born in 1922. Since childhood, he dreamed of cinema and theater, and spent all his free time in the House of Culture, where films, concerts and performances were shown. From the eighth grade, Papanov began to study in a drama club, and after he got a job as a caster at a ball bearing plant, he did not give up his hobbies - he participated in productions of the factory theater studio and sometimes starred in extras at Mosfilm, dreaming that someone one of the directors will pay attention to him and offer at least a cameo role. But then his dreams were not destined to come true. In 1940, Papanov was drafted into the army, and soon the war began.
In the very first days, Papanov went to the front. Then he saw no other choice: "".
Anatoly Papanov commanded an anti-aircraft battery. In 1942 he ended up on the Southwestern Front. The Germans then launched a counteroffensive in this direction, and the Soviet troops had to retreat to Stalingrad. Later he recalled these terrible days: "".
One day a shell exploded next to Papanov. One of the fragments hit him in the leg. The wound turned out to be serious, the fighter spent almost six months in the hospital, he had to amputate three fingers, which is why he received the third group of disability. Anatoly Dmitrievich told: "".
In the fall of 1942 Papanov was discharged and he returned to Moscow. Fight, however, submitted documents to GITIS, and although the selection committee had doubts about whether he could walk on his own, he was admitted to the acting department. Only by the end of the fourth year he was able to walk without a cane, and at the state exam he played in two performances. However, for a long time in the theater, Papanov remained unclaimed, receiving only episodic roles. Because of this, he even abused alcohol for a while. Only in the mid-1950s. both theater and film directors finally drew attention to him. Papanov gave up drinking and smoking and never returned to bad habits.
For a long time, there were no suitable roles for a talented actor in cinema - he did not pass the audition for the role of director Ogurtsov in Eldar Ryazanov's film Carnival Night, as his play seemed to the director. But it was thanks to this manner that Papanov got his most famous roles in the films Beware of the Car and The Diamond Arm. And then he voiced the Wolf in the cartoon "Well, wait!".
Despite the incredible success of these works, the actor himself did not like them and was very worried that directors and viewers saw him only in a comedic role. His wife, Nadezhda Karataeva, said: "". He was very angry when on the streets he was overpowered by fans with constant exclamations of "Mustache, boss!" and “Wolf! The wolf is coming!"
Papanov believed that he was able to remain real only in films about the war. One of his best works, he called the role of General Serpilin in the film "The Living and the Dead", although for a long time he did not give consent to the shooting: "". The theme of the war has always remained the most serious and exciting for him: "".
Many colleagues did not find a common language with him, calling him too closed and strange. Papanov really avoided publicity, did not like acting gatherings and evenings after performances or filming, he preferred to spend not in restaurants, but at home reading. His wife said that the actor in life was very serious, gentle, sensitive and shy, he tried to protect himself from the hustle and bustle. And his ostentatious rudeness, because of which he was invited to the roles of simpletons, is just a mask.
His last job was the lead role in the film Cold Summer of 53. In 1987, Papanov died of cardiac arrest. All his life, the actor has lived with one woman. Anatoly Papanov and his Nadezhda: "I am a Monogamous woman - one woman and one theater".
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