200 roles and the last love of 88-year-old "just professional" Georgy Shtil

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talks about himself Georgy Shtil People's Artist of Russia, who is called the unsurpassed "master of secondary roles". In the track record of this cheerful actor with a colorful appearance, there are more than two hundred movie roles, as well as fifty in the theater. Even in the smallest roles, this actor managed to show off his talent so much that every episode with his participation became unforgettable for the audience. How and how the 88-year-old artist lives today, further - in our publication.

Neither small stature nor age is a hindrance

This talented artist is sure that every episode in the movie is important and that there are no small roles..

And whatever difficulties were encountered on the way of Georgy Antonovich, he lived and continues to live under the motto. Of course, the artist had and still has dreams that not all have come true, which he also looks very philosophically at, assuring: He also does not worry much about his age:.

Turning the pages of a biography

Georgy Shtil was born in Leningrad in 1932 in a family of Russified Germans. This caused a lot of problems for his family during wartime. When the Germans came close to the walls of the city, their father was sent to the Urals, where he worked throughout the war at a strategic defense plant, and 9-year-old Georgy, his younger sister and mother were evacuated to the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, to the village of Nadezhdino. The war years in evacuation were a heavy burden on the shoulders of an eternally hungry Leningrad boy, who was trying with all his might to get some food for his sister and mother. In the summer he collected all kinds of berries in the forest and prepared firewood for the winter, and in the fall he dug up collective farm fields in search of frozen potatoes.

George, who saw the first bombing of Leningrad by German aircraft, after the war began to dream of a flight school. However, upon entering the university, he flunked the German language. The curiosity in this story was not even that he himself was a German by nationality, but that from six to nine he was brought up by a German governess who spoke German. Yes, that there is a governess, his parents also spoke German with each other and with the children.

Never discouraged, George, decided to try his luck at the nautical school. And he entered. Curiously, the future sailor Shtil did not know how to swim at all. Of course, that would certainly have learned, if not for one "but". He was expelled from the sailor for a fight with a classmate, with whom he fought, defending the honor of his hometown.

As a result, our hero graduated from the pedagogical college and received a diploma of a physical education teacher. However, he did not have to work in his specialty, four years of military service completely changed the plans of the future artist, and he becomes a student at the Ostrovsky Leningrad Theater Institute.

He graduated from the university in 1961, and then was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky. And for almost 60 years now, Georgy Antonovich has entered the stage of this theater, giving his beloved profession all his creative potential, talent and strength. By the way, he started acting in films a year earlier, and continues to this day, bringing a little zest to each of his episodes.

The role of Georgy Shtil in cinema is eccentric narrow-minded peasants. This is how he is remembered in the films "Be My Husband", "Treasure Island", "Nutty", "Peter Pan". Some viewers will remember him as a barman in a variety show in The Master and Margarita by Vladimir Bortko. The actor also starred in historical films - "Dauria", "Sibiriada", "Return of the Battleship". Many remember the later roles of Calm - Rogov's father-in-law in "Deadly Force" and Lieutenant Colonel Firsov ("Kefirich") in "Streets of Broken Lights" of the new seasons.

Throughout his creative career, Georgy Antonovich acted a lot and with great pleasure in children's films with the talented director Nadezhda Kosheverova. He also looks organically in the image of Leshy or Water. - Georgy Antonovich is convinced. In the creative piggy bank of the actor there are many fairy tales: "New Year's Adventures of Masha and Viti", "The Tale of a Painter in Love", "Three Fat Men", "An Old, Old Tale". Films based on fairy tales, in which the actor starred, are adored by small children. However, ironically, the actor himself was not lucky enough to become a father.

35 years of a happy marriage and 5 years of trials …

Georgy Antonovich, 36, met with Rimma Pavlovna, a decorator, at the Lenfilm studio during the filming of the film Zhenya, Zhenya and Katyusha. The actor immediately liked the beautiful woman. - the actor recalled. The couple have been married for four decades, as they say, in perfect harmony. Unfortunately, Rimma could not give George an heir due to the operation she underwent. Nevertheless, he took it as a given of fate, and the thought of leaving his spouse because of this did not even occur to the actor. Rimma, in turn, was very worried and jealous of her husband both to colleagues and to fans. She was very afraid of losing him.

In the 1990s, Rimma was diagnosed with cancer. They managed to neutralize the tumor in time, but in 2001 the woman suffered a stroke, as a result of which she lost her speech and the ability to move independently., - said the artist. For a long five years, the actor meekly looked after his bedridden wife. And she, already on her deathbed, as she could, begged her husband that after her death he would not be left alone.

Love happens at 75 too

The second wife is Liana Zurabovna, a Georgian by nationality, an osteopath by profession, 14 years younger than Georgy Antonovich. They got married in 2007, six months after Calm was widowed. Liana was Rimma Pavlovna's attending physician and also her friend. It was she who helped the actor survive the departure of his beloved wife, and later returned his interest in life.

Once George and Liana were invited by their mutual friend to visit her dacha..

P. S

The talented actor Georgy Shtil is rightfully considered the king of the episode in the cinema, he has received many government and cinematic awards. In 2016, for his anniversary, Georgy Antonovich released his memoir "All my roles are the main ones", where he outlined not only the secrets of his creative success, but the main views on life in general. And I think that with such a philosophy of life, the artist will delight his fans with creativity for many years to come.

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