How did the fate of 8 famous Soviet brother-actors who managed to declare themselves equally loudly?

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

You will not surprise anyone with acting clans, because in many families the ministry to cinema passes from generation to generation: from grandfather to father, from father to son. However, there are much fewer siblings who have achieved the same success in this field. But they do exist, and, moreover, many of them were not inferior in popularity to each other, played vivid roles and made a great contribution to Russian culture. But how did the relationship really develop between them? Did they manage to avoid conflicts and rivalries with each other?

Yuri and Vitaly Solomin

Perhaps the Solomins are the most famous brothers who have achieved almost the same success. However, they played completely polar roles: Yuri was more successful in dramatic roles, Vitaly - in comedic ones. Nevertheless, for many years, rumors have been circulating in the press that relatives were in conflict. How true is this?

Yuri was the first to leave his native Chita to conquer Moscow. Vitaly, who was 6 years younger, also wanted to follow his brother. But when the teachers from the acting school came to his hometown, he failed the entrance exams. Then Yuri, who had already managed to play several roles and taught, called him to his place, sheltered him in his dorm room and sent him to tests in front of the admissions committee of the Shchepkinsky school. However, he did not tell his colleagues that this was his brother. They, having learned the name of the applicant, immediately accepted him.

The actors played together on the stage of the Maly Theater and even acted in films, but then their creative paths did not intersect. Apparently, this is where the rumors began that the brothers did not get along well with each other. Many years later, Yuri himself decided to speak about this. According to him, he realized that he could not play with Vitalia because he is older, and it seems to him that the younger is doing everything wrong. But, according to him, there was no rivalry between them, since they were completely different. However, when Yuri became the artistic director of the Maly Theater, Vitaly returned there as a director.

In 2002, as a result of a stroke, the youngest of the Solomin brothers died, and the elder did not raise the topic of their relationship. But two years ago, at one of the programs, he said that his mother was the connecting link in their family. And when she died in 1992, Yuri and Vitaly stopped communicating and did not maintain a relationship until the latter's death.

Aristarkh and Igor Livanovs

The father of Aristarkh and Igor Yevgeny was also an actor. True, he could not fully realize his potential. The culprit was that his father was recognized as an "enemy of the people", and after him the son fell out of favor, who after the war was not allowed to return to the theater. Therefore, Livanov Sr. began to lead the Kiev Puppet Theater.

Aristarchus is 6 years older than Igor. Both played their first roles in their father's theater. But the elder decided to become an actor first, but for a long time he played on provincial venues. Only a few years later he was invited to Moscow.

Igor wanted to enter the Institute of Physical Education, but then decided to follow in the footsteps of his father and brother. It was Aristarchus who helped prepare for the exams at LGITMiK, which he himself graduated a few years earlier. And the younger Livanov largely repeated the path of his brother, playing in the Rostov theater. But he left there for Moscow for a different reason.

By that time, Igor had already managed to get married and become a father. However, in 1987 his wife and daughter were killed in a train accident. A year later, wishing to recover from grief, he went to the capital at the invitation of Vasily Livanov, who, by the way, is not his relative.

Glory came to Igor thanks to Aristarchus. It was he who proposed the candidacy of his little brother for the role of "Destroy the Thirtieth", where he also starred. But Igor was still facing trials: his second wife Irina went to Sergei Bezrukov, and their son Andrei died at the age of 25. Now the Livanovs rarely see each other and call each other, but they know that if help is needed, they will be the first to lend a helping hand to each other.

Oleg and Lev Borisov

The Borisov brothers gained fantastic popularity during their lifetime. True, to the eldest, Oleg, fame came earlier, and Leo was able to loudly declare himself much later.

The childhood of the future actors was spent in the Moscow region, and during the war they were evacuated to Kazakhstan. Both loved football and even dreamed of becoming professional actors. But Oleg was the first to say that he wanted to connect his life with cinema and went to enter the Moscow Art Theater School. In 1955, he starred in his debut film "Mother", and 6 years later, the picture with his participation "Chasing Two Hares" was a success across the country.

And at this time, Leo also tried to conquer the world of cinema. He graduated from the Shchukin School, but he was often invited to play small roles. But soon the brothers' creative paths crossed in the film "The Gardener", and later they played together in the television play "Swan Song", directed, by the way, by Oleg's son Yuri.

In 1994, the eldest of the brothers, who had been struggling with a serious illness for many years, passed away. He was never able to see the triumph of the younger, which came a few years after participating in the TV series "Gangster Petersburg". Unfortunately, Leo was not able to enjoy the long-awaited success for a long time: in 2011, he died of a heart attack.

Valery and Vladimir Nosiki

Valery was born in 1940, 8 years later his brother Vladimir was born. The elder, as a child, dreamed of playing in the theater, and therefore, after graduating from school, he submitted documents to VGIK. The youngest, on the other hand, did not think about cinema for the time being, received a working specialty at a vocational school, served in the army. But, perhaps, the example of a relative prompted him to devote himself to art, and soon he also became a student at VGIK.

And while Vladimir was learning the basics of acting, Valery had already started acting in films. The simplicity and sincerity of the latter attracted directors and viewers so much that from 1958 to 1995 he was filmed almost every year (the only exception was 1988).

Vladimir also very soon became a sought-after artist, and he has dozens of roles on his account. But, perhaps, the most memorable was the image of Gena Sysoev in the film "The Most Charming and Attractive".

The brothers also developed a relationship with the theater: the eldest played in Maly, and the youngest in the Theater of the Film Actor. However, on stage they did not intersect, but in the films they met several times. The first time this happened in 1969 in the film "Crime and Punishment". Then the whole country already knew Valeria from the role of a superstitious student-gambler in the comedy "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik", and Vladimir was an unknown student. And then there were works in the films "The Adventures of Ryabinkin", "Paradise apples" and "They drove a chest of drawers along the street." But the next "common" film had to wait right up to 1994 - then the brothers were invited to play "American Grandpa".

But the idea to play together on stage did not leave the actors, and it could come true: Valery persuaded the leadership of the Maly Theater to take his younger brother into the troupe. But the unexpected happened: the elder Nosik had a heart attack. And a few months later, Vladimir began to play on the same stage as a relative, even the plate in the dressing room did not have to be changed.

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