Video: David Gotsman in life and on the screen: the legendary Odessa criminal investigation officer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The sensational series directed by S. Ursulyak "Liquidation"released in 2007, captivated millions of viewers with a gripping storyline and brilliant acting. But the main reason for the popularity of the film was its charismatic image. David Gotsmanembodied on the screen Vladimir Mashkov … This hero had real prototype - from Odessa David Kurlyand, a criminal investigation officer, a thunderstorm of bandits of all stripes.
David Mikhailovich (Mendelevich) Kurlyand was born in Odessa in 1913. The family lived in Moldavanka at 37 Sadikovskaya Street. His father, a stove-builder, died when the boy was 7 years old. For some time he had to live in an orphanage, until his elder brother, a Red Army soldier, returned to Odessa and took him from there. It was the time of the Civil War and the rampant crime. The orphanages were familiar with the world of crime firsthand, obviously, back in those days, David decided to fight the bandits and protect honest citizens.
Before becoming an employee of the Criminal Investigation Department, David Kurlyand worked as a stove-maker, shoemaker, and factory worker. He got into the Odessa Criminal Investigation Department in the direction of the Komsomol. For several years, David went from assistant to senior opera. He solved complex cases one after another, carefully planned operations and did not risk, like his on-screen counterpart, going alone to take the gang. Colleagues called him “the professor of the fight against banditry”, and the criminals called him “the Odessa wolfhound”.
With the beginning of the Second World War, Kurland took part in the defense of Odessa in 1941, and then during the evacuation he fought against banditry in Uzbekistan. Indeed, among the evacuees there were currency dealers, bandits, deserters, and in their search Kurland's instinct never failed. He was only 28 years old when he was appointed deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Uzbekistan.
Upon his return, Kurland had more than enough work - post-war Odessa was literally covered with a wave of crime. Devastation, poverty, hunger and the availability of weapons contributed to the aggravation of the crime situation. Lack of food pushed people to crime. Officers who returned from the front were often killed for weapons and ration cards. Armed deserters carried out robberies, killing entire families.
But the city still managed to put things in order. The deputy head of the Odessa Criminal Investigation Department David Kurlyand did not give the gangsters a go. According to the son of Kurland Anatoly, “the father was respected and feared, including by the bandits. The surname Kurlyand horrified criminals. He managed to liquidate the well-known Black Cat gang, consisting of 19 repeat offenders, as well as the Dodge 3/4 and Odessa Tarzan gang.
After his retirement in 1963, Kurland gave lectures at the school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time, participated in the creation of the museum of the history of the Odessa police, in which you can now see an exposition dedicated to Kurland himself. In 2008, at the entrance to the building of the Odessa regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a monument to the employees of the Odessa post-war criminal investigation department was unveiled, which is popularly called the monument to David Kurland.
How they fought crime in post-war Odessa, David Kurlyand told in his memoirs. It was this document that became the basis for the creation of the "Liquidation" scenario. The film was released in 2007, 14 years after the death of David Kurland. Kurland's relatives strongly disagreed about his image in the series: if the grandson Vladimir thought that Mashkov had succeeded in accurately conveying the character of his grandfather, then the son, Anatoly Davidovich, said that the filmmakers “not only had the plot of the film been“ripped off”from his father’s diaries, so also his image was completely distorted. Vladimir Mashkov looks like his father only outwardly, but his father was kinder."
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