Video: Impudence is the second happiness, or How the actor Ivanov got the role of Lieutenant Grasshopper
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you mention the name and surname Sergei Ivanov, then not everyone will understand who they are talking about. But one has only to look at the photo, then the image of a smiling person immediately pops up in the memory. Grasshopper from the film "Only" old men "go into battle … One of these days this actor would have turned 65 years old. How Sergei Ivanov became the favorite "Grasshopper" of the Soviet Union - further in the review.
Sergey Ivanov was born on May 22, 1951 in an intelligent family in Kiev. The future actor's grandfather was the author of a textbook on the Ukrainian language, and his father was a popular poet at that time. Sergei decided to be an actor. He entered the Kiev National University of Theater, Film and Television named after I. K. Karpenko-Kary, while asking his father not to use his connections to help his son. As the teachers later recalled about him: Sergei Ivanov was a somewhat awkward, but very charming young man. When he entered the audience, for some reason everyone began to smile, charging him with positive energy.
While still a student, Sergei Ivanov played several episodic roles. But this was enough for him to be invited to the film studio after graduation from the university. A. Dovzhenko. In 1973, Leonid Bykov was looking for actors for his "second singing squadron." As Leonid Fedorovich admitted, he saw himself in his youth in the image of Lieutenant Alexandrov (Grasshopper), so he wanted to find an active young man with wide eyes and an enthusiastic gaze for this role. Sergei Ivanov literally offered himself for this role, accidentally meeting with Bykov in the corridors of the film studio. After that, Leonid Fedorovich joked that he took Ivanov for this role because of his impudence.
As the actor himself said earlier, he did not believe in the transmigration of souls until he got his hands on the script of the film "Only" Old Men Go to Battle ". Ivanov allegedly saw himself in 1942, felt a thunder in the middle of a clear sky, drank his "legitimate one hundred grams." After the film was released in 1974, Sergei Ivanov acquired the love of the entire Soviet Union.
The actor was actively filming, but after the collapse of the USSR, no one needed him. By the end of the 1990s, he decided to shoot the series "Beginning of the Beginnings of Ukraine". The producers liked the first part devoted to the castles of Ukraine so much that they found sponsors and decided to increase the project budget. Inspired by this joyful news, Sergei Ivanov thought that life had begun to improve again. He decided to celebrate this event at home with friends, but suddenly his heart stopped beating. On January 15, 2000, the actor had a heart attack, he was only 48 years old.
Each actor who played in the cult film "Only" old men "go into battle has a difficult fate. Favorite comedian Alexey Smirnov, masterfully conveying the dramatic image of the mechanic Makarych, knew firsthand what a fight was. He spent 4 years at the front, performed heroic deeds and received a severe concussion, just barely reaching Berlin.
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