Video: Yuri Solomin - 83: Why the famous actor stopped acting in films
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
June 18 marks 83 years of the famous theater and film actor, director, teacher, public figure, artistic director of the Maly Theater Yuri Solomin … Unfortunately, recently he is rarely seen on screens - he has reasons to refuse most of the roles that modern directors offer him …
Yuri Solomin was born in 1935 in Chita into a family of musicians - his parents were teachers and directed amateur performances in the House of Pioneers. In their footsteps, the sons did not follow - both were passionate about theater and cinema. At the age of 14, Yuri saw the documentary film "The Maly Theater and Its Masters", which impressed him so much that he made a promise to himself at all costs to get on the stage of this famous theater. And although his parents dreamed that he would become a musician or a surgeon, they did not interfere with his choice.
In 1953, his father brought Yuri from Chita to Moscow to enter the Shchepkin Theater School. The course was then recruited by the famous artist Vera Pashennaya, who became a real guiding star for Solomin. He successfully completed two rounds, as here all the money was stolen from his father, and they could no longer stay in Moscow. Then Yuri went for broke: he came to Pashennaya and said that either he was accepted after two rounds, or he would have to immediately return to his hometown. Surprisingly, despite such an unheard-of impudence of the applicant, Pashennaya agreed to enroll him after two rounds. So Solomin became a student at the theater school, and after graduation he was accepted into the troupe of the Maly Theater.
Yuri Solomin's film debut took place in 1959, and this also happened thanks to the participation of Vera Pashennaya - she recommended the director Annensky to try the young actor for one of the roles in the film Sleepless Night. And 9 years later, the film with the participation of Solomin - "Strong in Spirit" - became the leader of the distribution in the USSR: it was then watched by 55 million viewers. Seeing Solomin in this film, director Yevgeny Tashkov decided to invite him, without samples, for the main role in his television series "Adjutant of His Excellency."
The role of Captain Koltsov became a landmark for Yuri Solomin and brought him all-Union popularity. The television series "His Excellency's Adjutant" was released in 1972 and was an incredible success with the audience. The actor talked about this role: "". In the 1970s. Solomin became one of the most filmed actors. And soon he tried his hand as a director.
In 1990, Solomin was offered the post of Minister of Culture. He later talked about this experience: "".
In 1988 Solomin became the artistic director of the Maly Theater, to which he devoted his whole life. In the 1990s. Yuri Solomin starred mainly in TV versions of his theater performances, and in the early 2000s. and completely disappeared from the screens. Since then, he has filmed extremely rarely, although he received offers from directors regularly.
The actor explains his position as follows: "".
In addition to working in the theater, Yuri Solomin was engaged in teaching at the Shchepkinsky School, and in social activities: in 1995 he headed the Pokrovsky Cathedral foundation, thanks to whose efforts money was raised for the restoration of St. Basil's Cathedral.
When asked whether he considers himself a Russian actor, or whether his profession can be called international, Yuri Solomin answers with the words of the famous Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli: "". There are really few people like him left; he is compared to Noah, who turned the Maly Theater into a “saving ark for Russian classical art” amid the dominance of Western culture.
Yuri Solomin is distinguished by an amazing consistency both in work and in his personal life: all these years he remained faithful to one theater and one woman - his wife Olga, with whom he has lived for 60 years. In 2017, the couple celebrated a diamond wedding. Yuri and Olga Solomin: Sometimes you need to be late to meet your love.
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