ILYINSKY IGOR

Russian actor and director. Among roles: Schastlivtsev ( "Forest"), Akim ( "The Power of Darkness"), Prisypkin ( "Bug"), and Khlestakov gorodnichy ( "Auditor") and others appeared in the movies: "Feast of St. Jorgen" , "cutter of Torzhka", "Kiss of Mary Pikford", "Volga-Volga", "Carnival Night", "Gusar ballad, etc.

Igor Ilyinsky was born 11 (24) July 1901 in Moscow. His father, a dentist by profession, was a gifted actor-lover, who succeeded particularly comic role.

While studying in the gymnasium Igor publishes comic magazine "Different kind of" engaged in sport: to play tennis, skate to sports at Petrovka, participates in competitions for rowing.

But his main passion has become a theater. In autumn 1917, Ilyinsky comes to the theatrical studio under the guidance of famous directors Komissarzhevskaya F. and B. Сахнов�кого.

February 21, 1918, he debuted on the stage of VF Komissarzhevskaya as an old man in the play "Lisistrata" Aristophanes. Ilyinsky simultaneously manages to play in several troupes.

During the fifteen years of his artistic destiny is closely linked with the experimental director Vsevolod Meyerhold. After Ilyinsky has played the role of Menshevik-compromiser in Misteria-Buff "(1921) and Bruno V. Mayakovsky in" generous rogonostse "Krommelinka F. (1922), critics called it" the best pupil of Meyerhold. " The director noted for his actors Ilyinsky seriousness, devotion to the theater.

There have been changes in the artist′s personal life. Igor met with a young actress Tatyana Biryukova meyerholdovskogo theater. Soon, they joined their destinies.

In the tragicomic role Revnivtsev Bruno Ilyinsky aroused a storm of delight, anger, disputes, bewilderment, sides and bad language. With deadly pale, frozen like a mask and mechanically monotonous gestures, suffering from unbearably jealousy, Ilyinsky - Bruno burst pathetically comic monologues in the field, and their painful emotions expressed kulbitami, zakatyvaniem eye, and even growl and wheeze. No notice was not Ilyinsky. In addition to the theater of Meyerhold, Ilyinsky Moscow art theater in the first studio to play poteshnye servant Groom ( "The Taming of the Shrew") and in the Theater of VF Komissarzhevskaya - General Pralinskogo ( "grisly anecdote").

Yakov A. Protazanov gathering place "Aelita" to the novel, AN Tolstoy, invited him to play detective Kravtsova.

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Ilyinsky was disappointed with the small role, but Protazanov promised to expand it. And the role really grew up. With antennae and round him with astonishment poteshnye concentrated and efficiency, detective, contrary to common sense, does not interfere in their affairs and even the way to Mars . . .

Many a film director, drew attention to a rising movie stars. Ilyinsky shot in the comedy "Papirosnitsa of Mosselproma" in the role of Nicodemus Mitushin, strange rabid buyana with borodenkoy constantly jumping and falling to its fashion bryuchkah. The success was complete. Screenwriter VK Turkin writes for Ilyinsky role of a simple working guy Petelkina. Comedy "cutter of Torzhka" was to promote the bond loan. But Turkin drew her against Philistinism. And again - success!

Protazanov, admiring Ilyinsky, feeling his astonishing naturalness in the extraordinary provisions, and to put it frankly eccentric and lyrical situation. Ilyinsky played a small tapioca sneak in the comedy "The process of about three million on the novel G. Notari Three thief. " Great company it was M. Klimov and A Ktorov. The film has been enthusiastically adopted by the public. Petelkina overshadowed tapioca.

"What I enjoyed working in nemom movie? - Wrote Ilyinsky. - Mainly free improvisation. Then I felt that the "decorations" and "structures" in the movie for me as an actor, all around me the real world. I can play on the roof of the car, the radiator moving cars, jumping on a horse, swim in the sea. In fact, what the wealth offered to an actor in comparison to the theater. Besides, power equipment, I can easily file a spectator game one of my eyes, one eyebrow, which is almost impossible to achieve in the theater. "

Meanwhile, the creative ways Ilyinsky and Meyerhold apart. The reason for the gap becomes the wife of filmmaker Zynaida Reich, which vozomniv themselves adopt deliberately relegated it to second place. Ilyinsky with his wife goes into Leningrad Academic Drama Theater.

Film fate Ilyinsky is successful. Protazanov not missed the opportunity to consolidate the success of "The Process of three million. " Small sneak Franz played Ilyinsky Protazanova in the next comedy, "Feast of St Jorgen, was similar to tapioca. Both - cheat, they lie, lovchat, donors something snitch. Cassava is the most popular way Ilyinsky.

In the second half of 1920′s he was in a comedy from directors Boris Barnet, S.

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Komarova, A. Dmitriev, and N. Shpikovskogo and everywhere, new characters played by different people. His role - for example, the clerk Tom Hopkins in "Miss Mendy or Paul Colli in" Doll with millions "(1928) - close tapioca. Palkin Gogh in "kiss Mary Pikford and Nikeshka in" When wake the dead "(both - 1927) are close to the cutter from Torzhka. Quiet usher Gogh becomes idol kinomanok because it kissed Mary Pikford. Vagrant Nikeshku take for a ghost, out of the grave. Ilyinsky plays imaginatively, easy and funny. Tricks that he is doing because of fan, worthy of a good acrobat. All of these tapes was a big hit with viewers and critics. Ilyinsky called Russian Charlie Chaplin.

In 1927, the actor returns to Meyerhold. He was engaged in all productions of the great classical point producer, but "the Auditor". Ilyinsky was inimitable as Arkashki in the "forest" Ostrovsky, obrushivaya visitors to a waterfall comedies techniques and tricks. But Famusove for komikovaniem already proglyadyvalo something heavy, terrible. In the role of Rasplyueva "Weddings Krechinskogo" Ilyinsky organically combines clowning with the disclosure of mental image squalid slyboots and card shark.

Significant creative Ilyinsky victory was the performance of the Theater of Meyerhold militant minds in comedy Prisypkina Mayakovski "Bug" (1929). All their hatred, contempt for all loutishness, Philistinism, philistine dullness invested in the image of the artist "samorodka of the former homeowners. "

Large and productive work in the theater distract from the film. Behind promelknulo participated in the first sound kinokomedii - Mechanical traitor "(1931).

In 1935, finally rassorivshis with anger Meyerhold, Ilyinsky away from his theater. At this time forever. Within a few months, none of the capital′s theaters did not want to take it to your state, since the directors carried Ilyinsky to the category of actors-formalist, unable to play on the same stage with the realist school.

Ilyinsky successfully performed on stage. He brilliantly read poems and short stories of Russian and Soviet writers: Pushkin, Chekhov, Gogol, Krylova, Zoshchenko, Mikhalkov . . .

In 1936 Ilyinsky put in the "Ukrainfilme" picture "Once, in summer, which has played two roles, Komsomolets telescope magician and adventurer-Sep-Verbuta. Alas, this comedy with lots gegov (script written by I.

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Ilf and E. Petrov) success with the public is not used.

Invite director G. Alexandrov on the role of bureaucrat Byvalova in the comedy "Volga-Volga" (1938) proved at an opportune moment. In this way revived the tradition, reaching from Gogol, Sukhov-Kobylin, Saltykov-Shchedrin. The success was complete and universally. Cinema Gleb Skorokhodov exclaimed: "wise! Here is an excellent mastery of the actor twinkle, zaiskrilos, zablistalo - a superlative fit like never before. This bright modern bureaucrat vyleplennogo our screen did not know! "Stalin was so captivated by the game Ilyinsky that watched the movie several times and learned by heart all the replicas of his character.

May 13, 1938 in the play "Inspector" Igor first appeared on stage celebrated Maly Theater. His debut role was the Hlestakova event, he hit many newspapers. However, the "old" Maly Theater reacted to his arrival cautious and suspicious. Ilyinsky had released some of the formal skills of leisure externalities. In doing so, he preserved his zhiznelyubivy humor, rich expressive actors, honed skills. By Cast Hlestakova in the "Inspector", Arkashki in the "forest", Shmagi in "Without a guilty plea, Ilyinsky showed a mature artist, which enabled him to find a common language with the masters of the Maly Theater.

Ilyinsky characterized by high demands of themselves. Playing the role of tens and hundreds of times, he has not ceased to deepen and improve it. More Meyerchold said that on the tenth play Ilyinsky plays no worse than at first, but on the one hundredth - better than on the tenth. Ilyinsky loved to return to previously played roles in order to clarify the interpretation, to make new colors and ideas, dictated a time. Twice and in different ways to play it Hlestakova and gorodnichego in the "Inspector", Rasplyueva in "Wedding Krechinskogo" three times - Arkashku in the forest. "

Finding new ways to stage art emerged in the approach to Ilyinsky fashion heroes. In the comedy Korneychuk A. "In the steppes of Ukraine", he very cautiously and sparingly played chairman of kolkhoz Salivona garlic.

The premiere performance took place in May 1941, and in June the war began. The small theater was evacuated to Chelyabinsk, Ilyinsky same team with the leading masters of the theater went to the front. The artists performed in front of men - participants defense of Moscow.

In 1944, Ilyinsky Krutitskii played in the play "On any sage quite easy.

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" A few months later, viewers saw it in two roles: Malvolio (Twelfth Night) and Murzavetskogo ( "Wolves and Sheep"). But after his wife′s death, appearing to him a heavy blow, Ilyinsky leaves the theater.

In the Little Theater, he returned two years later. The first role after the break - the official Yusov in "plum" by A. Ostrovsky. At this time in his life included actress Tatiana Eremeeva. After two years of meetings, they were married. A year later born son Volodya. Ilyinsky wrote: "I later became a father. Only after fifty years I have learned a great sense of fatherhood. Sadly bewildered, and I think it could happen that I have not experienced that. "

Igor persist in many articles advocating the return to the stage Mayakovski. In 1950, he was in a small passage from the "Bug" for the documentary film "Vladimir Mayakovsky", then plays Pobedonosikova radio (1951).

In 1956, two comedies came out at once with the Ilyinsky. In the movie "Mad Day" Ilyinsky performed the role of Building Superintendent nursery and household good Zaytseva. To get an appointment with the officer, he called the husband of the famous champion and enters the chambers of bureaucracy.

In "Carnival Night" directed by E. Ryazanova Ilyinsky itself plays a bureaucrat - Director of Cultural Serafima Ogurtsova. It is from this role involves a new wave of popularity. Literally everyone who worked on the film, buy the sincerity and simplicity Ilyinsky. Actress Lyudmila Gurchenko recalls: "I looked at him and thought:" Oh, Igor Vladimirovich, I would have your glory, so I would have turned the whole world! "And he sits before shooting himself in ugolochke, the broken sofa, covered his eyes, in the hands holding the script, but it has looks - just something shepchut lips. It is something smiles. Then, just delivers the team immediately jumps and goes to the frame. This is, I just now realized that the really big personality always modest . They are so large and that to understand the heart, talent, intuition - I do not know what - it is greatness in simplicity. "

Theater B. Ilyinsky Ravenskih proposed role of the old peasant Akim in the "power of darkness" Tolstoy. Tell that Igor has bought tape and studied for hours to talk to muzhitski: "melts, you are wrong. " Akim image, estimated audience and critics as this creative miracle - one of the highest achievements of Russian acting school.

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Ilyinsky loved his hero for the rich and delicate Russian soul, the purity and nobleness of thoughts, for deep people′s wisdom and moral height. And this love, he was able to convey the audience.

Ilyinsky long dreamed of directing. His first production at the Maly Theater - "vanity fair" Thackeray - he undertook in 1958. Ironically, theatrically vivid, vibrant spectacle proved right Ilyinsky on directing. Following this, he put "Love Yarovaya" Treneva, "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert, and by the 150 th anniversary of the Maly Theater - "The Forest" Ostrovsky.

In the film Ilyinsky played Field Marshal MI Kutuzov. In the movie "Gusar Ballad" (1962), he appeared in the form of good, smart, generous, wicked old man, though in the years to look much younger than his sixty years. Ilyinsky built on the testimony of a tennis court. His favorite partner was a famous sports commentator and a champion of the country Nikolai Ozerov. Ilyinsky slyl inveterate fans. The victory of "Spartacus" immediately raise his spirits. Together with his son Igor visited the football World Cup in London.

In 1966, Ilyinsky put on the stage of the Maly Theater of a play by Gogol "Inspector". The image of the play was born from the epigraph to the comedy: "The mirror Nechay blame, the number erysipelas curve. Instead of curtains, it was a great mirror, which reflected many comedy characters. But when the last act to fit the mirror gorodnichy (Ilyinsky), it acquired an independent life reflection: in the mirror, General arisen with red tape over his shoulder - the result of passionate dreams gorodnichego.

In 1970 Igor writes on television "Starosvetskih landlords, played a role in the theater of Leo Tolstoy in the play" The Return of the terms of its own, "read on radio for the classic works of the so-called" golden fund ".

Unfortunately, his eyesight began to deteriorate. In the theater, he appeared less and less. When the "Cherry Garden" Ilyinsky-Firsov have to leave the scene, the backdrop pomrezh lit lantern on a small light coming artist, seeing almost nothing.

Died Igor Ilyinsky 14 January 1987. That evening on television showing a film "Carnival Night" and his wife, Tatiana Eremeeva, played on a stage in its production of "The Cherry Garden" . . .