Ravikovich biography

A funny Jew on April 8 in St. Petersburg died artist Anatoly Ravikovich. Ravikovich has a surprisingly smooth biography - at first glance. More than 60 roles in the cinema and on TV, 25 years of work in the theater. The Leningrad City Council at the time when this theater was one of the leading in the country, and a long -term happy marriage, which at one time gave an occasion for gossip and pretty much spoiled the artist life.

And I do not want to think that love came in forty, the star role in the cinema remained the only one, and I had to leave from my native theater. However, the actor repeated that he was satisfied with everything except health. He was born on December 24 in Leningrad and lived in this city all his life. The actor became accidentally: a child to win the location of the “courtyards”, parododed the film artists.

Once his concert was seen by his mother, who in his youth dreaming of the stage. And she took her son to the drama circle. In the year, Ravikovich entered the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema. The receipt came out loud: titled examiners - Raikin, Cherkasov, Mercury, Khokhlov - were forced to listen to the endless howl, in which it was hardly guessed "in the valleys and for the hills." The repertoire of the applicant was prompted by “Vladimir Ivanovich” and “Konstantin Sergeyevich”-two senior students who decided to mock the under-alert-abyt.

Everything is like in the glorious film “Come Tomorrow”, about Frosyu Burlakov, - this is how the students were cut in those days. After four years in the province, Ravikovich got into the troupe to Igor Vladimirov, in which Alice Freindlich was already shining. In partnership with her, Ravikovich played the first loud roles-in the performances “Taming of the obstinate”, “Baby and Carlson”, “People and Passion”, “Interview in Buenos Aires” and others.

The difference in the age of Irina more than 20 years and “non-free” family status did not change anything: the “official novel” began between Ravikovich and Mazurkevich, and the “official novel”, which ended Wedding. Despite the position of the prime minister in one of the best theaters of the USSR, Ravikovich played exclusively episodes in the cinema. Laughing, the artist explained: with his surname and appearance, you can not play an steelier, a collective farmer, or a good policeman.

The maximum is small mafiosi or gynecologist, and they are not the main characters. The country learned about the existence of the artist Ravikovich only when Mikhail Kozakov came to the screens. The nickname of the "trunk" stuck to Ravikovich until the end of the days. He himself treated this work with restraint, claiming that “he would have played a break,” but Kozakov did not allow.

And how the actor offended that he was often identified with the mumble of a trunk.

Anatoly Yuryevich never considered himself a hero, but once he cut the drunk in his face, who asked when this bore-ochkar “dumps into his Israel”. At the end of his life, Ravikovich wrote a book under pressure from his wife, in which he tastily and cheerfully talked about his life in the post -war Leningrad, work in theaters and in cinema. He called the book categorically: "There will be no continuation." They tried to persuade him to write more, he denied.

True, he made a reservation that he was ready to take up “sick leave” - during the time spent in hospitals, many plots have accumulated. But there was not enough time for them. Maya Volchek.