Warriors Constantine is a Soviet cinematographer,who immortalized his name, taking off the popular to this day comedy "The Marriage of Balzaminov." In addition to this picture, the director left a legacy in the form of 10 different genre films and several acting works. What of the creativity of Voinov worthy of special attention?
Konstantin Naumovich Katz, this is how the real name of the director sounds, was born in 1918 in the midst of the Civil War.
Back in the late 30's., working in Moscow theaters as an actor, Konstantin Naumovich changed the original name to "euphonious" pseudonym. There is an opinion that the attitude towards the Jews in the USSR was ambiguous, so it was easier to work and live, not advertising such an origin. His real Jewish names for the same reason were concealed by actress Faina Ranevskaya, a little later - actors Andrei Mironov and Semyon Farada.
In 1946 Voinov took up the post of director at the Moscow Theater. Moscow City Council. In 1957, Konstantin Naumovich became one of the permanent directors of the film studio Mosfilm. It was then that his first films began to be shown on large screens.
Voinova was enrolled in the staff of Mosfilm due to the successful short film Two Lives. Scenario for the debut work Konstantin wrote independently on the basis of the story of Pavel Nilin "Beetle".
In 1958 the director presents a black and white drama-noir "Three came out of the woods." The film narrates about the investigation of a war crime of the times of the Great Patriotic War. Employees of the NKVD receive information that one of the partisan detachments was destroyed by German chastisers on the tip of someone from "their own". The main characters are to find out who betrayed their compatriots.
Konstantin Voinov - the director who wasforced to work in a certain ideological channel. But this did not stop his films from remaining human and winning international awards. For example, the military drama "The Sun shines on everyone" of the 1959 issue won an honorary diploma at the Scottish Film Festival.
The plot of the film is dedicated to the fate of the lieutenantSavelyev, who in 1945 because of the cowardice of his comrade gets a serious wound in the war and is deprived of sight. Returning home, Savelyev tries to establish his old life, but his relationship with his wife is not glued, and the head of Nicholas at work is the same person, through the fault of which he went blind. The protagonist had the courage to go through a brutal war and stay alive, he finds in himself the strength to cope with difficulties in the postwar period.
Warriors Constantine early in his career inmostly shot dramas, but became famous throughout the Soviet Union as a film of a completely different genre. In 1964, the director made a tragicomedy "The Wedding of Balzaminov" with Georgi Vitsin in the title role. The script was based on three popular plays by A.N. Ostrovsky.
The tape also featured Nonna Mordyukova("The Diamond Arm"), Lyudmila Gurchenko ("Station for Two"), Ekaterina Savinova ("Come Tomorrow ..."), Nadezhda Rumyantseva ("Girls") and many other stars of Russian cinema. "The marriage of Balzaminov" was a huge success for the viewer. It was this film that provided the director with fame even in our time.
After the premiere of "The Marriage of Balzaminov" WarriorsConstantine continued to develop the theme of adaptations and reworked the text of Dostoevsky's novel "Uncle's Dream" for the movie script of the same name. The film was released in 1967.
This time, the cast's composition consisted ofrepresentatives of the "old guard". Sergei Martinson, who started acting in movies back in 1924, was given the role of the old rich prince, "K". Lydia Smirnova, famous in the 40's. thanks to the heroic images of partisans and radio operators, appeared in the image of a provincial lady, who is obsessed with the idea of marrying her daughter.
The film "Uncle's Dream" is not as popular today as "The Wedding of Balzaminov". However, it is included in the collection of the golden legacy of Soviet cinema.
Warriors Constantine in 1970 presented the drama "Wonderful Character" to the audience according to the script of the writer Edvard Radzinsky. The main role in the film was played by the notorious Tatiana Doronina, now the director of the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky.
In 3 years the world saw the comedy "Dacha" with LydiaSmirnova and Evgeni Evstigneev, then the adaptation of the work of I. Turgenev "Rudin" followed. The last two films of the director - "The loan for marriage" and "Cap" - are almost unknown to the modern spectator.
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