Andrei Andreevich Fait

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Andrei Fait ( Russian Андрей Андреевич Файт , born Feit , Russian Фейт * 29. August 1903 in Nizhny Novgorod , Russian Empire ; † 16th January 1976 in Moscow ) was a Soviet theater - and film - actor .

Early years

Andrei Feit was born as the second son of Andrei Juljewitsch (1864-1926) and Anna Nikolajewna Feit (1867-1929). His German ancestors on his father's side had founded a trading company in Russia in 1812 after they had probably fled their homeland in the course of the Napoleonic Wars .

The father was a politically active businessman and doctor. During his first year of study in St. Petersburg , he came into conflict with the authorities as a result of student unrest. Andrei Feit Sr. was a co-founder of the Narodniki and a member of the Central Committee of the Social Revolutionaries . He was arrested repeatedly and exiled to eastern Siberia for eight years in 1896. Even at the time of Andrew's birth, the family was separated from the father. In 1905 Andrei Feit sen. Elected to the Executive Committee of the First Council of Workers' Deputies and exiled to the Tobolsk Governorate as a result . Thanks to the help of his patients, he managed to escape to France that same year. His wife held meetings and discussions on cooperation between Narodniki and the RSDLP in her home , and raised money for the Red Cross. She was also under surveillance by the authorities and therefore left home with her sons. The family then lived in a Russian colony near Paris, and the young Andrei attended a local high school . During the First World War , the father voluntarily organized nursing courses at the front near Verdun and was honored with the Croix de guerre . Anna Feit and her children returned to Moscow at the end of December 1914, the father followed after the February Revolution . She worked as a school nurse, Andrei Feit senior, until her death. became involved in the committee of political exiles and prisoners after the October Revolution , was director of a sanatorium and wrote a book on psychology. He also organized training courses for nurses and worked in a polyclinic for political prisoners. His funeral in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow took place with great public sympathy.

Andreis older brother Nikolai became an engineer and was also national champion of the RSFSR in the pole vault .

Andrei Andrejewitsch began training as an aerospace engineer after high school , but broke it off after two years due to his increasing aversion to the exact sciences and chose an artistic career. At the age of fifteen he had already joined the artist group Камерный Кружок Свободного Искусства ( Kamerny Kruschok Swobodnogo Iskusstwa ) and was the only member to write pieces of music. He also wrote poems and published a selection of his works under the title Каскады страсти ( Kaskady strasti ), of which he sold 30 pieces in school. With other members of the group he also directed the play Ковчег Великолепных Дегенератов ( Kowtscheg Velikolepnych Degeneratow ) with him in the role of Alexander of Macedonia . Based on this experience, Feit decided to become an actor and initially received support from his cousin Oleg Frelich, a well-known silent film actor . From this time on he called himself “Fait”, but “Feit” remained the official spelling of his family name.

Acting career

Until 1927 Fait attended the State Film Institute , where Lev Vladimirovich Kuleschow was his teacher and which he graduated with the diploma series number 37. Due to the regulations at the time, it was possible to start training during the current school year. He worked closely with the budding director Yuri Leontjew and his fellow actors Galina Sergejewna Kravchenko, his future wife, and Yevgeny Weniaminowitsch Chervyakov. The three actors often appeared together in the following years.

Fait's film career began in 1924 with Особняк Голубиных ( Osobnjak Golubinych ), a work produced by the Meschrabpomstudio . Director Vladimir Rostislawowitsch Gardin had reservations about the State Film Institute and thus also against Fait, but was convinced of his performance and also engaged him for his 1925 work Золотой запас ( Solotoi sapas ). In the same year he was seen in Sergei Eisenstein's armored cruiser Potemkin as a typesetter. Fait played in over 80 films until the end of his life, mostly "villains" due to his aristocratic appearance. He served different genres such as the science fiction film (Луч смерти, Lutsch Smerti , 1924), the drama ( Zwei-Buldi-Zwei , 1929), the Eastern (Джульбарс, Dschulbars , 1937), the adventure film (Случай в вулкане Slutschai w wulkane , 1940), the war film (Боевой киносборник "Лесные братья" Bojewoi kinosbornik "Lesnye Bratja" , 1942), the biopic ( the duel , 1943, via Mikhail Lermontov ), the literary adaptation ( the young Guard , 1948) and die Komödie ( Der Brillantenarm , 1969). Fait also appeared in numerous fairy tale films , including Alexander Rou's directorial debut The Magic Fish (1938) and as an evil magician in Aladdin's Magic Lamp (1967), a role that he should have played in an adaptation that was ultimately not realized in 1938. In contrast to many other actors, he made the transition from silent to sound films without any problems; Fait gave his last role in a silent film in 1934 in Michail Romm's Pischka . As a result of the German-Soviet war , he was evacuated to Stalinabad as a member of the Soyuzdet film studio , but was still able to shoot here.

In addition to his work in front of the camera, he worked four times as a voice actor, including for the Romanian production Faust XX (1966). Since the end of his training he has also appeared in the studio theater of film actors .

At the end of 1973 Fait wrote an autobiography under the title О том, что было ( O tom, tscho bylo , Eng . "About what was"), but it was never published in full .

Fait has held the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR since 1950 . In 2009 he was honored with a contribution in the documentary series Человек в кадре ( Tschelowek w kadre ).

Private life

Fait's marriage to Galina Kravchenko (1905–1996) was closed in 1928, but the two separated again in 1930. Kravchenko then entered into a relationship with the military pilot Alexander Kamenev, Lev Kamenev's eldest son. Fait then married Marija Nikolaevna Briling. Their son July (born March 29, 1937) attended the same film school as his father, where Michail Romm was his teacher. He later appeared as a director, especially for documentaries.

Andrei Fait had a reputation for having relationships with many Soviet actresses.

He died in Moscow at the age of 72 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1924: Луч смерти ( Lutsch Smerti )
  • 1925: Battleship Potemkin (Bronenossez Potjomkin)
  • 1926: The death barge (Buchta smerti)
  • 1929: Zwei-Buldi-Zwei (Dwa-Buldi-dwa)
  • 1933: Outskirts (Okraina)
  • 1934: Pischka (Pyschka)
  • 1934: Fishermen uprising (Wosstaniye rybakow)
  • 1937: The Thirteen (Trinadzat)
  • 1938: The Magic Fish (Po shchutschemu welenju)
  • 1943: The Duel (Lermontow)
  • 1944: Malachow Hill (Malachow kurgan)
  • 1948: The Young Guard (Molodaja gwardija)
  • 1949: Meeting on the Elbe (Wstretscha na Elbe)
  • 1952: Lied der Heimat (composer Glinka)
  • 1953: Sails in the Storm (Admiral Uschakow)
  • 1953: Breakfast at the leader (Sawtrak u predwoditelja)
  • 1955: The decision of Bukhara (Kruschenije Emirata)
  • 1955: Death at the Silbersee (Prisraki pokidajut werschiny)
  • 1958: The Idiot (Idiot)
  • 1958: Back then in Trieste (Na dalnich beregach)
  • 1959: uprising in the mountains (Lawina s gor)
  • 1959: The Secret of the Fortress (Taina odnoi kreposti)
  • 1960: Northern Novella (Severnaya powest)
  • 1961: The first day of peace (Perwy den mira)
  • 1963: The shot in the fog (Wystrel w tumane)
  • 1963: In the Kingdom of Magic Mirrors (Korolestwo kriwych serkal)
  • 1965: Madeleine in Odessa (Inostranka)
  • 1967: The Scout (Silnye duchom)
  • 1967: Aladdin's magic lamp (Wolschebnaja lampa Aladdina)
  • 1968: fire, water and trumpets (Ogon, woda i… mednyje truby)
  • 1969: The diamond arm (Brilliantowaja ruka)
  • 1969: Lanfieri Colony (Kolonija Lanfier)
  • 1969: Egmont ( TV movie )
  • 1970: The old house (Stary dom)
  • 1972: Jim Hawkins Wondrous Adventures - Treasure Island (Ostrow Sokrowishch)
  • 1974: The Potter's Wheel (Gontscharny krug) (TV movie)
  • 1976: How Tsar Peter married his Mohren (Skas pro to, kak zar Pjotr ​​aralaschenil)
  • 1976: The Sad Mermaid (Russalotschka)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Fait's biography on stuki-druki.com (Russian), accessed on June 11, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Biography of Faits on chtoby-pomnili.net (Russian), accessed on June 11, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d Fait's biography and excerpts from his unpublished autobiography on iknigi.net (Russian), accessed June 11, 2020
  4. ↑ a b c d e Fait's biography at m.polit.ru (Russian), accessed June 11, 2020
  5. ↑ Fait's biography at kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed June 11, 2020
  6. ↑ a b c Filmography Faits on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on June 11, 2020
  7. ↑ Film data for Человек в кадре - Андрей Файт on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on June 11, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Fait, Andrei Andreevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feit, Andrei Andrejewitsch (maiden name); Файт, Андрей Андреевич (Russian); Фeйт, Андрей Андреевич (maiden name, Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet theater actor and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nizhny Novgorod , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1976
Place of death Moscow