Arkadi Isaakowitsch Raikin

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Arkady Raikin (1942)

Arkadi Isaakowitsch Raikin ( Russian Аркадий Исаакович Райкин ; * October 11th July / October 24th  1911 greg. In Riga , Russian Empire ; †  December 17,  1987 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet pantomime , actor , director , satirist, comedian and theater manager.

Life

Arkadi Raikin studied at the theater institute in what was then Leningrad , began his acting career in 1935 and received first prize in the all-union competition in 1939. In that year he also became artistic director of the miniature theater in Leningrad. He developed more than 25 productions, was on tour in all socialist countries and took part in international festivals in Berlin (1962) and in the opening show of the BBC two television in London (1964). One of his most famous and successful productions was The Journey Around the World in 80 Days according to Jules Verne (1951). In addition to his theater work, he took over the direction of some of his own films and wrote the scripts.

Three years before his death he moved to Moscow and opened the Satirikon Theater there , which is continued by his son Konstantin Raikin . Both he and Arkadi Raikin's daughter Jekaterina Raikina can also be seen as actors in films.

power

Arkadi Raikin developed his own pantomime style from various elements from drama theater, operetta and cabaret , which made him internationally known. Even if pantomime was his main art, he did not renounce words and singing. He was also very successful as a satirist and comedian, especially in the former Soviet Union. In doing so he made fun of the Russian bureaucracy - always in danger of getting into conflict with the Stalinist rulers.

His films and his records, which were reissued on CD, are still found in online stock exchanges and sales houses.

Appreciations

Filmography (selection)

  • Doctor Kalyuzhnyy ( Doctor Kaluschni Доктор Калюжный ). Directed by Erast Garin and Chesia Lokschina, USSR 1939.
  • My s vami gde - to vstrechalis ( We have already met somewhere Мы с Вами где-то встречались ). Directed by Nikolai Dostal and Andrei Tutyschkin, USSR 1954.
  • Muž mnoha tvárí . Director: Zdenek Podskalský, ČSR 1958.
  • Kogda pesnya ne konchaetsya ( If the song never stops Когда песня не кончается ). Director: Roman Tichomirow, USSR 1964.
  • Volshebnaya sila iskusstva ( The magical power of art Волшебная сила искусства ). Directed by Naum Birman, USSR 1970.
  • Lyudi i manekeny ( People and Mannequins Люди и манекены ). Directed by Arkadi Raikin, USSR 1974.

Discography

  • Akter i pesnya 1 . RMG Records, new edition on CD 2003.
  • Akter i pesnya 2 . as above.
  • V grecheskom zale . New edition on CD 2004.

literature

  • Arkadi Raikin: Bez grima . Vagrius, Moscow 2006, ISBN 5-9697-0266-8 .
  • MI Raikin: Pro to, pro eto: vospominanija o sem'e, o teatre A. Rajkina . Novyj Centr, Moscow 1999, ISBN 5-89117-042-6 .
  • Elizaveta D. Uvarova: Arkadij Rajkin . Iskusstvo, Moscow 1986.

Web links

Commons : Arkady Raikin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source for his biographical data: Theaterlexikon . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1978 and the web links
  2. ↑ See: Konstantin Rajkin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ See: Yekaterina Rajkina in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Raikin, Arkadi Isaakowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rajkin, Arkadij Isaakovich; Rajkin, Arkadij Isaakovich; Райкин, Аркадий Исаакович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1987
Place of death Moscow , Soviet Union