Georgi Stepanowitsch Schschonow

Georgi Stepanowitsch Schschonow (right) 2000

Georgiy Zhzhonov ( Russian Георгий Степанович Жжёнов ., Scientific transliteration Georgy Stepanovič Žžënov ; born March 9 ^{. Jul} / 22. March 1915 ^greg. In Petrograd , † 8. December 2005 in Moscow ) was a Soviet and Russian actor .

life and career

Georgi Schschonow began his film career in 1931 in the Makarenko film The Way to Life ( Путёвка в жизнь ). His career was interrupted twice for political reasons. The first time he was sent to the Kolyma Gulag for five years on false accusations that he was a US spy . He got to know fellow inmate Sergej Pavlovich Tschaplin and they both became happy. In 1949 he was exiled to Siberia again for six years . He was able to continue his career since the mid-1950s and played in well over 50 film roles by the end of the 1980s, many of which were also shown in Germany - especially in the GDR.

During the Gorbachev era, Schschonow wrote his autobiography Ot »Glucharja« do »Žar-pticy« ( From » Capercaillie « to »Firebird« ), which was published in Moscow in 1989. In 2002 he published a complete collection of his stories under the title Prožitoe ( Experienced ).

Filmography (selection)

1931: The way into life (Putjowka w schisn)
1934: Chapayev
1962: Planet of Storms
1966: be careful, car thief!
1968: Spring on the Oder
1968: The ambassador's mistake

literature

Mikhail Ryklin : Life thrown into the fire - The generation of the Great October. A research. From the Russian by Sabine Grebing and Volker Weichsel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42773-6 ( reading sample )

Web links

Georgi Schschonow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Biography on calend.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Mikhail Ryklin: Life Thrown into the Fire - The Generation of the Great October. A research. From the Russian by Sabine Grebing and Volker Weichsel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, p. 228 ff.

↑ Mikhail Ryklin: Life Thrown into the Fire - The Generation of the Great October. A research. From the Russian by Sabine Grebing and Volker Weichsel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, p. 319.

personal data
SURNAME	Schschonow, Georgi Stepanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Жжёнов, Георгий Степанович (Russian); Žžënov, Georgij Stepanovič (scientific transliteration); Zhzhyonov, Georgi Stepanovich (English transcription); Zhzhonov, Georgi (English transcription); Boden, Kurt (pseudonym); Gerard, Murray (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet and Russian actor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Petrograd
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 2005
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Mikhail Ryklin: Life Thrown into the Fire - The Generation of the Great October. A research. From the Russian by Sabine Grebing and Volker Weichsel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, p. 228 ff.

[2] Mikhail Ryklin: Life Thrown into the Fire - The Generation of the Great October. A research. From the Russian by Sabine Grebing and Volker Weichsel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, p. 319.