Iwan Iwanowitsch Kowal-Samborski

Ivan Koval-Samborsky ( Russian Иван Иванович Коваль-Самборский , Ukrainian Іван Іванович Коваль-Самборський ; September 4 * ^{. Jul} / 16th September  1893 ^greg. In Kharkov , Russian Empire , today: Ukraine ; † 10. January 1962 in the Soviet Union ) was a Russian-Ukrainian actor in Soviet and German films.

Life

Kowal-Samborski began his career with the circus . Drafted in 1914, he fought on the Ottoman front during the First World War . After the October Revolution of 1917, he turned to the theater and performed in Khujand, Central Asia . He continued his career at the City Theater of Samarkand . There he joined the Red Army , but also performed as a dancer. In 1920 Kowal-Samborski came to what was then Petrograd and continued his theater work on the theaters there. A little later a tour took him to Moscow.

There he received his first important engagement from the Meyerhold Theater in 1922. Two years later, Ivan Kowal-Samborski was brought to film, where he appeared in a number of central Soviet films that also caused a sensation in western countries, including Chess Fever , The Mother , Miss Mend, The Waiter from the Palace Hotel, Moscow how it cries and laughs and the yellow passport . Vsevolod Pudovkin , Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep were among his most important directors in this early period .

As a result of these great successes, Kowal-Samborski was brought to Berlin in 1927 . Until the end of the silent film era, he was a sought-after actor in both leading and supporting roles. In addition, Iwan Kowal-Samborski was also employed on Berlin theaters such as the Wallner Theater . In the German sound film, Kowal-Samborski could hardly prevail for linguistic reasons. In 1931 he went to Paris for two German versions of French productions , where he played the leading male roles in Marco, the Clown and in Big City Night .

The seizure of power in Germany caused Iwan Kowal-Samborski to return to the Soviet Union. There he was initially able to continue his work in front of the camera, but as a result of the Stalinist wave of purges he was arrested in 1938 and exiled to Kyrgyzstan the following year , where he continued his theater work. In 1949 Ivan Kowal-Samborski went to Grozny in Chechnya , where he continued his work as a director and actor at the Lermontov Theater. In 1955 Iwan Kowal-Samborski returned to Moscow. As a result of the XX. At the CPSU party congress , which initiated de-Stalinization , Kowal-Samborski appeared again in front of the camera with a few small film roles from 1956.

Ivan Kowal-Samborski, who was honored in 1944 as an honored artist of the Kyrgyz SSR , was married to the actress Klawdija Semyonovna Lungren.

Filmography

• 1924: Wragi
• 1925: Chess fever
• 1925: His warning call ( Jewo prisyw )
• 1926: The mother
• 1926: Miss Mend ( Miss Mend )
• 1926: The Forty- First ( Sorok perwy )
• 1926: Posledni wistrel
• 1927: The waiter from the palace hotel ( Tschelowek is ristorana )
• 1927: Moscow as it cries and laughs ( Djewuschka s korobkoj )
• 1927: The yellow pass ( Zluta knizka )
• 1928: Schinderhannes
• 1928: The Spreewald girl
• 1928: Mary Lou
• 1928: Knight of the Night
• 1928: love in the cowshed
• 1928: My heart is a jazz band
• 1929: Melody of the World (documentary)
• 1929: Cagliostro
• 1929: In the frenzy of a great love (also director, not performed)
• 1929: mascots
• 1929: Explosive excavator 1010
• 1930: The Don Cossack Song
• 1930: harried girls
• 1930: The girl from USA
• 1930: Burglary in the Reichenbach bank
• 1930: Kremke payroll clerk
• 1930: mandrake
• 1931: The big attraction
• 1931: Marco, the clown
• 1932: City night
• 1934: Nastyenka Ustinowa
• 1935: Molodost
• 1935: Lyotschiki
• 1936: Odnaschdi ljetom
• 1936: Troje s odnoj ulzi
• 1937: Dotsch Rodini
• 1937: Uschtschelje Alamassow
• 1938: Bolotnije soldati
• 1956: prologue
• 1956: A poet ( poet )
• 1956: Guttapertschewi maltschik
• 1957: Leningrad Symphony (Leningradskaja simfonija)
• 1957: Storm ( Schtorm )
• 1957: a communist ( communist )
• 1958: The year 18 ( Wosemnazati god)
• 1958: Smena natschinajetzja w schjest
• 1959: Animal catcher ( Swerolowi )
• 1959: Dangerous silence ( Isprawlenomu werit )
• 1959: Anuschka
• 1960: The green patrol ( Seljonij patrul )

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 288 f.

Web links

• detailed biography of Kowal-Samborski (in Russian)
• Ivan Koval-Samborsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Iwan Iwanowitsch Kowal-Samborski at filmportal.de