Yuri Wassiljewitsch Schumski

Yuri Shumsky in 1927 in the film Benja Krik, a film adaptation of the stories from Odessa

Yuri Vasilievich Schumski ( Russian Юрий Васильевич Шумский * November 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th November  1887 ^greg. In Tiraspol , † 7. June 1954 in Kiev ) was a Soviet film actor and theater director.

life and career

Yuri Schumski was born in 1887 into a working-class family in what is now Transnistrian Tiraspol . The family soon moved to Kherson , where Schumski also attended school. However, he had to leave it in 1906 because of “revolutionary activities”. He then began to work as a theater actor and around 1917 organized a theater group in Kherson.

In the 1920s he played in numerous theaters in today's Ukraine and also worked as a theater director, including in Odessa and Kiev . He also made his first contacts with film, for example in the 1926 film Benja Krik , a film adaptation of Isaak Babel's stories from Odessa . He also played one of the main roles in Notschnoi iswostschik , who appeared in 1928 . His acting career was eventually interrupted by World War II.

After the war he had numerous film appearances, including the two-parter Die Stalingrader Schlacht , which appeared in 1948 . In 1949 he was honored as a People's Artist of the USSR , in 1950 and 1951 he received the Stalin Prize, which was abolished a few years later .

Schumski died on June 7, 1954 at the age of 66 in Kiev .

Filmography

• 1926: Benya Krik
• 1926: Vasya reformer
• 1949: The Battle of Stalingrad - Part 1
• 1949: The Battle of Stalingrad - Part 2
• 1953: Kalinovaya roshcha

Web links

• Juri Wassiljewitsch Schumski in the Internet Movie Database (English)