Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov

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Mikhail Ulyanov (2002)

Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Uljanow ( Russian Михаил Александрович Ульянов , scientific transliteration Mihail Aleksandrovič Ul'ânov ; born  November 20, 1927 in Bergamak , Muromzewo district , Omsk Oblast ; † March 26, 2007 in Moscow ) was a Russian actor and one of the most important figures in Moscow Soviet cinemas and theaters of the post-war period.

Life

Ulyanov was trained at the Shchukin Drama School and worked from 1950 in the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow ; In 1987 he took over its management. He made his film debut in 1953 in a film by Julija Solnzewa . Battle on the Road (1961) by Vladimir Basov brought him his breakthrough as a film actor. By the mid-1960s, Ulyanov was a crowd favorite in the USSR. From 1965 to 1967 he was employed by DEFA and appeared in Günter Reisch's Solange Leben is in mir (1965) and János Veiczi's Die gefrorenen Blitze (1967). In several films from the 1970s and 1980s, Ulyanov embodied historical personalities, such as Lenin in Reisch's films On the Way to Lenin (1970) and Despite everything! (1972) or, for example, in the Soviet-German World War II epic Liberation (1972), the role of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, which he played several times until the 1980s .

The 1969 film The Brothers Karamazov , in which Ulyanov plays Dmitri Karamazov and which he completed after the director Ivan Pyriev died , was nominated for the Oscar title for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970. Other films with his participation that won awards in Venice and Berlin were Thema (1979) and Ein Privatleben (1982). In 1975 he published the book Moja professija (My job).

This leads to the roles of the 1990s displaying belonged Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play (1990), Pontius Pilate in The Master and Margarita , and the role in the film The Voroshilov contactors of Stanislav Govorukhin , where he plays an elderly veteran of the sniper regiment, the Private revenge for the mistreatment of his granddaughter after the failure of the corrupt judiciary.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Mikhail Ulyanov received the following awards:

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
  2. ↑ Sergei Markow: Mikhail Uljanow . Young Guard, Moscow 2009, ISBN 978-5-235-03269-9 , p. 480 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Mikhail Ulyanov on page WarHeroes. Retrieved August 18, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Ulyanov, Mikhail Alexandrovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergamak , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2007
Place of death Moscow , Russia