Wassili Makarowitsch Schukschin
Wassili Makarowitsch Schukschin ( Russian Василий Макарович Шукшин , scientific transliteration Vasilij Makarovič Šukšin ; * July 25, 1929 in Srostki , Altai region , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ; † October 2, 1974 in Kletskaja near Volgograd ) was a Russian writer Director and actor. He was a representative of the so-called "sixties", an artistic direction of the 1950s and 1960s in the Soviet Union. In his work he endeavored to portray the difficulties associated with everyday life for ordinary Soviet people in their villages.
Life
At the end of the 1950s, Schukschin gained fame as an author of Siberian short stories, in which he processed his experiences as a teacher on the kolkhoz farm and in the army. From 1954 to 1960 he studied directing with Michail Romm at the WGIK film school in Moscow . Towards the end of his studies he took on his first roles as a film actor. He made his debut as a director and screenwriter with the internationally award-winning film From One Who Set Out to Find Love (1964). In his film work, Schukschin depicts portraits of simple people in their everyday life. His roles as Chauffeur Stepan in Boris Barnet's Aljonka (1962), as Operations Director Tschenytsch in Sergei Gerasimows Am See (1970) and as Fedja in Gleb Panfilov's I ask for your word (1974) enlivened Russian cinema .
In 1974 the readers of the magazine “Sowetski ekran” voted him the best actor of the year for his role of the former prisoner Yegor Prokudin in the tragedy “ Kalina Krasnaya ”. The following year he received this award again posthumously for his portrayal of the soldier Petr Lopachin in Sergei Bondarchuk's Sholokhov film You Fought for the Homeland .
At the same time he was filming for Lenfilm , directed by Gleb Panfilows, in I ask for the word . Vasily Schukschin died of a heart attack while filming You Fought for the Homeland . Missing scenes from Lopachin were taken over by Yuri Solovyov . His voice was dubbed in the Russian original by Igor Jefimow .
Schukschin's work in film and literature gave the cinema and theater of the Soviet Union new impetus in the 1970s. He wrote the screenplay for Nikolai Gubenko's directorial debut A Soldier Returns from the Front (1972). His novel Lyubawiny was filmed in 1972 by Leonid Golovna under the title The End of the Lyubawins .
Honors
- 1967: Order of the Red Labor Banner
- 1971: State Prize of the USSR
- 1976: Lenin Prize (posthumous)
Works
- Until the third time the cock crows . Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1976 ( Spektrum Vol. 98)
- I came to bring you freedom . Berlin: People and World, 1978
- Cuckoo tears and other stories . Berlin: Eulenspiegel, 1978
- Conversations in the bright moonlight , stories. Two volumes. Berlin: People and World, 1979
- Kalina krasnaja . ( Red elder ) 1985
- Rebel against the tsar. A Cossack novel . 1985
- Snowball bush in autumn . 1992
Filmography
actor
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- 1959: The two Fjodors (Dwa Fjodora)
- 1959: The golden train (Solotoi eschelon)
- 1960: Prostaja istorija
- 1962: Aljonka
- 1962: When the trees were big (Kogda derewja byli bolschimi)
- 1962: Komandirowka
- 1962: Mischka, Sjerjoga i yes
- 1963: My, dwoje muschtschin
- 1965: The Boy and the Sea (Kakoje ono, morje?)
- 1966: Your son and brother (Wasch syn i brat)
- 1967: Schurnalist
- 1967: Tri dnja Wiktora Tschernyschowa
- 1967: The Commissioner (Commissioner)
- 1969: Talk to Men (Muschskoi rasgowor)
- 1970: Hold on to the clouds (Kapaszkodj a fellegekbe! /Ung./) (Derschis' sa oblaka./rus./)
- 1970: At the lake (U osera)
- 1972: Liberation (Oswoboschdenije)
- 1972: A soldier returns from the front (Prischol soldat s fronta)
- 1972: Dauria - The Love of the Cossacks / Dauria - Siberian Adventure (Daurija)
- 1972: The end of the Ljubawins (Konez Ljubawinych)
- 1973: Travel acquaintances (Печки-лавочки)
- 1974: Call me into the bright distance (Posowi menja w dal 'svetluju) [ Premiere : 1978]
- 1974: I ask for the floor (Proschu slowa) [ Premiere : 1976]
- 1974: Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elder (Калина красная)
- 1974: If you want to be happy (Jesli chotschesch byt 'stschastliwym)
- 1975: Semljaki
- 1975: They fought for their homeland ( Они сражались за родину )
Director
- 1964: From one who set out to find love (Schiwjot takoi paren)
- 1966: Your son and brother (Wasch syn i brat)
- 1970: Strange People (Strannyje ljudi)
- 1972: A soldier returns from the front (Prischol soldat s fronta)
- 1972: The end of the Ljubawins (Konez Ljubawinych)
- 1973: Travel acquaintances (Печки-лавочки)
- 1974: Call me into the bright distance (Posowi menja w dal swetluju) [ Premiere : 1978]
- 1974: Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elder (Калина красная)
- 1975: Semljaki
Screenwriter
- 1964: From one who set out to find love (Schiwjot takoi paren)
- 1966: Your son and brother (Wasch syn i brat)
- 1970: Strange People (Strannyje ljudi)
- 1973: Travel acquaintances (Печки-лавочки)
- 1974: Kalina Krassnaja - Red Elder (Калина красная)
Web links
- Literature by and about Wassili Makarowitsch Schukschin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wassili Makarowitsch Schukschin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- sovlit.net - Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Juri Solowjow: Memory of Schukschin . In: Soviet literature 10/1984, pp. 120 ff.
- ↑ a b c biography of Vasily Schukschin. Retrieved September 30, 2018 (Russian).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schukschin, Wassili Makarowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шукшин, Василий Макарович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer, director and actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Srostki , Siberia |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd October 1974 |
Place of death | Kletskaya near Volgograd |