Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoi

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Vasily Lanowoi (2009)

Vasily Semjonowitsch Lanowoi ( Russian Василий Семёнович Лановой ; born January 16, 1934 in Moscow , † January 28, 2021 ibid) was a Soviet or Russian theater and film actor , public figure and theater teacher. From 1957 he was an actor in the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow.

Acting career

Lanovoi gained fame for playing brave, dashing characters who combined heroic bravery with a sensibility typical of Russian heroes, a tendency that was evident in many of his early traits, such as high school diploma (1954) and How Steel Was Tempered (1956) has been.

Lanovoi's numerous film roles from the 1960s include Anatole Kuragin in Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace and Count Vronsky in the theatrical version of Anna Karenina . At the time, he was trying to create complex psychological portraits of his characters.

However, he is best known for his roles in the regionally very popular films of the 1970s on the theme of World War II . Lanovoi portrayed Ivan Varavva, one of the main characters in the 1971 Saga Officers , who became a life-affirming film for officers of the Soviet Army . He also played a supporting role as SS General Karl Wolff in the cult spy television series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973).

Private life

Lanovoi was born into a family of Ukrainian farmers. His parents, originally from the Odessa region , fled the famine to Moscow. However, the Nazi-Romanian occupation of the Second World War hit Vasily with his relatives in the south of Ukraine, while his parents were evacuated to the east of the Soviet Union in good time as workers in a militarily important industrial company.

Lanovoi was married to Irina Kuptschenko from 1972 until his death , who is herself a famous Soviet actress and who studied in Kiev . His first wife was Tatiana Samoilowa from 1954 to 1958 , who is known for her leading roles in The Cranes Drag and Anna Karenina .

politics

He criticized the Ukrainian Euromaidan demonstrations in 2014, claiming that the United States was using Ukrainians for its own political gain.

In 2014 he signed a petition in support of the annexation of Crimea . For this he was banned from entering Ukraine.

honors and awards

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Wassili Lanowoi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Vasily Lanowoi. Retrieved October 20, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Василий Лановой: США, цинично используя украинцев, решают свои задачи
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Ukraine's State Security Service bans 140 Russian cultural figures from entering country
  5. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 26, 2019 No. 194 “On the award of the title of Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation”. Retrieved October 21, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Lanowoi, Wassili Semjonowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лановой, Василий Семёнович (Russian)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Russian actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2021
Place of death Moscow