Biography Zemlyanikin

The matchmaking of the hussar Vladimir Zemlyanikin. I remember the creative biography how I was upset when I first saw the artists who were supposed to play in my first film "The House in which I live." It seemed that they were all chosen by the directors unsuccessfully - both Mikhail Ulyanov, not a geologist Dmitry Kashirin at all, and Valentina Telegin was not Davydov, and for the role of the head of the Davydov family, the actor should have been selected for a completely different constitution and only one actor Volodya Zemlyanikin was “direct hit” for me, he had to act in the role of Seryozha Davydov.

Then everything was formed. The fears turned out to be largely imaginary: Ulyanov, then just starting his life in cinema, amazingly accurately, truly inspired, played the difficult role of Kashirin; The mother performed by Telegin was good on the screen; A pleasant surprise for all of us was the work in the film by a very young debutant of Jeanne Bolotova. Nevertheless, to the greatest extent, the feeling of "direct hit" continued to remain with me in connection with the work of Zemlyanikin.

I mean, first of all, acting material of the role. But not only. It was obviously also that the sum of qualities that made up the nature of Seryozha Davydov were in the nature of the young artist. In such cases, they say: - The artist played "himself." Seryozha Davydov is a straight, honest, brave guy who thinks about how to live a person on earth, not contemplating life, but creating it.

The faithful heart, he is one of those who can be relying on. However, Zemipyanikin in life is a whole nature, a person capable of great strong -willed efforts. Well, how can I resist the temptation to tell a few facts from the life of the artist. On the day when Volodya Zalenikin, a student of the theater school named after Schukin, was to perform in the Chekhov play "Attacker", his mother could not play that evening not to play.

But he played. Is it necessary to say that behind this amazing fact is something more than just acting discipline? This biographical detail has become known to me recently. But what happened before my eyes. There was a shooting of the final episodes of "the house in which I live." In the immediate vicinity of the set - it was in the area of ​​the Kursk station - there were tram tracks.

As this always happens, the actors were surrounded by a dense ring of Moscow spectators. Among them there was a certain woman with a child, apparently, a pet who showed a special interest in the filming. Her interest was so great that the woman completely forgot about the boy entrusted to her. And he, without thinking without thinking, rushed to the tram tracks, along which at that moment the tram rushed at high speed, the misfortune seemed inevitable, if not for the stray.

Risking his life, he darted to the child and miraculously pushed him out from under the tram community, while receiving a strong bruise that would do this that the cinematic heroes of Vladimir Zemlyanikin - Chap from the film "The Tale of the First Love", Seryozha Davydov. It would be, however, not entirely true that Zemlyanikin in his first films played only "himself." For example, the cinematic biography of the younger Davydov includes four years of war.

True, the war forever left a mark in the heart of eleven -year -old Zemlyanikin, if only because after one of the bombing paralysis, his mother broke. But Serezhe Davydov, who was seven to eight years older than Volodya Zemlyanikin, had a chance to become a direct participant in the Patriotic War. And this means that in fact he was fourteen - fifteen, or even more, more than fourteen - fifteen years older, because, as you know, the "mature" in the war took place at a significantly excreted pace.

So it turns out that the young artist in the second half of the film had to face the need for reincarnation. The changed hairstyle and cigarette in the mouth were only the external signs of the "mature" of the hero, who became a soldier; Just the details that helped the actor introduce us into the new world of feelings of the younger Davydov. The task, standing in front of Zherniknikin, was quite complicated.

Its complexity was that the accumulation of the specific experience of the war years, Zemlyanikin, had to be expressed not through a breakdown of the character of his hero - such a breakdown was by no means part of the intentions of the author of the script and directors. It was about something else. The actor had to be entered into the life of the war years of not just the grown Sergey, but Sergey, on which there was a pretty well -worn military tunic.

He did it convincingly. Enough to recall a small episode of a short -term meeting of a soldier with a mother in the kitchen. In the episode, the actor was not given words that would actively help him convey a new state of Seryozha.He is entirely surrounded by everyday, as if not meaningful details - he eats unpretentious home soup, lights from the primus, pulls out of the duffel bag, gives his mother a modest soldier’s gift; A loaf of pork stew, a buckwheat, soup -puree - peas, but behind all the way he says, the hero of the stray is silent, the war -sewing soul and that mental mature, which now characterizes Sergey, is clearly guessed.

I was captivated by the skill with which stray, playing Sergey, disposed of his great human charm. Together with everyone, he rejoices at the birth of a new person - the niece of T -shirt. At a modest family celebration, there is also a Lida neighbor - the beautiful wife of Dmitry Kashirin. By this time, the geologist Kashirin managed to become a moral ideal for the guy, without which life seems uninteresting.

Meanwhile, Seryozha did not slip away from Seryozha’s sensitive eye, which begins to connect his older brother and Lida. This alarms, worries Sergey, causes not to fully a conscious protest in it. The active nature of Sergey requires indispensable intervention. But natural delicacy keeps him from rudeness, he does not want to, afraid to offend a woman. Approaching a neighbor with a glass, Sergey suggests: - Let's drink for Dmitry Fedorovich!

Zemlyanikin finds a very accurate intonation here. And behind this familiar phrase, we feel the human significance of Dmitry Kashirin, and the good heart of his young friend, and a shy and urgent request addressed to the neighbor at all costs at the level of the moral principles of her husband, perhaps, can already be said about the determining quality of the acting personality of strawberries.

For me, this quality is formulated as follows: mental activity. Alas, in art and especially in cinema, it often happens like this: once the actor played a role perfectly, while finding, say, “positive charm”, and now the directors invite him to act in a role where this “positive charm” is required and nothing else. At the same time, the acting is predatoryly operated, but the actor himself gets rid, in essence, from the need to "tirelessly knock into the image." Is it necessary to add that the minimum efforts of the actor turn into a minimum, simply zero artistic result in this case?

One of the victims of such a purely handicraft attitude to art - a well -known comedic actress, who starred in the weakness of character in the vulgar film - said bitterly: “The money has gone long ago, and the shame was drawn and stretches did not escape such“ shame ”and strawberries.” In the ill -fated "Black Sea" he was a kind of charming in love sailor, a certain Vasil.

Just a good positive sailor loved her. And she did not love him. And so he was tormented. And then they quarreled in the said that a good role. And then I served in the theater of the film actor. Well, they wrote an outfit. It was inconvenient to refuse - there is a discipline. So they sent me to the shooting to Odessa it seems like a container is even funnier - and in essence, sadly - the story of the participation of Zemlyanikin in the film -Operetta "Cherries" looks like.

And then he, of course, was a charming lovers, but this time a driver. And the driver was in love with the crane operator. Zemlyanikin recalls: - The director asked me: "Volodya, portray love." And I "portrayed". But the funny thing is that I sang. The words were: "Everything that prevents people from living, we will not take in a new house." But that's not all. Actually, not me sang, but singer Mikhail Alexandrovich, but I only had to open my mouth.

I regularly opened my mouth, but you imagine: tenor Alexandrovich and my appearance, when I finished “sing” and began to talk, I immediately felt a suspicious inconsistency between “my” singing voice and my own, personally belonging to the wide screen and colored film made the acting shame even more visual. Vladimir Zemlyanikin caught on time. He realized that a slight existence in art is destroying the actor.

I understood and thought. In fairness, it should be said that at the beginning of his creative path, Zemlyanikin tried to get away from the role of a positive “shirt” guy. The first attempt to renounce the Blue Hero was his work in the film "Soldier's Heart", where he played the main role - the role of a difficult hooligan guy, whom the army makes a real person, courageous, disciplined, responsible in their actions, in a word, real.

However, the weakness of the dramatic material and the screen decision of the film did not allow the traffic of a young nature to trace, did not give the actor the opportunity to show the most interesting in the image - evolution, growth process, qualitative changes taking place in the internal appearance of a person. If the first episodes of the film, where Zemlyanikin depicts an unrestrained, rude, harsh guy, sort of whitish, succeeded, then the scenes in the army appeared as a certain illustration that states this or that stage of the development of the human soul.

Thinking, Zemipyanikin began to play both the theater and in the cinema unusual roles for himself with the so -called "negative charm." Such, for example, is a hooligan - Kretin Repin in the play “Contemporary” “Two colors” based on the play by A. Zak and I. Kuznetsov: “His forehead is one and a half finger, but does this - holds out a fist and menacingly asks:“ Is that sniffed?

Due to the circumstances, he must, obeying the orders of the queen, to execute people, and he, the kindest soul, does not want to do this, so I don’t want to look closely at himself, Zemlyanikin began to feel the whole charm of such a state when at first it seems: no, this role is not mine.