Biography Zhzhenova George Actor
St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He is the airliner commander Andrei Timchenko in the first film "Crew". He is the laureate of the Nick Prize in the nomination "Honor and Dignity". The actor, who is rightfully called the Great, who survived the seventeen years of the camps and rehabilitated after them, passed away in the year of 90 years. Mom, Maria Fedorovna, in the girlishness of Shchelkina, a seventeen -year -old village girl married "in the city" for a widow with five children.
Stepan Filippovich served in the Petrograd bakery, hoped to break into people. But the revolution broke out, and all his plans went to dust. And in the meantime, five more children were born in the family, an Yegor of three brothers and two sisters was the third child. Father lost his job, began to drink. The upbringing of the younger ones was engaged in the half -sister of Natalia, who by that time had become a teacher.
The actor said: she was strict, energetic, demanding. Loved order and clarity. I loved to subordinate and educate. From the very first days, upon returning from the village, to us, Sergey, Boris and me, it was proposed to live according to her scenario. To leave the house without permission - you can’t! Being to be for dinner - you can’t! To make random street acquaintances, as well as to ride a tram “sausage” is strictly forbidden.
Climbing the fences - especially! In a word, it was proposed to behave decently, as appropriate for the educated Petrograd boys. In the year, Yegor began to study at the Working School with a physical and mathematical bias. He was not distinguished by zeal and perseverance, but stably passed from class to class along with the rest of the students. Life around me, meanwhile, was becoming more severe.
After a short period of the NEP, when Maria Fedorovna began trading in the Andreevsky market to feed a large family, other times have come. Zhzhenov’s mother was “dispossessed” as a private owner and sent to one hundred and the first kilometer. She even fictitiously divorced her husband so that the children would not suffer. George left his youth and first roles in the year and, according to his brother Boris, entered the pop-cycle technical school.
Later, he honestly admitted that he really wanted to become an acrobat, and was accepted to the technical school only from the age of sixteen, so Zhzhenov went to this little trick. Immediately he created a number with his classmate and began to perform in the circus. There he was noticed and invited to samples in the picture “The Hero Error” he played the main role of the tractor driver Pashka Vetrov.
In the same film, Efim Kopelyan also made his debut in the image of a pedestal. Then Zhzhenov starred in the epoch -making picture "Chapaev" of the year. Georgy Zhzhenov spent 17 years in the camps soon George threw the circus and entered the Leningrad College of Stage Arts at the film acting department, where the future genius of Soviet cinema Sergey Gerasimov had just begun to teach.
Filming in his painting Komsomolsk, which was released in the year, ended terribly for the actor: he was arrested and accused as a spy and traitor to his homeland. And at the age of 22, the fiery Komsomolets, who was sacredly believed in justice and humanity, was thrown into the millstone of the ruthless machine of repression, in which his brother Boris, who later died in Vorkutlag, was before him.
The arrest and exile Boris Zhzhenov was arrested in the year. In his memoirs, Zhzhenov wrote how ashamed of himself and his fiery speeches, which he made before his brother in their last meeting before Boris’s exile. Immediately after that, from the whole family, they took a recognizance not to leave. And in the summer of the year, an order was given - to send the Zhzhenovs to Kazakhstan.
George did not want to go, Gerasimov stood up for him, defending the right to act in Komsomolsk. During the filming, he met on a train with American Philip Faymonville, a military press attache of the US Embassy in Moscow. Later, already in Moscow, they again intersected at the Bolshoi Theater. George was sentenced to five years and sent with a stage for Kolyma. In the year, without explanation “by special order” he was added 21 months of imprisonment, and in March of the year and a half he was released ahead of schedule, but recommended not to leave Magadan.
Zhzhenov got a job at the musical and drama theater. Later, with the help of Gerasimov, he found a job in Sverdlovsk, then moved to the provincial theater of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In the year, the actor was again arrested again on charges of espionage and sent to a settlement in Norilsk. There he lived for four years, worked in the theater, where he met the former front -line soldier Innocent Smoktunovsky.
Only in the year Zzhzhenov was rehabilitated and returned to his native Leningrad. The acting career in the years George began to serve in the Leningrad Regional Drama Theater. In parallel, he began to act on Lenfilm. In the year, Zhzhenov became the actor of the Lensovet Theater. In the cinema, he appeared in the images of the artist “Night Guest”, the investigator “Fixed to believe”, engineer “Planet of Storms”.
Glory came to the actor along with the role of the traffic police inspector in the criminal comedy Eldar Ryazanov “Beware of the car” on the set, he again met with a longtime comrade Innokenty Smoktunovsky, met Oleg Efremov and Anatoly Papanov.His character was well remembered by the audience. In parallel with this film, Zhzhenov played the main roles in the film Poles “I will look for” Andrei Gusarov and in the melodrama “The Man I Love” Evgeny Muromtsev.
Serious changes in the creative biography of the actor occurred in the year. He moved to Moscow, at the invitation of director Yuri Zavadsky, play Leo Tolstoy in the production “Embarry to Life” at the Mossovet Theater. The Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva forbade the performance, accusing the authors of distorting the image of the classic. But Zhzhenov was already accepted into the troupe of the theater, in which he served until his death.
On his account are unforgettable works in the productions of Leningradsky Prospekt, Zarrodin, “Evening Light” of the fingers, the “trial of the judges” prosecutor Lawson. In the year, the first film was released from the tetralogy of spy drama about the scout Mikhail Tula Tula, he is also Zarokov and Kurnakov “resident mistake”. Zhzhenov played in the picture of the protagonist, the son of an emigrant and an agent of foreign intelligence services.
The actor’s partner on the set was Mikhail Zhozhkin in the image of a Soviet counterintelligence. Georgy Stepanovich recalled that the hardest thing for him was to work on the set of one of the scenes in the Moscow “sailor silence”: it was the most painful shooting for me - I remembered the past. Do not convey that painful sensation on the set, expectation, when the shift will finally end.
The new wave of spectator interest brought the actor the role of politician Willy Stark in the drama "The whole royal army." Her Zhzhenov received her after the death of Pavel Lupecaev, who was approved at the beginning. Another significant work for the actor was the role of the army commander Peter Bessonov in the military drama "Hot Snow", he played it so soulfully that people, leaving the cinemas, cried.
In the seventies, Zhzhenov played a lot of main roles, but one of the most striking was the work in Alexander Mitta’s catastrophe “Crew”. The actor appeared there in the image of an aircraft commander Andrei Timchenko. The last image created by Zhzhenov in the cinema is the Scottish Life Medica Jacob Willia in the drama “An invisible traveler” Personal life Georgy Zhzhenova for the first time George married actress Evgenia Golynchik, whom he met at the technical school of stage arts.
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Thanks for everything. " Soon, Eugene, along with Mark Bernes, starred in the film “Fighters”. Zhzhenov’s camp authorities even let go of watching the film in a neighboring village - as a date with his wife. With his second wife, actress Lidia Vorontsova, Zhzhenov met in the Magadan Music and Drama Theater. Vorontsova was also a native of Leningrad and served as a “Japanese spy”, because a Japanese student rented a room.
The spring of the year was remembered by them as the happiest time of life: both were released, signed, and then - the long -awaited Victory Day. Georgy Zhzhenov and his wife Irina in June had a couple of Alena's daughter, but they could not save the family. The psyche of both, but especially Lydia, was shattered after the camps. Yes, and George was not fidelled to his wife.
Agreeing to the "free" format of relations, they managed to return the past. But in the spring of the year, Vorontsov was arrested again. George managed to send his daughter to his relatives in Leningrad and save her from the orphanage - in June they came after him. After a second link in Norilsk, George at the Zapolyarny Theater of Drama met actress Irina Makhaeva, who married in a year.
Soon their daughter Marina was born. Three years later, the spouse took her husband’s complaint and a complaint to Moscow and managed to achieve his return to the mainland. The marriage lasted ten years. In the year, he married his last love and lived with her for more than forty years. Death and memory in December of the year Summer George Zhzhenov got into the clinic with pneumonia.
During the examination, his lung cancer was found. The course of treatment has begun. For a short time, the actor felt better and went home. In November, he again became worse, besides, having unsuccessfully stumbled, he broke the neck of his thigh and hit the operating table. Zhzhenov put an artificial joint.