a student at the pedagogical institute from aprelivka near moscow, she bought a ticket to the play “ bless you” at the vakhtangov theater. they told me that etush was playing there, so i thought, let me look at etush. this is where it all starts. how could i have thought at that moment that this is how i see my future husband? they began to recognize her at the theater box office, and over time, the actors noticed this girl in the front row.

she was a fan of him and went to all the performances here, adored the vakhtangovo theater, everything seemed to be in order in lena’s life, except the fact that the beloved artist did not pay attention to the girl. lena graduated from high school, began teaching english at school, she was pleasant, outwardly, sociable, for some reason she did not respond to the attention of men, everyone was not like her inaccessible stage hero, to whom she was uncontrollably drawn.

i, i, i, this man, the degree of expressiveness, the degree of imagery, relish, you know, he filled the entire frame with himself when leonid gaidai decided to give one of the main roles of the film prisoner of the caucasus to a theater actor who was not very famous in cinema, he did not represented, through what difficulties and misunderstandings and...

55 years have passed since the film came out on the wide screen, but there are still blank spots in its history, it is with etush’s daughter, raechka , that an episode is connected that...

let natasha try it on, and raechka , absolutely 12 years old, she had already begun to take shape somehow, she already had some kind of chest, but she, she still took off this t-shirt in one motion, well, a child, just a child, men, of course, pulled everything out eyes gasped. by the way, it was in this raechka t-shirt that natalya varley performs his famous dance on the stone.

as for raya etush, she dreamed of becoming an actress, and was ready for any sacrifice, the director said: “we must.”

his life has completely changed, sit down, thank you, after many years in the shadows, with small roles in films, with a number of minor characters in the theater, he becomes a star of the first magnitude, you see, i always never tire of repeating the phrase to our artists, what an artist is known to do only cinema, and the master only theater, no one knew how long, how carefully, she found her happiness, not hoping that it would will happen someday. 5 years passed before a devoted fan dared to meet her idol. i waited for him near the seventh entrance, and when he came out, he saw me, and he came up to me

and said: “you know, your close attention somehow worries me, and i told him that you know, i’m not an unemployed actress , and i ’m not going to enter the shchukin school, so..." don’t be alarmed, he laughed and somehow, in general, let him go. now after the performance, she, as a friend, could have a few words with him. sometimes etuzh asked the driver to give her a ride to the kievsky station. they were driving together in a car through the evening city and nothing more. he fought in the caucasus, there was a difficult war there, not everyone knows about it, but the caucasian operations were extremely difficult, there he...

several wounds, shell shock and absolute fearlessness, absolute fearlessness, he survived, having gone through this whole terrible war, he saw everything

with my own eyes, he was in hell, we will show sergei zenshtein's film ivan the terrible. strong power, to go around the ridges, who opposes the unity of the russian state. a fundamental picture, it raises questions about the existence of russia. he predicted much of what is happening to russia today. boyars in a situation of war, they bastards begin to leave for the boyar power rises. a biography of ivan the terrible, which is published in... in the west , europe definitely does not recognize this, he will be strong, not a negative figure, terrible, gloomy, i admit, a big game, a special issue, now for the first time, the grand duke of moscow, the crown of the tsar of all russia on imposes himself, and

the film ivan the terrible, it turns out to be a timeless film, because every era looks at it with its own eyes, finds some answers to its... asks, today on the first. rallies against the new government in kiev took place in several cities in eastern ukraine. this is a war, a war against the people of donbass, the donetsk people's war. the republic will answer the call. the key motive for the maidan raid was the denial of us, yes, as a community, as people, as citizens. recognize that the heroes of ukraine are stepan bender, minions of the fascists, well, we would definitely never recognized. and this is precisely what we rose up against. we became free from the kiev junta. they wanted only one thing, back to russia as quickly as possible, and everyone believed that it should be the way it happened in crimea. what has happened now, there is no going back. there is nowhere to go further, we are not aggressive, but we will tear anyone for our own,

so we will bite our teeth into our land, we will still defend it, whatever future we would like for our child, without war, liberated territories, life line, premiere, tomorrow first, he himself admitted that in his youth before the war he belonged to the golden moscow youth, reckless. who could miss lectures at the theater school for the sake of dancing and girls, a warrior returned from the front, with the order of the red star in an overcoat, leaning on a stick, i thought that i had nothing to wear, and i was embarrassed, it turns out that the overcoat adorned me , because i was just a hero who came from the front, ninel myshkova... an actress of dazzling beauty became his first wife. he was madly in love, but

six months later the marriage broke up. frivolous the beauty went to someone else. he had a hard time with the betrayal and was in no hurry to start a family until he met nina. ninsanna is a very beautiful woman. well, it’s clear that when i came to the family, it was no longer like that. after all, she was already old, but she had become very good, she looked very good and always took care of herself. they met in sochi, where a graduate of a pedagogical institute came on vacation from her native baku, and a year later vladimir went to nina’s parents to ask for her hand in marriage. insanna, she was like that the bride is very rich, dad, if i'm not mistaken, he was the director of a factory for the production of black caviar.

where vladimir abramovich’s parents, his sister, grandmother, uncle and aunt lived. our archive contains footage of eighty-five-year-old vladimir etush looking around his native place with surprise. everything is being built in a new way here, you see? this house was already called a family hostel. there could be no question of any financial help from baku, given the character of the young husband; he did and decided everything in his life himself. he was very much like that, i would say a hero-loving person, vladimir abramovich, that is, he loved everything to go according to him, everyone played by his rules, and this really was the case in the family. etushenina lived with. 48 years old, raised a daughter who inherited her father’s headstrong character, became an actress,

although the family was categorically against it. oh, we are still raising our youth poorly, very poorly, surprisingly not seriously, towards marriage. at the age of 18 she got married, presenting her parents with a fait accompli. her chosen one, sergei, studied at the prestigious institute of international relationships. the guy's parents just got divorced. vladimir abramovich to some extent replaced my father, gave me a lot of useful advice, taught me different things. their male friendship lasted for the rest of their lives, but the family near paradise never worked out with sergei and divorced. raisa dreamed of leaving russia, marrying an american and moving to the usa. when etuj learned of these plans, he was shocked. this is his daughter. what a waste, i myself told in an interview about how dad stood on

his knees in front of her, begging her not to do this, i can’t imagine how he was on his knees, and what could have made him, apparently, he was in such a state, in such deep despair, in september 2000, nina aleksandrovna, the actor’s wife, died, everyone who saw him in those days, they say, he aged instantly, i’m just in pain my heart sank because he was sitting... so lost, he was so old that i thought that well, this is just the end, god grant that he survives. despite his iron character, etug turned out to be completely helpless in the face of loneliness. his strong family support was destroyed. at the time of her mother’s death, raya was still living in moscow with her american husband and little son. vladimir abramovich loved his grandson very much, who was named volodya in his honor. with her daughter, after she finally decided

to become an american, the relationship deteriorated, they barely said hello. i was 78 years old, how can you be left alone in an apartment at this age when there is no one, like this, well, it’s very scary, being left alone at this age is a very difficult test. december 12, 2000 in all newspapers of the country alarming headlines appeared: actor vladimir etush was in an accident, everyone was scared, he was alive. they write that he is alive, and immediately there is talk that a young woman was injured in the car with him. i immediately saw that we were just flying, right into this kilometer post. seeing lena, as usual, waiting for the actor after the performance, etuzh invited her to the dacha. this was their first date. he was

driving himself. as they wrote later in official protocols, an actor. coped with control, just like that, from a disaster in which both could died, but miraculously survived, their love story began, he told you how much he loves you, of course, i say, of course, i say, you also know how funny it was, i ’ll say there, i love you, i love you, and why didn’t i ever say it, even though i say this every time 10 times a day, it’s such a nuisance. he had one, but why didn’t she ever tell him ? then, after the accident , etush’s daughter, raya, found out about her father’s young girlfriend, she didn’t accept his choice, their relationship went wrong for 8 years, raya left for the usa, the actor was very worried that he couldn’t see grandson, only at the end in etush’s life, they began to communicate occasionally again,

but of course, i understand when my mother leaves and suddenly appears. elena is not one of the timid, she always smoothed him out, these were the sharp corners of his character, she knew how to smooth out, you had to see them together, it was a very interesting picture, of course, because the formidable, here i am in my eyes, the formidable vladimir abramovich for lena is sitting at the table around him, a butterfly is fluttering, vovochka, vovochka, vovochka, vovochka, vovochka, vovochka, vovochka, it was touchingly impossible, officially

they registered exactly a year later, the difference in years was the age of the actor... many raised questions about who this suddenly appeared young woman was, whether she was hunting for money and fame, whether this relationship would turn out to be a disaster for the actor, the press added fuel to the fire, to me they bring a newspaper, and i read that i married a young woman, that she got married secretly, that... “we spend time in some, some taverns, all the time, there, in fact, i didn’t get married secretly, but obviously there was a wedding, and i didn’t do any tightening, she decided that she could go here from what she sees, it is clear that he was not

rejuvenated from some procedures, from happiness, so open and kind..." most of the people who communicated with him simply did not know him, even those with whom he played on one scene, he was a closed person, closed, maybe someone managed to open him, his heart or his soul, but i was not among the initiates, no, no, we had a distance, it was always preserved in etush’s nature. amazing paradox, a tough, powerful man with a huge sense of self-esteem was a comedian, stop the priest, put away the knives! knife, look, look at our activist, he’s an armed bandit, death, from death to death, he’s a dead man, now the police will figure out which of us is a dead man, and

his toughness and authority in life sometimes looked frightening, in the movies they seemed hilariously funny. my god, well, our house is either robbed or called names, and we are also fighting for the honorary title of a house of high culture of life. this is a nightmare, a nightmare! he is a tough comedian, and comedians are most often soft actors, well, let's say lyonov or raikin, but there are tough comedians, well, for example, louis dauphinez, and this, you are not a hooligan, what kind of drunken antics are these, i will file a complaint against you, a collective one, this kind of artist who plays to the fullest... seriously, with a very strong temperamental involvement in the situation, you can’t play the fool, you have to play completely seriously, you have to absolutely

waste your time, then it will be funny. he made each hero of fairy tales, directed by nadezhda kosheverova, enchantingly bright, and this was not always written in the script; the actor himself endowed his characters with characteristic funny details, inventing them according to... the villains did not evoke hatred or fear, they were also loved, well, maybe this cannot be said about the karabas-barabas from the cult film by leonid nichaev, the adventure of pinocchio. the children

were still afraid of him, dmitry iosifov was 9 years old when they attached a long nose to him and allowed him to communicate with a terrible bearded villain. well, why are you gathered here? now i will tell you this exactly as per the script. i will torment you, and we didn’t understand where the lines were, where he was as a person, where he was as a character, a role for etushi was physically very difficult, they filmed in the crimea, it was hot, etushi was wearing multi-layers of warm clothes, it took a long time to glue his beard, and he simply hated it, of course, everything flowed there, the glue was flowing, it was hot, the suit was hot, the legs were shod in... with a very high platform, so that the carabas seemed huge, several times he almost sprained his leg. what was it like, with all this

equipment, to lift a twenty-kilogram boy and unload him onto a hook. so what, it was you who interrupted the performance of my wonderful comedy. well, that's it, that's it. his right leg, he was missing two toes, a large middle one, he learned to walk without limping, but what happened to him in august 87, when he suddenly stopped getting in touch,

or suddenly he didn’t come to the performance, i remember when dad said, something terrible happened, i went into the bath, and there he was already dead, our exclusive is the last summer of anatoly popanov, he was a great grandfather, and i’m generally grateful to fate that i had exactly him, the confession of his daughter from the group. did not open, it was impossible to recognize this person, and the bitter confessions of his widow, and i said, just like that, well, what should i do, i had to get out of this somehow, exclusive with dmitry borisov, premiere, today on the first, i regret one thing, years, this rings a bell for me, greetings. tomin from ugrozivsk the first perception of the audience is still major tomin and there’s no getting around it, if he feels petty and unprofessional, then of course this infuriates him. he has

a huge sense of responsibility, masculine charm and masculine self-confidence, although a man lifts dumbbells every morning, this it’s a great pleasure, i’ll tell you, this gym is amazing, he works out, he keeps in shape, he’s very efficient, yes he gets tired, but he can’t live without it, i believe in omens, probably all actors believe, but in black eye. so we have to spit, on the eightieth birthday of leonid konevsky, tomorrow is the first, this is the village of dolginikha, nearby, etushi’s dacha, lena leads us to the monument to karabas barabas, i always say hello when i arrive, the monument was

created on the initiative of one of... this his character, yes, it’s kind of formidable with on the one hand, and for some reason we all love him, like this i remember, there were some publications and there, well, as always , there are a lot of well-wishers, and that’s why they made the karabass a barabas, but why? i just wrote in response: guys, do as you want, who’s stopping you, please, we see him , everyone immediately fell silent, andrei sokolov, who graduated from the shchukin theater school, has a lot of memories of how...

and his word was perfect here's how to say, well, unconditionally, what he said, that is, he had very great authority. vladimir etush began teaching acting at his native theater school named after shchukin immediately after the war. the role of a teacher was perhaps more responsible and important for the ethos than any other. you know him too, if you whisper like that, no one will hear you, no one will see, and you will not make any impression, he had his own idea of ​​​​what and how to teach future actors, hands from mouth, firstly, you can’t do it the way you do it, nina, you can’t come up and sniff and that’s it, that’s you have to do it, you have to physically

feel it. you can just start talking loudly and eventually fill this emptiness, or maybe achieve this emptiness and then start saying loudly: choose, it’s your right, this is the path, but you can’t play like that on stage, you can’t rehearse like that, i didn’t like what others were doing, it seemed to me that here everything needs to be corrected a little, you are already late with your medieval education, completed, our profession is not for fools, after the first year he tried to expel both me and sasha sbroev for the fact that we are not capable of being actors, but he has a responsibility for us, all the teachers were dumbfounded by such severity of etushi, it was he who was harsh to himself. in 1987, in the wake of perestroika, vladimir etush was elected rector

of the famous pike. one of the best theater universities in the country, this is my rector, this is a man whom the whole school was afraid of, we were all rabbits, scarier, tougher than... a man, it seemed to me that he was so cruel, unsympathetic, a terrible guy, he was the captain of a huge ship, he led him through all the storms and storms of the nineties, now they understand this, theater and film stars, etush’s students, they say that etush had such energy that it rushed through the school like a wave when he quickly walked to class. he was a man of incredible energy, magnetic energy, magical, that is, he could quietly, quietly, quietly, and then how to give, i remember that my classmate showed some kind of itude, something like that, in the heat of the moment, he grabbed a chair

and put it down him, vladimirovich stood up at the pulpit, don’t dare, break chairs, that’s all. went among the people and became so popular that borunov was even invited to show it at the master’s anniversary. we found this entry. here is a small fragment of it. etosh is 80, next to his young wife elena. i don’t want to teach you

stanislavsky’s system again, but keep in mind that what may be true for you due to inexperience, may not be true for everyone. due to inexperience , maybe, maybe because of misunderstanding, maybe because of selfishness, maybe because of some other reasons, it’s in the way, it’s a partner, everyone present and vladimir abramovich himself laughed, because it was done talented for sure the stern rector, whom the students were so afraid of, was a fair man, he was like an uncle. 18 years of life, the play began, our life together began, well , in general, almost, almost the same, in fact, it roughly coincided when we finished

the play, the last time we played it was on february 6, 1818, because vladimir abramovich was already having a hard time, this was seen. it is no coincidence that lena says that we performed a performance. of course, etush was playing, and she stood in the wings with a piece of sugar on her palm, in case she needed it, he was old, he had diabetes, he needs to be given medications by the hour, she controlled everything, he could still whisper at her, i don’t want to take your pills, elena and i, without being offended, she said: “vovochka, little pussy, i gave you an injection, it doesn’t hurt, i want an injection." vovik, you need to, come on quietly, get away from me, i don’t want to inject anyone, so vovochka. this needs to be done, lena told him. and she also understood that if he felt that he was not in demand as an actor, his life would end. and he began to look for new plays, new roles, they

discussed it all together, and he constantly played. means, call me. hello hello. vladimir abramovich is speaking to you. which? people's artist of the ussr etush needed her lessons in jewish dialect. the ninety-year-old actor at that time was working on the image of furniture salesman gregor solomon from arthur miller's play "the price" for the play "the marina."

as the secretary of the presidium of the supreme soviet of the ussr, mikhail georgadze himself asked to resolve the dispute. who is the nationality of the artist? one half says that he is azerbaijani. we definitely think he is georgian. i say, say, he says: yes, please. i i say he is jewish. he opened his mouth slightly, froze, and then. whispered to me, a brilliant artist, in

the theater he could play an italian, an englishman, a greek, anyone, he was very accurate in every role, he read the role to me, and i staged it for him, i told him, this is how it should be, this is how it should be so, and here is my dad, he also made his eyes like this, with his eyes squinting, he wanted to understand, they want to deceive him, so he wanted to understand something, and i, so, here, he began to make an eye, then he says, here here, i became like a director to him, i became insolent in the end. success of the play was huge. the pier became a legend of the vakhtangov theater. great actors, patriarchs of the russian stage, took part in it, and, almost until his death, he played one of his best roles in the marina.

regardless of the internal state of external conditions, even when etuzh was sitting in the dressing room absolutely exhausted, they dressed him, they rattled him, he came out, suddenly the performance stopped, we stopped the performance for 4 minutes, can you imagine what 3-4 minutes of stage time is, here this is how the audience greeted etush, what does an actor mean? real me i saw how he became taller, how

his shoulders straightened, on a physical level, suddenly this man became vladimir abramovich etusham. he was about eighty, when it seemed that everything was in the past and nothing would ever happen again. and then fate gave him lena. and another 18 years of happiness, he never felt or experienced himself as an old man, he always felt like a man, probably, especially at this age , this is very important for a man, and he very often told me, you are the best thing that happened in my life, and i could do the same to him, not i could, but i felt it in relation to him, i always told him that you are now... i can repeat it, he is the best thing that

was, is, will be in my life. he was lucky enough not to grow old, not to lose interest in life, and to delight viewers with his creativity until his last days. the hall exploded with applause when ninety-six-year-old etush pronounced the words of his hero from the stage. it turns out he was talking about himself. why is life so short? so as not to get bored, of course, and if someone is not bored, maybe you can live longer, eh?

hello, the ezenshtein-125 podcast is on air, artyom sopin and film historian natalya ryabchikova are in the studio. today we will talk about isenstein’s film ivan the terrible, which is not only one of the most notable films in the work of esenstein himself, but... but is also probably one of the most significant films, in principle, in the history of culture of the 20th century, because this is a film that has collected many features of different types of art, in fact, precisely... thanks to this film, including isenshtein proved that cinema is a full-fledged part of the world pantheon of arts, together with older forms, with painting, literature, theater, and in ivan the terrible we see how many features are intertwined. in addition, this film, of course, is historically

interesting in various aspects, not historically in the sense that in the ancient history when it was filmed, much less in the ancient history to which it relates, but relatively. a certain matrix, not so much from the history of our country, but from the history of civilization in general, because these are certain fortunately or unfortunately, rather in this case, unfortunately, recurring motives in the behavior of people, not even necessarily kings, this is a fairly complex work,

psychologically interesting, historically, and now maybe we’ll talk about how this project came about, where it came from, in what years? it was created because, of course, you need to start with dreams. for ezenshtein, the thirties were very difficult, in fact, as for our entire country, and the intensification of the great terror at the end of the thirties especially affected his situation, because he was one of the brightest figures of that left avant-garde of the twenties, which in the thirties was condemned in every possible way, which was accused of formalism, in addition , isenstein had this trip abroad. at the turn of the twenties and thirties, we know how many military leaders, how many engineers who went abroad during these years, many were repressed, isenshtein literally managed to avoid repression, because stalin hoped to tame isenshtein, in general, despite fairly independent izenshteinovskoe

behavior in the thirties, when he was going to put on a film with his view of collectivization, a little bit, in general, showing it as ... the tragedy of the russian village, everything went to the point that uzenshtein had to be arrested, in the thirty-seventh year , in general, the situation of the ban on that film about the village of vezhen luk practically led to this, but stalin decided to give isenstein a chance, invited him to direct a film about alexander nevsky, and here, in general, it’s not that they did not understand each other, but isenshtein made a film about the rebuff of this one mechanized knightly machine, chain.

was able to embody these ideas, moreover, he gave esenstein more material for thought, yes, for these theoretical analyzes of his favorite, post-analyses, with this baggage they both approach the fortieth year of the first year, in fact, it’s here that esenstein is not even

only it will work with sound, but with color, but this is a separate episode, which we will talk about in due time, and as for the proposal, it really was... very peculiar, because here it is important to remember the context. in this is the time when historical works begin to come out that rethink grozny’s place in history, that seek to at least justify the tyranny of grozny by creating opriches, not by eliminating the boyars, that is, by establishing personal power, in fact, what stalin did in the thirties , when he first got rid of the mensheviks, the social revolutionaries, and trotsky. the so -called and so on and so on and so on, so this is the proposal that was received in january forty-one, and it was voiced by jdanov, who invited ezenshtein for a conversation and invited him to direct the film... the formidable izenshtein did not immediately agree, but izenshtein, in general , took some time to think and himself recalled that for him, as

they say now, the trigger was attending a gala evening, the anniversary of lenin’s death , the next evening was in the big theater, just in january of forty-one, and reflecting on the death of lenin, an event seventeen years ago, isenstein thought about how scared stalin was that after lenin’s death he began to destroy everyone around him i realized that starting from this fear in grozny’s childhood, he needed to start this plan, then he would work on the script, he began to work in great detail, he worked with a large number of historical sources, first he looked for a screenwriter, in general , large figures were considered, for example, the writer leonid leonov, but by the summer he had already begun to develop a script on his own, twenty here.

evacuated, that is, not just how to make a film about medieval russia in wartime conditions, but how to film in conditions evacuation, when they actually do not have the resources to which they are accustomed, at least in moscow. the entire forty-second year is actually spent developing sketches, sewing costumes, finalizing the script, and here it must be said that the sketches that isenstein drew not so much as the film’s artist played a huge role.

it was normal, because it was probably possible, by the way, to gather such a company of actors only in almaat, maybe in moscow he would not have been able to do this, this is such a two-fold situation, on the one hand it is clear, who should play the formidable one, but of course nikolai cherkassov, who has already played nevsky, moreover, he is just a plastic actor, he is an action actor, he is an eccentric actor, and well, but he is not in almaty, he needs to be caught, you need to come to an agreement with him , and on the way, then, who will play with...

tselikovskaya’s circle and who saw her in this role, in general, insisted that tselikovskaya play this role, in general, it is indicative here that cherkassov started in music-choli, zharov played a huge number of comedic roles, kadochnikov was generally comedian and tyuz actor, tselikovskaya comedy actress, serafima birman, played dramatic roles in the theater in her thirties, but started again with comedies, including playing comedies in films.