Smoktunovsky Innocent Mikhailovich

Innocent Smoktunovsky (real name - Smoktunovich) was born March 28, 1925 in the north of Tomsk region in a working family. In 1929 his family moved to Krasnoyarsk. After leaving school he went to school projectionist. But the war began, and soon Innocent Smoktunovsky drafted. He arrived in Kiev Infantry School, and in 1943 went to the front, where he participated in the battles at the Kursk Bulge, crossed the Dnieper. 3 December 1943 he was captured, escaped, fought with the partisans, and then with the army reached Berlin. Demobilized, Innocent Smoktunovskij soon entered the studio in the Krasnoyarsk theater, played on the stage of this theater, and later worked in Norilsk, Makhachkala, Stalingrad, Moscow. In film actor began acting in 1957, first appeared on screen in a small role in the film by Mikhail Romm's "Murder on Dante Street". After Farber's role in the film "Soldiers" George Tovstonogov invited Innocent Smoktunovsky in BDT, and a better role this time in the theater was Prince Myshkin in the play "The Idiot" by Dostoyevsky. In fact, with this role and began a real actor's biography Smoktunovsky. Later, in 1973, he created a memorable image of Tsar Fyodor (Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich, AK Tolstoy) in the Maly Theater. Climb to the top of Innocent Smoktunovsky kinoslavy began with a film of Mikhail Romm's Nine Days of One Year ", the main role in which he invited the film screenwriter Daniel Khrabrovitsky. Even greater success was expecting the actor with the release in 1964 "Hamlet", produced by Gregory Kozintsev, with Hamlet Smoktunovsky in England, many critics placed higher in the performance of Hamlet Laurence Olivier. An exceptional comic gift of the artist opened to visitors in the role Detochkin in the movie by Eldar Ryazanov "Beware of the Car" (1966). The undoubted successes Innocent Smoktunovsky began painting "Tchaikovsky" Igor Talankin and "Crime and Punishment" by Leo Kulidzhanov, as well as a TV movie of Michael Schweitzer's "Little Tragedies. Several films with the actor took director Leonid Pchelkin. In the early 1990's Innocent Smoktunovskij starred in various films, . mainly, . in detective tapes, . in small roles mafia bosses, . example, . in the "Geniuses" and "Line of Death", . but the talent of the actor was immune to any genre, . from tragedy to comedy, . and his work combines spirituality and subtlety of the role of the figure with deep humanity of its interpretation,
. Innocent Smoktunovskij died Aug. 3, 1994 after another heart attack, in the midst of work on the role Arbenina in the play "Masquerade".