Yuri Bogatyryov (02.03.1947 — 02.02.1989)
Encyclopedia of the Soviet Cinema: 'There was no one like him, before or after. It looks like he'd come and gone so quick just to leave us this unfathomable enigma of his phenomenon to marvel at.'
Vitaly Wolf (critic, writer): 'He was very nervous, very kind and extraordinarily open-hearted. His tutor Katin-Yartsev used to tell me how worried he was about Bogatyryov's openness and vulnerability.'
Irina Pavlova (critic): 'A two-meter giant, he could easily play a bravest knight (or the chekist Yegor Shilov in At Home Among Strangers), then turn into an ecstatically maudlin idiot Manilov in Gogol's Dead Souls. One moment his body could be steel-and spring-like, and he'd sport unequalled strength and agility. The next it would turn all wadded and quilt-like, as if lacking spinal cord... Immensely gifted, he was a wealth of the artistic 'material' in its pure form: fantastically pliable, filling any shape or form, easily meeting any director-poised challenges, dramatic or intellectual.'
movies in the post:
'Several days from the life of I. I. Oblomov' (1980), dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
'A Slave of Love' (1976), dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
'At Home Among Strangers' (1974), dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
'Declaration of Love' (1978), dir. Ilya Averbakh
'Martin Eden' (1976), dir. Sergey Evlakhishvili
The Nose (1977), dir. Rolan Bykov
'An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano' (1977), dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
'Open book' (1977-1979), dir. Viktor Titov
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Andrei Mironov (07.03.1941 – 16.08.1987)
Tatyana Klevantseva: 'He was thought an ideal actor possessing power over all genres of cinema and theater. He was so tremendously popular during his lifetime, that even years after his death his birthdays remained a major event of Moscow's cultural life.'
'Many actors frankly confess that Andrei Mironov was simply the best. As time goes his legend continues to grow.'
A minor planet 3624 Mironov, discovered by Soviet astronomers Lyudmila Karachkina and Lyudmila Zhuravleva in 1982 is named after him.
movies in the post:
'The Twelve Chairs' (1976), dir. Mark Zakharov
'Heavenly Swallows' (1976), dir. Leonid Kvinikhidze
'The Straw Hat' (1974), dir. Leonid Kvinikhidze
'The Diamond Arm' (1969), dir. Leonid Gaidai
'My Friend Ivan Lapshin' (1985), dir. Aleksei German
'An Ordinary Miracle' (1978), dir. Mark Zakharov
'Property of the Republic' (1971), dir. Vladimir Bychkov
'Three Plus Two' (1963), dir. Genrikh Oganesyan
'The Story of Voyages' (1983), dir. by Alexander Mitta
'Three Men in a Boat' (1979), dir. Naum Birman
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