Eduard Volodarsky
Eduard Volodarsky | |
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Born | Eduard Yakovlevich Volodarsky 3 February 1941 USSR |
Died | 8 October 2012 Moscow, Russia | (aged 71)
Nationality | Russian |
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, writer, playwright |
Known for | At Home Among Strangers (1974) My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1984) |
Eduard Yakovlevich Volodarsky (Russian: Эдуард Яковлевич Володарский; 3 February 1941 – 8 October 2012) was a Soviet and Russian screenwriter, writer and playwright. He was named
Biography
Eduard Volodarsky was born in Kharkov (today's Kharkiv,
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In 1974 Nikita Mikhalkov made his directorial debut with At Home Among Strangers, a Red Western about a group of friends – former Red Army soldiers, now Chekists – who investigated a train robbery, resulting in a heist reminiscent of the Great Train Robbery. It was based on the Red Gold novel by Mikhalkov and Volodarsky. Full of symbolism and innovative filming techniques, it quickly turned into a cult classic, bolstering the career of the young director.[5][11]
Volodarsky also experienced a successful theatre career after rewriting his early unfilmed screenplay into the Our Debts play. Staged by Oleg Yefremov at the Moscow Art Theatre, it drew a full house for 10 years straight and was eventually adapted into a movie.[4] According to Volodarsky, at the time his plays were staged all over the USSR and he earned 4000 rubles monthly, which was five times more than a minister's salary, yet he and Vysotsky spent all money on booze.[8] During late 1980s he began writing historical and biographical novels; some of them were also made into TV series.[12] He was among the few Soviet screenwriters still in great demand after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Among his last works was a TV adaptation of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate novel released posthumously.[5] In the interview that preceded the premiere Volodarsky described Grossman as a "rotten writer who didn't love the country he lived in" and stated that he read the novel only after signing the contract. He also self-identified as a monarchist and a White movement supporter while criticizing democracy and anti-communists, Soviet dissidents in particular for being "enemies of their own country... lying too much".[8]
Eduard Volodarsky died on 8 October 2012 in his Moscow flat aged 71.
Selected filmography
- 1969 – White Explosion
- 1971 – Trial on the Road
- 1974 – At Home Among Strangers
- 1977 – Our Debts
- 1977 – Hatred
- 1978 – Pugachev
- 1980 – The Smoke of Fatherland
- 1983 – Demidovs
- 1985 – My Friend Ivan Lapshin
- 1987 – Farewell, Moscow Gang
- 1987 – Moonzund
- 1989–1990 – War on the Western Front (TV series)
- 1991 – To the Last Limit
- 1993 – Trotsky
- 1995 – Lonely Gambler
- 2000 – Ordinary Bolshevism (documentary)
- 2002 – Diary of a Kamikaze
- 2003 – The Fifth Angel (TV series)
- 2003 – Bayazıt (TV series)
- 2004 – The Penal Battalion (TV series)
- 2006 – Stolypin... Unlearned Lessons (TV series)
- 2007 – Russian Translation (TV series)
- 2008 – Black Hunters
- 2008 – Dark Planet
- 2009 – Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time (TV series)
- 2011 — Dostoevsky (TV series)
- 2011 — Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel
- 2012 – Life and Fate (TV series)
- 2013 – Pyotr Leschenko. Everything That Was... (TV series)
- 2013 – Vasiliy Stalin (TV series)
- 2014 – Grigoriy R. (TV series)
- 2017 – Demon of the Revolution (TV series, based on the novel)
References
- ^ Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // ed. Sergei Yutkevich. – Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987, p. 78
- ^ President's Decree № 1373 at Kremlin.ru
- ^ President's Decree № 390 at Kremlin.ru
- ^ a b c d e Alexandra Pryazhnikova. Roads of Eduard Volodarsky Archived 2018-09-12 at the Wayback Machine interview at the Moscow and Muscovites magazine № 7–8, 2005 (in Russian)
- ^ a b c d e f Roth, Andrew (October 13, 2012). "Eduard Volodarsky, Screenwriter Banned by Soviets, Dies at 71". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f Life Line: Eduard Volodarsky Archived 2018-09-12 at the Wayback Machine talk show by Russia-K, 2010 (in Russian)
- ^ a b c Anna Balueva, Raisa Murashkina. Eduard Volodarsky's widow interview at Komsomolskaya Pravda, October 9, 2012 (in Russian)
- ^ ISSN 1562-0379(in Russian)
- ISSN 0136-0108(in Russian
- ^ General Secretary's Decree № 1303 at the Soviet Information Portal (in Russian)
- KinoPoisk, 1997/2006 (in Russian)
- ^ Bibliography at the Russian State Library website
- ^ Eduard Volodarsky's tomb
External links
- Eduard Volodarsky at IMDb