Yevgeny Tashkov
Yevgeny Tashkov | |
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USSR | |
Died | 15 February 2012 | (aged 85)
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, actor |
Years active | 1954—2011 |
Spouses | |
Children | Andrey Tashkov, Aleksei Tashkov |
Yevgeny Ivanovich Tashkov (
Biography
Tashkov was born on 18 December 1926 in the Bykovo village (modern-day
He successfully entered VGIK. There was no free room at the dormitory, so he had to spend a night at a girls' room. As he was going to sleep, he heard the voice of Ekaterina Savinova (1926—1970) — a fellow student also from a peasant family from a far-away Siberian village — and fell in love with her. They got married in 1951.[5][6]
He studied acting under
After her role in
After the movie came out, they toured with concerts around the country. During that time Tashkov noticed that his wife became seriously ill. She was diagnosed with brucellosis which influenced her brain and nervous system and led to sluggish schizophrenia. She spent nine years lying in clinics, took a lot of medicine, and in 1970 she committed suicide by throwing herself under a train. Tashkov received permission to conduct a memorial service.[6][7]
In 1967 he joined Mosfilm. He directed two popular spy mini-series: Major Whirlwind (1967) based on the novel by Yulian Semyonov and The Adjutant of His Excellency (1969) written by Georgy Seversky and Igor Bolgarin, although Tashkov claimed that the script was so poor that he had to rewrite it from scratch, but was left uncredited.[5] The latter movie was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR in 1971.[1] It was also one of the first attempts to show both Red and White Army in neutral light. As Tashkov described it, "Two revolutions and the civil war — the greatest tragedy of Russian people. Both "Reds" and "Whites" were Russian people, which means it was a tragedy for all of them. I wanted to show it in my film". As a result, it was banned for four months until Tashkov invited 12 KGB generals who watched and approved it.[8]
In 1987 he was fired from Mosfilm. After that he and his wife had to seek various opportunities to survive. Only in 2011, after 20 years of failed attempts to find sponsors, he finally got in touch with
Yevgeny Tashkov died from a stroke aged 85. He was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.[3]
Personal life
Yevgeny Tashkov and
After Savinova's tragic death in 1970 Yevgeny lived in a civil union with an actress Valentina Sharykina, and in 1979 he married another actress Tatiana Vasilieva (born 1956) who played the main part in his movie French Lessons (1978) based on the story by Valentin Rasputin. She gave birth to Alexei Tashkov in 1983 who also became a TV and movie director and co-directed Tashkov's last film.
According to Andrei Tashkov, his father and his second wife were happily married, yet he couldn't talk about Savinova calmly, and when in 1995 Leonid Filatov interviewed him about Savinova for the documentary series To Be Remembered, he collapsed with a stroke.[7]
Yevgeny Tashkov belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church.[8]
Filmography
Year | Title | Original title | |||
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Director | Screenwriter | Role | |||
1954 | Commander of the Ship | Командир корабля | sailor | ||
1955 | The First Echelon | Первый эшелон | assistant director
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1956 | Old Turtle Captain | Капитан «Старой черепахи» | Rep'ev | ||
1957 | Past Days Pages | Страницы былого | |||
1959 | Thirst | Жажда | |||
1962 | Come Tomorrow, Please... | Приходите завтра... | Nikolai (voiceover); man in sunglasses (uncredited) | ||
1966 | False Name | Чужое имя | prosecutor Nikolay Glebov | ||
I'm from Childhood | Я родом из детства | Fyodor Baran | |||
1967 | Major Whirlwind | Майор Вихрь | episode (uncredited) | ||
1969 | The Adjutant of His Excellency | Адъютант его превосходительства | Martin Latsis | ||
1973 | Vanyushin's Children | Дети Ванюшина | episode | ||
1976 | Crime | Преступление | film director (cameo) | ||
1978 | French Lessons | Уроки французского | episode (uncredited) | ||
1983 | The Raw Youth | Подросток | episode (uncredited) | ||
1987 | Dodgers | Ловкачи | episode (uncredited) | ||
1990 | Boys | Мальчики | Captain Snegiryov | ||
1991 | Clan | Клан | Nadein | ||
1992 | Smoke | Дымъ | episode | ||
1994 | The Lynx Follows the Trail | Рысь идёт по следу | episode (uncredited) | ||
2005 | Where Childhood Ends | Там, где кончается детство | episode | ||
2011 | The Three Women of Dostoevsky | Три женщины Достоевского |
References
- ^ a b c Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // ed. Sergei Yutkevich. — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987, p. 418
- ^ Presidential Decree № 1062 at Kremlin.ru (in Russian)
- ^ a b Yevgeny Tashkov's tomb
- ^ This Wonderful Life. Meeting with Yevgeny Tashkov several years before his death (in Russian)
- ^ ISBN 5-7151-0333-9
- ^ a b c Ludmila Grabenko. Interview with Yevgeny Tashkov at the Gordon's Boulevard newspaper № 17, 27 April 2010 (in Russian)
- ^ a b Irina Kravchenko. Andrei Tashkov: "Everyone Is Alive in My Heart" interview from Story Caravan, 21 June 2012 (in Russian)
- ^ a b Alexander Novopashin. Evgeny Ivanovich Tashkov: "We need to think more about God" interview in the Radonezh newspaper, 2007 (in Russian)
- ^ Varvara Bogdanova. Tatiana Tashkova: "Many Were against Zhenia" interview from Seven Days, 18 July 2012 (in Russian)
External links
- Yevgeny Tashkov at IMDb
- Yevgeny Tashkov at Find a Grave
- Islands. Yevgeny Tashkov documentary by Russia-K (in Russian)