Biography of Gaidai Leonid

Gaidai, awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR during the life of the USSR, became famous as one of the best directors of the USSR in the genre of comedy, and the paintings created by him, from the "Operation" Y "and the other adventures of Shurik and" Caucasian captive "to", Ivan Vasilievich changes the profession "and" Diamond hand ", acquired a cult status and became immortal masterpieces, not in the Golden Fund, in the Golden Fund.

Only Soviet and Russian, but also world cinema. Childhood and youth Leonid Gaidai was born on January 30 of the year in a small city of Svobodny, located in the Amur Region. At the age of 22, he, who was in the Socialist Revolutionary Party, was exiled to the construction of the Amur Railway. The reason for the exile was revolutionary activity. Upon completion of the exile, Job Gaidai decided not to return to his native Poltava province now Kharkov region and remain in Svobodny.

Having got a job, he soon managed to create a family - Maria Lyubimova became his wife. In marriage, they were born two sons - Alexander and Leonid, as well as the daughter of Augustus. Biography of Yuri Nikulin: the life of an artist who fell in love with tens of millions of spectators on December 17, after the birth of Leonid, who was the youngest child, the Gaidaev family moved to Chita, and then to Irkutsk.

It was in this city that Gaidai went to school. After less than 24 hours, the Great Patriotic War began. Participation in the Great Patriotic War two days after the outbreak of World War II Gaidai went to sign up for the front, but he was denied the service, since he did not fall under the draft age. He had just graduated from school, he decided not to sit back and got a job at the Irkutsk Drama Theater named after N.

at the same time was the Moscow Satire Theater, who arrived here in evacuation. Despite the fact that Gaidai was essentially a regular handler, he could freely attend the performances of the theater, he used this opportunity constantly. In the fall of the year, Gaidai was still drafted into the army. The initial place of his service was far from the front of Mongolia, but the zeal of Gaidai could not directly participate in the hostilities unnoticed.

Soon he was sent on foot intelligence to the Kalinin Front, whose main task at that time was to stop the German offensive near Moscow. Why did Volodka shave his mustache? The diamond phrases "Diamond hand" on May 19, December 14, during the Velikoluki offensive operation, Gaidai took part in the battle for the village of Enkino Pskov region. Throwing a German firing point with grenades, Gaidai destroyed three opponents, took several.

For this feat, he was presented to the award "For Military Merit". He was sent to the evacuation hospital in the city of Ivanovo. There he stayed for more than six months, having passed several surgical operations that allowed him to keep his leg. Having received the second disability group, at the beginning of the year, Gaidai was commissed and returned to Irkutsk, where a new stage began in his life related to theater and cinema.

Having successfully graduated from the theater studio in the year, Gaidai played roles for two years on the stage of the Irkutsk drama theater, until he decided to go to conquer Moscow in the year. He became the director of Mosfilm, but in the first years of his work they had no great success. Moreover, after the satirical comedy “The Bridegade from the other world”, which was fiercely criticized by the Ministry of Culture due to ridicule in the picture of Soviet bureaucracy, Gaidai almost became a person of non-Grad in the Soviet world of cinema.

They stopped giving him scripts for filming, but a famous director, laureate of six Stalinist awards Ivan Pyryev, who sees a great talent in the young director, stood up to his defense.

It was with Pyryev that Gaidai was able to continue to engage in directorial activities. In the year, a real breakthrough happened in the career of a young director. Gaidai shot the short comedy "Dog Barbos and Extraordinary Cross", in which George Vitsin, Yuri Nikulin and Evgeny Morgunov first played the roles of a coward, baldbes and an experienced trio, which later became legendary.

The short film, which lasted only 10 minutes, was shown on the last day of the Moscow Film Festival and brought the guide fame not only in the USSR, but also abroad. Artist Yuri Nikulin as a poacher. Frame from the film "Dog Barbos and Extraordinary Cross." The picture called "moonshiners" was released in the same year and was the same success as her predecessor.

The new work of the director was the film adaptation of O. Henry's novels "Business people." The plot of the picture was based on three unrealed stories of the writer - “Roads that we choose”, “Conventional souls” and “Red -skinned leader”. The film, released in the year, became one of the most popular in the Soviet box office - it was visited by more than 20 million spectators.Having taken a break of three years, Gaidai returned to the directorial chair and in the period for a year released three comedies - “Operation“ Y ”and other adventures of Shurik”, “Caucasian captive, or new adventures of Shurik” and “Diamond hand”, which were included in the five most popular Soviet films.

Moreover, the "Diamond hand" was recognized in the year the best domestic comedy of the century. Together with the scriptwriters, Yakov Kostyukovsky and Maurice Slobodsky, Gaidai rewrote the plot, adding three characters from the short scooters who brought popularity to the director - a coward, baldbes and an experienced. In the first year of rental, the film, in which Gaidai allowed Vitsin, Nikulin, Morgunov, as well as Alexander Demyanenko, who played the role of Shurik, to improvise, looked at about 70 million people.

The picture was awarded the main prize of the International Krakow Film Festival - "Silver Dragon Vavel." Frame from the film "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik. In this film, the audience was the last time to enjoy the legendary trio in the face of a coward, baldbes and experienced. As in the case of the previous work of Gaidai, the "Caucasian captive" was adopted by the Soviet film prospector at "Hurray".

The following year, Gaidai took off the "diamond hand". In writing the script, Kostyukovsky and Slobodskaya again helped him. The film with Yuri Nikulin in the title role was released in the year and his, like “Operation“ Y ”and“ Caucasian captive ”, was waiting for a deafening success. Gaidai himself called his favorite work the film“ Twelve Chairs ”, shot by the director of the year.

Another sign work of the director was the painting“ Ivan Vasilievich changes the profession. ” He performed Alexander Demyanenko, became another bright work of Gaidai, for which he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. It is worth noting that not all the work of Gaidai became popular with the moviegoer. Truly gold in the directorial career of Gaidai can be called the period with G for a year when the most famous paintings of the director came out.

Gaidai himself, in the last years of his life, who did not receive financial resources to create paintings, was very worried about his failures, which could not affect his health. Four years of relations, young people played a wedding, which was attended only by relatives and close friends. In this marriage, which lasted about 40 years, until the death of Gaidai, the only daughter of Oksana was born in the year.

Death in years in connection with the aggravated problems with the heart of Leonid Gaidai's health has worsened. Gaidai died on November 19. The cause of death was the thromboembolism of the pulmonary artery. The director was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevsky cemetery. In the Irkutsk cinema, he revised these paintings many times. Gaidai skated pretty well. He got to them to school, which was far from his house.

Gaidai had problems with the pronunciation, in particular, the letters "p" and "l". It was for this reason that he could not realize his dream to become an actor. The Soviet leader personally thanked the director for his work. The famous “Operation“ Y ”and other adventures of the scuric“ The phrase ”wait! Give me the whole list! Being in front of the qualifying commission to the front, Gaidai for every question about volunteers in this or that kind of army shouted“ I ”, which was at that moment the officer said the phrase that became the famous later.