10 August 1940 year
Today marks 84 years Veniamin Smekhov. To the actor, screenwriter, writer. The main Athos of the USSR.
Having lived through the turbulent years of youth, people in general, and artists in particular, voluntarily or involuntarily rewrite their history. I myself notice that in the film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers," our performances get better with each passing year, and our horses gallop faster, while the theater of my memory stages ever greater performances.
Born in Moscow. He first saw his father in 1945, when he returned from the war. While in school, he attended the drama club at the House of Pioneers, which supported Rolan Bykov.
I entered the Shchukin Theatre School for a course. Vladimir Etush. He studied "under excellent masters" during "a good period in a bad era." He graduated in 1961. He worked for a year at the Kuibyshev Drama Theater, now Samara.
Makeup is an obstacle between the audience and the actor.
Returning to Moscow, he joined the troupe of the drama and comedy theater, which, with the arrival of Yuri Lyubimov In 1964 it became known as the Taganka Theatre.
Taganka's origins began with a youthful spirit, a celebration of disobedience, and this tradition has never been interrupted. According to Fomenko, we don't have any realism, we have rebelliousness.
After the expulsion of Lyubimov, together with Leonid Filatov Left for Sovremennik. Returned to the Taganka Theatre in 1987.
[God] gave me a keen sense of the transience and surprise of existence from a young age. Hence my sympathy for envious and spiteful people. I believe this is a manifestation of my selfishness: it is more profitable to minimize negative emotions than to develop a narrative of resentment.
He began acting in films in 1968. He gained nationwide popularity 10 years later, playing Athos in the film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" (the actors called it "The Three Musketeers and Boyarsky" among themselves).
The other side of the "a la russe" style is the "a la sur" style.»
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he took an anti-war stance. He spoke out in defense of Zhenya Berkovich и Svetlana Petriychuk. When asked in court whether Russian men were insulted in the play "Finist the Bright Falcon," Berkovich replied:
My last name is Smekhov, I can't take obvious nonsense seriously.