Vasily Shukshin
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Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Васи́лий Мака́рович Шукши́н; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a notable Soviet/Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes. Upon his death, Shukshin was interred at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
[edit] Biography
Vasiliy Makarovich Shukshin was born on 25 July 1929 in a peasant family in the village of Srostki in Altay krai. His father, Makar Leont'evich Shukshin was arrested and shot in 1933, during repressions associated with collectivization and his mother, Maria Sergeyevna (née Popov) had to look after the survival of the entire family. By 1943 Shukshin had finished 7 years of village school and entered an automobile technical school in Biysk. In 1945, after two and a half years at the school, but before finishing, he quit to work in a kolkhoz.
In 1946 Shukshin left his native village and until 1949, worked as a metal craftsman at several enterprises in the trust Soyuzprommekhanizatsiya: at the turbine plant in Kaluga, at the tractor plant in Vladimir, etc. In 1949, Shukshin was drafted into the Navy. He first served as a sailor in the Baltic Fleet, then a radio operator on the Black Sea. In 1953 he was demobilized due to a stomach ulcer and returned to his native village. Having passed an external exam for high school graduation, he became a teacher of Russian, and later a school principal in Srostki.
In 1954 Shukshin entered the directors department of the VGIK, graduating in 1960. While studying at VGIK in 1958, Shukshin had his first leading role in Marlen Khutsiyev's film "Two Fedors" and published his first short story "Two on the cart" in the magazine Smena. His first collection of stories Сельские жители ("Village Dwellers") was published in 1963. In the same year, he began to work as a director at the Gor'ky motion picture studio. Among his directing credits is Живёт такой парень ("There Is Such a Lad"), based on his own screenplay. The film premieres in 1965. winning top honours at the All-Union film festival in Leningrad and the Golden Lion at the XVI International Film Festival in Venice. In November of 1967, he is awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and in 1969, he becomes a Distinguished Artist of RSFSR.
On 1974-10-02 Shukshin suddenly died during filming of "They battled for the native land", on the motor ship "Danube". He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
[edit] Filmography
- Два Фёдора, 1958 actor
- Золотой эшелон, 1959 actor
- Простая история, 1960 actor
- Аленка, 1961 actor
- Когда деревья были большими, 1961 actor
- Командировка, 1961 actor
- Мишка, Серега и я, 1961 actor
- Мы, двое мужчин, 1962 actor
- Живет такой парень, 1964 director, screenwriter
- Какое оно, море?, 1964 actor
- Ваш сын и брат, 1965 director, screenwriter
- Журналист, 1967 actor
- Комиссар, 1967 actor
- Три дня Виктора Чернышева, 1967 actor
- Мужской разговор, 1968 actor
- Освобождение, 1968-1971 actor
- Братка, 1969 (к/а «Странные люди») director, screenwriter
- Роковой выстрел, 1969 (к/а «Странные люди») director, screenwriter
- Думы, 1969 (к/а «Странные люди») director, screenwriter
- У озера, 1969 actor
- Эхо далеких снегов, 1969 actor
- Любовь яровая, 1970 actor
- Даурия, 1971 actor
- Пришел солдат с фронта, 1971 screenwriter
- Печки-лавочки, 1972 actor, director, screenwriter
- Калина красная, 1973 actor, director, screenwriter
- Если хочешь быть счастливым, 1974 actor
- Земляки, 1974 screenwriter
- Они сражались за Родину, 1975 actor
- Прошу слова, 1975 actor
- Позови меня в даль светлую, 1977 screenwriter
