What made this man continue to move forward, and in the end, from a bloated boy to a famous artist, and then to a director, marked by regalia and government awards? Love for art, the desire to prove that it is no worse than others, or the habit of doing everything thoroughly, soundly, in a peasant way?
Evgeny Matveev - Russian Soviet actor and director, was born in the village of Novoukrainka, in the Kherson region, in 1922. Matveev’s mother, Nadezhda Kovalenko, raised her son alone. Evgeny’s childhood
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What made this man continue to move forward, and in the end, from a bloated boy to a famous artist, and then to a director, marked by regalia and government awards? Love for art, the desire to prove that it is no worse than others, or the habit of doing everything thoroughly, soundly, in a peasant way?
Evgeny Matveev - Russian Soviet actor and director, was born in the village of Novoukrainka, in the Kherson region, in 1922. Matveev’s mother, Nadezhda Kovalenko, raised her son alone. Evgeny’s childhood passed in Tsyurupinsk, where he moved with his mother. After graduation, he enters the theater studio, and then becomes an extra in the Kherson Theater. Then there was a successful admission to the acting school at the Kiev film studio, but the study was prevented by the war.
Matveev was sent to the Tyumen Military School, where he later began to direct amateur military activities, and therefore he got to the front only in 1944.
Demobilized, Matveev enters the troupe of the Tyumen Drama Theater, then he is invited to the Novosibirsk Theater "Red Torch", which at that time had the glory of the "Siberian Moscow Art Theater"; it is here that Matveev becomes an actor. His next job was the Maly Theatre.
As a film actor Matveev made his debut at the age of 33 in the film
Andrea Frolov
"Good morning" . A real success for him was participation in the filming.
Film "Virgin Raised" The actor played the role of Makar Nagulnov. Then there was
"Resurrection" based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy, where Matveev played the role of Prince Nekhlyudov, whose image was directly opposite to his previous role.
In 1965, with Matveev there is a misfortune - during the next performance, he seriously damaged the spine. After long treatment, he was given a third (persuaded not to give a second, non-working) disability group. It helped that at the film studio Dovzhenko he was offered to direct, which he had long dreamed of. His debut in this field was
melodrama "Gypsy" In which he himself played a major role. In the mid-70s, he made a film diology.
"Earthly love" and
"Fate" In which Matveev again plays the main role (Zakhar Deryugin). These films brought him the recognition of colleagues and the love of moviegoers. Significant to his personal life and career (awards, the position of Secretary of the Union of Cinematographers, etc.)
picture "Soldiers of Freedom" where he played the role of L. Brezhnev. But, ironically, the same film played a negative role in the life of Matveev in the perestroika years, when in 1986 at the V Congress of Cinematographers he was deprived of a high position. By his own admission Matveev, in those years he seriously thought about suicide.
Released in 1995
film "Love in Russian" He once again recalled Matveev as a talented director and actor. Ordinary people, pensioners sent him the last money and asked him to make a sequel to this film, which happened in 1997.
film "Love in Russian-2" . These were the last creative works of Evgeny Matveev, who died on June 1, 2003. /