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Uriy Kamornyy
Юрий Каморный
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8 August 1944 - 27 November 1981
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After graduating in 1967, the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre of Music and Cinematography became an actor of the Leningrad Youth Theatre since 1973 - an actor of the film studio "Lenfilm". Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980).
Even while studying at the institute, the young handsome actor was noticed by the director Julian Panich and in 1965 he invited to star in his film “Wires of White Nights” where he played the journalist Valery in a measure of cynical to the extent of conscientious playboy.
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After graduating in 1967, the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre of Music and Cinematography became an actor of the Leningrad Youth Theatre since 1973 - an actor of the film studio "Lenfilm". Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980).
Even while studying at the institute, the young handsome actor was noticed by the director Julian Panich and in 1965 he invited to star in his film “Wires of White Nights” where he played the journalist Valery in a measure of cynical to the extent of conscientious playboy. A year later Yuri starred in director Mikhail Bogin in one of the main roles in the Soviet-Polish film "Zosya". His partner in the film was Polish actress Paula Raxa, known to the Soviet audience for the role of Marousi in the TV series “Four tankers and a dog”.
While still a student Camorny married a young actress Irina Petrovskaya and in 1967 they had a daughter Polina.
After graduating from LGITMIK Yuri was admitted to the Leningrad Theatre of Young Spectators (TYUZ) named after A.S.Pushkin and continued to act actively in films. He combined his creative activity with frequent drunks and partying. As a result, in the early 70s, his marriage broke up.
In 1972, on the set of the film Door Without a Lock, the actor met a student of Leningrad State University. After this meeting, he even stopped drinking for a while. She got a job as an administrator at Lenfilm and for several years accompanied Yuri on all his film expeditions.
Despite the fact that the cinema did not fully reveal its capabilities Camorny still chose him over the theater - in 1976 he left the Theatre. By that time, he already had his own boat in Sosnov (he bought it from the director of BDT G. Tovstonogov) a rich collection of cold weapons. He began to collect it at the time of his studentship (he even worked in the militia as a weapons master) and by the period described it numbered about three dozen units, among which there were quite rare specimens. As befits Superman, the actor perfectly wielded this weapon and could easily pierce a target a few meters away with a sharp throw.
Having left the theater Camorny got a job in the state of the theater-studio of the actor under "Lenfilm" and soon received a new living space: he was given a 12-meter room in a communal room in the house on Saltykov-Shchedrin street. Nearby was the famous beer bar "Priboi" and Yuri became a regular. Beer party loved Camorny for his cheerful disposition and juicy stories from movie life. Even the local police were almost all friends with him. Often drunk, he beat his new wife and she had to hide with friends. Meanwhile, despite his periodic rallies Camorny continued to be very active and almost every year films with his participation were released on the screens of the country: "Birds of Our Hopes" (1977) "Poseidon" in a hurry to help" (1978) "Blue Lightning" TV movie "The Ring of the Outgoing Summer" (both - 1979).
By the early 80s, both the creative and personal life of Camorny was developing quite safely. In any case, externally everything looked like this. In 1980, he finally received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Despite the fact that the close relationship with the LSU student ended in 1979, she continued to maintain business relations with him and conducted his financial affairs. The ordeal in the communal apartment came to an end: he was firmly promised to allocate a separate apartment (the warrant for it will appear on November 15, 1981). The number of directors who wanted to shoot it was not transferred. In 1980-1981, he starred in two main roles at once: in the feature film “The Truth of Lieutenant Klimov” and the television film “The Game without trump cards”. The roles were excellent: in the first he played a naval officer in the second - a gang leader. The latter role was especially successful: in it he looked like a real superman with all the necessary attributes: possession of karate, luck in the cards love women, etc.
I know two versions of the last day of Yuri Kamorny’s life. One described in his book "Star tragedies: mysteries of fate and death" Fyodor Razzakov another Mikhail Weller in the book "Legends of Nevsky Prospect". But whatever it was, it all began with the women’s cries heard by Yuri’s neighbors. Knowing the belligerent temper of his neighbor, the tenants of the apartment began to drum Camornoy at the door, but the exhausting cries continued. Then there are the discrepancies. F. Razzakov writes that neighbors called a doctor-narcologist who took with him two policemen from the police Department of Dzerzhinsky district. When they arrived at the scene Camorny continued to rampage and brandishing daggers no one near him. After two warning shots, one of which ricocheted in the arm of a woman, the police shot Yuri in the leg but hit the femoral artery and a few seconds later the actor died. As established by the examination in the blood of the deceased was not a gram of alcohol. They found no changes in his brain.
M. Weller writes that the actor was very drunk and neighbors invited a passing policeman who saw Camorny put a knife to the throat of the woman fired a shot wounding her in the thigh. The second shot hit the actor in the forehead. After a little thought, the policeman fired a third shot into the ceiling. Only the testimony of Yuri’s neighbors who were glad to get rid of the noisy neighbor saved the policeman at the trial.
Anyway, the actor was killed. His death by order of the authorities was not reported. His body was given to his mother, who buried him in Staraya Russa.