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Anatoliy Vasilevich Efros
Анатолий Эфрос
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3 July 1925 - 13 January 1987
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Anatoly Efros is a Russian teacher, director, and Honored Artist of the Soviet Union. He was born in Kharkov on June 3, 1925 in an ordinary family. Father and mother worked at the aircraft factory, and little Tolya from childhood began to be interested in theater, gradually learning this art.
After school, he decided to enter the director's faculty and subsequently successfully graduated from the university. The thesis was a staged performance based on the prison diaries of J. Fucik, called “Prague
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Anatoly Efros is a Russian teacher, director, and Honored Artist of the Soviet Union. He was born in Kharkov on June 3, 1925 in an ordinary family. Father and mother worked at the aircraft factory, and little Tolya from childhood began to be interested in theater, gradually learning this art.
After school, he decided to enter the director's faculty and subsequently successfully graduated from the university. The thesis was a staged performance based on the prison diaries of J. Fucik, called “Prague remains mine”.
The first performances of Anatoly Efros were staged at the Ryazan Theatre, and in 1954 the director began to work at the Central Children's Theatre, which was revived only thanks to him. Therefore, the leadership instructed Anatoly to revive the Youth Theater, after which he headed Lenkom, and then became a director of the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where he worked for more than 17 years. During all this time, this theater was considered the center of cultural life in Moscow.
Simultaneously with Efros, such famous actors as L. Durov, O. Dahl, L. Broneva and many others worked there. For most of them, the years of working together with Anatoly brought fame and recognition.
In 1960, Anatoly Efros filmed the first picture together with G. Nathanson called Noisy Day. In 1973, the director staged his first television performance, starring a film actor.
Yuri Lyubimov .
In 1983, Ephros began conflicts with the director of the theater, as a result of which he had to leave it. In 1984, he became the chief director of the Taganka theater, where Yuri Lyubimov worked. After that, he was drawn into political games, productions were often banned. The heart of the director could not withstand constant conflicts and harassment, and he died in 1987. Efros is still an integral part of the history of theatrical art.