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Mihail Grigorevich Vodyanoy
Михаил Водяной
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23 December 1924 - 11 September 1987
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Mikhail Vodianoy – People’s Artist of Ukraine and People’s Artist of the USSR, was awarded many awards, but, no matter how pathetic it sounds, the best, probably, award to him was national love. After screening film "Wedding in Malinovka" Replicas Popandopulo, played by Water, repeated the whole country: “Grisha, and why am I so in love with you?”, “Goodbye, Grisha, your Popandopulo on Odessa was drowned.” The hero of Water in this film is not a secondary role or the main one, somewhere in the middle.
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Mikhail Vodianoy – People’s Artist of Ukraine and People’s Artist of the USSR, was awarded many awards, but, no matter how pathetic it sounds, the best, probably, award to him was national love. After screening
film "Wedding in Malinovka" Replicas Popandopulo, played by Water, repeated the whole country: “Grisha, and why am I so in love with you?”, “Goodbye, Grisha, your Popandopulo on Odessa was drowned.” The hero of Water in this film is not a secondary role or the main one, somewhere in the middle. But the actor managed to create such a vivid and interesting image that it was impossible not to fall in love with this ugly outwardly, but very charming adventurer and charlatan. Odessans considered Vodiany their national treasure (approximately as a monument to de Ribas) and, having retroactively corrected his biography (Water was not a native Odessa) claimed that he was born in Odessa, simply because nowhere else, as in Odessa, such a wonderful artist could not be born.
Meanwhile, Mikhail Vodianoy was born on December 23, 1924 in Kharkov, studied in Leningrad, worked in Pyatigorsk and Lviv, before finally settling in the “city by the sea”, taking the position of head and director of the musical comedy theater, which he built. This theater still bears his name.
Of course, Mikhail Vodianoy played not only comic roles. First of all, he is a wonderful operetta artist, and in his repertoire there were many “classic” roles for the operetta: Doolittle in “My Fair Lady”, Boni in “Silva”, Sancho Panza in “The Man from La Mancha”.
Many Mikhail Vodianoy starred in the movies, having played very memorable roles in the films “White acacia”, “12 chairs”, “Squadron goes to the West”, “Free wind”, “Watch of criminal investigation” well, and, of course, the above-mentioned “Wedding in Malinovka”.
Mikhail Vodianoy died at the age of 62 from a heart attack. The whole of Odessa buried and mourned the artist, and the whole country remembers. And not alone.