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Lev Naumovich Sverdlin
Лев Свердлин
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16 November 1901 - 28 August 1969
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Lev Naumovich Sverdlin was born on November 16, 1901 in Astrakhan. He studied at the A.V. Lunacharsky Theatre College, then at the State Theatre Workshops under the direction of V.E. Meyerhold. In 1926 he became an actor of the Moscow Meyerhold Theater, in 1938-1941 he played on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater, and in 1943 he moved to the troupe of the Moscow Mayakovsky Theater. Since 1924 he was also a teacher of the Uzbek Drama Studio in Moscow, taught at VGIK, GITIS. Initially, Sverdlin as
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Lev Naumovich Sverdlin was born on November 16, 1901 in Astrakhan. He studied at the A.V. Lunacharsky Theatre College, then at the State Theatre Workshops under the direction of V.E. Meyerhold. In 1926 he became an actor of the Moscow Meyerhold Theater, in 1938-1941 he played on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater, and in 1943 he moved to the troupe of the Moscow Mayakovsky Theater. Since 1924 he was also a teacher of the Uzbek Drama Studio in Moscow, taught at VGIK, GITIS.
Initially, Sverdlin as an actor used mainly the means of external depiction of the image (Acrobat in Erdman’s Mandate, Boatman in Tretyakov’s Grove, China). On the theatrical stage, he successfully played the roles of both modern (Stepanov in Aleshin’s “Director”, Pavel Mikhailovich in Pogodin’s “Petrarch’s Sonnet”, Ilya Zhurbin in Kochetov and Kara’s “Zhurbinykh”) and classical repertoire (Happy in “Forest” and Tikhon in Ostrovsky’s “Thunderstorm”, Polonius in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”). Among his works are also Azdak in Brecht’s “Caucasian Cretaceous Circle” and Nunbach in Herman’s “Introduction”.
Lev Sverdlin made his film debut in 1925, playing the role of Vasi in the film On the Right Track. His first major work was the fisherman Yusuf in Boris Barnett’s painting By the Bluest Sea (1936). Acting successes were the negative roles of the Japanese spy Tsoi in the film “In the Far East” (1937) and Colonel Usishima in “Volochaev Days” (1938) by the Vasilyev brothers. Among the best roles of the actor are Sukhe Bator in the Soviet-Mongolian film "His Name is Sukhe Bator" (1942), directed by Alexander Zargi and Joseph Heifitz, and Nasreddin from the Yakov Protazanov comedy "Nasreddine in Bukhara", filmed at the Alma-Ata studio in 1943 based on the novel by Lelnid Solovyov "The Troublemaker". In Alexander Stolper’s drama Wait for Me (1943), Sverdlin masterfully played the role of war correspondent Misha Weinstein. Among his other roles are Grigory Orlov (“Minin and Pozharsky”, 1939, Vsevolod Pudovkin), Valko (“Young Guard”, 1948, Sergey Gerasimov), Alitet (“Alitet goes to the mountains”, 1950, Mark Donskoy), Zalkind (“Far from Moscow”, 1950, A. Stolper), Professor Borodin (“Two Lives”, 1961, Leonid Lukov). The last work of Lev Sverdlin in the cinema is Karimov in the film directed by B. Kimogarov “How the Heart Tells” (1968); on television in 1969 the film “Price” based on the play by A. Miller was released.
For theatrical works Lev Sverdlin was twice, in 1947 and 1949, awarded the State Prize, and in 1951 became the laureate of the State Prize for the role of Zalkind.
The actor died in Moscow on August 29, 1969.