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Iosif Moiseevich Tolchanov
Иосиф Толчанов
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11 April 1891 - 24 August 1981
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People's Artist of the USSR (1962). Winner of the Stalin Prize (1950, for the role of Pinault in the play “Conspiracy of the Doomed”. His real name is Tolchan. He was born on April 29 (May 11), 1891 in Moscow. In 1911-14 he studied at the University of Liège (France). After 1917 he entered the Mamonov Studio in Moscow (heads B.E. Zahava and Yu.A. Zavadsky). In 1918, among other studios, he came to the studio of E. B. Vakhtangov (since 1921 - Theater named after Evg. Vakhtangov), where he prepared
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People's Artist of the USSR (1962). Winner of the Stalin Prize (1950, for the role of Pinault in the play “Conspiracy of the Doomed”.
His real name is Tolchan. He was born on April 29 (May 11), 1891 in Moscow. In 1911-14 he studied at the University of Liège (France). After 1917 he entered the Mamonov Studio in Moscow (heads B.E. Zahava and Yu.A. Zavadsky). In 1918, among other studios, he came to the studio of E. B. Vakhtangov (since 1921 - Theater named after Evg. Vakhtangov), where he prepared the roles of Nunin and Kalashnikov in the "Wedding" and the staging of "Thieves" by A. P. Chekhov, Barakh in the "Princess Turandot" by K. Gozzi. The audience remembered for a long time his old man Magara in “Virinee” (1925) L.N. Seyfullina and Savely in the play “Barsuki” (1927) L.M. Leonov: Tolchanov was able to create elegant images from “inelegant” material. The actor was characterized by the ability to fully understand and reveal the life truth of the image, the depth of the social and psychological characteristics of the character. Significant were the role of Arbenin in Lermontov’s Masquerade (1941, directed by A. P. Tutyshkin) and Pino in the Conspiracy of the Doomed (1950) by N. E. Virta.
At the Vakhtangov Theatre, Tolchanov-director staged performances "Party of Honest People" (1927) by J. Romain, "Fifth Horizon" (1932) by P. Markish, "Far" (1935) by A. N. Afinogenov. As a co-director, he took part in the staging of the performances "Viriney", "Razlom", "Intervention" by L.I. Slavin, "Dostigaev and others", "M. Gorky", "Thunderstorm" by A.N. Ostrovsky. In his directing work, Tolchanov proved to be a discerning, subtle artist who was able to understand and evaluate the main idea of the author, to find the most clear, intelligible form for the performance, most expressing the idea of the work.
Since 1920, Tolchanov was engaged in pedagogical activity, taught in the Uzbek theater studio, in the Yakut studio of GITIS, the Shchukin Theatre School (since 1946 - professor). He starred in films "The Oppenheim Family" (Edgar), "Lenin in 1918" (doctor Andrei Fedorovich) and others.
Tolchanov died in Moscow on August 24, 1981. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.