Soviet and Russian actor, director and theater figure Oleg Nikolaevich Efremov was born in 1927 in Moscow. The future director spent his childhood and youth in the Arbat courtyards and a huge communal apartment. He dreamed of Stanislavsky and, having endured an incredibly huge competition in the Moscow Art Theater, became his student. Together with other comrades in the first year, he took an oath of loyalty to his ideal, which he sealed with blood. After graduating from the studio school in 1949,
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Soviet and Russian actor, director and theater figure Oleg Nikolaevich Efremov was born in 1927 in Moscow. The future director spent his childhood and youth in the Arbat courtyards and a huge communal apartment. He dreamed of Stanislavsky and, having endured an incredibly huge competition in the Moscow Art Theater, became his student. Together with other comrades in the first year, he took an oath of loyalty to his ideal, which he sealed with blood.
After graduating from the studio school in 1949, Oleg Efremov began to work in the Central Children's Theater - the debut on the children's stage was the role of Ivan the Fool in the fairy tale "Humpbacked Horse". On the theatrical stage of the CDT Oleg Efremov played more than twenty roles. In 1955, he first staged the play himself - the comedy "Dimka the Invisible" became a successful start in the directorial career of Oleg Efremov.
A few years later, the director left the children’s theater and organized his own – “Contemporary”, in which the great artists of the era played: Evgeny Evstigneev, Galina Volchek, Igor Kvasha. Striving for sincerity and humanity, Efremov in his productions followed in the footsteps of his idol. Opening with the play “Eternally Living”, “Contemporary” has established itself as a theater for a thinking audience, and he made his actors real co-authors.
Cinema in the life of Efremov played a great role. Heroes of his films attracted viewers to the screen like a magnet: “Echelon”, “The Living and the Dead”, “Three poplars on the Swimming”, “Burn, burn my star”,
"Beware of the car" "Call, open the door."
The personal life of the great master was full of secrets: there were many women in his life. The first official wife was the People's Artist of Russia Lilia Tolmacheva. From Irina Mazuruk, with whom Efremov lived in a civil marriage for three years, a daughter Anastasia Efremov was born. The last love of the director was Alla Pokrovskaya, in marriage with whom Oleg Efremov had a son – a famous actor.
