Alexei Samoilov: the youngest of the great actor's dynasty of Samoilovs

He was lucky to be born in the year of the end of the Great Patriotic War in the family of the outstanding Soviet actor Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov. People's artist lived a long life (93 years), remaining in memory thanks to almost sixty roles in the domestic cinema. Among them are well-known films: "Hearts of Four", "Shchors", "At 6 pm after the war". The older sister Tatiana became the pride of Soviet cinema after the first successful work in the film "The Cranes Are Flying," which brought her world fame. Samoilov Alexey Evgenievich, also an actor by profession, is much less known. How was his destiny?

Childhood

Being almost 10 years younger than his sister, Alexei Samoilov, whose biography will be considered in the article, was born in Moscow. Previously, the family lived in Leningrad, but at the invitation of Meyerhold moved to the capital. From the theater Yevgeny Valerianovich was given a living space for 7 families in Granatny Lane, where Alexey's childhood passed. Mother Zinaida Ilinichna, an engineer by education, devoted herself to her husband and children, completely assuming all the responsibilities of the housework. Father did not want his son and daughter to choose his profession, which requires great emotional and physical expenses. Tatyana in her childhood was even sent to a ballet school, but still she became an actress.

And Alexei, who has an absolute hearing, at one time did not buy a piano because of the large number of neighbors in the apartment. Perhaps the profession of a musician could have been his fancy, but in the end he followed in the footsteps of his father and elder sister. As a boy, he accompanied his parents to attend the screening of Mikhail Kalatozov's movie "The Cranes Are Flying" at the Cinema House. He remembered how worried his sister was, how immediately after the session ended there was a disturbing silence. And then the audience burst into applause, which did not cease for 20 minutes.

Family influence

My sister's life was for Alexey the closest person. Thanks to her, he was addicted to reading, the good of his father was an excellent library. But when he was fifteen, he began to notice signs of a nervous breakdown in his sister, which became more frequent with the years. Out of jealousy in the yard, they stabbed him with a knife, but Alexey Samoilov did not understand the severity of his condition right away, so he got to the hospital already on the operating table. Parents were frightened, and Tatiana was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, having latently jammed into a corner of the room. She was too emotional and vulnerable to life.

Therefore, after the birth of her son Mitya Zinaida Ilinichna and Eugene Valerianovich took upon themselves the main burden of his upbringing, giving the daughter the opportunity to engage in creativity. After a star role, she had years of downtime. Anna Karenina has been almost 10 years old, therefore, seeing the experiences of her sister, Alexei Samoilov chose the path of a theatrical actor for himself.

Professional career

The first 14 years were given to the theater "Sovremennik", the next 30 - to the Little Theater, from where the actor will retire after leaving his father's life in 2006. Thanks to the screen version of the performances, his roles Knyazev ("Foma Gordeyev", 1983) and Don Sebastian ("Jealous of herself," 1980). Over the years, Alexei Samoilov realized how much the actor's profession is dependent on the directors and in the theater, and realized why his father did not really want his children such a fate. As soon as a new play was staged, the lists of artists engaged in it were hung on the board. Approaching them and not seeing their names was very painful.

Debut in the movie took place in 1971 in the film "Day by Day," which unfolded around neighbors in a communal apartment. After the role of Lyoshi Potakuev from the weaving factory, Alexei Samoilov, the actor of the theater school, will take part in the multi-part television tape "Past and Thoughts". On a wide screen, he appears in the director Samson Samsonov in the film "Much Ado About Nothing" (the role of Prince Don Petro) based on Shakespeare's play (1973). This was already a real serious work, but put the final point in the film career. Samoilov still shoots in a number of episodes, but only for the sake of extra work. Play in the heat, repeating the double for the double the same phrases, it turned out to be beyond his powers.

Personal life

Samoilov Alexey Evgenievich was married twice, but both marriages did not make him happy. The first lasted two years. His choice was a figure skater Tatyana Tarasova, with whom they lived on two apartments: then he had on Peschanaya, then the Tarasovs on the "Falcon". He worked in Sovremennik, introducing his wife to Galina Volchek, Mikhail Kozakov, and she was with his legendary father. At first everything was fine, but training and training took away all of her time, and soon the family broke up.

The second chosen one was a Frenchwoman named Helen, who was trained in Russia. The couple had a daughter, Natalie (now an art critic), but his wife in 1985 decided to return to France. Devoted to his family, Alexei could not leave his elderly parents and sister. For a long time he will live in two countries, until the couple decide to part.

After the departure of his son in the United States (1995), in the last years of her life, along with Tatyana Samoilova, her brother will be. Unadapted to life and living only in art, she will need constant support and attention. In 2014, Alexei Samoilov with inspiration will prepare for her 80th birthday in the House of Cinema, on the eve of which an outstanding actress will die, right on her birthday - May 4. Instead of a festive concert, a civil funeral service was held.