Ivan Lapikov: biography, filmography, personal life, family

Ivan Lapikov - People's artist of the USSR from the 50's to 60's of the 20th century, who won the viewer's love for the believable images of a Russian person. Known for the films "Eternal Call", "Return of Budulay", "Quiet Flows the Don", "They fought for their Motherland".

Ivan Lapikov: biography

The family, in which the future actor was born on July 7, 1922, was a peasant and lived in the Tsaritsinskaya province (today the Volgograd region) in the village of Gorny Balykley. Childhood and youth spent in the countryside and not by hearsay familiar with the peasant way of life. The Lapikov family was considered strong and prosperous in the 1920s, because Ivan Gerasim's father knew how to run a farm. In the thirties, it became "clear" that the Lapikovs were subject to dekulakization; Put the younger brother of Gerasim and his wife, the same fate threatened him. The rescue of the repressions was the transfer of the Lapikovs to another village.

Years young ... Years military ...

Ivan Lapikov studied in Stalingrad, in the same city studied at the factory Palace of Culture: he played the balalaika in an amateur string orchestra and participated in a drama club. In 1939 he became a student of the Kharkov Theater School, but managed to finish only two courses due to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The young man was mobilized in a battalion, engaged in the construction of anti-tank obstacles near Stalingrad. He was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" because in the Battle of Stalingrad, when the ground under his feet burned and burned, he forwarded to the opposite shore of the Volga (on the rear) the wounded in a fishing boat. More than a hundred saved lives on the account of Ivan Gerasimovich, who for the rest of his life remembered the terrible picture - dozens of dying and crippled people.

Ivan Lapikov: personal life

In 1941, Lapikov entered the Stalingrad Drama Theater, which he devoted more than twenty years of his life. There, in 1947, he met his future wife - Julia Fridman, who was distributed by the Leningrad Theater Institute. The young man managed to win the heart of his sympathy with incredible charm; Even the sentence he made in an original way is simple: during the rehearsal he put on a wedding ring on Julia's finger.

The first theatrical roles of Ivan Lapikov were wordless. Experienced actors consoled the young artist, that he really will be in demand when he takes out 300 trays on the stage. He silently endured and further stubbornly learned from professional actors the subtleties of theatrical art. On the account of Ivan Lapikov such performances as "Running", "Idiot", "Profitable place". And the actor always made makeup for his heroes himself.

Viewer Ivan Lapikov, judging by his screen images, seems a serious and strict man. In fact, according to the memories of his daughter Elena, he was very funny. He adored playing in the productions of comedians (he played the role of elderly people from the age of 20); To look at his exits, to laugh until I fall, the whole theater came running.

With the material side of life at the Lapikov family, at first it was quite difficult: we slept in the theater, and the daughter of Lena, born in 1950, was in a suitcase with a torn lid. Later they were given a room in a barrack, and only after years the family moved into a new apartment. Because of the parents' employment, my grandmother was engaged in the upbringing of Lena. Then a tragedy entered the family: a 35-year-old Julia, who played the main roles on the stage of the theater, began to lose her hearing. The reason for this was the concussion received during the enemy bombing. At first, the young woman concealed deafness, trying to read on the lips. But then the theater still had to leave. Julia, by nature being an impulsive person, in order not to go crazy about the sudden disaster, she decided to go to Moscow. Ivan Lapikov, whose family had every chance to disintegrate, spent another year in Stalingrad, and then moved to his wife.

The beginning of film career Lapikova

This was the impetus in his acting career. Julia, realizing that she could not continue to play on stage, became in fact Lapikova's manager; She directed him to theaters and film studios. In 1961, the actor made his debut in the film "Business Trip", and from 1963 he joined the troupe of the Theater-Studio of the actor. Ivan Lapikov, the filmography of which has more than a dozen roles, became popular after the release of Alexei Saltykov's film "Chairman" with Ulyanov and Mordyukova, thundered throughout the country. In the role of Seeds - the brother of the main character Yegor Trubnikov (Mikhail Ulyanov) - Ivan Lapikov made a speech, whose biography is similar to the life and everyday life of any ordinary person. The film was truly truthful, showing the heroic deed of the Soviet people during the restoration of the war-ravaged agriculture. This is a film epic about the tragedy of the Russian people, for whom the war ended not in 1945, but much later. The disabled chairman and the widows who lost their husbands in the war-these people, personifying the true possibilities and spirit of our people, tried to bring the crippled life back to normal in the face of appalling poverty.

It's not like the actor's usual viewer ...

In 1966 on the screens there was a film "Andrei Rublev" by film director Andrei Tarkovsky. In this film Lapikov got one of the key roles - the monk Cyril. The cameraman who shot this film sometimes complained that it was not easy with Ivan Lapikov. The actor got so accustomed to the role and penetrated it, that violated the shooting rules, often went beyond the frame - all for the sake of truthful and reliable transfer of the material being shot. Indeed, Ivan Lapikov, a biography whose family has always been interested in the viewer, is a person whom the viewer begins to believe from the first minute. Outwardly a good country peasant, detached from the cinema world and focused on something of his own, intimate, the actor was not at all like the artist in the usual sense. The roles he played are simple people, peasants and workers, to embody capaciously and accurately on the screen Ivan Lapikov - a man from the earth, from the roots, in which the whole Russian essence was felt - was not difficult.

After the "Eternal Call" and "Andrei Rublev" Ivan Gerasimovich was already a recognized master. For 40 years of work on the account of Ivan Lapikov more than 70 paintings. Among the works most familiar to the viewer are:

• The role of Boris Krayushkin in the "Minute of Silence" - the patriotic-heroic drama of Igor Shatrov,
• Uncle Kolya in the film "Our Home",
• In the film "Eternal Call" - Pankrat Nazarov,
• Chekist in the adventure film "About friends-comrades"
• Blacksmith Zhemov in the "Youth of Peter,
• The foremen of Poprischenko in "They fought for their Motherland"
• A blind old man in the historical drama Boris Godunov,
• Grandfather Vasily in "Return of Budulay", "
• General Yermakov in the television series "My Destiny".

What kind of actor was in life?

In everyday life Lapikov was quite unpretentious: an avid fisherman, he spends all his spare time on the river bank with a fishing rod. After the release of "They fought for their Motherland" all the actors were summoned to the "cabinet", where they were offered material benefits. Someone asked for a dacha, a car, an apartment; Lapikov's desire was fishing in forbidden places. He was very sympathetic to others, he could tell an anecdote, laugh funny, adore gypsy songs. During the work, he became self-absorbed, he did not discuss anything with anyone.

Along with the material values of Ivan Gerasimovich little interested in his own health. He could endure the pain to the last, without telling anyone about it. So suffered a stroke, later a heart attack, he was paralyzed half of the body. Lapikov flatly refused to go to the hospital, his wife left him in less than a year.

He fought for his country!

A weak heart failed Ivan Lapikov in 1993. The actor was very much worried about the collapse of the Soviet Union. Invited by Sergei Bondarchuk to the event, Ivan was going to speak before the soldiers of the military unit and tell them some important words. But, apparently, did not have time. At the time of his speech Ivan Lapikov died. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery. In the homeland of the actor in 2002, a museum of his name was opened in the village of Gorny Balakley.

Ivan Lapikov did not play destiny, she was in himself: an enemy tragedy, tragic fate of a simple Russian peasant of his country. Perhaps, therefore, from his work in the "Eternal Call" is breathtaking. It's an artist, but not someone who in the world of theater and cinema is professionally able to pretend and pretend. His voice, his figure, his eyes always harmonized with what Ivan wanted to say, what he was thinking about. He deeply experienced and played ordinary people. Those who plow, sow, fight, die, fighting for their country.