Leonid Kuravlev: filmography, biography, best roles

In 2016, Leonid Kuravlev, whose filmography includes more than two hundred films, will celebrate its 80th anniversary. Kuravlyov is one of the most prominent artists of the Soviet Union. Screen heroes of Leonid Vyacheslavovich are always characteristic and are remembered for a long time to spectators. What films with the participation of the artist must be seen on the eve of his jubilee?

Leonid Kuravlev: biography, filmography. early years

Kuravlev was born in 1936 in Moscow, in the family of a locksmith. The future actor's mother worked in a hairdresser's. The woman had detractors who fabricated a false denunciation on her . Therefore, Valentina Dmitrievna together with her son was sent to the Murmansk region in 1941. After the war, little Lenya and his mother were able to return to Moscow.

In school, Leonid was difficult to learn: almost no subject was given to him. Sister jokingly advised Kuravlev to go to study on the artist, because then he would not have to pass neither mathematics nor physics. Leonid followed her advice, only from the first time he could not do it. Kuravlyov returned to the VGIK exams exactly one year later, and then no one could deny him.

"Wii"

The first film, in which the famous actor starred, is Andrei Tarkovsky's drama "Today there will be no layoffs." Then there was a whole series of unobtrusive films, while Leonid Kuravlev, whose filmography by 1967 had 17 paintings, did not receive the main role in the first Soviet "horror film" "Wii".

This picture to this day is the classic of the genre. With the complete absence in those years of any computer special effects, the director Konstantin Ershov managed to create a really terrible film, from which the blood in the veins, even in the modern viewer, gets cold.

Leonid Kuravlev played in the picture Hom Brutus - bursak, who inadvertently killed the witch. After this incident, the deceased pursues the young man, inflicting upon him all evil spirits and wishing him death.

"Golden calf"

Immediately after filming in "Wii" Leonid Kuravlev, a biography, whose filmography began to interest hundreds of fans throughout the Soviet Union, fell into another cult Soviet picture - "The Golden Calf."

The film is based on the book of the same name by Ilf and Petrov and tells about the next adventures of Ostap Bender. Leonid Kuravlev played in this picture small rogue Shura Balaganov, who joined the gang of the great combinator. Soon they joined the Panikovsky passer, performed by Zinovy Gredt, and the whole company went to the city of Chernomorsk to rob the underground millionaire Koreyko.

The film is filled with comic. All the machinations of Bender and his friends are shown through the prism of humor and irony. The picture was divided into quotations: "Your petrol is our ideas", "Panikovsky will sell you all, buy and sell again, but more expensive!", Etc.

Leonid Kuravlev: the filmography. Soviet actors in the immortal film "Seventeen Moments of Spring"

"Seventeen Moments of Spring" by Tatiana Lioznova has an IMDb rating of 9.2 and often tops various tops of the best Russian and Soviet films. The story of Stirlitz has long been a legend, the name of the protagonist has turned into a common name, and the actors who appeared in the film immortalized themselves in the hearts of spectators. So Leonid Kuravlev, whose filmography is full of good films, can be proud of his participation in this political detective.

In the center of the plot - the activities of the Soviet intelligence officer in the higher echelons of power of the Third Reich. Kuravlev played the role of the second plan - the Nazi from the SS Kurt Eismann. The company actor on the set made such famous personalities as Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Leonid Bronevo, Valentin Gaft and many others.

"Ivan Vasilyevich is changing his profession"

Actor Leonid Kuravlev, whose filmography includes many comedic films, in 1973 played one of his most striking roles - adventurer Georges Miloslavsky in Leonid Gaidai's movie masterpiece "Ivan Vasilyevich is changing his profession."

The comedy became the leader of the hire in the Soviet Union in 1973. Leonid Kuravlev, in the image of the resourceful thief-recidivist Miloslavsky, turned into a "decoration" of the film. Especially brightly worked director's reception, according to which the company tireless rascal is constantly boring boss Bunsh. In the course of the plot's development, the viewer understands that the rogue Miloslavskii has many more principles and even patriotism than that thoroughly imbued with the ideology of the manager. However, this story line remains veiled, and the comic component of the picture still comes to the fore.

"It can not be!" And other films with the participation of the artist

One of the most famous works of Leonid Kuravlev in the cinema is the role of Volodya Zavitushkin in the comedy Gaidai "Can not be." The actor also starred in such well-known films as "Afonya", "The most charming and attractive", "Mimino" and many others.

Leonid Kuravlev, whose filmography has ceased to be replenished with new paintings since 2009, suddenly returned to the screens in 2015, playing the father of Leonty in the movie "This whole Jam."