Stanislav Chekan: a sad hero of Soviet cinema

"And so, when we got acquainted in this way, I outlined my plan," the hero reported to his movie boss, the colonel of the militia.

It is thanks to the role of an honest and decent policeman, the actor of Soviet cinema Stanislav Chekan Woke up famous.

Childhood

On the second day of June 1922 in Rostov-on-Don, the Chekan couple were born the first-born son Stasik. Mom, Matilda Ivanovna, was a German, and my father, Julian Egorovich, a Pole.

While the Civil War lasted, his parents fought under Budyonny's initiative. Semyon Mikhailovich, used to wear a small Stanislav in his arms.

Ten years later, another boy was born in the family - Volodya. Mom loved them very much and was constantly worried, however energetic Stasik got into a bad company.

Life in a labor colony

When Stanislav Chekan was a 15-year-old teenager, his father was arrested as an enemy of the people. It was believed that he, being a cook, allegedly had a plan to poison Soviet soldiers. In a very short time, my mother was also arrested. Their nationalities proved to be quite "suitable" for being declared enemies of the people.

Younger Volodya, who at that time was already five years old, was taken to an orphanage, and Stanislav Chekan went to a labor colony. It was many years after that, and being already an adult, the famous actor, scarcely holding back tears, recalled how he sat hungry and watched the demonstration, where the boys carried posters with gratitude to Stalin for their happy childhood.

It is here that the future actor begins his journey into art. The case brought him from a teacher working in the colony (a former actress). She saw the talent of the artist in Stasik and invited him to come to the drama circle. The young man happily began to participate in amateur performances. But having received a passport in his hands, Chekan Stanislav Yulianovich runs away from the colony and settles on the factory as a tinsmith.

Parent Resort

My mother was released from prison two years later. First she sought out her eldest son, a little later and younger. But in the release from the dungeons of the Pope participated himself Budyonny. The family finally reunited.

Matilda Ivanovna and Julian Egorovich lived after the conclusion of many happy years. And years of being behind bars were always remembered by a single phrase about how they were once at a resort ...

The brothers Stepa and Glory

In the theatrical high school future actor Stanislav Chekan enrolled in his hometown. This was the course of Yuri Zavadsky. During the entrance exams Stasik met a guy who was always worried and constantly pulled himself by the nose. So friends Stanislav Chekan And Sergei Bondarchuk, who later called themselves Brother Slava (Stas Chekan) and Stepan's brother (Sergei Bondarchuk). Each of them was sure that he would not, but only two of them passed from two hundred people. Friends were always together, and to have a snack after lectures, they ran to Stas Chekana's daddy in a restaurant where he worked as a cook.

"Get up, the country is huge"

So successfully begun studying in the theatrical university was interrupted by the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Like millions of Soviet children, Chekan Stanislav Yulianovich Goes to defend his homeland as an ordinary soldier. In the battle near Novorossiisk he was wounded, and after the treatment he began to work in the front theater. There he became acquainted with his civil wife - the artist Tina Mazenka-Belinskaya.

When the war ended with the complete and unconditional victory of the country of the Soviets, Stanislav Chekan, whose films would later be watched with adoration and admiration, is arranged for the troupe of the Odessa Soviet Army Theater. In 1948 he moved to the Central Academic Theater of the SA, where he worked for eight years.

More and more places in the life of Chekana are occupied by cinema. Stanislav Yulianovich leaves the theater, but does not forget about him. Until 1993, the artist worked in the theater-actor of the film actor.

And yet the cinema, which eventually brought him popularity, success, recognition, was devoted a very long time. The first small roles in the films "Blue Roads" and "The Son of the Regiment" did not make the actor famous instantly. Everything changed the picture "Taras Shevchenko", filmed in 1951. In Chekana in this film was a tiny role, but his unique talent did not allow to forget this character. The driver, dashingly performing forbidden songs, in the performance of the actor was simply magnificent.

The following year, he left to shoot a picture of "The Outpost in the Mountains", which was filmed in Central Asia.

"Cinema, Cinema, Cinema. From you we are without a mind ... "

The very first appearance on the screen of a young novice actor took place in 1946. It was a simple episodic role - the private in the painting "The Son of the Regiment." And after seven years Stanislav Chekan, whose films are watched by several generations of spectators, embodied on the screen of the border guard Marchenko. This was his first serious major role.

The end of the fifties was marked by the beginning of the wide path of Stanislav Yulianovich in motion picture art.

Outwardly, he was a very colorful and inviting man, possessed a great sense of humor and indescribable charm. On the screen, as a rule, he "gave birth" to the images of boatswain and chauffeurs, brigade leaders and policemen. The most famous of his film works - Sabodezh in the detective "Two tickets for the afternoon session," Tikhon Shcherbaty in War and Peace, Anton Krylenko in the film "Another Flight." We can not forget two more of his best and favorite from millions of viewers: Ivan Petrovich Kuskov in the film "Again Aniskin" about the village detective and the unforgettable major of militia Mikhail Ivanovich in the comedy "The Diamond Arm". Working on the same platform with venerable actors and realizing that his role is not the main, and the second plan, he nevertheless created his character so alive and real that the absolute majority of the audience, after hearing his name and surname, immediately remember "Michal Ivanych ".

Back in the sixties Chekan had married Nonna Yulianovich, who was younger than him for almost twenty years. In the family, Sergei's son was born. Later he became an actor, also dubbed films. Unfortunately, in 2005 he died.

In the last years of his life, Stanislav Chekan was very sick. So the old wound that the actor got at the front made itself felt. Now he did not work in the troupe of the theater, almost did not act. In 1994, he felt very badly, Chekan even admitted to his wife that he does not need to be in this world, because after leaving the profession he did not want to live anymore.

When Chekan needed hospitalization, it turned out that he had acute leukemia. Doctors predicted the duration of his life about three weeks. Nonna Yulianovich asked the Aesculapius to not raise this issue in conversations with her husband.

The actor left this world on August 11, 1994 and was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

Such was the actor Stanislav Chekan. The biography of this remarkable man, unfortunately, is over, but the memory of him lives in the hearts of his admirers so far.