'Chaplin from Odessa': famous artist and satirist Roman Kartsev died

People's Artist of Russia, “the most intelligent comedian” and “Chaplin from Odessa,” as his colleagues called him, satirist Roman Kartsev died at the age of 79 in Moscow.

Thanks to the acting duo of Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko, the Soviet public became acquainted with the texts of the satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky. Kartsev’s death was reported in “Facebook»Mikhail Zhvanetsky’s wife Natalya Zhvanetskaya, writes Air force.

Kartsev died in Moscow, TASS reports with reference to the artist’s granddaughter Veronica Evstigneeva. “Grandpa passed away early this morning,” she said.

Roman Kartsev, Mikhail Zhvanetsky and Viktor Ilchenko. Photo: Natalia Zhvanetskaya / Facebook

“It was a heart attack, my heart couldn’t stand it. He had been sick for a long time, was in the hospital for a long time, and now his suffering is over,” Zhvanetsky himself later told TASS.

Kartsev will be buried at the Troyekurovsky cemetery in Moscow, director of the artist Natalya Zeromskaya told RIA Novosti.

Who was Roman Kartsev for the Soviet public

Kartsev is a People's Artist of Russia, a Soviet actor, a native of Odessa. He performed at the Moscow Zhvanetsky Theater of Miniatures.

He began his career on the stage in 1960-ies in the theater of Arkady Raikin and gained wide fame, performing in a duet with Viktor Ilchenko. Zhvanetsky was their regular author.

The stage art of Kartsev was the source of many Soviet memes.

In monologues about crayfish for five rubles (“Yesterday they were five rubles, but big. Today they were three, but small”) and about the “head of the transport department,” as well as in the number “Warehouse,” performed together with Ilchenko, Kartsev embodied throwing Soviet buyers who lived in conditions of constant shortages and constant lack of money, the meaninglessness of bureaucratic speeches and meetings, the shock of an ordinary citizen who suddenly found himself in the “paradise” of the food distributor of the Soviet elite.

Kartsev acted in films. His most famous role is Shvonder in the film adaptation of Bulgakov’s novel “Heart of a Dog” (1988).

Photo: still from the film “Heart of a Dog”

He also played roles in the films “Promised Heaven”, “Old Nags” and “The Master and Margarita”.

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