Alexei Batalov, star of “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,” has died

Photo: TASS

Early in the morning of June 15 in Moscow, the People’s Artist of the Soviet Union, Aleksey Batalov, died. He was 88 years old.

The death of Batalov was reported by relatives and a close friend of the family, Vladimir Ivanov.

Earlier, the wife of actor Gitana Leontenko told that Batalov had already been on treatment for 2 for a month because of a broken leg in two places.

Alexey Batalov was born in 1928 year in Vladimir, in a theatrical family.

He first appeared on the stage as a teenager during World War II in an evacuation in Bugulma, where his mother organized her own theater.

In 1950, Batalov graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School named after V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. He played in the Central Theater of the Soviet Army and on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater.

In the movie, Alexei Batalov made his debut in 1944 in the episode of the film “Zoya”.

Still from the film "The Living Corpse". Photo: TASS

From 1975, Batalov taught acting at VGIK.

National fame Batalov brought his work to the movies. During his life, the actor starred in more than 40 films.

Such a different Batalov

Batalov was successful in any character and role - both lyrical and tragic.

The 1957 film “The Cranes Are Flying,” in which Batalov starred alongside Tatyana Samoilova, became the only Soviet feature film to win the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Still from the film “The Cranes Are Flying.” Photo: TASS

Batalov admired the work of cameraman Sergei Urusevsky in this film, which he recalled in his book “Fate and Craft.”

“Time passes slowly, somehow especially languidly, and now, when his excitement has already been conveyed to everyone and the inexplicable dead pause seems endless, from somewhere in the corner, from under the hanger, Urusevsky’s quiet, excitedly joyful voice suddenly sounds: “Well, let’s do this.” so let’s try to do it once... So it seems like nothing...” From this second everything comes to life and moves with dizzying speed,” the actor wrote.

In the 1962 drama “Nine Days of One Year,” Batalov played a nuclear physicist who continues to work despite the received dose of radiation. This film became the best film of the year according to a poll by the Soviet Screen magazine, and Batalov was recognized by the readers of the magazine as the best actor of the year.

Still from the film “Nine Days of One Year.” Photo: TASS

“I worked with great interest on the image of Dmitry Gusev. The life of this nuclear scientist is filled with persistent, meaningful and, moreover, completely inconspicuous feats. The role of Gusev especially attracts me because he is a man of today, deeply intelligent, one might say, a man of the new Soviet formation,” Batalov said about his hero (quoted from RIA Novosti).

In Vladimir Motyl’s film about the fate of the Decembrists and their wives, “Star of Captivating Happiness,” filmed in 1975, Batalov played the role of Prince Sergei Trubetskoy, exiled to Siberia after the Decembrist uprising.

In 1980, Vladimir Menshov’s melodrama “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” was released, where Batalov played one of the main roles - locksmith Georgy Ivanovich (“aka Goga, aka Gosha”).

In 1981, this film received the American Film Academy Oscar in the category “Best Foreign Language Film” and the USSR State Prize.

The actor, according to his confession, categorically did not want to act in this role, but he did not understand the nationwide female love for his character.

“I understood perfectly well that the authors of the film needed Gosha to complete the two-part suffering of the unfortunate woman. But in the third episode he could have hit her on the head with a bottle. Why not? - he said in one of the interviews. - Gosha left his first wife, pesters an unfamiliar woman on the train, drinks, fights. “Lonely Soviet Women” did not take a good look at my hero,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

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