The film " Taming the Fire " , the actors and roles of which are presented in this article, opened the curtain of secrecy over domestic space and rocket projects to the audience. It almost never uses real names, but the script was created on a documentary basis, and the plot is dedicated to the legendary rocket engine designer S.P. Korolev .
Plot
The film, released in 1972, according to the repeated statements of its creators, is not biographical, and its historical authenticity is conditional. Andrei Bashkirtsev - the main character of the film " Taming the Fire. " The actor who played this role played a lot of bright characters in the movie, including Pontius Pilate in the television film "The Master and Margarita. "
At the beginning of the picture shows the events of 1925. The young man, barely graduated from school, arrives in the capital, carrying with him drawings of a unique apparatus of his own design - an airplane with an electric motor. Specialists immediately reject the inept work of the amateur. But Andrew is not going to give up. He is convinced that heaven is his calling. And now the main character is going to promote another project, this time with a jet engine.
The path to success for Andrei Bashkirtsev is difficult. In the life of the young designer there is a place both to struggle, and to overcome internal doubts, and clashes with the inertness of thinking inherent in colleagues. But the hero of the picture does not leave his dream and achieves what he wants - he becomes a world famous designer, but not of airplanes , but of something more serious , namely space technology.
The plot has a place and typical images of the Soviet era, and personal relationships, and great accomplishments. There are also historical figures in the film " Taming the Fire. " Actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky, for example, played in this film a Soviet scientist , an outstanding inventor Tsiolkovsky. Since the beginning of the film shows the events of the pre-war years, and then the beginning of the 50s, it could not do without such a historical figure as Joseph Stalin. In the film " Taming the Fire " actor Andro Kobaladze got this difficult role.
Confession
The film was first released on April 12, 1972, on Cosmonautics Day. Note that the Soviet and world premieres took place simultaneously. Repeatedly received various awards, the creators of the painting " Taming the Fire. " The actor K. Lavrov, who played the main role, was awarded the prize. The Vasiliev brothers. It is described in more detail below.
Actors and roles
In " Taming the Fire " played exclusively famous artists. It could not be otherwise, because in this film it was a question of space exploration by Soviet people. For several decades, this topic has been central to the USSR.
The author of the script and director was D. Khrabrovitsky . Starring: Kirill Lavrov (Bashkirtsev), Ada Rogovtseva (Natalya Bashkirtseva), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (Tsiolkovsky), Andrey Popov ( Logunov ), Andro Kobaladze (Stalin), Galiks Kolchitsky (Kurchatov). Other actors in Taming the Fire: Zinovy Gerdt, Yuri Leonidov, Svetlana Korkoshko , Peter Shelokhonov , Vera Kuznetsova, Vadim Spiridonov, Evgeny Matveev, Evgeny Steblov .
Kirill Lavrov
The awards that this actor received at different periods of his work represent a rather extensive list. Kirill Lavrov was born in 1925. At the age of 17, he went to the front. Demobilized only in 1950. Lavrov performed his first film role in 1955. The last - after half a century. He played Lenin, Yaroslav the Wise and, as already mentioned, Pontius Pilate. In the filmography of Kirill Lavrov, there are roles in such films as The Brothers Karamazov, Love Yarovaya, Charlotte's Necklace , Leningrad and many others.
Andro Kobaladze
In a way, this actor is a unique person. None of his colleagues played Joseph Stalin so many times. Kobaladze starred in the films Pravda, In the Days of October, On the Same Planet, and Messengers of Eternity. In each of them he played the " leader. " In total, the Georgian actor had to fulfill this role 16 times.