One of the most beloved Russian actors, Stanislav Lyubshin, was remembered throughout the country for the role of the Soviet intelligence in the film "Shield and Sword", a bold, intelligent and intelligent, in a beautiful SS uniform. The images he created in the theater and cinema are distinguished by psychological certainty and a thorough characterization.
early years
The future actor Stanislav Lyubshin was born on April 6, 1933 in the Moscow region in the small village of Vladykino (now this is the territory of Moscow), where he spent all his childhood. The family lived modestly, my father worked as an agronomist at a state farm, and my mother worked as a cowgirl. Stanislav was the eldest of three children.
Like all village children, in order to help his family, he began to work at the age of 8, gradually comprehending the burden of peasant labor. As a boy, he was assigned to drive birds away from fruit trees in the state farm garden, then he worked as a guard.
The villagers got up at dawn and worked hard until sunset, there was practically no entertainment. A small outlet in cultural life was the organization at the state farm of an amateur theater group. Serious performances from Russian and Soviet classics were staged at the village amateur scene. Mom Stanislav often played the main female roles in them.
It was then that he became interested in acting and theater, so back in school he began to study in a drama circle. After graduation, Lyubshin entered the Oxygen Welding College (now the Moscow College of Technology). Then he worked briefly as a welder at Moscow construction sites.
Path to the profession
Returning from the army, he decided to fulfill his old dream and enter the theater institute. Later, already being a famous actor, Stanislav Lyubshin wrote that before applying to the theater university, he decided to consult with his parents. His father told him, pointing to Kozlovsky, at that time there was a broadcast of the concert of the famous singer, you will be like him, come on. And if people are behind him, then no.
He entered the first time at the Higher Theater School named after M.S. Shchepkina, by this moment he already had a family, his wife Svetlana Deziderovna and a child.
In 1959, actor Stanislav Lyubshin graduated from the institute, his thesis was a role in the play "Optimistic Tragedy". In this production, Oleg Tabakov, who worked a lot with theatrical youth, also noticed a talented graduate. On his recommendation, he was accepted into the troupe of the Sovremennik Theater
First job
After going to work in the theater, a debut on the famous stage took place in the biography of Stanislav Lyubshin. It so happened that it was necessary to find a substitute for Oleg Tabakov, who was busy in another performance, playing the role of student Slavka in the production of "Five Evenings." Lyubshin did a good job with this role. After that, they were busy in this performance in turn.
In his first theater, he worked for four years, everyone remembers his outstanding play in "Two Colors" as the Capercaillie and in the fairy tale "The Naked King" in the role of Christian and Henry. After that, the actor Stanislav Lyubshin served in the Taganka Theater for three years, where he remembered the impressive images that he created in the productions of “The Good Man from Cezuan” as the Joiner and in the “Hero of Our Time” as the Author.
Other Moscow theaters
Further Lyubshin worked in the theater named after M.N. Ermolova. The most significant roles of that period were in the plays of Alexander Vampilov-Teacher in the production of “House with Windows in the Field” and Shamanov in the play “Last Summer in Chulimsk”.
The next Moscow theater, where he moved, became the theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Here, actor Stanislav Lyubshin worked with the famous director A. Efros in the performances "The End of Don Juan" and "Veranda in the Forest."
Since 1981, he began working at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov. According to the actor himself, after many years of wandering, he found his stage, because he is by nature a Chekhov actor. Now Lyubshin still pleases with his talent on the Mkhatov stage, having managed during this time to play in almost all the iconic performances, starting with “Three Sisters” and ending with “Boris Godunov”. In recent years, actor Stanislav Lyubshin has been involved in performances such as A Little Tenderness as Nenil, Mephisto as a Professor.
First films
In the movie, Lyubshin began acting immediately after receiving a theater education. Despite several good works, the audience practically did not know him. Fame came to him after filming in the role of Slavka Kostikova in the film of the famous Soviet director M. Khutsiev, "I am twenty years old." Critics noted the psychological subtlety in creating the image of the hero, the intelligent manner of playing and authenticity.
In the early sixties, actor Stanislav Lyubshin starred in the film adaptation of two military stories by Vasil Bykov "Alpine Ballad" and "Third Rocket".
In 1967, he was invited to the role of the Soviet intelligence agent Alexander Belov in the television series "Shield and Sword" by the famous director and actor Vladimir Basov. The painting was based on the novel of the same name by Vadim Kozhevnikov. Perhaps this was a rare case when the film turned out to be more successful than a book.
In the film "Shield and Sword" Stanislav Lyubshin created an unforgettable image of the Soviet scouts Yogan Weiss, smart and charming, with grace and light chic, wearing an SS uniform, which later became the prototype of a series of reconnaissance images created on the TV screen. According to a survey conducted by the magazine "Soviet Screen", for this role he was recognized as the best actor in 1968.
Many roles and films
After the role of Weiss, he became one of the most popular and popular actors in the country. Films of Stanislav Lyubshin were invariably well received by the viewer. Among the significant roles that were remembered by the audience are the following: Kotikov Samson in the drama "Monologue", Petrov Fedor - "Ksenia, Fedor's Beloved Wife."
In 1986, he first played in the comedy Kin-Dza-Dza. In the cult film of George Danelia, he got the main role of the Moscow engineer Vladimir Mashkov.
The best role in the biography of Stanislav Lyubshin was the image of Sasha Ilyin created by him in the picture “Five Evenings” by Nikita Mikhalkov. The lyrical drama resonated with the viewer, he was named the second actor of the year for the second time, according to a survey of the country's main cinematic magazine.
As a director, he made two films: “Call Me Into the Far Light” based on the novel by Vasily Shukshin and “Three Years” based on the play by A.P. Chekhov.
In the new millennium
After a short period in the early nineties, when Stanislav Lyubshin practically did not act in films, he again plays a lot of movies.
Critics praised his subtle play as the actor Georgy Ivanovich, who turned out to be unclaimed in the modern film industry, in the tragicomedy "Cinema about Cinema". In 2009, he starred in a small role in the Russian blockbuster "Antikiller D.K." He plays a lot of supporting roles in television series, for example, "The Horseman named Death" and "The Manor".
In 2018, the release of the comedy "Eternal Life" is planned with the participation of Stanislav Andreevich Lyubshin about the life of a retired actor, moonlighting in an entertainment park.
Personal life
The first time he married very early when he was in his first year at a theater institute. Then he already had a child. Stanislav Andreevich Lyubshin met with his wife in his native village, when he, after classes in a technical school, was guarding a state farm garden, and Svetlana, a student at the Agricultural Academy, was in practice. Later, his wife worked as a proofreader at the publishing house of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
From his first marriage, he has two sons, the eldest, Yuri, works as a cameraman, the youngest was an actor, starred in several films, then became an entrepreneur. Sons were sympathetic to the divorce of parents who lived together for 44 years. His granddaughter, Daria Lyubshina-Luran, followed in the footsteps of his grandfather. Now she is an actress and director.
In the early nineties Lyubshin on tour in Poland met twenty-year-old theater journalist Irina Korneeva. Soon they got married, he is forty years older than his second wife. In the personal life of Stanislav Lyubshin, everything is measured and calm, they recently celebrated the 85th anniversary of the artist and 25 years of marriage.