Very often, actors are accused of being too keen on: trying to play all the roles in a row, trying to put on performances and films themselves, start a huge number of novels, striving for fame at all costs. Perhaps all these claims can be presented to the actor Vitaly Solomin, films with which, probably, will be watched by more than one generation of Russians.
In response to these accusations, on behalf of all the actors, Alexander Vertinsky wrote the song “Farewell Dinner” ending with the words: “After all, ships in the whole world need a harbor, but not like us, not us - vagrants and artists.”
A brief biography of the actor Vitaly Solomin
Vitaly Methodievich Solomin was born on December 12, 1941. Hometown - Chita. Parents are music educators. Music has entered the life of a future actor since childhood. He graduated from school and went to Moscow. He entered the Shchepkin Theater School and studied with the famous B. M. Kazan. Having finished "Sliver", he played in the Maly Theater.
Films with Vitaly Solomin (first in episodes) appear since 1963. The actor brought popularity to the role of Zhenya in the film "Women". The most famous movie work is Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes series. These heroes even put a monument in Moscow. Another popular film work is Vadim Dashkov rushing about between his duty to his family and love in Winter Cherry. Small roles are also remembered, for example, Lenchik Pimenov in the film “Tell Me About You”.
The actor died of a stroke in 2002, was buried in the Vagankovsky cemetery.
The work of Vitaly Solomin - the stars of the Soviet and Russian screens
Over his 62 years of life, the actor was able to do the following:
- to star in 87 films and performance films (from the main and title roles performed in 33 projects, to episodic, when his name was not even in the credits);
- voice 6 films (songs and / or voice-overs). These are films with and without Vitaly Solomin;
- become a director of 4 films;
- create a script for the film project "Hunting";
- play 26 roles on the stage;
- become a People’s Artist of the RSFSR and receive many awards and titles for work in film and theater;
- become a favorite of the public and create the image of a good, honest person, a real man.
Perhaps the latter played a role in choosing an actor for audition in the film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”. But the film did not happen with Vitaly Solomin, he was the second after Alexei Batalov.
Two brothers, two different people, two creative ways.
Vitaly Solomin has always been second. The second son in the family, the second actor Solomin after the famous Yuri Solomin - “Adjutant of His Excellency”, the second main character after Vasily Livanov in the Russian adaptation of “Sherlock Holmes”. These circumstances are called fate.
Yuri Solomin said about his brother and about films with Vitaly Solomin that they look like "like a fork on a bottle." He refused to participate with his brother in some projects, "because he does everything wrong." And although they sometimes quarreled strongly, it was natural that Yuri Solomin did a lot for the career of his younger brother. But by default, he also helped to appear the actor, whom more than one generation of spectators love, the artist, until the last, until the curtain closed, playing a role on the stage of his Maly Theater.
The charm of the images created by the actor in the movie
What were the films with Vitaly Solomin remembered for? From the first frames of the appearance on the screen, the Russian audience began to like the images of the actor. Slavic appearance, like that of Yuri Gagarin, immediately introduced him to the "friends" in Russia. And the most charming shy smile, again, like the first astronaut, made me smile back. That is why most of the actor’s works in the cinema are images of positive, honest, often naive, but kind men. You can’t take from Vitaly Solomin his acting masculinity. He is neither macho, nor brutal, but courageous. Such always protect the truth, family, fatherland.
But what about the light, cheerful, cheerful Cheerleader from "Silva" or Falk from "The Bat"? And a good actor is "every time different."
The departure from life for the movie actor is not the end. The list of films with Vitaly Solomin would, of course, be extended and extended (for Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, for example, the filmography includes 381 works), but life decreed otherwise.
It is a pity that for spectators of all countries there are only movie roles, only a shadow from the national artist by vocation, and not by rank, Vitaly Solomin.