Eugene Tatarsky is a popular domestic director and screenwriter. In 2004 he received the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Popularity was brought to him by the paintings “Club of Suicides, or The Adventures of a Titled Person”, “Jack Vosmerkin -“ American ”, the series“ Streets of Broken Lights ”,“ Deadly Force ”,“ Niro Wolff and Archie Goodwin ”.
early years
Eugene Tatarsky was born in 1938 in Leningrad. He graduated from school number 107, which was located in the Vyborg district.
Having received his basic education, the hero of our article entered the local hydrometeorological institute. But a year later he dropped out of college. Evgeny Markovich decided to enter the acting department. However, he did not have enough points, so he had to go to the army.
After serving three years in the navy, he passed the exams for the directing department of the theater institute, but this time could not overcome the interview stage. Therefore, Eugene Tatarsky had to get a job.
He began to work at the film studio of popular science films in order to gradually master the profession. At first he was a laborer, loaded films and boards, eventually grew to the assistant director. He worked in this position from 1961 to 1964, having traveled with film crews almost the entire Soviet Union, even visited the border with Iran and the Arctic Ocean.
Education
Working at the Lennauchfilm, Eugene Tatarsky entered the correspondence department of the Institute of Culture. He was educated in this industry at the faculty of cultural and educational work as a director of amateur theaters. Received the diploma in 1969.
Five years before, he switched to the Lenfilm film studio, where he worked as an assistant director in the films "Worker Village", "Crash", "In the City of S." Then he took part in the filming of Joseph Heifitz’s drama "Bad Good Man" and the war film by Igor Maslennikov and Knut Andersen "Under a Stone Sky".
Being the second director in the last two films, he managed to enter the department of directing television at the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. His thesis was the short film "Fire in the Wing" based on the story of the same name by Victor Dragunsky.
Debut movie
Director Yevgeny Tatarsky released his first film of his own in 1977. It was a detective thriller "Golden Mine" about a criminal recidivist who at the very beginning makes an escape from the colony. His role was played by Oleg Dal. The picture was a great success, it became one of the most popular on Soviet television in the 70s.
In 1979, Dahl starred in the next film by Eugene Tatarsky “Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a titled person” based on the works of Stevenson. Igor Dmitriev and Donatas Banionis also starred.
According to critics, the film became one of the main television hits of "Lenfilm", in which the author was able to successfully combine the classic English style in a colorful costume adaptation.
In the prime of his career
The hero of our article shot most of his paintings in the 80s. He opened the decade with a children's film "Lyalka-Ruslan and his friend Sanka." In 1982, the detective "For No Apparent Reason" was published, the events of which unfold in Siberia in 1922, when several brutal murders occurred one after another.
In 1984, he removed the detective Charlotte’s necklace about the KGB colonel, who was investigating the murder of a farmer and went to a rally of a gang engaged in sending valuable works of art abroad.
The next big success of Tatarsky was the comedy “Jack Vosmerkin - American” in 1986. The film tells about Yakov Vosmerkin, who returns to his native village to become a farmer after learning that after the Civil War land can be obtained for free. Alexander Kuznetsov starred in the film , Tito Romalio, Lev Durov, Evgeny Evstigneev, Yuri Galtsev.
In 1988, Tatar made another comedy called The Presumption of Innocence. This is a story about a famous singer who, on the eve of a foreign tour, loses her jacket with a passport.
In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eugene Markovich removes the mystical thriller "Drinkers of Blood." This is a film adaptation of the story by Alexei Tolstoy "Ghoul". The last full-length film of his career was the 1993 drama “Prison Romance” with Alexander Abdulov and Marina Neelova in the lead roles. At the heart of this picture is the real story of an unsuccessful attempt to escape the robber Sergei Maduev from the Crosses.
Work in series
In the late 90s, serials began to appear in the filmography of Evgeny Tatarsky.
As a director and screenwriter, he worked on several episodes of Broken Street Streets (Invasion of Privacy, Inferno), Deadly Force (Melee Tactics, Capercaillie Trail, Shockwave), Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin ").
In 2009 and 2010 he shot several episodes for the melodrama "Word to a Woman".
In February 2015, he died in St. Petersburg at the age of 76. According to friends, shortly before that, he was injured, his health condition deteriorated sharply. The director was buried in the cemetery in Repino next to his wife.