Eugene Tsymbal is a famous film actor, a famous director of both feature films and documentaries. Evgeny Vasilievich is known both as a screenwriter and as an editor of documentary films. For his huge contribution to the cinema, he was awarded several prizes, including Nika.
Biography
Eugene Tsymbal was born in early September 1949 in the city of Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory. Despite the fact that since childhood he loved cinema, Eugene after graduating from high school enters Rostov State University, choosing the Faculty of History. And in 1971 he successfully completed it.
But he never left the walls of his native university, as he remained to work there as a sociologist. Three years later he was supposed to defend a dissertation. But it so happened that his Englishman became his roommate. Eugene was required to write a denunciation on a young student, but the future famous actor and director refused to do this and therefore was forced to leave the university in 1974.
Eugene Tsymbal: filmography and biography
In 1974, Evgeny Vasilyevich moved to the capital and very soon quite by accident ended up in the famous Mosfilm film studio, where he began his career in cinema.
Initially, Eugene Tsymbal, whose photo is in this article, worked at the Mosfilm film studio as a senior administrator, and soon became not only an assistant director, but even got the position of second director. Even then, he worked as an assistant on the set of the famous film "Stalker" directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
In 1981, Eugene Tsymbal, whose biography is closely related to cinema, starred in the film "Rodney" directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. The role in this film is episodic.
In 1984, starred in the film Eldar Ryazanov "Cruel Romance", playing a secondary role. His hero - the sailor Egor was remembered and loved by many spectators. In 1967, a new episodic role in the film "Forgotten Melody for Flute" directed by Eldar Ryazanov.
In 1998, a new episodic role in the film by Nikita Mikhalkov "The Siberian Barber". But still, acting did not become the main one in his cinematic activities.
Directorial activity
Eugene Tsymbal in 1984 enters the Higher Directing Courses, choosing the directing department. The young actor and director was lucky, since he got on the course of Ryazanov.
Evgeny Vasilievich tries his directorial powers. So, in 1983 he creates the film “Requiem for Sirloin,” and in 1987 the film “Forgotten Melody for the Flute” is released, where not only Eldar Ryazanov, but also Evgeny Vasilyevich Tsymbal is the director.
In 1988, Eugene Tsymbal makes a new film at Mosfilm. His short film “Sedov Defender”, which in the future will receive many awards, including international ones. It is this film about the lawyer Sedov, who, during the time of New Year’s Day, undertakes to help three intellectuals, yielding to the entreaties of three village women, receives the award from the British Academy of Film and Theater.
In 1989, the actor and director Tsymbal went to the Robert Redford American Film School. After such an internship at the Sundance Institute, Yevgeny Vasilievich in 1990 created his last feature film, The Tale of the Unburdened Moon, which was also awarded many prizes. He decides to shoot only documentaries.
In 1994, the director of documentary and feature films, Evgeny Tsymbal, first undergoes an internship at the Scandinavian Institute, and then also teaches at it. In 1997, he creates the documentary film “To Remember ...”, and two years later his documentary “Ordinary Bolshevism” was released.
In 2002, Evgeny Vasilievich made a documentary film “Dziga and His Brothers”, where he tells the audience the life story of Dziga Vertov, Boris and Mikhail Kaufmanov. The very next year, this film was awarded the prestigious Nika Prize. In 2005, the same prize was awarded to another documentary film by this successful director, Zoshchenko and Olesha: a double portrait in the interior of the era. Other documentaries of the documentary filmmaker Tsymbal were also highly praised by both viewers and critics.
Tsymbal - screenwriter
As a screenwriter, Evgeny Vasilievich Tsymbal tried himself in only one work. His documentary film "The Burned Ghetto Notebook" was released in 2011. An unusual diary of a girl who survived the terrible Holocaust.
Editing
Seeing how indispensable the activities of the editor in the cinema, Eugene Tsymbal tried his hand in this area. So, he tried his hand at editing the film in 1999, when the film “Ordinary Bolshevism” was shot, and in 2002 in the documentary film “Dziga and His Brothers”. In 2011, he independently and as a director and as an editor works on the film "Notebook from the Burned Ghetto", the events of which are based on real facts.
In 2015, he again independently creates a documentary film. In the film “Valentina Kropyvnytska. In Search of a Paradise Lost ”, he also realizes himself as a director and as an editor. This film about the Russian artist and her husband was also awarded the Nika Prize.