Lev Zolotukhin is an actor who, in Soviet times, built his film career on the colorful images of military leaders. Zolotukhin laid the foundation for a whole dynasty of talented film and theater actors. What happened to the fate of Lev Fedorovich? And in what pictures can he be seen?
Actor Lev Zolotukhin: biography
Zolotukhin was born in 1926 on July 29 in Moscow. His parents had nothing to do with the world of art, so after graduating from school, Leo went to get the “right” specialty at the shipbuilding institute.
However, the craving for the stage won, and in 1945 Lev Zolotukhin turned out to be one of the students of the Moscow Art Theater School. In 1949, the actor graduated and entered the service of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. Soon followed the first movie roles.
Carier start
Lev Zolotukhin in 1958 appeared in the film by Vladimir Kaplunovsky “The Captain's Daughter” in the image of the brave hussar Ivan Zurin. In the same year, he played another brave military man - this time the Cossack Gritsyuk in the film novel "Avalanche from the Mountains."
In the 60s. the actor was given mainly intellectual roles: engineer Ivan Berest in the film “Dreams Come True”, academician Ivan Bobrov in the comedy “Russian Souvenir” and professor Koval in the children's film “Without Fear and Reproach” by Alexander Mitta.
In 1960, the actor took part in the filming of the film adaptation of L. Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection”. Director Mikhail Schweizer instructed Zolotukhin the role of the assistant prosecutor Breve. The main roles in the film were played by Tamara Syomina (“Eternal Call”), Evgeny Matveev (“Love in Russian”) and Pavel Massalsky (“Garnet Bracelet”).
Top movies
In 1966, Lev Zolotukhin received the main role in the television play "Woodcut". The film was shot on the basis of the story of the same name by B. Lavrenyov, and the legendary theater actress Musa Sedova became the partner of the actor on the set.
In 1965, Grigory Roshal - the director who shot the 3-episode drama “Walking in agony” - began filming the biographical film “Year as Life”, which tells about the beginning of the activities of the revolutionary and thinker Karl Marx. The main cast of the film went to such celebrities as Igor Kvasha, Andrei Mironov, Vasily Livanov. Zolotukhin got a supporting role and appeared before the audience in the image of Mikhail Bakunin.
In 1972, Lev Fedorovich again returned to the screens in the image of a military man: the director Gavriil Egiazarov suggested that the actor play the role of the chief of staff of the division in the drama "Hot Snow". The company Zolotukhin in the frame was composed by actors Georgy Zhzhenov, Anatoly Kuznetsov and Nikolai Eremenko-ml.
Lev Fedorovich looked so convincing in the role of military leader that in 1974 he became the protagonist of the 4-episode war film Blockade. This time, the actor had the opportunity to play Colonel Pavel Maksimovich Korolev. Also in the picture starred Yuri Solomin, Ivan Krasko and Irina Akulova.
One cannot but mention the military tape from the Zolotukhin filmography, called The Exam on Immortality. The drama tells how cadets of the Red Banner School defended Moscow from the Nazis in 1941. In addition to Zolotukhin, Daria Mikhailova, Alexander Kazakov, Boris Shcherbakov and Oleg Shtefanko took part in the shooting of the picture.
Personal life
Lev Zolotukhin in his youth married a colleague in the workshop - an actress of the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky. In this marriage, in 1958, a boy was born, whom the couple named Dmitry.
Zolotukhin Jr. followed in the footsteps of his father: in 1979 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, and then entered the service in the same theater where Lev Fedorovich served. In 1980, Dmitry Zolotukhin became famous throughout the Soviet Union, playing the role of Peter I in the legendary dilogy of Sergei Gerasimov about the life of the first Russian emperor. In the interviews given by Dmitry Lvovich, he always emphasized that his father helped him a lot in the profession with his advice and unlimited experience.
Lev Zolotukhin himself died in 1988 with the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.