The filmography of the Soviet actor Valentin Zubkov includes over forty works in the cinema. The audience was remembered more for the paintings dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The biography and career of the artist of Soviet cinema Valentin Zubkov is the topic of the article.
He played mainly episodic roles. He came to the cinema without a special education. Valentin Zubkov, whose biography ended in 1979, could play many more interesting roles. But family tragedy undermined the health of the artist.
Fighter pilot
Zubkov Valentin Ivanovich - an actor who appeared on the set, it would seem, by accident. The future artist was born in 1923, in a simple peasant family. He dreamed of becoming a builder, erecting beautiful high-rise buildings. However, when Zubkov turned nineteen, the war began. She ruthlessly broke human destinies, changed plans, destroyed dreams. But if it were not for the war, the actor Valentin Zubkov would never have been seen by the viewer in such illustrious films as “Cranes are Flying”, “Ivan's Childhood”.
In 1942, the future actor graduated from the flight school, received the profession of a fighter. Zubkov spoke reluctantly about these years. He did not become a hero, similar to those to whom the book and the film were dedicated in the post-war years. Just honestly doing his duty.
Nina
After the war, Zubkov met a girl who later became his wife. Valentin Ivanovich lived with Nina for more than thirty years. Their family happiness could last longer. However, the general grief that the actor’s wife was able to survive, Zubkov himself did not suffer. Valentine and Nina lived peacefully. In the first years, their happiness was overshadowed only by the fact that a woman could not get pregnant. Seven years after the wedding, a long-awaited son was born in the family of Valentin Zubkov.
The beginning of the creative path
Everything in their life was measured. Home, family, baby. The only thing that distinguished Zubkov from other employees of the organization in which he worked was his selfless love of theater, cinema and amateur performances. Zubkov read monologues and poems from the stage. He was one of the most prominent participants in artistic productions in the local circle.
Once a theater director accidentally wandered into one of the performances. He saw a tall, stately man with an open, kind face and advised him to try himself in the movies. At the same time, a theatrical figure noted that Zubkov should not count on the main roles. But a supporting actor, undoubtedly, can become a participant in amateur performances. Valentin Ivanovich was not an overly ambitious person. In addition, he selflessly loved theater and cinema. And so the idea of playing at least one episodic role in the movie inspired him incredibly.
Valentin Zubkov heeded the advice. He began to attend auditions, auditions, as is now customary to say. His face attracted the director Konstantin Yudin. After an episodic role in the film "Gemini" he began to be increasingly invited to the shooting. Zubkov became a supporting actor. One of those whose names the viewer does not remember, but without which a great movie is unthinkable. What paintings did Valentin Zubkov play in?
Films
In the late forties, the actor starred in the films “Twins”, “Russian Question”. The first significant work of Zubkov was the role of Stepan in the film "Cranes Are Flying." Before the release of this ingenious picture on the screens, Soviet viewers associated the actor with the image of a fist that he created in the movie "Communist", that is, with a negative character.
But Kulidzhanov, despite this, invited Zubkov to audition. The role of Stepan is one of the most striking in the artist's work. No matter how talented the game of Alexei Batalov, Zubkov is not much inferior to him. Thanks to his hero, the image created by Batalov becomes more convex, expressive. Among other films in the filming of which Valentin Zubkov took part, the following should be mentioned:
- "Over Tissa."
- May Stars.
- "Father's house".
- The Northern Tale.
- Evdokia.
- "Day of happiness."
- "Ivan's childhood."
- "Train of mercy."
- "I'm a soldier, mom."
"Ivan childhood"
In the early sixties, Andrei Tarkovsky began work on a new painting based on the novel by V. Bogomolov. The role of captain Choline in the film "Ivan's childhood" was played by Zubkov. Viewers first saw him in the image of a complex man. The actor proved that playing can not only loyal positive friends or pronounced villains, but also more controversial characters. Actor Valentin Zubkov was not as simple as his colleagues perceived at the beginning of his career.
