Radomir Vasilevsky is a famous Soviet and Ukrainian film director and cameraman. His most famous camera work is the painting "Spring on a Zarechnaya Street". From this article you can find out the biography of Radomir Vasilevsky, a list of his film works and facts from his personal life.
early years
Radomir Borisovich Vasilevsky was born on September 27, 1930 in the city of Chelyabinsk, in a wealthy family of the head of an oil trust. On his tenth birthday, Radomir received a Smena camera as a gift from his parents. Despite his young age, the boy quickly mastered the camera, and soon he independently developed and printed the pictures. Showing interest in school geometry lessons, by the age of 14, Radomir learned to perfectly frame photographs.
Boris Vasilevsky wanted to see his son as the continuer of his profession and sent him to study in Moscow. However, after studying for two years at the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas, the young man realized that this was not his profession, and dropped out of school. In 1951 he entered the operator department of VGIKA, studied in the workshop of Boris Volchek.
The graduation works were short films by Radomir Vasilevsky "A Tale of a Children's Toy" and "Ilmensky Reserve", which even deserved the main award at the International Student Film Festival.
Operator work
After graduating from the institute in 1954, Radomir Vasilevsky, by invitation, joined the camera staff of the Moldovafilm studio. His debut cameraman work was the picture "Moldavian Chants" - this was the first feature film of a film studio and Moldovan production in general. After that, Radomir got a job at the Odessa film studio, where his first work was the famous feature film "Spring on Zarechnaya Street." Radomir Vasilevsky performed the work of the second cameraman and was responsible for all the large and medium plans of the picture.
The list of films directed by Vasilevsky includes such films as "Eaglet" (1957), "The Green Van" (1958), "The Black Sea" (1959), "The Return" (1960), "Companeros" (1962), " Come tomorrow "(1963).
A break in creativity
Despite successes in camera work, 33-year-old Radomir Vasilevsky was still not sure that he had found himself. Having finished work on the film "Come Tomorrow, " he took a two-year creative vacation. In 1965, Vasilevsky appeared in the episodic role of the trapper in the short film "Komesk". This appearance on the screen was the only one in Radomir’s entire career, but in many informational articles he is often called an actor for some reason.
Turning into a Director
In 1966, Radomir Vasilevsky decided to try himself as a director. The debut was his collaboration with Valery Isakov, “The Pursuit”. In 1967, Radomir met with a children's writer from Leningrad and Andersen International Prize laureate Radiy Pogodin and decided to put on a film according to his script. It was called "Dubravka" and received the main prize of the Republican Film Festival. In this work, Radomir finally felt that his calling was directing children's films. In a duet with Pogodin, he shot three more children's paintings: Step from the Roof (1970), Turn on the Northern Lights (1972) and Tales of Keshka and His Friends (1974). All three films gained immense popularity among viewers, and Step from the Roof even received the prize of the International Film Festival in Italy.
In 1975, Vasilevsky made a picture for an adult audience - “Mrs. Shelton's Journey”. However, unlike the children's works of the director, the audience perceived her coldly. From 1976 to 1981, two more children's films were released according to the script of Pogodin and two adults. Another success of the director was the 1982 film "4: 0 in favor of Tanya." Critics called it "scarce" material among the same stream of children's paintings. The next film, co-authored with Pogodin again, “What Senka had, ” filmed in 1984, was also praised by critics and audiences and won an award in the children's program of an international festival in West Berlin. Throughout his career, Radomir Vasilevsky has directed 19 films. His last directorial work was a children's film, the fairy tale "How the Blacksmith Looked for Happiness, " which was released in 1999, after the director’s death.
