Batalov Vladimir Petrovich - the legendary Soviet film figure. The life and creative path of this wonderful person is presented to your attention in the article.
Biography
Vladimir Batalov was born in 1902. The exact date of birth to this day remains unknown. Many claim that he was born on September 19th, although September 6th was indicated on the birth certificate. The real name is Atalov, which was subsequently changed due to poor sound.
As a child, little Volodya did not hope to become an actor, because everyone in his family were workers who had nothing to do with the scene. But one day it will happen that he wants to connect his life with art.
When Batalov turns fifteen, he moves to Moscow with the hope of building a career in the field of culture. At the age of seventeen, he enters the theater studio of the academic theater and studies as an assistant director. As often happens, in the process of training people discover new talents. This is exactly what happened to Vladimir. He realized that he likes not only to shoot pictures, but also to act in them himself. The young man begins to attend the theater and improves his acting skills. Six years after admission, Vladimir Konstantinovich is finishing his studies.
Adulthood
The adult life of a man began from the moment he moved to Moscow. After graduation, Vladimir Petrovich worked at the Moscow Art Theater. It's hard to believe, but he will work in the theater for almost his entire conscious life. Vladimir Batalov will use all the knowledge gained during the training for the benefit of his native theater. In total, he will give him thirty-six years and leave only in 1956.
This man was so in love with creativity that he managed not only to work at the Moscow Art Theater, but also held the post of director in the opera house. Here he will work for ten years and then will begin to work on productions at the Lenin Komsomol Theater.
In 1938, Vladimir Petrovich Batalov realizes that he can be not only an actor and director, but also a good mentor for young artists. From 1938 to 1941 he was busy teaching the younger generation at the Mosfilm studio. He would continue to work further, but the Great Patriotic War intervened.
War years
Batalov was not a direct participant in the hostilities. However, his contribution to the success of the army cannot be underestimated. At the beginning of the war he was thirty-nine years old, and he decided to head the front-line brigade of actors. The activity of the brigades was that they traveled to all cities and gave concerts. At first glance, this activity seems unnecessary to anyone, but it was not so. Front-line brigades were responsible for the morale of the fighters. Many years later, most soldiers of the Red Army will recall that sometimes it was so difficult that it seemed the end, but the artists gave strength and faith that everything will turn out, that the enemy will be defeated.
Vladimir Petrovich was the brigade commander for four terrible years of the war. After the war, he will not once remember those terrible days when they gave concerts under the whistle of bullets and explosions of shells.
Life after the war
After the Nazi troops were defeated, Vladimir returned to his favorite pastime. He was entrusted with leading the theater, which worked at the Likhachev plant. An outstanding film actor will deal with him until the end of his days and put his soul into his brainchild. He will be not only a direct supervisor, but also an ordinary teacher. Many people close to the artist noted that while working in the theater, Batalov was experiencing a second youth and could not get enough that he was so honored to be both a teacher and a leader. Perhaps, if it were not for the illnesses that an outstanding cinema figure received during the Great Patriotic War, he could have worked more in his place, but his age and experienced moral and physical injuries did not allow to realize all his ideas.
Filmography
Vladimir Batalov has a pretty decent filmography. Although, as many experts note, he was not able to fully realize either as an actor or as a director. Despite the fact that he played quite a few roles, this was not his limit.
The first role he received at the age of twenty-six years. It was a film "House on Trubnaya". The young actor got a relatively small role as a chauffeur named Semyon.
The next movie work dates back only to 1936. It was a dramatic film called "Grunya Kornakova." Vladimir played the role of one of the factory workers, who stood up to fight the tsarist regime.
In 1939, Batalov played in the movie "Night in September." The events of the picture took place in the Donbass, where it is full of mines. Vladimir played the role of Andrei Poplavsky, the head of one of them.
In 1940, he will play one of the roles in his own film, which was called "Women."
Only in 1952, Vladimir Petrovich will play one of his last roles in the film “At the Bottom”.
Ten years later, he will star in the movie “Two in the Steppe, ” and his acting career will end there.
Directorial activity
Film director Vladimir Batalov made only one film. As mentioned above, this picture is called "Women." The film was released on the eve of World War II and had incredible success. She narrated about a quiet and calm woman whom her husband cheated on. After a series of certain events, the husband will look at his wife with different eyes, and they will be able to live happily.
People wondered why Batalov no longer takes off. There is no concrete answer to it to this day. Probably, the whole point is that he loved the work in the theater and was not ready to exchange it for anything.
Personal life and family
The former front brigade commander had an older brother, whom everyone knows as Nikolai Petrovich Batalov. He also devoted his life to cinema and was even awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Nikolai, like Vladimir, studied in the second studio of the Moscow Art Theater.
The older brother is considered more successful than the younger, because he played a huge number of roles in the theater and starred in many films. Nikolai died at thirty-seven due to tuberculosis. Shortly before his death, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
How did the actor have a personal life? Vladimir Batalov in 1927 married Nina Olshevskaya. After a year of marriage, the couple had a son, Alexei Vladimirovich Batalov.
The marriage of Vladimir Petrovich and Olshevskaya did not last long, because the woman fell in love with Viktor Ardov, whom she met during the tour.
The son of the legendary Vladimir Petrovich, Alexei, will soon become an outstanding figure in Soviet and Russian cinema. He will be destined to play a lot of roles, write scripts for many films. For his work, he will be awarded many state-level awards and prizes. Alexey Vladimirovich says little about his own father. Almost his whole life he was raised by his mother’s second spouse, and he knows Vladimir Petrovich as a great figure in cinema and as his biological father.
