Vladlen Paulus was born at the end of September 1928 in Transbaikalia. My father had a higher engineering education, held a managerial position. During the years of repression he was shot. Mother is a museum worker, after the death of her husband she married a second time, in a new marriage she gave birth to two more children.
After graduation, Vladlen Paulus decided to go to Moscow to enter the Institute of Construction. For some time, I managed to work by profession, but active participation in improvised productions prompted the idea of becoming an actor.
Work in "Contemporary"
In 1952, a young man, having passed a serious competitive selection, entered the Moscow Art Theater School. Five years later, he worked in the troupe of the Stanislavsky Theater, but not for long, because a tempting offer was received from Oleg Evremov, who at that time headed the new Sovremennik Theater.
It was not easy to work. There have been periods of both ups and downs. The novice actor took a direct part in the life of the theater, threw himself into new projects with passion, wanted to play in all productions at once. However, gradually the passion for alcohol, the ardent upholding of their positions, straightforwardness, coolness of temper began to bother the leader. So far, in the end, he did not remove the aspiring actor from work. However, he always spoke of Paulus as a characteristic actor, calling him "the conscience of the theater."
Film career
But the actor Vladlen Paulus had no time to be upset - for him good prospects in the cinema opened up. Having played in the beginning of the 60s in Gaidai’s film “Business People”, Vladlen became noticeable for other directors. It saw the military, sailors, diplomats. Which the actor has played countless. his most prominent roles in famous paintings are: “The meeting place cannot be changed”, “Peasant son”, “Train to distant August”, “Damn with a briefcase”, “Alive and the dead”, “Theft”.
But Paulus did not want to rest on his laurels; he strove to expand his circle of activity. In the early 70's he graduated from the Higher Courses of Directors. For some time he worked in this form. In parallel, he was even engaged in writing. Later he returned to the theatrical stage.
In the last years of his life he actively wrote. Two plays came out from under his pen. The first is a staging of two Steinbeck works, the second is Boulevard Novel, which Paulus completed work before his death. Neither one nor the other was put on the stage. Although Lev Durov, Mikhail Kozakov, Oleg Dal thought about staging the latter. The latter even talked with movie officials about the production. Those gave false hopes, time passed, and no action was taken. After the death of the actor, nobody was interested in the work at all.
