This actor succeeded in a variety of roles: an inveterate cynic and a traitor, an impudent and unprincipled official, a foreign intelligence officer and a simpleton from a nearby entrance. Leonid Satanovsky is a more theatrical actor, but the images he created in the cinema are just as bright and unforgettable.
Biography
Leonid Moiseevich Satanovsky was born in Moscow in 1932. Almost nothing is known about his family and childhood. His childhood fell on the war years, and it's just amazing how in such conditions one could dream of becoming an artist.
Meanwhile, already a schoolboy, Lenya took part in amateur performances, and his roles were very good.
After leaving school, the future actor applied to the famous Shchukin school and entered there the first time. This is not surprising: he was red-haired, curly, smiling, with a pleasant velvet voice. And with abilities, of course.
Student years flew by unnoticed during school days, first roles, screen tests and funny skits. Life was boiling and seething, and most of all the young man liked the fact that he had found his calling.
Satanovsky studied with enthusiasm, prepared for the roles diligently. Perhaps that is why, after graduation, they took him to the Stanislavsky Theater - a very prestigious temple of culture. Leonid Moiseevich worked there all his acting life.
Film career
Leonid's debut work in cinema was a small role in the film "Different Fates" (1956). Soon came the role that made the actor recognizable: he created the image of Nikolai Kalachev in the comedy film Beware, Grandma! The incomparable Faina Ranevskaya and the then famous Rolan Bykov, Nina Urgant, Ariadna Shengelaya, Sergey Filippov became his partners on the set.
In this film, Satanovsky was noticed, and subsequently he starred a lot in the so-called social dramas, which raised acute issues of society and the life of every person. These are the films “Come to Baikal” (1965), “Quenching Your Thirst” (1966) and others.
The popularity of the young actor gradually grew, and in 1966 he was approved for the leading role. He was supposed to create the image of the German captain Otto Erich Schwarzbruck in the military film "Cyclone" will begin at night. " In combat conditions, Otto crosses the enemy's combat lines and tries to organize sabotage. But he is detained by Soviet intelligence officers.
Despite his not at all heroic appearance, Satanovsky was surprisingly suited to the roles of military men and heroes. In the drama Prisoners of Beaumont (1970), he again plays a military man - the partisan Porik.
From the beginning of the seventies, films-performances became very popular in the Soviet Union. The audience watched them with pleasure, because not everyone could afford to go to the theater often. And the TV brought the theater straight to your home.
During these years, Satanovsky was involved in the films-performances "The Little Prince" (1974), "Such a short long life" (1975), "In one neighborhood" (1976).
The actor was then a little over forty years old, and a pleasant event happened in his life: he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Only twice in his life Leonid Moiseevich managed to work on the set with his wife Maya: the first time it happened during the filming of the Atlantes and Caryatids project. The couple played a couple of Makaedov who worked together with the main character. He was played by Evgeny Lazarev.
Perhaps one of the most significant roles of Satanovsky went to him in the spy detective Death Rising (1982). He played the resident of foreign intelligence Max Bain - cynical and unprincipled. If the audience did not know Satanovsky for other roles, they could believe that in life he is just like that - he managed to create this image so organically. Bane plans to recruit a Soviet scientist and in so doing resorts to the most dastardly tricks.
The eighties pleased the actor with new roles, though not so significant. But in 1991, Leonid Moiseevich began working in the film "Vivat, Midshipmen!" He played a Swedish citizen, educator of Peter III. Chief Marshal Brummer turned out to be very courteous, wise and kind of "on his mind."
The last work of Satanovsky in Russian cinema was another joint work with his wife - the role of antiquarian Mikhail Abramovich in the TV series "On the corner, at the Patriarch's" (1995). Maya Menglet played his wife.
In 1999, another important event in his professional career happens in the life of Leonid Moiseevich: he becomes the People's Artist of Russia. However, almost at the same time, he had a conflict with the new director of the theater, and he went "nowhere". Maya Menglet followed him.
Personal life
Leonid met his future wife at one of the student parties. She studied at the Moscow Art Theater, and they had something to talk about. Both were young, handsome, full of hope. And both liked each other.
Soon they played a student wedding, and after a while Maya gave birth to one son, and then a second.
The sons grew up and flew away from the parental nest. Alexey first went to Germany, then moved to Australia. His younger brother Dmitry went to visit him and stayed there.
The brothers took the surname Menglet, and both became famous. Alexey is an actor, and Dmitry is a scientist, Doctor of Science.
When difficulties began in the life of the parents, the children transported them to their home in Australia. And a miracle happened: the actors returned to the stage again. There is a Russian-language theater in Montreal, where Satanovsky and Menglet were admitted. They delighted the audience with their theatrical works for a long time.
With age, Leonid Moiseevich's old disease - diabetes mellitus - worsened. Despite treatment and care, he passed away in May 2015. Buried in Melbourne, in the Russian cemetery.
