Soviet and Russian pop and film artist, most remembered by the audience for his roles in the films "Heart of a Dog" and "The Master and Margarita"
BIOGRAPHY
Kartsev Roman Andreevich was born in Odessa on May 20, 1939. Parents Anshel Katz is a football player and a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Demobilized when injured. I decided to try to become an arbiter of the Ukrainian football league and an instructor in 1946. Mother - Sophia - was appointed deputy of the party organization of the enterprise and the overseer. Mom's dad, after whom the artist was named, was a synagogue cantor. Communicated at home in the language of the Jews. Before the war, Roma lived with his parents in Moldova, where in 1939-1941 his dad was the forward of the local Moldovan team in the second league of the USSR football championship. During the Great Patriotic War, relatives arrived together in the occupation in Omsk, grandparents who remained in Odessa died. After the demobilization of his father, the whole family returned to their hometown. Roma's brother became a juggler, made work visits to the United States of America in comedy and on stage under the nickname Karz.
After leaving school in 1956, he went to work as an adjuster at the Avangard garment factory. Then he began performing in the drama club of the House of Culture of Sailors.
In 1960 he received an invitation to the amateur student theater "Parnas-2" at the Odessa Institute of Marine Engineers, where he met his future permanent partner Viktor Ilchenko and the author of the texts Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
In 1972 he graduated from the acting department of GITIS in absentia.
Roman Kartsev died on October 2, 2018 at the age of 79 from cardiac arrest.
Variety and theatrical activities
In 1961 he moved to Leningrad.
On November 22, 1962, he was admitted to the Theater of Miniatures of Arkady Raikin, where, on the advice of Arkady Raikin, he took the stage name Roman Kartsev.
In 1964 Zhvanetsky moved to Leningrad and in 1967 work on his play "Traffic Light" began.
In 1969, together with Ilchenko and Zhvanetsky, he returned to Odessa.
In 1970, Kartsev, Ilchenko and Zhvanetsky became laureates of the All-Union Contest of Variety Artists.
Speaking together with Viktor Ilchenko in the genre of a pop reprise, Roman Kartsev gained great popularity among the audience. Thanks to television broadcasts and appearances in the "Around Laughter" program, humorous numbers "Avas", "Cancers" and others have gained fame. The Melodiya recording company released a disc with several miniatures of Mikhail Zhvanetsky performed by the duet Kartsev and Ilchenko; numerous tape recordings of their performances were distributed.
In 1979, Kartsev and Ilchenko moved to the capital and began to work at the Moscow Theater of Miniatures, where they took part in staging the performances “Selected Miniatures”, “When We were Resting”, “Kharms! Charms! Shardam! or School of Clowns”,“Bird Flight”,“Midnight Cabaret”.
Since 1987, Kartsev and Ilchenko have performed at the Moscow Theater of Miniatures under the direction of the famous Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
Film work
He began acting in films since 1975, mainly in small, episodic, sharp-character roles. He was most remembered by the audience for his roles in the films "Heart of a Dog", "Promised Heaven", "Old Nags" and "The Master and Margarita".
