Vladimir Losev is a Soviet theater and film actor with a tragic fate. His talent had just begun to unfold when a terrible illness cut short the life of a 39-year-old man. Nevertheless, Losev was remembered by the audience for his highly characteristic roles, played brightly and filigree.
Biography facts
During his short acting career, Vladimir Vasilyevich Losev managed to play 21 roles in films and several roles in the theater. He certainly made a contribution to Russian art, creating vivid and memorable images on the screen and on stage. And therefore, it is bitter and insulting that very little biographical information and memoirs of contemporaries have survived about the actor.
On January 7, 1945, on the day of Christmas and a few months before the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, in the Volga city of Furmanov, which is located thirty kilometers from the city of Ivanovo, a fair-haired and green-eyed boy, Volodya Losev, was born. Nothing is known about his parents and any relatives in general, but some assumptions can be made. One of the few attractions of the small town of Furmanov (until 1941 it was called Sereda) is the Losev estate, which was built in the middle of the 19th century by the local wealthy manufacturer G. K. Gorbunov for his daughter Alexandra and her husband, merchant Nikolai Ivanovich Losev. Perhaps they are the ancestors of the actor Vladimir Losev. Since in Soviet times, people tried to hide the fact of kinship with representatives of the nobility or merchants, it is quite possible that this is the reason for the lack of information about the actor's kinship.
Further, the facts of the biography of Vladimir Losev lead to Moscow, where from 1963 to 1966 he studied at the Studio School of the Moscow Art Academic Theater named after Gorky on a course led by Viktor Karlovich Monyukov, a famous actor, director and teacher, among whose students there are such famous artists, like Lev Durov, Nikolay Karachentsov, Alexey Guskov, Marina Golub and many others. Again, it is not known why, but without completing his studies at the Moscow Art Theater for only one year, Losev moved to Leningrad, where he became a student of the acting department at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography - the famous LGITMiK.
Work in the theater
After completing his acting education in 1967, Vladimir Losev began his theatrical career: he played only a few roles in the performances of the Leningrad Lenin Komsomol Theater, the Komissarzhevskaya Theater and the Lensovet Theater. Among the theatrical images created by Losev - the Storyteller in the play "The Snow Queen", the King in the production of "King Matt" and others.
Film work
The cinematic career of Vladimir Losev is more diverse than theatrical: he starred in 21 films, in three of which he is not listed in the credits. Basically, all of his film works are poignant supporting roles, but his every appearance on the movie screen has always been bright, emotional and memorable. Losev began acting in films in 1968, playing the role of a prisoner of war in the film "Just One Life".
In the 1970 film Confusion, Vladimir Losev created the image of a tired and exhausted barge haule.
Significant for Losev and memorable for the audience was the role of Alexei Chepalov from the film "Dauria" (1971). Here Losev appeared in the form of an important and stupid merchant's son, to whom the main character Dashutka is forcibly married off.
In the musical fairytale TV show "Two Maples", based on the play by Yevgeny Schwartz (1974), Vladimir Losev played the role of the dog Sharik, turned into a man by the storyteller. It is from the photograph from this film that the actor Losev is most often remembered: on it he is captured smiling and a little silly, although in life he was completely different.
Most of all, admirers of the talent of Vladimir Losev remembered the role of Kostya-Dwarf from the film "The Last Summer of Childhood", filmed in 1975 by director Valery Rubinchik based on the novel and script by Anatoly Rybakov. The famous phrase of Kostya-Dwarf "And you don't understand me, don't take me, understand ?!" became winged and is still heard today. Losev's character evokes both fear and pity, especially when he tearfully begs the thieves "Have mercy, do not kill!"
Interesting is the role of Losev in the children's fairy tale film "The Magic Voice of Jelsomino" in 1978, where he reincarnated as a sleek and important minister.
And in the serial film “The Adventures of Prince Florizel. The suicide club or the adventures of a titled person”(1979) Losev played the satirical role of being a member of the suicide club.
The last films of Vladimir Vasilyevich Losev in the cinema were the films "Makar the Pathfinder" (1983) and "Chelyuskintsy" (1984) - the work in this film did not allow the actor to complete his death.
Literary creativity
Another side of the creative personality of Vladimir Losev was literary activity: he wrote stories, stories, plays for children's performances. One of these plays was staged in the city of Murom, on the stage of the Children's Theater.
Personal life
There is no information about the relatives (parents, wife, children) of Vladimir Vasilyevich Losev. Obviously, he did not have time to start a family - he passed away at the age of 39, unable to cope with cancer, on October 13, 1984. A certain Svetlana Loseva from St. Petersburg claims to be the niece of Vladimir Losev, the daughter of the cousin of the actor Alexei Vladimirovich Losev. Svetlana is looking for her uncle's relatives and is interested in everything connected with his life and work.
The grave of Vladimir Vasilyevich Losev is located in the Northern Cemetery of St. Petersburg.
