Erast Garin is a famous theater and film actor, screenwriter and director. Honorary Chevalier of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, winner of the main prize of the International Cannes Festival for Best Actor in the film The Witch, twice laureate of the State Stalin Prize, Chevalier of the Order of the Badge of Honor, awarded the titles of People's and Honored Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR.
Equally brilliantly Erast Garin coped with the game both on the stage and on the set. Best known is the performer of the role of the King in the 1947 movie "Cinderella".
The road to vocation
Erast Pavlovich Garin (Gerasimov) was born on October 28 in 1902 in a Ryazan working class family. He studied at the local male gymnasium. A restless child easily assimilated any knowledge. Therefore, it was easy to get good grades. After leaving school, seventeen-year-old Erast went to military service.
He played on the stage of the local military theater, which became the First Amateur Theater of the Red Army. The comrades said that their colleague on stage was simply on fire. And so the famous pseudonym was born, under which the artist gained fame.
The debut was a small role in "Bitchy", the comedy of Knyazhnin. With this production, the theater went to the capital. On tour, a promising aspiring performer was noticed by Meyerhold. He recommended the young man to get an education, invited him in 1921 to study at the Higher State Director's Workshops headed by him.
In 1922, Erast became an actor at the Meyerhold Theater. The first significant role of the young performer was a dozen characters in the production "Give Europe". Garin played six inventors, one inventor, a fascist, a poet from the desert, and a murdered worker. The young man showed amazing parody talent and the ability to reincarnate.
Garin fit perfectly into the atmosphere of the grotesque of Meyerhold's productions. He became the master's favorite actor. It was in these performances that the future distinctive features of "Garin's playing style" were born. Since 1925, glory literally fell on Erast Pavlovich. After the lead role in Erdman's production of Mandate, his Nepman Pavel Gulyachkin turned into a symbol of acute social satire. The hero caused the audience to laugh at least three hundred times during the performance.
Cinema and theater
The images of Khlestakov in The Inspector General in 1925, Chatsky in the Griboyedov comedy of 1928 were successful. The actor's interpretation was noticeably different from the usual by surprise. Garin was more than just a comedy performer and eccentric. He amazed with lyricism.
All the buffoonery and eccentricity appeared in the artist's play while working at the Meyerhold Theater. In the early thirties, Erast Pavlovich became famous as a wonderful radio artist. The expressive voice made the performer a favorite of all listeners.
In 1936, the artist left his beloved collective, deciding to start a career as a director. At the Leningrad Comedy Theater, he staged plays and played in them until 1950. Vsevolod Emilievich supported his favorite's craving for creativity. Garin remained faithful to his teacher even after the persecution of Meyerhold began.
The first film work of Erast Pavlovich was the role in the historical film "Lieutenant Kizhe" in 1934. He got the hero of the adjutant Kablukov. The actor liked the cinema experience. He decided on his own project. The novice film director chose Gogol's "The Marriage". The film was shot in the avant-garde style of Meyerhold by film standards.
Criticism did not disregard the premiere. Reviews ranged from enthusiastic to outraged. The result was the confiscation in 1937-1938 of all copies of the painting with the destruction of the negatives. Since 1938, the artist returned to the theater again. He staged the play "The Son of the People". In it, the artist brilliantly reincarnated as Doctor Kalyuzhny. Critics reacted to the work with approval.
They decided to film the successful production. However, the artistic council of Lenfilm did not approve of the main role of the director. As a result, Boris Tolmazov copied Garin on the screen. Together with his wife, the artist moved to the capital. He started filming for Soyuzdetfilm and Mosfilm. At first, the audience did not notice his heroes.
Everything changed "Cinderella" in 1947. Erast Pavlovich got his most stellar role, an eccentric and very kind King. The picture owes its popularity to two brilliant artists, Faina Ranevskaya and Erast Garin.
Scoring
After this work, Erast Pavlovich proved to be a wonderful performer of episodes in other films. In a few minutes, the audience managed to remember his characters. The performer visited the king three more times. In Cain the Thirteenth in 1963, Garin played the King again.
In 1964 he became monarch in "An Ordinary Miracle" and "Half an Hour for Miracles". He did not leave the artist and the theater. On the metropolitan stage, he staged several plays. The artist and director were engaged in dubbing.
Monarchs speak in his voice in the 1964 cartoons "The Brave Little Tailor", "The Fulfillment of Desires" 1957, "Beloved Beauty" 1958. Mostly, all the characters repeat the character from "Cinderella". During the period from 1947 to 1978, more than four dozen characters spoke in the voice of Garin. The most famous of them was the Eeyore Donkey in the 1972 cartoon "Winnie the Pooh and the Day of Troubles."
The artist also took place in his personal life. In 1922, the actress Khesya Lokshina became Garin's wife. Throughout their lives, they walked hand in hand. The union turned out to be happy in every sense. Erast Pavlovich wrote all his scripts with his wife. Even in serious quarrels, Garin understood that he could not live and create without Khesi.
The artist became the father of an only child, Olga's daughter. The last staged and artistic work of the famous master was the film "Merry Rasplyuev Days" in 1966. He played Kandid Tarelkin. On the set, the artist was injured. She became the reason for the termination of his career as a director and an actor.
The final film roles in 1971 were Professor Maltsev from Gentlemen of Fortune and theater critic in 12 Chairs. The famous artist died on September 4, 1980.
