Evgeny Tatar

On September 10, 1938, Evgeny Tatarsky, film director and screenwriter was born.

Personal business

Evgeny Markovich Tatarsky (1938-2015) was born in Leningrad. He grew up on the working outskirts, studied at school No. 107 of the Vyborg district of the city. “There were 40 people in the class, but only the two had fathers alive. The rest of the fathers died in the war, and, despite this, there were no drug addicts among us, there were no alcoholics, there were no hooligans of the notorious. Although, of course, we were not angels. But we strove for education - maybe not so much textbooks to study, but read literature, exchange opinions, ”Tatar recalled.

After school, he went to the Hydrometeorological Institute, a year later he threw his studies and tried to enter the Leningrad Theater Institute. “The exam was passed in the old Youth Theater,” he said, “everything was like in a fog, some hundreds of people ... I vaguely remember. This horror lasted a day or two, and that’s it. I have not been accepted. Goodbye, Vasya! And then a summons from the military registration and enlistment office come. ”

Having served three years in the army, he made a new attempt, this time he chose the director's faculty of the theater institute, successfully passed exams, but failed an interview. I went to work in the Leningrad film studio of popular science films, where for a year I loaded boards and film, then became an assistant to the director. Over the next three years, I traveled with the shooting groups all of the USSR.

While working at Lennachfilm, he entered the Institute of Culture - at the correspondence department of the Faculty of Cults. Since 1964, he began working at Lenfilm - at first he was an assistant to the director, then the second director. At the same time, he was enrolled in the third year of the department of television directors of the Leningrad Theater Institute. The diploma work was the short film “Fire in the outbuilding” based on the story of Viktor Dragunsky, awarded the Grand Prix of the Television Film Film Festival in Munich. “And at this time ... I was expelled from the institute because I missed the last session,” Tatar said. - I had unconnected objects. I could not at the same time make a movie that was a planned unit of the Lenfilm film studio, and take the session!

I come and say:

“Maybe I'm somehow retrodes?”

- No, you're late!

They did not give me a diploma! They did not give me a diploma, but I received the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival. And the gates of television - not a gate, but the gate - were open ... with a foot with a foot. "

Since 1976, he worked as a director. The following year, the Golden Mina detective was shot, which became one of the most popular stunes of the seventies. In 1979, he released the multi -part film "The Adventures of Prince Florisel."

In the late 1990s-early 2000s he shot television series, including the Streets of Broken Lights, a series of “Slaughter Power”, the series “Niro Wulf and Archie Goodwin”.

Since 1991, he has been the deputy chairman, and since 2001-the chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of St. Petersburg.

Evgeny Tatarsky died on February 23, 2015. He was buried in the cemetery in Repino next to the grave of his wife. The director remained the son of Viktor Tatarsky (1969), an actor of theater and cinema, director.

What is famous

The brilliant director of Lenfilm, who knew how to make good, ironic and at the same time mass cinema. His great successes include the films “Golden Mina”, “The Adventures of Prince Florisel”, “Jack Eight -“ American ”.” Since the late 1990s, he shot television series, the last of which was Niro Wulf and Archie Goodwin according to Rex Steata detectives. For a long time he headed the Union of Cinematographers of St. Petersburg.

What you need to know about

In Soviet times, the Tatar films sometimes had to break through with a battle. The story of the Jack Eight - “American” tape is noteworthy, which he writes about in his memoirs. “I shot this film, went to take to Moscow. The viewing of a three-part film ended, and someone from the leadership gloomily said:

- And we have not seen this at all! Leave here!

I speak:

- What are you?

- Nothing!!! We have not seen this at all, everything, the conversation is over! No discussion, no papers, no acts about acceptance!

- Then I will go to Goskino now!

- And this is not our business! Go wherever you want! We have not seen this picture!

And I had three Yaufs (boxing boxes of the film Coopies), three metal boxes of six parts. And I am going down with short dashes from the twelfth floor of the GOSTELEDRIO, I go out into the street, catch a taxi, being in a completely half -fainting state.

I understood that for the studio there are three unusual units - this means that people will not have bonuses, salaries, I will have to write off money ... I call the address: I call the address:

- Small Gnezdnikovsky!

There is Goskino. I come there, leave the car on the street, go to the guard:

- Who is the chairman of Goskino now?

He says:

- Armen Nikolaevich Medvedev!

I pull the boxes:

- Look for now!

I go up to the second floor, knock, I enter. The Dark Cabinet is sitting Armen Nikolaevich Medvedev. He is a wonderful person, a cinema by education, witty, caustic. I speak:

- Hello, Armen Nikolaevich!

- Hello.

- My surname Tatar. I am from the Lenfilm film studio, now I took a picture in the GOSTERARIO, they don’t accept ... Maybe you look?

He really did not want to. It was visible. He says:

- And what kind of genre?

I speak:

- Comedy!

- Comedy? Build!

He has his own viewing hall. Together we watched this film for more than three hours. I am not inclined to laugh at what he did, and he sincerely giggled:

<...> I suggested that the Union of Cinematographers show a film in Moscow in the House of Cinema. "Golden Min" was shown very well there. They told me: "It costs money!" Well, to hell with you! I crossed the road and went to the director of the Russia cinema. Said: So and so. She:

- Can I see?

- Can!

The director of the cinema said "We take it!" Tickets were expensive - a ruble forty in two episodes. And the queue stood like in a mausoleum. Seven days took place. I was happy. "

Direct speech:

About the service in the army: “I honestly served in aviation of air defense. It was the Leningrad Military District, and our division stood in Estonia. There, at the command post, underground, in the forest I spent three years ... almost three years, without two or three months. The fact is that I really wanted to enter the theater and, despite the fact that the exams began earlier than my demobilization, I sent documents to the institute. The head of the political department was either a great fan of theatrical art, or studied in the theater once, but he vividly perceived this idea, and I was demobilized in June 1960. And that year, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev made a great reduction, in advance such a reduction: 1 million 200 thousand people. The officers scattered anyone where, some, without education, were reduced, and the soldiers of the last year were released home a little earlier. Therefore, I was demobilized in June, and all my friends - at the end of August.

But I still consider these years lost. No, the army does not bring up, it does not raise a damn thing! What kind of upbringing was, this remains at best, and at worst, you will lose it. This is not necessary at a better age! ”

About the first Grand Prix: “I walked along Kirovsky Prospekt and near the Lenfilm film studio met his school comrade Zhenya Kazetov, who came up to me:

- Zhenya, I congratulate you!

- With what?!

- You got a prize!

- What prize?! I don't know what prize!

“But did you have some kind of children's picture?”

I speak:

- Yes!

- So this film was your main prize! He shouted to the whole Kirovsky Prospekt. Then he reduced the volume, looked around and added:

-Yesterday I heard the “German wave” or “Radio Liberty”, something like that, and they conveyed that ...

This was the first message that my film was at the festival and that he received the main prize!

A week later, some lady with GOSTERARIDOI called and said:

- Evgeny Markovich, I want to tell you how it was. I presented your film.

I speak:

- Tell us.

- You have a prize there!

- And what kind of prize?

- Big, wonderful crystal globe! I barely took it. On such a stand, it is also spinning. Another diploma!

I speak:

- Yes, how interesting it is! Was there any money? ..

- Well, I can't tell you anything about the money!

Then the widow of Dragunsky called me, thanked for the film and asked to make another film. The son of Dragunsky was the author of the script. But somehow I did not want to devote my life to the stories of Dragunsky and refused. "

5 facts about Evgenia Tatar:

• Tatarsky was able to be friends with the actors, those who played in his film “Golden Mina” switched to the set of the painting “The Adventures of Prince Florisel” - Lyubov Polishchuk, Oleg Dal, Igor Dmitriev.
• In 1999, he invited him to act in the series “Slaughter Power” by Konstantin Khabensky and Andrei Fedorsov, who became popular thanks to roles in this film.
• In 2004, the national artist of Russia was awarded the title for great merits in the field of art.
• In 2009, he was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the IV degree - for a great contribution to the development of domestic cinema.
• In 2012, he published a book of memoirs "Notes of a film director about many and a little about himself."

Materials about Evgenia Tatar:

Biography of the director in Wikipedia

Biography on peoples.ru

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