Levon [1] Surenovich Kocharyan ( Armenian Լևոն Քոչարյան , January 22, 1930 , Tbilisi - September 14, 1970 , Moscow ) - Soviet and Armenian actor , film director and screenwriter .
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| Լևոն Քոչարյան | |
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| Place of Birth | Tbilisi , Georgian SSR |
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| Profession | actor filmmaker screenwriter |
| Career | 1958-1970 |
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Biography
The son of entertainer and reader Suren Akimovich Kocharyan . In 1955 he graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University . He worked at the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department , later graduated from the Higher Camera Courses and became the second director at Mosfilm, starting with assistant director at S. Gerasimov in The Quiet Don . Since 1957 - director of the Mosfilm film studio. He directed the film “ One Chance of a Thousand ” (1968).
In the mid-50s, Kocharyan met with Inna Krizhevskaya, a student at the Shchukinsky Theater School, who lived in house No. 15 on Bolshoi Karetnoye , and soon moved to her three-room apartment forever. In 1963, their daughter Olya was born. Kocharian was friends with Edmond Keosayan , Andrey Tarkovsky , Vasily Shukshin , Arthur Makarov and many others. He was a senior friend of Vladimir Vysotsky , who, by his own admission, lived for a year and a half in Kocharyan’s apartment. [2]
“Leo’s influence on Volodya, and not only on him, on all of us, but also on many, many, was huge, he cannot be overestimated,” recalled Arthur Makarov. It was at the suggestion of Kocharyan that Vysotsky’s first recordings were made on his Dnepr-10 . Vysotsky was shot in films in which Kocharyan worked [ what? ] . Kocharyan was the organizer and soul of the famous “Bolshaya Karetnoy Company”, which meant so much in the life of Vladimir Vysotsky (his song “ Bolshoi Karetny ... ” is dedicated to Kocharyan) [3] .
Kocharyan was multifacetedly gifted. According to M. Tumanishvili’s definition, “Leva is a man of enormous erudition and a strong concentrating principle.” He perfectly knew literature, cinema, music, drove tanks on set, showed amazing tricks [4] .
In late 1968 - early 1969, Kocharyan fell ill with skin cancer [5] . Several times he was in the hospital, he underwent surgery. September 14, 1970 Kocharyan died.
Levon Kocharyan was buried on September 16, 1970 at the 9th section of the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow.
Filmography
Actor
- 1968 - One chance out of a thousand
- 1970 - Crown of the Russian Empire, or Elusive Again - episode
Director
- 1968 - One chance out of a thousand
Screenwriter
- 1968 - One chance out of a thousand
Second Director
- 1966 - The Elusive Avengers
Bibliography
- Anatoly Utevsky , Return to Bolshaya Karetny. M., Izvestia , 2004
Notes
- ↑ See the inscription on the grave of L. Kocharyan . In a number of sources, the spelling of a name is found as Leon .
- ↑ Jacob Corman . On the problem of dating the early songs of V. Vysotsky // "Seven Arts" No. 12, 12/21/2013
- ↑ “The Armenian slice” of Vysotsky’s life: childhood, youth, maturity ... // Aris Ghazinyan for “Armenia Today”, January 25, 2008
- ↑ Levon Kocharian
- ↑ Levon Surenovich Kocharyan