Smiranin, Anatoly Dmitrievich

Born in Odessa on December 11 (23), 1892 , during the reign of Alexander III . As a boy-boy on a ship of his father-captain, he walked around many port cities of the Mediterranean. In 1905, a high school student and his mother rescued Jewish neighbors during the Black Hundred pogroms in Odessa. He graduated from the 5th Odessa gymnasium in 1909. Boys with the future writer Valeya Kataev swam on the Odessa estuaries and read poems to each other ...

Contrary to the will of his father, he left the law faculty of Odessa University, in 1910, he came on the scene and remained an artist until the last day. He experienced three Russian revolutions, two world wars. At first, having gone to the front as a volunteer, I almost died. In his life he met, was friends, worked with the most interesting people of his era and received their recognition.

In 1919, in Yalta, he was filmed on the same site with Ivan Mozzhukhin , Natalia Lysenko , Vagram Papazyan , with whom he had been friends for many years.

In 1917 - 1919 - in the partnership of the "Russian drama" ( Odessa ). In 1920 - 1922 - in the theater of the Political Administration of the Naval Forces. In 1922, in Batumi, he was urgently introduced into the performance of the great Russian tragedians Adelheym brothers and after the performance he accepted the words of gratitude, and their own benefit performance soon followed their words of recognition. He played with Alexander Yuzhin , who was touring in the south of Russia, as Shylock.

In 1922 - 1936 - in the theaters of Sukhumi , Batumi , Krasnodar , Rostov-on-Don , Saratov . Since 1936 - in the Theater. Griboedova ( Tbilisi ).

Anatoly Smiranin considered Nikolai Sobolschikova-Samarin as his teachers, who worked in Odessa in the early 1920s, Boris Glagolin , with whom he toured in the mid-1920s, and Ivan Slonov , with whom he served in the Saratov Drama Theater . In 1928, while filming at the Odessa film factory VUFKU, he became friends with Alexander Dovzhenko , who became a frequent guest in his house. In 1929, on tour in Kharkov, he met with Meyerhold, who saw him in a performance, about playing the role of Kirsanov in the production of the film “ Fathers and Sons ” planned by Vsevolod Emilievich ...

Since 1929 , working in the Rostov Drama Theater, Anatoly Smiranin receives from Tairov , who came to Rostov-on-Don for a production, an invitation to the Moscow Chamber Theater , from Yevsey Lyubimov-Lansky to the MGSPS headed by him, and Yuri Zavadsky , who came to Rostov on the Don and the forming group of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Gorky , invites him to his troupe. The sickness and death of a three-year-old daughter knocks Smiranin out of a rut, and he gained mental balance only after he left for the Caucasus to Georgia , from where he also received an invitation.

Since 1936 , serving in Tbilisi in the Russian Drama Theater named after Griboedov , is a leading actor, staging performances. In 1946 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR. He plays leading roles in performances of a beginner in the theater of Georgy Tovstonogov , and in 1961 the young Robert Sturua , in the diploma performance of which he is busy, writes him an enthusiastic postcard with words of admiration and gratitude ...

Movie Actor

He stood at the origins of Russian cinema. In 1916, in Moscow, he went to the Khanzhonkov Film Factory, and then Yermolyev , with whom he filmed in Yalta in 1919 with Ivan Mozzhukhin , Natalia Lysenko , Vladimir Strizhevsky .

In the 1920s he was filmed at the WUFCU film studios, Mezhrabpomfilm , in the 1940s and 1950s - on the “ Georgia-film ” and “ Armenfilm e”. In 1961, he filmed with Lenfilm with young Mikhail Kozakov and very young Anastasia Vertinskaya in the subsequently famous film Amphibian Man ... The last partner in the cinema was the then young Valentine Gaft , with whom Smiranin had last entered the film set in October 1970, four months before death.

Theater Roles

• " Cyrano de Bergerac " E. Rostand - Cyrano
• “ Nora ” by G. Ibsen - Kroggstad
• “ Deceit and Love ” F. Schiller - President
• Deep Intelligence A. Kron - Mehdi-Aga
• " Provincial history " O. Balzac - Bridau
• " Shot " A. Bezymensky - Prisletsov
• " The Last " Maxim Gorky - Ivan Kolomiytsev
• “ Days of the Turbins ” M. Bulgakov - Talberg
• "The hostess of the hotel " C. Goldoni - Chevalier Ripafratta
• " Tartuffe " Moliere - Tartuffe

Movie Roles

• 1919 - Life to Motherland, honor to no one
• 1927 - Not on the road
• 1944 - I am the Black Sea War - German Major
• 1944 - Malakhov Kurgan - text from the author
• 1946 - David Guramishvili - Frederick II (King of Prussia)
• 1946 - Robinson Crusoe - Robinson's father
• 1957 - Personally known - tsar governor
• 1961 - Amphibian Man - Balthazar
• 1964 - The General and the Daisies ^[2]
• 1966 - The Game without a Draw - Professor Bernard

• Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR
• People's Artist of the Georgian SSR
• Order of the Badge of Honor (02.24.1941)

• Everything about the movie.
• Article Vadim Skuratovsky ("Capital News").