Kramorov Savely Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Ilyukha-fantaser in the “elusive avengers”, a chess player in “12 chairs”, an associate professor of a scythe in the “gentlemen of good luck”, Petya Timokhin in a “big change” ... Any comedic role of Kramarov played so that his replicas diverged into quotes instantly. In the photo: Savely Kramarov in the early eighties, the actor emigrated to America, where he starred in Hollywood films, videos, advertising.

At 60, he died in San Francisco. Childhood, youth, family Savely was born in the fall of the year in the Moscow family of Viktor Kramarov and Benedicts Volchek. Benedict Solomonovna, an economist by education, was engaged in home and children: son Savely and daughter Tanya, who was four years older than the boy. Savely Kramarov as a child with Sister Tanya in the year, a successful lawyer and the communist fell into a meat grinder of repression.

Being a participant in the processes against the “enemies of the people”, Kramarov Sr. instead of timidly asking for condescension at the end of the speech prepared by the prosecutor, he found facts that question the guilt of the people whom he defended. The fiery performances of Viktor Savelyevich at the meetings were the reason for his arrest. The lawyer was accused of anti -Soviet activities and sabotage, sentenced to eight years of camps at a special meeting at the NKVD.

Kramarov’s parents, mother, in order to be able to get a job, was forced to divorce her husband. The neighbors in the communal apartment, which Kramarov Sr. more than once helped in legal affairs, the women shunned. The brother of Leonid, who arranged his sister, helped a copywriter at the institute. During the war, the family was evacuated to the Urals, they returned to Moscow only in the year.

Savely was diagnosed with tuberculosis and, so that his sister did not get sick, it was decided to send Tatyana to Lviv, to Viktor Savelyevich's native brother. The father, who served, was forbidden to return to the capital. He was first sent to Barnaul, and then to Biysk, where he worked as a lawyer in Zagotzern. Despite the fact that he behaved very modestly and quietly, at the beginning of the year he was again arrested and condemned on charges of participating in the "Menshevik-Seserian organization." For five years, Kramarova Sr.

was sent to the city of Turukhansk of the Krasnoyarsk Territory to the settlement. Savely and his family, it became impossible to find a job in the specialty: everyone was afraid to take the convicted person. The hostess’s apartment, who was settled, helped the man get a janitor. A year later, Viktor Savelyevich was found hanged. Until his rehabilitation in the year, he did not live for several years.

Savely's childhood was not easy. He lived starving, often had to work with relatives, since his mother earned little. At school, the boy deliberately studied poorly, hooligan. After all, upon admission to the pioneers, he would have to tell his biography, explain where and why his father is. And the family carefully hid the fact of the arrest of Kramarov Sr.. Savely also fought due to the fact that he was teased by the "braid" classmates.

The innate children's injury of the century made his gaze, which would later bring him all -Union glory, non -standard. The actor recalled: I remember at school, if someone was fucking, the teachers did not even try to look for the guilty.

Tomorrow you will bring a father or mother! At the age of 16, the teenager remained a round orphan: his mother died of cancer. Remaining in the care of her brother Leopold Volchek, Savely stopped thinking about studying. His outlet was the cinema, where he was missed by the controller Aunt Dusya, a neighbor in a communal apartment. Piercing into the world of cinema, Kramarov seemed to be pulled away from the gray everyday life that surrounded him.

In his youth, Savely Kramarov, he began to dream of an acting profession, pulled out his studies at school, and, upon graduation, tried to enter the theater university. The young man was not accepted, motivating that his appearance is not suitable. Kramarov himself believed that the reason for the refusal was his kinship with the “enemy of the people”, and about the role he got in the cinema, he said the following: in the cinema I play usually play hooligans, various fools, starting from half -backets and ending complete.

But I really want to play a serious role. In the school drama circle, I was going to play Romeo. But not a single girl wanted to become my Juliet. In the year, Kramarov entered the capital's Forestry Institute at the Faculty of landscaping. Studying at this university, at the same time he visited the theater studio “First Step”, operating at the central house of art workers.

The graduation of the university did not bring Saveli great joy. For almost a year he worked in his specialty, still dreaming of becoming an artist. And he sent his photos at the film studios. Kramarov was invited to the main role of Vaska Rusty to the youth drama "Guys from our yard." The training short film came out in the year and became for Savely a pass to the Great Soviet Cinema.

Savely Kramarov in the film “Guys from our court”, Soviet cinema has starred a lot in the movie since the year. True, he was given mainly characters, who at that time were difficult to call positive.The newborn Petkin in the film “They was nineteen ...”, the unlucky seller of the motorcycle Vaska in the film “Farewell, pigeons”, driver Ivashkin in “The Adventures of Krosh” ...

The frame from the film “He was nine of his Pimen - an extremely lazy and dissolved young man, but at the same time a kind, honest, honest,“ girls do not, education does not allow. ” Savely remembered the experience of filming with Mitta and Saltykov for his life and tried to follow moral instructions from this film. Savely Kramarov in the film “My Friend, Kolka! An interesting experience was for Kramarov the participation in the comedy of George Danelia “thirty -three”, where he played a small role of the poet Rodion Khomutov.

Saveliy Kramarov: The economy in half liters real popularity came to Saveli along with the episodic role of the bandit Ilyukhi in the adventure picture of Edmon Keosayan “Elusive Avengers”. His impressive phrase: “He looked to the sides: the coffin with a deceased flies over the crosses, and along the road the dead with braids stand. And silence! .. Savely Kramarov in the “new elusive avengers” in the year Kramarov was invited to the Miniature Theater, where he debuted with Vasily Shukshin’s story “Vanya, how are you here?

But the theater scene did not become a native to the actor even after receiving a specialized education in GITIS, which he graduated in the year. He never got into the service in any theater. But in the cinema, he invariably appeared in comedic roles. Kramarov in the program “Terem Teremok” in the seventies, the peak of the acting career of Kramarov came. He starred in Leonid Gaidai’s cult film “12 chairs” in the role of a one-eyed amateur chess player, played the clerk Feofan in the comedy “Ivan Vasilievich changes the profession”.

On the set of Ivan Vasilyevich, Kramarov became friends with Leonid Kuravlev, with whom he had shot together more than once. Savely Kramarov was among his favorite artists Gaidai Kramarov, in principle, was one of Gaidai's favorite artists. The director regretted that Savely did not take off in the title role, although the superstar of Andrei Mironov could get from Kramarov, but with a pronounced comic role.

In the first of them, Kramarov brilliantly embodied the image of an associate professor nicknamed Kosoy. A fragment of legendary phrases: “Go a horse, a century of will cannot be seen! Who will plant him? He is a monument! There will be no kina. The electricity ended ”and others, uttered from the screen with a recidivist Fedya Ermakov, went to the people instantly. And the impudent and jerking Petya Timokhin with his famous statement “What do you need to build a cooperative?

The frame from the film “Big Change” in the wake of glory, the actor missed a wonderful opportunity, which he later regretted: he did not play the Red Army Petrukh in Istern Vladimir Motyl “The White Sun of the Desert”. Instead, Nikolai Godovikov played the role. In the year, two more wonderful films with Kramarov’s participation were released: “Afonya”, where he played a childhood friend of the protagonist Elezuza and “cannot be!

In both paintings, his partner was Leonid Kuravlev. Kramarov and Kuravlev in Afon two years later Savely Viktorovich again became one of the characters of “12 chairs”, a film shot by Mark Zakharov. They have no. And they are going to let the tram! Savely Kramarov in his youth and it was Kramarov who said the famous phrase: “Sorry, Genacvale. I will help in five years in five years!

The frame from the film "Mimino" by the end of the seventies, the actor's career was declining. He starred as an agent-gangster fierce Harry in the children's film “New Adventures of Captain Vrungel”. Further, they seemed to be forgotten about the actor. The last role of Kramarov in Soviet cinema was not given roles, they were not called to act. The unspoken ban of the KGB did its job.

It all started with the emigration of Uncle Savely in Israel. Kramarov himself, a Jew, began to visit the synagogue. Such a lifestyle did not fit with the proud title of Soviet artist, besides, Savely Viktorovich refused to work if the crew fell on Saturday. The hobby of actor yoga and vegetarianism also did not go unnoticed by the “competent organs”. Kramarov decided to emigrate after his relative, but was refused.

The order obliged when the actor leaving the USSR to remove more than forty films from the air grid, where he starred, which was simply impossible. Then Kramarov committed an unprecedented act at that time. Together with his colleague Alexander Levenbuk, he wrote a letter to US President Ronald Reagan, in which, “as an artist artist,” complained to his desperate position in his homeland.

In particular, there were such words: ... viewers are still laughing at the heroes of my films, but personally I myself am not laughing now. I do not die of hunger, but a person lives not only with bread.