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Erast Garin

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Pavlovich and the family name is Garin.
Erast Garin
Эраст Гарин
Garin c. 1920s
Born
Erast Pavlovich Gerasimov

(1902-11-10)November 10, 1902
Ryazan, Russian Empire
DiedSeptember 4, 1980(1980-09-04) (aged 77)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)Actor, director and screenwriter

Erast Pavlovich Garin[a] (November 10 1902 [O.S. October 28] – September 4, 1980, born Gerasimov)[b] was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter.[1] He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1977.

Garin was born in Ryazan as Erast Gerasimov. He started his acting career in 1919 in an amateur theatre of the Ryazan military district. In 1926 he finished his education in the experimental theatrical workshops of the People's Commissariat for Education. He always looked up upon Meyerhold and Michael Chekhov as his mentors, rejecting naturalistic acting techniques propagated by Konstantin Stanislavski and paying utmost importance to voice and gesture.[2]

Garin worked with Meyerhold in his theatre until its dissolution in 1936. Among his triumphs was the part of Khlestakov in the 1926 production of The Government Inspector. The trance-like quality of his "grotesquely anxious" performances in Meyerhold's productions could be attributed to an expressionistic acting style.[3]

Nikolay Akimov's Theatre of Comedy was the next theatre he worked in. In 1946 he gave up stage performances and concentrated on film acting. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize for the role of Tarakanov in the film Musical Story. Half-blindness prevented him from playing any major roles in the 1960s and 1970s.[4]

Together with his wife Khesya Lokshina he was director of several films, for which he also contributed scripts. They adapted Mikhail Zoshchenko's novel Respected Comrade in 1930. Garin's memoirs, entitled With Meyerhold, appeared in 1974.

Filmography

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As actor

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As director

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As script writer

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Notes

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  1. ^ Russian: Эраст Павлович Гарин, romanized: Erast Pavlovich Garin
  2. ^ Russian: Герасимов, romanized: Gerasimov

References

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  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 245–246. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ Эраст Гарин на сайте Театра-студии Киноактёра Archived 2016-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Julia Listengarten. Russian Tragifarce: Its Cultural and Political Roots. Susquehanna University Press, 2000. ISBN 1-57591-033-0. Page 137.
  4. ^ Ученик чародея
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