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Evgeny Pavlovich was born in the most ordinary Moscow family, where he lived in a communal apartment with his older brother, his mother, a housewife and his father, who served as an engineer at an aircraft factory. It is noteworthy that both boys, like dad, wanted to connect their lives with aviation.

During the war, my mother also went to work at the same factory, and Zhenya, who had grown up a little, after graduating from the seven-year period, entered the aviation technical school. He quickly realized that he was not studying where he would like. Thoughts constantly returned to that short period of school time when he and the guys wrote a play together and wanted to stage it.

It was a cozy school drama club. Active schoolchildren themselves came up with a plot, assigned roles and began to rehearse.

They failed to stage their performance, but the process itself carried away the plump and clumsy Leonov so that he seriously thought about connecting his life with dramatic art.

The aviation technical school also found its own circle of amateur performances, where Zhenya went. And getting a diploma educational institution, didn’t think for a day and was sure: he needed to break into the acting profession.

He went to the Moscow theater studio - to act. Who seemed very mundane and gray, full and awkward boy selection committee looked at with great care.

Yevgeny Pavlovich had to read all the repertoire he knew before the teachers gave the go-ahead. There was definitely something in the guy, but how to get a spark of talent from the sad experience that accompanied his pre-acting life?

Actor

Zigzag of Fortune (1968)

Despite the fact that Leonov did not make big bets, after graduation he was assigned to the Stanislavsky Theater. However, the roles of young actors were very rare, and even then only in extras.

Salaries theater actor was not enough for life. Leonov began to audition for films, but even there his special flavor was not considered. The country needed other heroes - stately and beautiful. Could a funny little man with sadness in his eyes represent a great power on films?

In addition to an inappropriate appearance, the actor also possessed qualities that were completely unnecessary for an artist - he was a timid and shy person, and no public appearances on stage could cure these qualities.

Meanwhile, he began to appear on stage more and more often, and in 1947, he was finally approved for his first film roles - first in extras, and then in episodes. In the movie "Sea Hunter" in the mid-50s, he finally appeared in a role with words. There he played a cook, who, according to the script, had to sing a song.

The actor said: “It was very embarrassing for me. Both the orchestra and everyone stared at me. I sang in such a way that the music stands swayed, but somehow I sang a song with my own hearing ... "

Main roles

Big break (1972-1973)

Still, I liked the song! In the mid-50s, Leonov was called to two films at once, where he had a chance to play larger roles than before. He was Snegirev in The Rumyantsev Case, and then Pashka Yeskov in The Road. In both tapes, Leonov was approved for complex psychological roles.

The actor said in his interviews that he was still just a boy then, he didn’t know how to do much, but he knew how to fantasize, wade through the jungle of his own ignorance, learn ... In addition, the entire cast helped Leonov a lot, and the directors encouraged imagination and even rearranged some shots, listening to the vision of a young colleague.

There have been changes in the theatre, too. Prior to this, Leonov, who had never seen the main roles, was suddenly approved instead of Yanshin himself for the "position" of Lariosik in the Days of the Turbins. Yevgeny Pavlovich tried, grew, developed the role, but received only criticism from the leader.

He scolded him until his death, although Leonov was repeatedly told that Yanshin seriously considers him the best student and is satisfied with Zhenya's work. But for the master to say it personally?! Where is it seen!

Love

Ordinary miracle (1978)

Finally got significant role, Leonov, as part of the theater troupe, went on tour. Several performances were staged in Sverdlovsk, and the artists lived there for some time. It was in this city that Eugene met a girl with whom he immediately wanted to connect his life.

A fateful incident occurred when Leonov and a friend went for an evening walk around the city. Leonov noticed two charming students, but, shy and shy, he was very afraid to speak first. That friend came to the rescue.

The guys invited the girls to the performance, and after it, Zhenya, already in love, walked with the girl around the night Sverdlovsk and read poetry to her. He called to Moscow, hoping for a continuation of the relationship, but she did not immediately trust the actor.

Her name was Wanda, she came from an intelligent family that Leonova did not want to accept as her future son-in-law. But he, as promised, began to call, invited his beloved to visit and introduced him to his parents. Those bride was approved, then Yevgeny Pavlovich proposed to her. She agreed, putting her parents in front of the fact that she was getting married and moving to the capital.

They settled in Moscow. Abandoned Sverdlovsk School of Music Wanda soon entered the theater department of GITIS, and after graduating from it, she began working in the same theater with her husband in the literary part.

Two years later, the couple had a son, Andrei. Today he has become an actor. Plays in the theater and acts in films. The viewer knows him for the role of dad in the comedy series "Daddy's Daughters."

Celebrity

Athos (1975)

In the early 60s, Evgeny Leonov woke up famous. The comedy of Vladimir Fetin "Striped Flight" was released on the screens. This is where the once “off-screen” and even slightly comical appearance of the artist came in handy. He brilliantly coped with the role of the unlucky "tamer", and was also the first in the USSR to appear naked.

With irony characteristic of the actor, he recalled: “I was the first of the actors to show my powerful ass the Soviet people. The scene where my unfortunate tamer runs away from the tiger, jumping out of the bath, amazed Minister of Culture Furtseva. Then there were a lot of complaints ... "

After star role in Leonov, they considered an excellent comedian. Rejoicing at the success, Yevgeny Pavlovich took on everything, but the director of "Striped Flight" Vladimir Fetin, even during the filming, realized that Zhenya still had to open up and open up. Three years after the triumphant tamer, he offered Leonov a complex dramatic role in his Don Story.

Despite the fact that the artistic council protested: a comedian - in such a complex drama?! - Fetin still managed to approve Leonov, and the role was surprisingly easy for him. By that time, Yevgeny Pavlovich already had his own son, whom he was afraid to spoil with his love and gentleness. So the actor's tears welled up from tender feelings for the child.

He will play many more complex, funny, poignant and charming characters, will become the voice of everyone's favorite winnie the pooh, but in 1988 his kind sensitive heart for the first time will not withstand the stress.

After clinical death, beloved, recognizable and titled Evgeny Leonov will lie in a coma for 16 days, and then he will be able to recover in four months and start rehearsing again. But now the heart reminded of itself every time. Many roles had to be turned down.

Six years later, going to the theater, he suddenly looks up in surprise and slowly sinks to the floor. This time, death took him instantly, no longer giving him the opportunity to enter the stage.

September 2 marks the 87th anniversary of the birth of the remarkable theater and film actor Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov. For almost 10 years he has not been with us, but the touching and comical characters he created on stage and in the cinema continue to excite the viewer to this day. O best cast Evgenia Leonova our article.

For the first time, Evgeny Pavlovich appeared on the stage of the Moscow Theater of the Dzerzhinsky District in 1947, having graduated from the drama department of the Moscow Experimental theater studio. And since 1948 he has been performing at the Theater. K.S. Stanislavsky. For 20 years, he has played more than 30 roles, including Denshchik from "Three Sisters" and a cook from "The Seagull" by A.P. Chekhov, Don Diego from the comedy "No joking with love" by P. Calderon, Lariosik from "Days of the Turbins" M Bulgakov, Vincenzo from E. Filippo's drama "De Pretore Vincenzo", the storyteller from "The Snow Queen" by E. Schwartz, Peach from "The Threepenny Opera" by B. Brecht, the sentry from M. Shatrov's play "The Sixth of July" and others. Yevgeny Pavlovich's talent is multifaceted, he showed himself not only as a dramatic actor, but also comic roles in his repertoire. He played both good storytellers, and simpletons, and characteristic heroes.

Since 1968, Evgeny Leonov has been an actor at the Theater. V.V. Mayakovsky. Here he worked for a short time, playing Vanyushin from the autobiographical play by S. Naidenov "Children of Vanyushin", Narokov from the play by N. Ostrovsky "Talents and Admirers", and Sancho Panzu in "The Man from La Mancha" Due to disagreements with Andrei Goncharov, who at that time was the artistic director of the theater, Yevgeny Leonov was forced to move to Lenkom, where he worked until 1989. In this theater he played his wonderful dramatic roles full of deep psychologism. This is Ivanov from the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov, the father from V. Myslivsky's play "The Thief", the peasant walker from the play "Blue Horses on Red Grass" and the defendant from "The Dictatorship of Conscience" by M. Shatrov, the leader from "Optimistic Tragedy" by V. Vishnevsky, Tevye the Milkman from "Memorial prayers” by G. Gorin according to Sholom Aleichem.

In parallel with the stage, Evgeny Pavlovich acts in films. In 1949, he made his debut, playing a cameo role as a firefighter from the musical comedy Happy Flight. Flashing for a couple of minutes on the screen, without saying a single word, he was already remembered by the audience with his bright, charming smile.

Then there were episodic roles in the comedy "Pencil on Ice" (1949), a waiter in a restaurant from the adventure comedy "Sports Honor" (1951), a cook from "Sea Hunter" (1954), drivers Pashka Yeskov from "The Road" (1955) and Mishka Snegirev from The Rumyantsev Case (1955).

In "The Unique Spring" (1957), Yevgeny Leonov played the doctor Alexei Stepanovich Koshelev. In the same year, viewers saw him in the role of policeman Serdyukov in the comedy "The Street is Full of Surprises." His heroes are simple people, a little lazy or trying to cheat, but invariably tormented and conscientious. In 1958, he appeared in the image of the Communard Agathon from the drama Difficult Happiness. In 1959, Yevgeny Pavlovich starred in four films: in the comedy Don't Have a Hundred Rubles, he played Ivan Sergeevich Mukhin, the museum's supply manager; in A Work of Art, he appeared as Sasha Smirnov; Fedi Makarova, in children's film The “Snow Tale” of Yevgeny Pavlovich was seen by the audience in the image of the Old Man of the Year.

The first success and recognition brought him the comedy Striped Flight (1961), in which he played Gleb Savelyevich Shuleikin.

The next successful role was King Eric XXIX from the fairy tale " The Snow Queen» (1966). A sort of domestic tyrant.

The heroes of Leonov represent a single whole with the actor himself, he endows them with his own unique features. Such are a cautious person, a customer in " short stories"(1963), machine gunner Yakov Shibalok from the drama "The Don Story" (1964), a gentle father, a domestic man with kind eyes and caring hands, capable of not only holding a weapon, but also nursing a child, and a patient of a dentist Ivan Sergeevich Travkin from a comedy "Thirty-three" (1965). His phrase: “Happiness, when you want to go to work in the morning and go home in the evening” became an aphorism.

The greatest success was "Gentlemen of Fortune" (1971), in which Yevgeny Leonov played the main roles: the head of the kindergarten, Yevgeny Ivanovich Troshkin, and the recidivist San Sanych Bely, nicknamed Associate Professor.

Replicas and phrases from this film have become popular. On Mosfilmovskaya Street there is a monument to Associate Professor, the beloved character of the picture.

In 1972, the TV movie Big Change was released, where Yevgeny Pavlovich played Lednev, an elderly man who was forced to read and write with his daughter.

The role of Sarafanov in the television film based on the play by A. Vampilov "The Elder Son" (1975) is full of drama. An elderly musician forced to make a living playing at a funeral is very lonely. He is ready to believe in a fictional story about his eldest son in order to feel at least for a moment the touching care of the younger generation. Soft-bodied and tearful Sarafanov, vulnerable and sensitive - such is the hero of Leonov.

Many people remember him in the image of the king from the "Ordinary Miracle" (1978). The hero of Leonov is a tyrant who explains his behavior by the genes of his ancestors. A talented actor, mostly playing good-natured people, did an excellent job with the role of a petty tyrant, cold-bloodedly giving orders to be hanged.

No less dramatic is the role of the actor Bubentsov from the film “Say a Word About the Poor Hussar” (1980). For the sake of his daughter's happiness, he is ready for self-sacrifice.

Gorgeous Leonov-Kolya from "Afoni" (1975), in the image of Kharitonov from "Autumn Marathon" (1979), and as the chatlanin Uef in "Kin-dza-dze!" (1986), and as the Soviet ambassador to Austria from the film Passport (1990).

In Yaroslavl in 2010, a sculpture of the plasterer Kolya from Afonya was installed.

Winnie the Pooh from the cartoon of the same name (1969-1972), the king from Vasilisa the Beautiful (1977), the narrator of The Magic Ring (1979), the dog Jack from The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin (1986) speak in the voice of Leonov. The last dubbing was Antoshka's grandfather in the cartoon Dreamers from the Ugory Village (1994).

The first notable film role of Yevgeny Leonov was in the comedy Striped Flight, which became a box office hit in 1961. It was watched by more than 45 million Soviet viewers. Leonov here plays the bartender Shuleikin, who, in order to get on the ship, introduced himself as a tiger trainer: they are being taken on the same board. Already here, Leonov showed that he was able to turn a supporting role into a main one. If the rest of the film's actors remain within the framework of the chosen type, then Leonov demonstrates a more extensive toolkit, complicating his image.

Shot from the film "Striped Flight"

9. Ivan Travkin,

With the role of Ivan Travkin, Yevgeny Leonov's long-term cooperation with. For Daneliev's eccentric fantasies, Leonov was the best fit. An actor with a sad face, able to laugh, but very rarely laughs. Similar to any person from the street and yet memorable from the first seconds on the screen. Timid, embarrassed, but at the right time doing heroic deeds. Danelia invited Leonov to each of his new films, and he agreed, even if the role was very small.

Shot from the film "Thirty-three"

8. Winnie the Pooh,

The voice of Yevgeny Leonov was remembered by all Soviet viewers from early childhood. His Winnie the Pooh from the famous cartoon series is probably one of the most striking characters in Soviet animation in general. The cartoon is drawn very schematically, but Leonov's voice turns Winnie the bear cub into a complex, versatile personality. Winnie sings paradoxical songs, reflects, stuck in the doorway, brings up his friend Piglet, and tries to deceive the vigilance of the bees, which he is approaching in a balloon. Without Yevgeny Leonov, the "Soviet" Winnie the Pooh simply would not exist.

Frame from the cartoon "Winnie the Pooh"

7. King,

The paradoxes of the King from The Ordinary Miracle are perhaps the main memory of this film in the mass consciousness, although the King is by no means main character. And by no means positive. "Good afternoon. I am the king, my dears." “Not at all like a royal daughter. It used to be that you come to the nursery, it’s a shame to say, you become sympathetic to yourself. ” “As an honorary saint, honorary great martyr, honorary pope of our kingdom, I proceed to the sacrament of the rite.” "Today I'm going to party. Fun, good-natured, - with all sorts of harmless tricks. "Because I'm a tyrant. Because now my aunt has awakened in me. The fool is incorrigible." "All of us, fiends, look the same." We can go on for a long time, and every time we will hear the voice of Leonov.

Shot from the film "Ordinary Miracle"

6. Vladimir Oreshnikov,

The conflict of a person with society in Soviet cinema is common and almost always ends in reconciliation. So it happened this time, and Volodya Oreshnikov, who won ten thousand rubles and was preparing to spend it, but this money was taken from him, he is not offended that everything turned out that way. He just wants to somehow arrange his life beautifully, get out of the vulgar, philistine philistine and realize his right to love, a decent job, a decent life. He will receive quite a bit, but this " small man”, from whom everything was taken away and divided so easily, proved that he was not so small. Something can. And without this "something" probably will not survive.

Shot from the film "Zigzag of Fortune"

5. Ivan Prikhodko,

Locksmith Ivan is among friends who, like him, veterans, front-line soldiers, does not look very profitable. Small, bald, poorly settled, "produced children" with a wife who despises him. Only, the film shows, it was precisely such Ivans who turned out to be real heroes in the war. And the same Ivans are capable of heroism today, on these front-line soldiers, and not only front-line soldiers, inconspicuous, but amazing people, the earth is holding on - the same as they are, wounded, exhausted, humiliated, unprepossessing. No one sees them either before or after the feat in all their beauty, but the feat exists, and it is expressed in each of their gestures, if you look a little more closely.

Frame from the film "Belarusian Station"

4. Uef, Chatlanin,

If we count the roles of Leonov with Danelia, it turns out that formally negative characters there are quite a few. The most charming and most famous of them is the alien scoundrel Uef, who every time tries to snatch something from the main characters of the film in a dishonest way. The combination of harmless and dangerous beginnings in the image is Leonov's true strong point, and Uef from Chatlan is a convincing proof of this.

Shot from the film "Kin-dza-dza!"

3. Andrey Grigorievich Sarafanov,

In this film, Yevgeny Leonov, as often happens, is at the head of a brilliant ensemble of actors, playing a play by Alexander Vampilov for the viewer. The plot for that time is rare, for ours it is very common. Each character in the film is faced with the problem of self-determination, choice, acceptance of their own destiny. Sarafanov is a classic loser, from whom his wife left long ago, with whom children remain only out of pity, who has not realized any of his aspirations. Someone else's cruel joke suddenly opens up new perspectives for him, but he will have to go through a series of suffering and humiliation.

Shot from the film "Elder Son"

2. Pavel Ivanovich Vasin,

The role of Leonov, unexpected for many, is a man whose eyes got a piece of a crooked mirror, and after that he lost the ability to be a man - to compassion, understand, forgive, love. And in the responsible position that he occupies, being a person is no less important than being with his own. big family. Vasin first morally destroys all his family members, and then arranges a crusade in all social spheres where he means at least something. Great humanist Danelia shows that if you stop being a person, you win for a very short time, but then you still die. And Yevgeny Leonov plays one of his best and most difficult roles - pretending that his character has no sympathy for people.

Frame from the film "Tears dripped"

1. Evgeny Troshkin / Associate Professor,

Although Leonov plays doubles here, one of whom is a recidivist, and the other is a teacher in kindergarten, Georgy Daneliya's script focuses on the second character, with little or no interest in the first. Because the task before the educator is incredible: to infiltrate the criminal world, mimic the criminal genius of the Associate Professor, then see the people in the three criminals that he needs to follow, and then try to turn them into good people. Not to re-educate, but to regenerate. There is no greater pleasure than to watch how the hero of Leonov, between the thieves spitting out aphorisms through his teeth and the cuffs he weighs, gradually instills in the “thugs” the most important human properties.

Shot from the film "Gentlemen of Fortune"

For the first time, Evgeny Pavlovich appeared on the stage of the Moscow Theater of the Dzerzhinsky District in 1947, having graduated from the drama department of the Moscow Experimental Theater Studio. And since 1948 he has been performing at the Theater. K.S. Stanislavsky. For 20 years, he has played more than 30 roles, including Denshchik from "Three Sisters" and a cook from "The Seagull" by A.P. Chekhov, Don Diego from the comedy "No joking with love" by P. Calderon, Lariosik from "Days of the Turbins" M Bulgakov, Vincenzo from E. Filippo's drama "De Pretore Vincenzo", the storyteller from "The Snow Queen" by E. Schwartz, Peach from "The Threepenny Opera" by B. Brecht, the sentry from M. Shatrov's play "The Sixth of July" and others. Yevgeny Pavlovich's talent is multifaceted, he showed himself not only as a dramatic actor, but also comic roles in his repertoire. He played both good storytellers, and simpletons, and characteristic heroes.

Since 1968, Evgeny Leonov has been an actor at the Theater. V.V. Mayakovsky. Here he worked for a short time, playing Vanyushin from the autobiographical play by S. Naydenov "Children of Vanyushin", Narokov from the play by N. Ostrovsky "Talents and Admirers", and Sancho Panza in the play "The Man from La Mancha". Due to disagreements with Andrei Goncharov, who at that time was the artistic director of the theater, Yevgeny Leonov was forced to move to Lenkom, where he worked until 1989. In this theater he played his wonderful dramatic roles full of deep psychologism. This is Ivanov from the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov, the father from V. Myslivsky's play "The Thief", the peasant walker from the play "Blue Horses on Red Grass" and the defendant from "The Dictatorship of Conscience" by M. Shatrov, the leader from "Optimistic Tragedy" by V. Vishnevsky, Tevye the Milkman from "Memorial prayers” by G. Gorin according to Sholom Aleichem.

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In "The Unique Spring" (1957), Yevgeny Leonov played the doctor Alexei Stepanovich Koshelev. In the same year, viewers saw him in the role of policeman Serdyukov in the comedy "The Street is Full of Surprises." His heroes are simple people, a little lazy or trying to cheat, but invariably tormented and conscientious. In 1958, he appeared in the image of the Communard Agathon from the drama Difficult Happiness. In 1959, Yevgeny Pavlovich starred in four films: in the comedy Don't Have a Hundred Rubles, he played Ivan Sergeevich Mukhin, the museum's supply manager; in A Work of Art, he appeared as Sasha Smirnov; Fedya Makarov, in the children's film "Snow Tale" Evgeny Pavlovich, the audience saw in the image of the Old Man of the Year.

The first success and recognition brought him the comedy Striped Flight (1961), in which he played Gleb Savelyevich Shuleikin.

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The next successful role was King Eric XXIX from The Snow Queen (1966). A sort of domestic tyrant.

The heroes of Leonov represent a single whole with the actor himself, he endows them with his own unique features. Such are a cautious person, a customer in Short Stories (1963), machine gunner Yakov Shibalok from the drama Donskaya Tale (1964), a gentle father, a domestic man with kind eyes and caring hands, capable of not only holding a weapon, but also nursing a child, and dentist patient Ivan Sergeevich Travkin from the comedy Thirty-Three (1965). His phrase: “Happiness, when you want to go to work in the morning and go home in the evening” became an aphorism.

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Replicas and phrases from this film have become popular. On Mosfilmovskaya Street there is a monument to Associate Professor, the beloved character of the picture.

In 1972, the TV movie Big Change was released, where Yevgeny Pavlovich played Lednev, an elderly man who was forced to read and write with his daughter.

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No less dramatic is the role of the actor Bubentsov from the film “Say a Word About the Poor Hussar” (1980). For the sake of his daughter's happiness, he is ready for self-sacrifice.

For the role of Lariosik, the young actor has already managed to play several roles in films and seriously think about changing his profession. A specific appearance, some problems with diction and natural shyness helped Yevgeny Pavlovich enter the theater (the selection committee laughed out loud when he read poetry), but prevented him from making a real career. Yanshin, on the other hand, saw in Leonov his successor and gave him the role that he himself played and after which the artist woke up famous throughout the capital.

Gleb Shuleikin ("Striped Flight", 1961)

The bartender, who was forced to retrain as a tiger and lion trainer, is Evgeny Leonov's first stellar film role. In Striped Flight, if not everything, then a lot, for which the audience still loves the actor to this day: charming clumsiness, soft intonations and the general image of a charming klutz, with which it is easy and pleasant to associate oneself in moments of awkward life incidents.

Yakov Shibalok (Don Story, 1964)

One of Leonov's first unexpected works was the role of a Red Army soldier in love with a Cossack woman in the film adaptation of the story "Shibalkovo Seed". Thanks to this picture, in which Leonov brilliantly played a duet with, viewers and filmmakers saw that, despite his rounded appearance and good-natured charm, he was quite capable of sharp character roles.

Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh, 1969)

Without this cartoon and its two sequels, the image of Leonov the actor will, of course, be incomplete. Along with and Yevgeny Pavlovich became one of the main cartoon voices for many generations of Soviet and Russian children. However, in addition to Winnie the Pooh, in this regard, I also want to recall the brilliant Magic Ring and other cartoons based on fairy tales, in which Leonov brilliantly played the role of a narrator.

("Belarusian Station", 1970)

One of the key dramatic and even tragic roles in the career of Leonov - a former intelligence officer, and now a locksmith, who meets with front-line comrades at the wake of a deceased fellow soldier. Thanks to the Belorussky Station, many viewers discovered an incredible tragic depth in Yevgeny Pavlovich. It turned out that he might not be funny at all, and one glance from under frowning eyebrows could bring tears to his eyes.

King (Ordinary Miracle, 1978)

Another unexpected comic facet of Yevgeny Pavlovich was revealed in Zakharov's adaptation of Yevgeny Schwartz's brilliant fairy tale. The quarrelsome, petty King performed by Leonov radiated a completely irresistible negative charm.

Prokhorov ("And it's all about him", 1978)

Despite the fact that Leonov never abused the eccentric, the role of the calm and thorough investigator Prokhorov was something new even by his standards. In the multi-part detective story, Leonov unexpectedly reincarnated as a character of the level of Simenon's Maigret - reasonable, as if a little absent-minded, but attentive and patient. It turned out that the artist is easily capable of holding the audience's attention without a single gag or trick.

Antti Ihalainen (For Matches, 1980)

One of the last classic films- benefit performance of Leonov the eccentric. After many roles in dramatic comedies, Evgeny Pavlovich played with ease and brilliance in the film of the opposite direction - based on gags, a film adaptation of the story of the Finnish writer Mayo Lassil.

Pavel Ivanovich Vasin ("Tears dripped", 1982)

Probably the saddest film by Danelia is a story about how a piece of a crooked mirror of trolls gets into the eye of the kindest resident of the provincial Zarechensk. The fairy tale plot in the picture unfolds into a poignant story about how anger eats a person from the inside, and Leonov played one of his most difficult and uncompromising roles here.

Tevye ("Memorial Prayer", 1989)

The last and absolutely brilliant theatrical work of Leonov is Tevye the milkman in the Lenkom performance based on the play based on the works of Sholom Aleichem. For this role, Evgeny Pavlovich was awarded the State Prize of Russia. It was while going to this performance in 1994 that the actor died after a blood clot broke off.

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