Yuri Vizbor

Yuri Vizbor

Birth : 1934-06-20, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Death : 1984-09-17

History

Soviet songwriter (bard), film actor, journalist, writer, screenwriter, poet, one of the founders of the author’s song genre, creator of the reportage song genre, author of more than 300 songs. In 1955 he graduated from the faculty of Russian language and literature of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. In the same year, he wrote the text for his first song - Madagascar (the music was borrowed from the performance of Sergei Obraztsov “Under the rustle of your eyelashes”). While studying at the institute, he began to write songs - usually in his own poems. From 1950 to 1960 - composed about 40 songs. He worked as a teacher, served in the army. Since 1958 he worked on the All-Union Radio, in 1962 he initiated the creation of the youth radio station "Youth". Since 1964, together with a group of like-minded people, he published the magazine Krugozor, where he created the unique genre of "song-reporting". Since 1970, he worked as a screenwriter and editor of the cinema association "Screen" of the Central Television. The first role was played in the film "July Rain." Among the most interesting roles of Vizbor are Begounyok in the Red Tent, Sasha in You and Me, Balashov in the Belorussky Train Station, Borman in Seventeen Moments of Spring. More than forty documentaries, as well as the feature film "Year of the Dragon" and the television movie "Captain Frackass", have been delivered according to the scripts of Vizbor. Vizbor is considered one of the founders and the most prominent representatives of the author's song. He wrote a number of scripts and plays that were performed in many theaters in the country. The tales and stories of Vizbor were published mostly after his death. The book "I left my heart in the blue mountains" (1986-1989) had a circulation of 250 thousand copies. Passed away on September 17, 1984 from liver cancer in the Moscow Cancer Center on Kashirskoye Highway. He was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery of the capital.

Profile

Yuri Vizbor

Movies

Breakfast with a View to the Elbrus Mountains
Novel
After a painful break up a journalist is traveling to the Elbrus mountains where he meets another woman.
Капитан Фракасс
Writer
Nezhnost K Revushemu Zveryu
Odintsov
По мотивам одноименного романа А. Бахвалова. В основе сюжета рассказ-интервью об испытаниях нового стратегического ракетаносца Ту-22K и Ту-22М2/М3 (по известным причинам в крупных планах вместо них в фильме снят менее секретный тогда Ту-134 УБЛ — учебно-боевая лаборатория) и трагических событиях, связанных с ними, данный журналисту Одинцову (Юрий Визбор) летчиком-испытателем Боровским (Игорь Ледогоров). Испытания нового реактивного самолета, психология человеческой жизни, проблемы и радости жизни летчиков — все это тесно переплетено в фильме. Герои фильма — друзья летчики-испытатели Долотов (Геннадий Шкуратов) и Санин (Паул Буткевич) — всю жизнь прошагали вместе. Но случилось так, что один из них, Долотов, однажды был несправедливо отстранен от полетов, Санин же не сумел защитить и поддержать своего друга. Дороги друзей разошлись…
You and Me
Sasha
Two young talented neurosurgeons — Pyotr and Sasha — are enthusiastically working on a complex medical experiment. But in search of stability and a better life, Pyotr goes to work in Stockholm, Sasha becomes a major official. Pyotrr's overseas life does not add up, and he returns to Moscow. Realizing that his friend has a completely different life, Pyotr goes to Siberia, where he works on an ambulance. There he meets a girl with a brain disease, the study of which he had once been involved in, but did not finish the job. Feeling in vain of a lived, failed life, a sense of professional guilt in front of this sick girl, whom no one can help, torment him, and he again recalls his true destiny.
Ночная смена
Byelorussian Station
Balashov
The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
The Beginning
Stepan Ivanovich
A talented girl from the provincial Russian town Pasha Stroganova dreams of becoming an actress. She plays the role of Baba Yaga in the amateur theatre — and does it so organically that the visiting filmmaker offers her the most difficult role in the historical drama about Joan of Arc. She was given not only great acting talent, but the talent of deep, selfless love. A dream comes true: she is invited to the main role, and she begins a completely different life, full of real creative torment, insights and true happiness.
Step Over the Threshold
The film tells the story of high school graduates, their first — still school — problems and challenges, Hobbies and disappointments, friendship and dreams.
Rudolfio
Rudolph
A short film based on the story by Valentin Rasputin.
Passing through Moscow
Film almanac, consisting of four novels, United by one theme — a short stay of the characters in the capital. About the sailor who met his love in Moscow, about the birth of a little girl and about other, no less interesting events.
The Red Tent
Frantisek Behounek
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
July Rain
Music
A woman is forced to examine the emptiness of her life in this stark drama from the Soviet Union. Lena (Yevgenya Uralova) is a woman in her late twenties who loves her boyfriend (Aleksandr Belyavsky) but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.
July Rain
Alik
A woman is forced to examine the emptiness of her life in this stark drama from the Soviet Union. Lena (Yevgenya Uralova) is a woman in her late twenties who loves her boyfriend (Aleksandr Belyavsky) but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.
Retribution
Zakharov
The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".