Alexander Belinsky - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips.
Director, actor and screenwriter.
Was born on April 5, 1928 in Leningrad. After graduating from school in Moscow in 1944, he entered GITIS at the theater department. Later he left for Leningrad and moved to the directing department of the Leningrad Theater Institute, which he graduated in 1950.
At the age of nineteen, in practice, there was an amazing opportunity for independent rehearsals when staging at the Theater. A.S. Pushkin's "Conspiracy of the Doomed" N. Virta with Rashevskaya, Simonov, Tolubeev. In 1949 he began work at the Theater of Miniatures under the direction of A. Raikin as the director of the play "Love and Deceit". Later, Belinsky will stage two more performances here independently in 1956 and 1970. In parallel with his studies at the institute, he worked in a circus. Together with fellow student Oscar Remez, they wrote and staged clown entre, prologues to circus performances.
In 1950 he created the so-called "Skit Theater" at the Leningrad House of Actors, which existed for 25 years. It was played by Lydia Shtykan, Zinaida Sharko, Sergei Yursky, Nikolai Trofimov, Vladimir Tatosov. It was the "skits" that brought Belinsky a certain popularity, thanks to which there was an invitation to stage the stage of Leningrad television in the editorial office.
In 1950-1951 he was a director of the Northern Fleet Theater in Murmansk, in 1951-1953 he was a director of a number of Lithuanian theaters in Vilnius and Klaipeda, in 1953-1962 - the Leningrad Theater named after Lenin Komsomol (now “Baltic House”).
From 1961 to 1985 A.A. Belinsky worked as a production director at Leningrad television. One of the first television premieres was the staging of "Girls" based on Panova's play about the Leningrad blockade.
In 1963, A. A. Belinsky released the television play "Kyukhlya", which became a classic of Russian television. This was followed by "Dead Souls", "Notes of a Madman", etc.
Belinsky developed an interest in classical ballet in his youth. While still a second-year student of the directing department, he asked to practice at the ballet of the Kirov Theater. And from the age of eighteen to twenty-two, he did not miss a single day, so as not to attend a rehearsal or a lesson of the ballet troupe. On television in the 70s, Belinsky began to take a little bit of ballet shooting - classic variations of Petipa with Irina Kolpakova, pas de deux from "Festival of Flowers" with Yuri Solovyov and Alla Sizova. At the same time, ballets were staged in theaters based on Belinsky's scripts. In 1977, the director was given permission to film a script proposed to television in 1967 after the success of Diary of a Madman, and then flatly rejected. Script titles - "Galatea", film-ballet based on the play "Pygmalion" Show,
The television movie "Galatea" opened a new genre of television ballet. In total, A. Belinsky shot 12 ballet films with E. Maksimova, V. Vasiliev, I. Kolpakova and other masters.
1995-2002 - Head of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theater.
He has staged about 200 performances on television, in theaters in Moscow and Leningrad - St. Petersburg, of which 112 are television plays and television films, not counting the Blue Light and Zucchini 13 Chairs.
The author of the popular books "Notes of an Old Gossip", "Theatrical Legends", "Old Tango" (notes from a television practice), "Sharik, hello!"
People's Artist of Russia.
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