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Gennady Shpalikov - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Writer, Director, Actor.
September 6, 1937, Segezha, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic - November 1, 1974, Peredelkino, Moscow - Soviet poet, film director, screenwriter.
In July 1955, Gennady graduated from the Kiev Suvorov military school, where he was sent in 1947 by the military registration and enlistment office of the Leningrad region. There, at the school, he began to write poetry and stories. Then he entered the Moscow Higher Military Command School. A year later, during a training exercise, he injured his leg (knee meniscus) and was discharged. According to Boris Zakharov, who studied and was friends with Shpalikov at the school, his leg began to hurt due to his fault: “One of the last exams, I don't want to go to physics. "Borya, give me a leg!" I got to the wrong place. Gena ended up in the medical unit, did not go to physics. " Later, Shpalikov passed physics for Boris with excellent marks when he entered the Mendeleev Institute. From 1956 to 1961 he studied at VGIK at the scriptwriting faculty. Andrei Tarkovsky and Andrei Konchalovsky studied at parallel courses, with whom he formed a common company.
The first major work is the film "Ilyich's Outpost" directed by Marlen Khutsiev. Shpalikov wrote the script as a final year student. Nikita Khrushchev, having looked at the picture, compared it with ideological sabotage, reproaching that "three guys and a girl wander around the city and do nothing." The film was censored, a number of scenes were excluded, and numerous edits and improvements were required from the script. At one of the artistic councils, Shpalikov could not stand it and came out with harsh criticism of the censorship restrictions. He did not want to rewrite the script, he often disappeared for days and weeks, which further hampered the release of the picture. In 1965, the film was still released in an abridged version and was subjected to obstruction by film critics - the creators were accused of imitation, superficiality, and so on. In 1962 he was invited by Georgy Danelia to work on the film "I Walk Through Moscow". According to Danelia's recollections, the artistic council initially did not want to approve the script for the same reasons as "Outpost of Ilyich" - there are also three guys and a girl in it "wandering around and doing nothing." But after the director, bypassing all the authorities, took the script to the first deputy chairman of the State Film Agency Vladimir Baskakov and assured him that there was no "fig in his pocket" in him, the work went "easily, quickly and cheerfully." True, the artistic council refused to accept the final version of the script under the pretext "it is not clear what the film is about." Therefore, Shpalikov and Danelia had to urgently come up with a scene "with meaning" (it was the episode with the floor polisher performed by Vladimir Basov, in which they secretly ridiculed the members of the artistic council), as well as a new genre of "lyrical comedy" .
Having appeared on the screens, the audience immediately fell in love with the picture. The song from the ending of the film became popular with the words: "And I walk, I walk around Moscow ..." (according to eyewitnesses, written by Shpalikov right on the set) .
At this time, Shpalikov's wife, Natalia Ryazantseva, left, largely due to his addiction to alcohol. Shpalikov's second wife was a young, but already popular (who played the main role in Lev Kulidzhanov's film "When the Trees Were Big") actress Inna Gulaya. The new family and the birth of Dasha's daughter for some time helped Shpalikov to refrain from his addiction
In 1966, the country released the film "Long Happy Life" - as it turned out later, the only directorial work of Shpalikov. The main roles in the film were performed by Kirill Lavrov and Inna Gulaya, for whom this role was written. According to reviews, the final scene of the picture was shocked by Michelangelo Antonioni (the poet of "alienation and lack of communication"), who saw in it a clear and laconic expression of "lack of communication of feelings." The film won the main prize at the Bergamo International Auteur Film Festival. In the USSR, the picture was barely noticed.
In the same 1966, the film “I Come From Childhood” by director Viktor Turov based on the script by Shpalikov was released, which is considered by Belarusian critics as the best film in the history of Belarusian cinema. Then Shpalikov began a period of creative lack of demand. Of his numerous scripts, written before the early 1970s, only two animated films were filmed - "Once upon a time Kozyavin" (1966) and "Glass Harmonica" (1968). The Shpalikov family lived on the salary that Inna Gulaya received at the Film Actor's Studio Theater, but despite this, Shpalikov helped his friend Viktor Nekrasov with money, who was no longer published in the late 1960s. Against the background of such life problems, Shpalikov's addiction to alcohol reappeared (moreover, according to friends, the writer could easily work drunk, and therefore did not even try to stop drinking alcohol). Literary critics also note the high level of his works in the 1970s: they contain a vivid individual theme of good, but unbearable people for each other. Shpalikov himself left home, was interrupted by temporary housing with friends and acquaintances.
In 1971, Larisa Shepitko's film "You and I" was released, in the script of which Shpalikov drew a line under the sixties, stating the collapse of the previous illusions of this generation. The film was awarded the Youth Program at the Venice Film Festival, but became the worst-attended film in the USSR. In 1971, Sergei Urusevsky's film "Sing a song, poet ..." according to Shpalikov's script was also unsuccessful. The chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography, F. T. Yermash, assigned a print run of 16 copies to the film, which made the screenwriter Shpalikov's fee extremely low, hoping to pay off his debts through repayments. Gennady Shpalikov committed suicide - hanged himself in the Writers' House of Creativity

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