Vaclav Dvorzhetsky is a man of complex fate. A noble birth prevented him from making a quick career in the Land of Soviets. Instead, camps were set up for the future famous actor. But even in conclusion, Dvorzhetsky continued to work on stage. Subsequently, he played almost a hundred roles in the cinema.
From the biography of Vaclav Yanovich Dvorzhetsky
The future famous actor was born in Kiev on June 21 (in a new style - August 3), 1910. Wenceslas parents were hereditary Polish nobles.
At the age of 14, Dvorzhetsky joined the Komsomol, from where he was kicked out a year later for belonging to the nobility.
At the age of 17, Vaclav went to study at the theater studio that existed at the Kiev Drama Theater, then he studied at the local Polytechnic Institute.
The young man was not yet twenty years old when he was arrested for participating in a circle called the “Person’s Liberation Group”. Dvorzhetsky spent several years in custody. He built the railway, the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the Tuloma Hydroelectric Power Station, worked hard at the mines. At the end of the shift, Vaclav did not go to rest, but went to the camp theater. Here he made his debut as an actor.
After release
Only in 1937 Dvorzhetsky was released from prison, after which he went to his parents in Kiev. Vaclav could not get a job in the theater - the former prisoner was not taken anywhere. Then he went to work in a workshop, but a month later he was fired.
After that, Vaclav moved to Kharkov, where, with the support of the head of the department of culture, he was admitted to the workers and collective farm theater. But a month later, the boss was arrested, who gave him a recommendation. Dvorzhetsky was asked to leave the theater. He had to leave for the suburbs, where his cousin lived. But here Vaclav did not stop, he went to Omsk.
From 1937 to 1939, Dvorzhetsky worked in the Omsk Youth Theater. He managed to try himself as a director. But in the fall of 1941 Dvorzhetsky was again arrested. In prison, he stayed until 1946, after which he returned to Omsk and served in the local drama theater until 1956.
Then Vaclav Yanovich moved to Saratov. For him, a place was found in the academic drama theater. In 1958, Dvorzhetsky moved to Gorky. In this city, he played on stage until 1989.
There were many cities in the life of Vaclav Dvorzhetsky. And almost his whole life, including the years spent in custody, he worked in the theater, playing a total of 122 roles.
In 1968, Dvorzhetsky tried himself in the cinema: in the film "Shield and Sword" he played Lansdorf, the chief of the German special service. Then there was the role of the abbot in the film "Red and Black." In total, Vaclav Yanovich created more than 90 vivid images in the cinema.
