Erast Garin is a famous theater and film actor, screenwriter and director. Honorary holder of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, winner of the main award of the Cannes International Film Festival for Best Actor in the film The Witch, twice laureate of the State Stalin Prize, holder of the Order of the Badge of Honor was awarded the titles People and Honored Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR.
Equally brilliantly, Erast Garin coped with the game both on the stage and on the set. Best known for playing the role of the King in the 1947 movie title "Cinderella".
Road to vocation
Erast Pavlovich Garin (Gerasimov) was born on October 28 in 1902 in the Ryazan working family. He studied at a local gymnasium. The restless child easily acquired any knowledge. Therefore, without difficulty received good grades. After graduation, seventeen-year-old Erast went to military service
He played on the stage of the local military theater, which became the first amateur theater of the Red Army. The comrades said that their colleague on stage was just on fire. And so the famous pseudonym was born, under which the artist gained fame.
The debut was a small role in "Sbitenschik", the comedy of the Princess. With this production, the theater went to the capital. On tour, a budding promising performer noticed Meyerhold. He recommended that the young man get an education, and in 1921 he invited him to study at the Higher State Director's workshops led by him.
In 1922, Erast became an actor in the Meyerhold Theater. The first significant role of the young artist was a dozen characters in the production of "Give Europe." Garin played six inventors in it, one inventor, a fascist, a poet from the desert and a killed worker. The young man showed an amazing parody talent and ability to transform.
Garin fit perfectly into the atmosphere of the grotesque of Meyerhold productions. He became a favorite actor of the master. It was in these performances that the future distinctive features of the "Garinsky playing style" were born. From 1925 glory fell on Erast Pavlovich. After the main role in the production of Erdman's “Mandate”, his NEPman Pavel Gulyachkin turned into a symbol of acutely social satire. The hero caused laughter from the audience at least three hundred times per performance.
Cinema and theater
The images of Khlestakov in The Inspector General 1925 and Chatsky in the Griboedov comedy 1928 turned out to be successful. The actor’s interpretation was noticeably different from the usual ones by surprise. Garin was not just a comedian and an eccentric. He struck with lyricism.
All buffoonery and eccentricity appeared in the artist’s play while working at the Meyerhold Theater. In the early thirties, Erast Pavlovich became famous as a wonderful radio artist. An expressive voice made the performer a favorite of all listeners.
In 1936, the artist left his favorite team, deciding to start a career as a director. In the Leningrad Comedy Theater, he staged plays and played them until 1950. Vsevolod Emilievich supported the craving of his favorite for creativity. Garin remained faithful to the teacher even after the persecution against Meyerhold began.
The first film work by Erast Pavlovich was the role in the historical film "Lieutenant Kizhe" in 1934. He got the hero of adjutant Kablukov. The actor liked the movie experience. He decided on his own project. Chose a beginner film director Gogol's "Marriage". The film was shot in the avant-garde style of Meyerhold according to cinema standards.
Criticism did not leave the prime minister unattended. Reviews ranged from enthusiastic to outraged. The result was the seizure in 1937-1938 of all copies of the picture with the destruction of the negatives. Since 1938, the artist returned to the theater. He directed the play "The Son of the People." In it, the artist brilliantly reincarnated as Dr. Kalyuzhny. Criticism approached the work.
They decided to film the successful production. However, the Lenfilm Arts Council did not approve of the main role of the director. As a result, Boris Tolmazov copied Garin on the screen. Together with his wife, the artist moved to the capital. He began filming on Soyuzdetfilm and Mosfilm. At first, the audience did not notice his heroes.
Everything was changed by Cinderella in 1947. Erast Pavlovich got his most stellar role, the eccentric and very kind King. The painting owes its popularity to two brilliant artists, Faina Ranevskaya and Erast Garin.
