This actor managed a variety of roles: an inveterate cynic and traitor, a brash and unprincipled official, a foreign intelligence agent and a simpleton from a nearby entrance. Leonid Satanovsky is more a theatrical actor, but the images created by him in the cinema are just as vivid and unforgettable.
Biography
Leonid Moiseevich Satanovsky was born in Moscow in 1932. Almost nothing is known about his family and his childhood. His childhood fell on the years of the war, and it is simply amazing how in such circumstances one could dream of becoming an artist.
Meanwhile, as a schoolboy, Lenya took part in amateur productions, and his roles turned out very well.
After leaving school, the future actor submitted documents to the famous Schukin School and entered there the first time. This is not surprising: he was red-haired, curly, smiling, with a pleasant velvet voice. And with abilities, of course.
Student years passed quickly behind school days, first roles, film screenings and funny skits. Life was in full swing and seething, and most of all the young man liked the fact that he had found his calling.
Satanovsky studied enthusiastically, carefully prepared for roles. Perhaps that is why after the school they took the Stanislavsky Theater - a very prestigious temple of culture. Leonid Moiseevich worked there all his acting life.
Movie career
Leonid's debut work in cinema was a small role in the film "Different Fates" (1956). Soon the role came that made the actor recognizable: he created the image of Nikolai Kalachev in the comedy film "Caution, Grandma!". His partners on the set were the incomparable Faina Ranevskaya and even then the famous Rolan Bykov, Nina Urgant, Ariadna Shengelaya, Sergey Filippov.
In this film, Satanovsky was noticed, and later he starred a lot in the so-called social dramas, which raised acute issues of society and the life of every person. These are the films “Come to Baikal” (1965), “Quenching thirst” (1966) and others.
The popularity of the young actor gradually grew, and in 1966 he was approved for the leading role. He was supposed to create the image of the German captain Otto Erich Schwarzbruck in the military film “The Cyclone” will begin at night. ”Under combat conditions, Otto crosses the battle lines of the enemy and tries to organize sabotage. But he is detained by Soviet intelligence.
Despite his completely non-heroic appearance, Satanovsky surprisingly played the roles of military and heroes. In the drama "Prisoners of Beaumont" (1970), he again plays a military man - partisan Poric.
With the beginning of the seventies in the Soviet Union, films-shows became very popular. The audience watched them with pleasure, because not everyone could afford to often go to the theater. And the television brought the theater right to your home.
In these years, Satanovsky was involved in the films "The Little Prince" (1974), "Such a Short Long Life" (1975), "In One Microdistrict" (1976).
The actor was then a little over forty years old, and a pleasant event happened in his life: he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Just two times in his life, Leonid Moiseevich managed to work on the set with his wife Maya: for the first time, this happened during the filming of the Atlanta and Caryatids project. The couple played a couple of Macaedov, who worked together with the main character. It was played by Evgeny Lazarev.
Perhaps one of the most significant roles of Satanovsky went to him in the spy detective "Death on Takeoff" (1982). He played foreign intelligence resident Max Bane - cynical and unprincipled. If the audience didn’t know Satanovsky in other roles, they could have believed that he was just like that in his life - he so organically managed to create this image. Bane plans to recruit a Soviet scientist and at the same time resorts to the most vile methods.
The eighties pleased the actor with new roles, though not so significant. But in 1991 Leonid Moiseevich began work in the film "Vivat, Midshipmen!". He played a Swedish citizen, educator Peter III. Ober-Marshal Brummer turned out to be very courteous, wise and sort of "on his own mind."
The last work of Satanovsky in Russian cinema was another collaboration with his wife - the role of antiquarian Mikhail Abramovich in the series "On the Corner, at the Patriarchs" (1995). Maya Menglet played his wife.
In 1999, another important event in his professional career happened in the life of Leonid Moiseevich: he became the People's Artist of Russia. However, almost simultaneously, he had a conflict with the new director of the theater, and he went "nowhere." Maya Menglet left behind him.
