Vladimir Fedorov got into the movie by accident: when he was 32 years old, the assistant director of the film "Ruslan and Lyudmila" noticed him on the street and offered to come for audition. So the nuclear physicist by profession and vocation played the role of the villain Chernomor. After filming, he became one of the sought-after dwarf actors in Russian cinema.
Biography: childhood and adolescence
Vladimir Anatolyevich Fedorov was born on February 19, 1939 in Moscow. His mother and father were slim and tall. Vladimir got the genes of his grandfather, who was a dwarf. When Fedorov was born in the hospital on Arbat, the midwives gasped: he had a huge head, very short arms and legs, and was only 30 cm tall. Doctors suggested that Vladimir’s parents write a refusal to transfer the dwarf child to scientists for research. However, the mother did not consent to this.
Parents literally from the first days began to develop a son. They practiced a non-standard approach. So, on the initiative of his father, instead of standard rattles, Vladimir was "developed" with screwdrivers and nuts. Due to the anatomical features, he began to walk late, but he did not observe any mental abnormalities. On the contrary, Vladimir grew up a smart boy.
At the age of 6, Fedorov showed interest in radio engineering. He did not change this passion throughout his school life.
Vladimir's parents dreamed of a large family, but after his birth they were afraid that other children would inherit dwarfism from his grandfather. When Vladimir was 10 years old, they still decided to take a chance. So he first had one younger brother, and then the second. Unlike an older child, they were born without a gene defect.
Fedorov was 14 years old when his mother started having health problems and she went to the hospital for a long time. Soon she died, and her father found another woman and left home. Vladimir as an older man in the family began to earn extra money. He took pictures, repaired household appliances, sewing machines.
Despite the fact that part-time work took a lot of time, Fedorov continued to study well at school. After her graduation, he decided to enter the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI). At that time it was a prestigious institute. He easily passed the exams and applied for the specialty “nuclear physicist”. Vladimir was a student of Igor Kurchatov himself. Fedorov received an increased scholarship, and from the second year he worked at the department. A diploma was issued to him a year earlier than his classmates.
Scientific career
Fedorov graduated from the institute in 1964. He immediately received a referral to the Institute of Biophysics of the USSR Ministry of Health, where he began to work in his specialty. Fedorov himself called himself "the smallest nuclear physicist in the country."
On his account more than fifty inventions and scientific works on the following issues:
- reactor hall maintenance;
- rebooting and starting up a nuclear reactor;
- nuclear waste disposal;
- atom fission for peaceful purposes.
Many of Fedorov's scientific works have been translated into English. After retirement, he continues to do his favorite thing - radio electronics.
Work in the cinema and theater
For the first time on the screens, Fedorov appeared in the role of Chernomor in the movie title Ruslan and Lyudmila. She was released in 1972. The tale is based on the poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. Its director was Alexander Ptushko.
The second appearance of Vladimir on the screens took place three years later. He was again invited to appear in a movie story. This time based on the play of Samuel Marshak. Fedorov played the servant in the two-part film “To Be Afraid of Sorrow - Do Not See Happiness”. The role turned out to be small, but Vladimir masterfully got used to the image.
In 1976, he appears in the film The Legend of Thiel as the jester Jan. The following year, Fedorov starred in two films at once: Nose and Almanzor Rings. In the first he played a dwarf, and in the second - a pirate. Subsequently, the directors literally overwhelmed Vladimir with offers.
Fedorov has more than four dozen roles in films and series, including:
- "Dog's heart";
- “Souvenir for the prosecutor”;
- Crazy Flight
- "Plus one";
- "House under the starry sky";
- "Anna Karenina";
- "Simple-minded";
- “Once upon a time there was one woman”;
- "12 chairs";
- "Through hardship to the stars";
- "Crime and Punishment".
In the late 80s, Vladimir began to play on stage. First, in the Vakhtangov Theater, and then - “At the Nikitsky Gate”. The audience quickly fell in love with an actor with a specific appearance.
Vladimir starred in many films until 2003. In parallel, he continued to study physics. Now in the movie his name is rare.
