Vladimir Losev is a Soviet theater and film actor with a tragic fate. His talent had just begun to unfold when a terrible disease cut short the life of a 39-year-old man. Nevertheless, Losev was remembered by the audience for his strikingly characteristic roles, played vividly and filigree.
Biography Facts
Vladimir Vasilievich Losev during his short acting career managed to play 21 roles in films and several roles in the theater. He certainly contributed to the domestic art, creating vivid and memorable images on the screen and on the stage. And therefore, it is bitter and insulting that very little biographical information and memories of contemporaries have been preserved about the actor.
January 7, 1945, on Christmas Day and a few months before the victory of the Soviet people in World War II, in the Volga city of Furmanov, which is located thirty kilometers from the city of Ivanovo, a blond-haired and green-eyed boy was born - Volodya Losev. Nothing is known about his parents and generally any relatives, but some assumptions can be made. One of the few attractions of the small town of Furmanov (before 1941 it was called Sereda) is the Losev estate, which in the middle of the 19th century was built by the local rich manufacturer G.K. Gorbunov for his daughter Alexandra and her husband, merchant Nikolai Ivanovich Losev. Perhaps they are the ancestors of the actor Vladimir Losev. Since in Soviet times, people tried to hide the fact of kinship with representatives of the nobility or merchants, it is quite possible that this is the reason for the lack of information about the relationship of the actor.
Further, the facts of the biography of Vladimir Losev lead to Moscow, where from 1963 to 1966 he studied at the Studio School of the Gorky Moscow Art Academic Theater, taught by Viktor Karlovich Monyukov - a famous actor, director and teacher, among whose students there are such famous artists, like Lev Durov, Nikolai Karachentsov, Alexey Guskov, Marina Golub and many others. Again, it is not known why, but, having not finished the Moscow Art Theater studio for just one year, Losev moved to Leningrad, where he became a student of the acting department at the faculty of dramatic art of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography - the famous LGITMiK.
Theater work
Upon completion of acting education in 1967, Vladimir Losev began his theatrical career: he played only a few roles in the performances of the Leningrad Komsomol Theater, the Komissarzhevskaya Theater and the Lensovet Theater. Among the theatrical images created by Losev are the Storyteller in the play The Snow Queen, the King in the production of King Matiusz and others.
Movie work
The cinematic career of Vladimir Losev is more diverse than theatrical: he starred in the 21st film, in three of which he is not indicated in the credits. Basically, all of his film works are strikingly characteristic supporting roles, but each of his appearances on the movie screen has always been vivid, emotional and memorable. Losev began acting in films in 1968, playing the role of a prisoner of war in the film "Only One Life."
In the movie "Confusion" in 1970, Vladimir Losev created the image of a tired and exhausted barge hauler.
Significant for Losev and memorable for the audience was the role of Alexei Chepalov from the film "Dauria" (1971). Here Losev appeared in the image of an important and silly merchant's son, for whom the main character Dashutka is forcibly married.
In the musical fairy-tale television play "Two Maples", based on the play by Eugene Schwartz (1974), Vladimir Losev played the role of the Sharik dog, turned into a human storyteller. It is from the photographs from this film that they most often recall the actor Losev: on it he is captured by a smiling and a little stupid, although in life he was completely different.
Most admirers of the talent of Vladimir Losev remembered the role of Kostya-Karlik from the movie "Last Summer of Childhood", filmed in 1975 by director Valery Rubinchik based on the novel and script by Anatoly Rybakov. The famous phrase of Kostya-Karlik “And you understand, understand, don’t take it, understand ?!” became winged and is still by ear. Losev’s character causes both fear and pity, especially when tearfully pleading with thieves “Have pity, do not kill!”.
An interesting role is played by Losev in the children's film-tale "The Magic Voice of Jelsomino" in 1978, where he reincarnated as a groomed and important minister.
And in the serial film "The Adventures of Prince Florisel. The Suicide Club or the Adventures of the Titled Person" (1979), Losev played a satirical role as a member of the suicide club.
The latest film works of Vladimir Vasilyevich Losev in the cinema were the films "Makar the Pathfinder" (1983) and "Chelyuskintsy" (1984) - the actor did not allow the death to complete the work in this film.
Literary work
Another side of the creative personality of Vladimir Losev was literary activity: he wrote short stories, novels, plays for children's performances. One of these plays was staged in the city of Murom, on the stage of the Children's Theater.
