Nikolai Batalov Biography

Uncle Alexei Batalov. He was fond of football resting in the country, playing for the team of the village of Nikolskoye at present - G. played in the same team with the future football player Petir Isakov. In the years - actor of the second Moscow Art Theater Studio. Berger, Guille - "Patlen's Lawyer." In the year he fell ill with tuberculosis, which became fatal for Batalov.

Due to illness, he did not work in the theater for six months. However, already in the year he starred in his first movie - Aelita - in the role of the Red Army Gusev. The most battles, starting to star in the film, was afraid of the "Stamp", was afraid to once and forever remain a defeated fixed mask of feeling. However, this did not happen. He was the first of the theater actors did not set up film workers against himself.

He managed to reconcile the sacred silence of the theater and the noise and the crack of the set. This is one of his merits in the history of our cinema.

And about his first role, the newspaper was then written: the Red Army soldier Gusev saves the picture in the excellent performance of Batalov Batalov and Orlov is given by the only juicy Russian types in the ribbon to the role, which brought Nikolai Batalov world fame, was Pavel Vlasov in the film of the Armed Forces. Pudovkina "Mother" Work of N. Batalov was a grandiose gift for me.

Cinema was then dumb. The word for us was inaccessible weapons. The whole thing was only in the external life of the face, eye, gesture. And I must say that Nikolai Petrovich created amazing things before my eyes. He crossed the most daring my dreams far. Even then I could not form what I wanted to form with a strong hand. But for Batalov, only creative communication was enough.

If I was sincere, if he saw what I wanted, he flared up like a spark, and immediately through him a wonderful light was visible, who conquered me, and then the spectators who loved him very much. In April, for the first time, he first enters the stage in one of his most striking images - Figaro in the play by Bomarsha “Mad Day, or the Marriage of Figaro” directors K.

Stanislavsky, E. Telesheva, B. Vershilov was filmed in the first sound Soviet film “Turn in Life”, where his most famous role - the head of the commune Nikolai Ivanovich Sergeyev. However, the disease made itself felt, and on February 18, the last performance of Batalov on stage took place - in the image of never discouraging Figaro. Batalov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

He died on November 10 in Moscow from tuberculosis. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. Recognition and rewards.