Aleksey Loktev - the star of Soviet cinema of the 60s

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Aleksey Loktev was incredibly popular and in demand in the 60s of the last century. The actor himself, as well as his partner in the film "Farewell, pigeons!", are classified as people with a failed creative destiny. However, two such cult films as "Farewell, pigeons!" and "I'm walking around Moscow", in which Alexei Vasilievich starred, forever included his name in the list of stars of Soviet cinema.

Gone idols

Alexey Loktev himself did not like the words that came into our lexicon after the collapse of the Soviet ideology. "Star", "cult" - it's not all about him. "Idol" - yes, he was an idol. And the last (2006) film in which he played himself is called “How the idols left”. Older people remember the images he created in such films as "The Life of Klim Samgin" or "Award (Posthumously)".

Yes, and in other roles, he was always good, and the images created by him evoke nostalgia for those glorious times, to which the songs “So we became a year older …” and “And I go, walk along Moscow…”.

Car Crash Victim

Aleksey Loktev joined the endless list of actors who died in car accidents. And this death through no fault of his own seems even more tragic because the artist, who seemed to have forever broken his career and life with alcoholism, managed to return to a normal human and creative life and even create his own theater.

Heredity

The creative biography of Alexei Loktev began with an episode in the popular film "Different Fates" by L. Lukov, which was released on the screen in 1956. The young man was 17 years old, and he had already tried to enter VGIK, but did not pass the competition with the motivation “not photogenic.”

The boy dreamed about the career of an actor as the only possible one since childhood. He inherited his passion for theater from his mother, who herself was a talented amateur theater actress. Her talent is evidenced by the fact that her work was noted by the leaders of the Moscow Art Theater, which toured the Urals, and invited to Moscow. But the parents did not let go.

The beginning of the creative path

Aleksey Loktev was born in 1939 in Orsk, but already in 1943 he became a Muscovite, as his father was transferred to the capital. The boy went to school and the actor's studio at ZIL. There, over the years of study, Alexei played many roles from Pinocchio to Mercutio and, of course, dreamed of continuing to go on stage. Therefore, he began to act immediately after school at VGIK.

After the failure, only mother and son grieved, the father was happy and took the young man to his factory. Likhachev. However, a year later, A. Loktev successfully passesentrance exams, and he is enrolled as a student at the Theater Institute. Lunacharsky.

First success

And immediately in the first year, Alexei Loktev is an actor. He was invited to the main role of Genka in the film "Farewell, pigeons!". They were persistently invited, as he firmly believed in his non-photogenic nature and was hiding from the assistants of director Yakov Segel. The picture is released in 1961, and the young man (in the film he introduced himself to the girl “Gennady, spelled with two “n”) is incredibly popular.

The most stellar role and later career

In 1962, after graduating from GITIS, he went to work at the theater. Pushkin. Alexey Loktev (actor), whose biography in big cinema began more than successfully, working in the theater, continues to act in films. The second picture brings him all-Union glory.

And the role of the Siberian Volodya Ermakov, who happened to be passing through Moscow, became his most stellar. Then, one after another, work began in the films “First Snow”, “Our House”, “Tunnel”, “Across Russia”. All the pictures were diverse, the popular actor did an excellent job with the roles. He was loved and recognizable. After 10 years of service in the theater. Pushkin Alexei Loktev in 1972 moved to the Maly Theater, where he worked until 1980. Then he moved to Leningrad and became an actor in the Drama Theater. Pushkin.

Hard years

The 80s are outside. Many actors did not survive the difficult perestroika period. Evgeny Matveev, who until 1986 held the postSecretary of the Union of Cinematographers, could not say without tears that the salary of a theater actor is equal to the cost of a stick of sausage, and little can be done about it. Actor Alexei Loktev, whose personal life was also not cloudless, began to drink heavily in Leningrad. In the city on the Neva, he lived with his youngest son and common-law wife Elena Alekseevna Usenko, due to a serious illness of which they later moved together to the village of Kalinino (Tver region). Official wife, actress of the theater on Liteiny S. M. Loshchinina-Lokteva, dies in 1988.

Director's talent

But Alexei Vasilyevich had the strength and courage to start a new life. In 1989 he returned to Moscow. He is accepted into the theater "Glas", which was directed by Nikita Astakhov. A. V. Loktev in the 90s tries his hand at directing. They staged performances that did not go unnoticed by the public and criticism: "I'll be back!" (about Igor Talkov), “I believe!” (about the works of Shukshin), "Fyodor and Anya" (about the last love of F. Dostoevsky). "Dostoevsky's Last Love", in which A. Loktev was the director and played the main role, on the stage of the Theater. Mayakovsky went on with great success for several years. The actor and director creates his own theater (TAL), and the musical and poetic performance "Visions on the Hill", dedicated to Nikolai Rubtsov, was a great success with the audience.

Death of an actor

In September 2006, Alexei Vasilievich Loktev arrives at the Amur Autumn film festival. Actors and directors visited the surrounding villages with concerts. The car in which was A. Loktev, chairman of the jury of the Novozhilov festival, hisassistants and the driver, at great speed crashed into a minibus driving along the main road. Alexei Vasilievich died on the way to the hospital. Literally before his death, Honored Actor of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize (the role of Pavel Korchagin in the play "Drama Song") A. Loktev gave an interview in which he said that he lives powerfully, interestingly and is in general in harmony with himself. The actor was buried at the Volkovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Aleksey Loktev left four children and five grandchildren. In each article about him, it is noted that the husband of the eldest daughter is the lead singer of the Alisa group, Konstantin Kinchev. The song of this group called "What then" is dedicated to Loktev.