Biography
Ekaterina Elansky is a famous actress and director of the theater in the USSR. Born in the theater family, and it would be difficult to come up with another destiny for her. Elansky had a chance to play only in two filmmakers, she lived on the theater scene. Implemented creative potential in directorial work by creating his theater. Her son and grandchildren continued the artistic dynasty.Childhood and youth
Mom Catherine wanted a daughter to become a mathematician. Katya disassembled in trigonometry, and at school, the exact sciences were her skate. But it happened that genes, these artistic parents, took their own. Father Sudakov Ilya Yakovlevich- Chief Director of the Small Art Academic Theater, and the mother - theatrical actress Claudia Nikolaevna Eleanskaya.
Katya was born on September 13, 1929 in Moscow. From the young years, Elansky spent time behind the scenes of the theater, looking at the statements of the Father. I remembered how I liked when the Father distributed the roles between actors in the play. Katya mentally made his own list, to whom and what role to give, as he studied the actors well, watching them on stage and in life. It was a favorite children's game.
Ekaterina Ilyinichna said that when watching the performances of parents, thought it would have done everything differently.
In addition to Kati, another daughter was brought up in the family - Irina. She was older for 6 years. When the sisters matured, they decided among themselves that the eldest will take the surname of the Father, and the youngest - mother. Irina subsequently became the famous teacher of Gityis, having time to stop 3 years actress in Mkate. Talking his biography, Ekaterina Ilyinichna recalls the story when she read poems to mom. Claudia Nikolaevna, listening to her, said:
"I will not discharge you anymore. You can. Go. "Catherine enters the MCAT Studio School, where he gets to his future husband Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov. In 1953, the pair registered marriage.
Theater and films
In the filmography of Catherine Ilinichny, two artistic ribbons. For the first time, it appeared on the screen in 1953 in the Vassa Zheleznnikov tape director Leonid Lukov. The first role actresses in the film became Lyudmila, the youngest daughter of the main heroine. Young Katya played in one frame with such stars of Soviet cinema, as Mikhail Zharov and Vera Pashnyny. In the same year, Elansky, in the role of Lyudmila, went on the scene of the Small Theater in the play of the same name.
The following filming for the actress took place in 1957 in the Pygmalion tape, which Sergey Alekseev removed. Catherine gave the role of Clara, daughters Mrs. Einsford Hill. It was the screening of the performance, which was also successful on the scene of the Small Theater, but Elansky did not participate in it.
Ekaterina Ilinichna served in the Small theater for 9 years. Then he moved to the Mayakovsky Theater. Here she had contradictions with the director in the vision of the role and performing the performance. Her point of view was rooted with a director's opinion. She felt that she did not like to play and live a role limited by the framework. Then the fateful for the Elansky decision is made - learn to the director.
Catherine enters Gitis to Maria Knebel. The first director's work was the formulation of the "Little Prince" of Senta-Exupery at the Stanislavsky Theater. Elansky managed to keep the atmosphere of fairy tales. Special charm gave a built conversation of actors with the auditorium. It was her author's move.
After becoming a mastic director, Elansky continued to experiment in the director. Put the performances in the "contemporary" and in the theater of Ermolova. The performances became recognizable. Often they were called the "Elansky Theater".
In 1981, the "Sphere" Theater appeared. Alexander, the son of Catherine Ilinichny, said in an interview that Mom had two children - Son and daughter. If it was clear with the first, then the daughter for Elansky turned out to be "sphere" - the theater to which she gave 28 years of life.
It was created by Catherine Ilyinichnaya literally on the grains. I was looking for the room, collected like-minded people, chose a repertoire. It all happened as it should. There was a room in the "Hermitage" garden with an amphitheater and several stage platforms.
Colleagues said that Elanskaya worked a lot and greedily. She first in Moscow put a performance on the fantastic story "Fat Eggs" Mikhail Bulgakov. Daily embody the scandalous "lolita" according to the book of Vladimir Nabokov. Tried to work with modern authors.
"Sphere" "thundered" by produces, causing great interest and visual excitement. The photographs of the productions flashes the faces of famous actors. Everyone was striving to get into the "sphere", breathe fresh air innovation. The actors who worked with Elansky said that the main requirement of her had an emotionally to reside the role, exist in the proposed circumstances on the verge of a human gust.
Personal life
Ekaterina Ilinichna 60 years has lived in peace and harmony with a well-known actor and head of the Small Theater Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov. In the personal life of Elansky, everything was successful. In 1954, February 11, the couple appeared the heir to Alexander.
Son with warmth in the soul recalls parents and creative atmosphere in the house. Ekaterina Ilyinichno nobody gave real age, the woman looked younger than his years. As in his youth, she loved to dress brightly and fashionably. I liked to take guests and sit behind the facet.
Ekaterina Ilyinichna came up with a New Year's family tradition - to hide in the lapties of wishes, and in the New Year's Eve pull the papers and read the native and close people. Alexander retained the tradition and in his family continues to read New Year's wishes.
The grandchildren of Ekaterina Ilinichny, the children of Alexander, also became actors. Claudia and Stepan are filmed in movies, play a lot in performances.
Alexander Viktorovich after the death of the mother was headed by the theater team of "spheres".
Death
Ekaterina Ilinichna went away on July 16, 2013. I was sick for a long time, but I still came to the "sphere", overcoming pain. Suddenly, health deteriorated sharply, and she fell into someone. Native and colleagues hoped that Ekaterina Ilinichna would cope. The cause of death began to stop the heart.I buried the director at the Novodevichy Cemetery, next to the grave of Mother of Claudia Nikolaevna.
Filmography and performances
- 1953 - "Vassa Zheleznov"
- 1957 - "Pygmalion"
- 1956 - "Doctor of Philosophy"
- 1960 - "Song of the Wind"
- 1967 - "Little Prince"
- 1973 - "Month in the village"
- 1981 - "Student Evening"
- 1985 - "My Winged Friend"
- 1986 - "To third roosters"
- 1994 - "Piano in the grass"
- 1996 - "Lolita"
- 2005 - Troil and Cresan
- 2009 - "Man from the USSR"
- 2011 - "Penelope for all times"
- 2013 - "Honest Screw