Biography
Cinematographer Yakov Segel was a versatile developed personality, prosaic stories and scenarios for art paintings wrote in his youth. In a mature age, a man stopped at the prestigious profession of the director, but his career was premature completed for a number of objective reasons.Childhood and youth
Alexandrovich Segel's biography, Yakov, began in March 1923, he was born in the family of workers from Rostov-on-Don. Father and Mother, judging by the memories, were not wealthy, but they loved reading books and respected old.
In childhood, the boy introduced the adventure novels, and he began to dream of traveling to the mysterious uncharted worlds. At the eve of school age, Yasha, being a talented and gifted child, quickly joined the Soviet youth intelligent circles.
Thanks to an extraordinary appearance received from relatives of different nationalities, Yuni Yakov Alexandrovich Segel became famous for the whole country. He fell into the field of view director of the movie "Children of Captain Grant" and with his filing began to study hard acting acting.
Vladimir Weinstok entrusted the boy the role of a cleaned teenager Robert, and Rostovchann became the idol of peers for several years. He learned to ride a horse using colleagues on the set, which had the title of folk artists and continuously authority.
In the war years, after graduating from a secondary school, Segel, with the support of parents, entered the Hydrometeorological Institute. Then the guy became a student of the Artillery School in Kharkov, where he learned to own weapons and lay a faithful route.
In early 1943, the young man who did not receive a diploma participated in bloody battles in the USSR. He was heavily injured twice with fragments of broken shells, but quickly restored health, showing the example of the soldiers.
In the division of military paratroopers, Segel acquired an invaluable experience that came in handy at the end of the Great Patriotic War. Jacob became a member of the Aeroklub, flew and jumped with a parachute, because he loved the sky and was not afraid of height.
When life in the country who won fascists began to come back back, the young man became an actor in the studio at one of the central theaters of Moscow. Then the student's new hope noted the director Sergei Gerasimov and took the guy to the State Institute of Cinematography - the prestigious establishment of the country.
In the company of people who are not indifferent to creativity, Yakov began writing stories, which eventually appeared on the pages of Soviet newspapers. Then there was a scenario of "Pocodo" based on the works of Anton Chekhov, which allowed the author to get into the world of art at the age of incomplete 32 years.
Personal life
Yakov Segel did not strive to hide a personal life from strangers, the fans knew that he fell in love twice and entered into a lawful marriage. The first relations with Natalia Arkhangelsk did not survive the test of time and in the mid-1970s suffered inevitable collapse.The second wife of the Soviet director became the actress Lilian Aleshnikov, with her after the birth of the son Alexander, a man managed to create a family. Spouses who perfectly looked at the photos, together went to the filming, visited the events and gave detailed interviews.
A woman who was devoted to the famous husband came to the rescue in difficult situations, and once saved the life of cinematographer when a truck hit him on the road. As the most authoritative criticism of movies, stories, plays and scripts, Liliana did not hesitate to talk about shortcomings.
In the 90s, when in Russia, the demand for romantic paintings has decreased, Segel retired in his apartment and moved away from creative affairs. Staying with his wife until the end of life, a man suffered from inaction, but it categorically did not want to work on passing projects.
Films
The full-fledged creative career of Yakov Segel began in Tandem with Teacher Sergei Gerasimov in the film on the mastering of virgin. "Hope" went to large screens in the mid-1950s, but, unfortunately, did not receive recognition due to the lack of depth.
About the graduate of Vgika spoke after the third movie cornocarty, which had a prophetic name "It began so." Together with a classmate, Lvom Kulidzhanov Yakov Alexandrovich acquired fame, pleased with the institute mentors, years of raised students.
In the following years, the Segel's filmography was replenished with the works "Goodbye, Pigeons!", "The first day of the world", "Volga" and "the house in which I live". A distinctive feature of these projects was considered the harmony between fiction and reality, so the audience perceived a fairy tale like what was happening.
Painting 1956 with Vladimir Zemlyanovna in the lead role was shown at the festival in Brussels and earned a lot of warm words. Critics argued that only a real master and an outstanding director could describe such a way to describe the simple human joy.
Glory and international recognition with Segel were divided by a colleague Lion Kulijanov, tandem screamers, operator, composer and cast. The team received all-Union premiums, the award of the United Nations, as well as the recognition of cinematographers, representatives of the European powers.
In the breaks between the filming of Yakov worked as a writer, the top of the skill was the story "And I remember ...", created in the 1960s. It was narrated by the real tragedy that occurred with the author and his friend, widely discussed in newspapers and close to the art of circles.
In the film "Gray Disease", which continued the topic of a miniature work, the director raised the issue of indifference and ignorance of people. Igor Vladimirov, Lillian Aleshnikova, Evgeny Tetherin and Valentina Sperans played in this extraordinary history main and minor roles.
In the 70-80s, Segel released such films as "in one fine childhood", "drop in the sea" and "I'll wait for you." The leitmotif of the work of this period was nostalgia for the past, faith in a prosperous future and bright ironic sadness.
Death
In the spring of 1995, the well-being of the film of the cinema was worsened, in May the society learned about the death director from unknown reasons. After the segale was buried in the presence of relatives and loved ones, necrologists about a man who lived to deeply seeded appeared in the newspapers.The only one of Yakov Alexandrovich's children retained the location of the grave in secret, rumors were rumored that she was located at the Don Cemetery in Moscow. However, fans who wanted gravestone named the author of movies, could not discover anything.
Filmography
- 1954 - "Trouble"
- 1956 - "First Day of the World"
- 1960 - "Goodbye, Pigeons"
- 1966 - "Gray Disease"
- 1697 - "Wake up Mukhina!"
- 1973 - "Drop in the sea"
- 1979 - "In one fine childhood"
- 1979 - "Risk - noble case"
- 1984 - "Aliens"
- 1986 - "From Heaven to Earth"