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Yuri Vizbor

Name in Native Language: "Юрий Иосифович Визбор" (Russian/RU)
Journalist / Poet / Actor / Composer / Songwriter / Screenwriter / Singer-songwriter / Guitarist / Playwright | * 06/20/1934 († 50, 09/17/1984) | Moscow, RSFSR (Soviet Union)
Yuri Iosifovich Vizbor (Russian: Юрий Иосифович Визбор; June 20, 1934 – September 17, 1984) was a Soviet bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor. Vizbor was born in Moscow where he lived for most of his life. He worked as a teacher, a soldier, a sailor, a radio and press correspondent, a ski instructor, and an actor in many Russian films and plays. He participated in and documented expeditions to remote areas of the Soviet Union. His compositions included songs, poetic prose, plays, screenplays and short stories. ()

Soviet songwriter (bard), film actor, journalist, writer, screenwriter, poet, one of the founders of the author’s song genre, creator of the reportage song genre, author of more than 300 songs. In 1955 he graduated from the faculty of Russian language and literature of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. In the same year, he wrote the text for his first song - Madagascar (the music was borrowed from the performance of Sergei Obraztsov “Under the rustle of your eyelashes”). While studying at the institute, he began to write songs - usually in his own poems. From 1950 to 1960 - composed about 40 songs. He worked as a teacher, served in the army. Since 1958 he worked on the All-Union Radio, in 1962 he initiated the creation of the youth radio station "Youth". Since 1964, together with a group of like-minded people, he published the magazine Krugozor, where he created the unique genre of "song-reporting". Since 1970, he worked as a screenwriter and editor of the cinema association "Screen" of the Central Television. The first role was played in the film "July Rain." Among the most interesting roles of Vizbor are Begounyok in The Red Tent, Sasha in You and Me, Balashov in the Belorussky Train Station, Borman in Seventeen Moments of Spring. More than forty documentaries, as well as the feature film "Year of the Dragon" and the television movie "Captain Frackass", have been delivered according to the scripts of Vizbor. Vizbor is considered one of the founders and the most prominent representatives of the author's song. He wrote a number of scripts and plays that were performed in many theaters in the country. The tales and stories of Vizbor were published mostly after his death. The book "I left my heart in the blue mountains" (1986-1989) had a circulation of 250 thousand copies. Passed away on September 17, 1984 from liver cancer in the Moscow Cancer Center on Kashirskoye Highway. He was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery of the capital.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Comedies

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Movies with Yuri Vizbor as Actor(10)

1971 Ночная смена
as Balashov1971 Byelorussian Station
as Sasha1971 You and Me
as Stepan Ivanovich1970 The Beginning
as Rudolph1970 Rudolfio
as Frantisek Behounek1969 The Red Tent
as Alik1967 July Rain
as Zakharov1967 Retribution

TV Shows/Series with Yuri Vizbor as Actor(2)

as Himself / ArchiveFootage2005 Как уходили кумиры
as Martin Bormann - Head of the NSDAP Party Chancellery1973 Seventeen Moments of Spring

Movies with Yuri Vizbor as Crew(4)

Writing/Writer1984 Капитан Фракасс
Sound/Music1967 July Rain

Citizenship: Soviet Union (former country)
Born: Wednesday, 06/20 1934 (June) in Moscow, RSFSR (Soviet Union)
Died: Monday, 09/17 1984 (September) in Moscow (aged: 50)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: Russian (RU, native language)
Educated at: Moscow State Pedagogical University
Member of: Union of Soviet Journalists, Union of Soviet Composers
Spouses (current/former): Ada Yakusheva, Yevgeniya Uralova
Related to: Varvara Vizbor
Other names for Yuri Vizbor (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Yuriy Vizbor"
"Юрий Визбор"
"Юрий Юзефович Визборас"
Yuri Vizbor frequently works together with these people:
Larisa Shepitko (3x, Crew)
Yulian Semyonov (3x, Crew)
Anatoli Papanov (2x, Actor)
Marlen Khutsiyev (2x, Crew)
Grigori Gaj (2x, Actor)
Nina Urgant (2x, Actress)
Gleb Panfilov (2x, Crew)
Viktor Shulgin (2x, Actor)
Valeriya Belova (2x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:65780, Added: 05/23/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024