Leonid Bronevoy passed away
Today, domestic cinema has suffered a great loss: at the age of 89, the theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR, holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Leonid Sergeevich Bronevoy, has died.The future actor was born in 1928 in Kiev, but with the outbreak of World War II, their family was evacuated to Kazakhstan. Here Leonid Sergeevich received his secondary education and graduated from the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute. By the will of fate, Bronevoy was assigned first to Magnitogorsk, and then to Orenburg, but already in 1953 he entered the School-Studio. V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. After his studies, Leonid Sergeevich left Moscow again: this time the theaters of Grozny, Irkutsk and Voronezh were waiting for him. After the death of his first wife, the artist was forced to return to the capital, where all attempts to enter a theater at first ended in failure. However, in 1962 he was admitted to the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, to which Bronevoy devoted almost 25 years of his life, and only in the late 80s he moved to Lenkom.  Many performances in which Leonid Sergeevich participated were dearly loved by theater-goers, but nevertheless, it was cinema that helped him to become famous throughout the Union. The first appearance of the actor on big screens took place in 1965 in the film "Comrade Arseny". True, the most significant role came to him much later, when eight years later Bronevoy played Heinrich Muller in Seventeen Moments of Spring. The image of the head of the Gestapo created by him was so remembered by the audience that he was instantly taken apart for quotes. The same awaited other, no less colorful characters of Bronevoy from the films "The Same Munchausen", "Pokrovskie Vorota", "Formula of Love".  In the 90s, Bronevoy appeared in films less and less, but at the beginning of the decade there was another famous film with his participation, "The Promised Heaven" by Eldar Ryazanov, which won many awards. In 2007, after a ten-year break, Leonid Sergeevich returned to the big screens in the drama “Simple Things”, which won him the “Nika” award. The LostFilm.INFO editorial staff expresses sincere condolences to the family and friends of Leonid Sergeevich Bronevoy. The Topic of Article: Leonid Bronevoy passed away. |
