Pavel Kadochnikov

Pavel Petrovich Kadotschnikow (Russian Павел Петрович Кадочников; * 16 Julijul / July 29 1915greg in Petrograd. . † 2 May 1988 in Leningrad) was a Soviet actor, director and screenwriter.

Pawel Kadotschnikow graduated 1935, the Leningrad Theatre Institute. In his film debut in Sowerschennoletije of Boris Schreiber in the same year, followed in 1938 Sergei Jutkewitschs The man with the gun and Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible Two Piece I and II, in which he played three roles in 1945. In 1946 he played the title role in the 3D large-scale production Robinson Crusoe. It was followed by roles as Maxim Gorky in The Road to Life. Other important films were Alexander Stolpers The true man, in which he embodied the flyer Meressjew, Iossif Cheifiz ' A large family ( Actor Award at Cannes, together with the rest of the ensemble cast ) and Nikita Mikhalkov's Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano (1977). In Sergei Jutkewitschs Lenin in Paris ( 1981) he played the old Paul Lafargue, who along with his wife chose to commit suicide in Paris. His last film role was in Nikita Mikhalkov's Kadotschnikow 1987 black eyes.