Vladimir Gajdarov
Vladimir Georgijewitsch Gaidarow (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Гайдаров; born July 25, 1893 in Poltava, Russian Empire, † December 17, 1976 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Russian theater and film actor. He played in Czarist Russia, Germany and the Soviet Union.
Life
Vladimir Gaidarow studied from 1912 philosophy at Moscow University. Even during his studies he was taken in 1914 at the Moscow Art Theatre, where he was engaged until 1920. There he met the actress Olga Gsowskaja, whom he married shortly after. 1915 had Gaidarow his film debut with a minor role in Mara Kramskaja. He appeared in the episode together regularly with Gsowskaja in Russian films on, often under the direction of Yakov Protasanow. In the film adaptation of Tolstoy Otez Sergi (1917 ), he played alongside the Star of Tsarist cinema Ivan Mosschuchin the role of Nicholas I.. Gaidarow In November 1920 went with his wife on tour to Tallinn and Riga and came to Berlin in March 1921.
Together with other Russian exiles actors he was hired in 1921 for Carl Theodor Dreyer's The subscribed. Gaidarow convinced and came to Germany in 1930 in more than 20 films. Among his most famous roles The burning Acker ( 1922), the Paris Manfred Noa's two-part epic Troy Helena (1923 /24), Louis XIV include that of John Rog in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in the Dumas film The Man in the Iron Mask (1923 ) and Alexander I. Carl Froelich Louise, Queen of Prussia ( 1931). With his own production company in 1930 Gaidarow director of the German - Estonian film waves of passion, his first sound film.
1933 Gaidarow went with his wife back to the Soviet Union. They settled in 1934 in Leningrad down and held readings and literary lectures. From 1938 to 1968 he was engaged at the Leningrad Pushkin Theatre and only appeared occasionally in films. In 1940, Vladimir Gaidarow People's Artist of the RSFSR. For his role of General Paulus in the war film Stalingradskaja Bitwa (1949 ) he was in 1950 awarded the Stalin Prize.