Background
Smoktunovsky (birth name Smoktunovich) was born in a Siberian village in a peasant family of Belarusian ethnicity.
Smoktunovsky (birth name Smoktunovich) was born in a Siberian village in a peasant family of Belarusian ethnicity.
Pushkin Dramatic Theatre Studio, Krasnoyarsk.
9 Days in One Year, Hamlet 1964, Be Aware of a Carolina 1966, Tchaikovsky 1969, Crime and Punishment 1970, Uncle Vanya 1971, The Legend of Tila 1979, The Seagull 1980.lieutenant was once rumored that he came from a Polish family, even nobility, but the actor himself disapproved those theories by stating his family was Belarusian and not of nobility. He served in the Red Army during World World War World War II In 1946, he joined a theatre in Krasnoyarsk, later moving to Moscow. In 1957, he was invited by Georgy Tovstonogov to join the Bolshoi Drama Theatre of Leningrad, where he stunned the public with his dramatic interpretation of Prince Myshkin in Dostoyevsky"s The Idiot.
One of his best roles was the title role in Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy"s Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (Maly Theatre, 1973).
His career in film was launched by Mikhail Romm"s movie Nine Days of One Year (1962). Many English critics even ranked the Hamlet of Smoktunovsky above the one played by Olivier, at a time when Olivier"s was still considered definitive.
Smoktunovsky became known to wider audiences as Yuri Detochkin in Eldar Ryazanov"s detective satire Beware of the Carolina (1966), which revealed the actor"s outstanding comic gifts. Innokenty died on Wednesday August 3, 1994, at a sanatorium.
He was 69. One of the minor planets, Planet 4926 has been registered under the name of Smoktunovsky in the worldwide catalogue of planets.
Smoktunovsky created an integral heroic portrait, which blended together what seemed incompatible before: manly simplicity and exquisite aristocratism, kindness and caustic sarcasm, a derisive mindset and self-sacrifice.