Background
Sverdlin, Lev was born on November 16, 1901.
Sverdlin, Lev was born on November 16, 1901.
Studied at the Lunacharskii High School and at the GVYTM (State Theatre Workshops). Pupil of V. Meyerhold, and from 1926, actor in his theatre.
Since 1922 at 1st Theater Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. 1938-1941 at Vakhtangov Theater. Roles: Schastlivtsev and Tikhon in Ostrovsky’s “Les” (The Forest) and “Groza” (The Thunderstorm).
Vereysky and Khlebnikov in Shteyn’s “Zakon chesti” (Code of Honor) and “Personalnoe delo” (A Personal Matter). Stepanov in Aeshin’s “Direktor” (The Director). Ilya Zhurbin in Kochetov and Kar’s “Semya Zhurbinykh” (The Zhurbin Family).
Kosogorov in “Pobeg v nochi” (Escape in the Night) by the Brothers Tura, etc. Since 1924 screen roles in: “Volochaevskie dni” (Days at Volochaevka). “Molodaya gvardiya” (The Young Guard).
“Daleko ot Moskvy” (Far from Moscow). Stalin in the film “Velikie dni” (Great Days) (1947).