Great Lame

• Great Lame

September 21 Zinovy ​​Gerdt 100 years. Marks, and it would not pass. For me, he is alive, his role and of course his voice.

I have no right to praise the great artists and write and rewrite much is known about him. You already know it. And if you do not know, I envy you. I envy you because you have a chance to discover a beautiful, new, novel, unique.

I just want to remind you that today is his birthday.

He was a child of each sign

Wrinkles such nice features, but rises to the throat com, When it comes to the ramp Gerdt.

His fate envelope is opened!

And let thundering applause, After all, he's a single Gerdt -

Russian Federation.

He participated in the war. In June 1941, a volunteer went to the front. In December 1941, he graduated from the special short-term training camp in the Moscow Military Engineering Academy and was assigned to the Kalinin, and then - to the Voronezh Front. He served as chief of engineering service 81-th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 25th Guards Rifle Division. Guards Senior Lieutenant. February 12, 1943, on the outskirts of Kharkov, in mine enemy mine fields for the passage of Soviet tanks, was seriously wounded in the leg by shrapnel tank shell. After eleven (!!!) operations, the most important of which is the lead surgeon Botkin Hospital Vincentini K. (wife of the designer S. Korolev), the actor kept the damaged leg, which has since been 8 centimeters shorter than the healthy and forced the artist to limp badly. War invalid of III group. Here I want to show you an excerpt from a benefit Gerdt.

See it, have a look. YaPlakal here. Six weeks after these shootings Zinovy ​​Gerdt died.

On stage, three war veteran ...

His voice can not be faked. In those times, when the voice sounded Gerdt mostly behind the scenes (from 1951 he was engaged in dubbing movies) and on the radio, to him it is a wonderful message. Two pages spectator four recalled the timbre of his voice. Then he adds that when he hears this voice, then ran from the kitchen to the radio, and it all burns at this time. And at the end there was a small pripisochka: "Honestly, I would like to have a child with this tone."

But the thought of her voice Gerdt his son Vsevolod: "I accept all his art My opinion: the father, of course, talented person, an outstanding actor, masterfully wielding his voice - fantastically unique, filigree possession Not only voice, yet over... voice intonation. A delicious voice. " These words supplement the statement nephew Gerdt Eduard Skvortsov, "Oh voice Gerdt can write separately I can only say that for me, its timbre, intonation are as necessary as the voice of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Utesova and Kim bringing this man to live.. at other times and in different space - he lost to in the hive, but we were lucky: Gerdt turned our compatriot and contemporary therefore choose it profession fitter and turner - it would Gosha from the film "Moscow Does not believe in tears" could out of it... to turn pro slavlenny teacher or a great musician, but he became an actor -. and this is another success for all of us. "

He had an excellent memory. He claimed that he knew all Pushkin by heart. Contemporaries joked about it this way:

"You Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe,

Even Babel moget ... ".

It's up to his last days kept his sharp mind and tongue. When Yevgeny Mironov Gerdt came to congratulate the 80th anniversary, Gerdt started and said:

- Yes! Jack, you know - I was awarded the Order today!

for getting pride was so unexpected in the mouth of Zinovy ​​Yefimovich that Mironov was a little confused.

- Yes, - said the weighty Gerdt - I'm a decorated!

And right off the bat:

- Tanya, Kate! Where is my order? Give it here!

Tatiana came (wife):

- Zyamochka, why do you order?

A Gerdt - to cry

- Give me my order! That I lie, like an asshole, without the Order!

Order found. Gerdt put it on the robe, lay so little, and said:

- Here, Jack. "For Merit of the third degree."

He paused and added:

- What if my merits of the third degree, or Fatherland ...

Enumerate filmography Gerdt? OKS! 72 (!!!) the performances of the film + 10 + 9 + auditions 107 (!!!) dubbing - ozvuchek / movies roles, cartoons and more great stuff.

And his jokes and aphorisms? In its other sense than in books by contemporary authors - "No matter what happens, one must continue to live. If for no other reason, then at least out of curiosity. "

Or his immortal - "I liked the taste and who is worse, they all loved it." ***

Or - young journalist gave quite brilliant dialogue, which took place from her Gerdt: "Well, my child? You will take to interview me? "-" Yes, Zinovy ​​E. ... "-" Oh, you all just one want from me ..! "

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When Gurchenko starred in Leningrad in the movie "The Shadow" by Schwartz, Gerdt played a minister, and she - his mistress. On the day of the first meeting, it is best remembered its unusual "jumping" limp - "It makes it original and memorable." In the course of the film Gurchenko, even when young, sat down on his knees Zinovy ​​Yefimovich. Gerdt years later he recalled that he had received then on with the audience meeting note:

- Tell me what you feel when Gurchenko sit on your lap?

Actor replied:

- God grant you once in your life to feel what I then felt!

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Gerdt once asked:

- Zalman, how life?

- Passes ... - said the actor.