Actor Yulian Panich

Soviet actor Yulian Panich is well acquainted only with the older generation of spectators. However, the life of this extraordinary person is by no means exhausted by the cinema alone. During his long life, he managed to achieve many things as a journalist and public figure.

Biography Facts

Panich Julian Alexandrovich was born in May 1931 in the city of Zinovievsk in Ukraine in the family of a military doctor. Since 1946 he lived in Moscow, where in 1954 he successfully graduated from the Shchukin Theater School. This educational institution graduated from many outstanding actors and directors, it is considered to be a very good starting point for further professional growth. Julian Panich began his acting career at the Moscow Pushkin Theater. And in the early sixties he continued it in Lenkom in Leningrad. Several times the young actor tried his abilities in other theatrical collectives. And in parallel with work in the theater, Julian Panich's career develops as a film actor and director.

In movies and on television

In total, in the movie Julian Panich played about a dozen roles. He himself is very reserved about his achievements in this field. And his unconditional luck considers only the role of Fyodor Morozov from the movie "Different Fates". Despite the obvious dramatic weakness of this work, there are several bright characters in it. One of them was performed by a young actor Julian Panich. Strange as it may seem, but he never managed to repeat the success of this role from the distant year of 1956. Other of his images in the movie or were unsuccessful, or related to the roles of the second plan. But in the future Panich changed his acting profession to directing. From his full-length films to the audience, the 1969 film "Seeing White Nights" was remembered. In addition, on the creative account of the director there are several productions on Leningrad television. Later, he attempted to continue directing the work on Central Television in Moscow. But he was not given such an opportunity. It was this circumstance that caused his departure from the country.

Emigration

In 1972, Julian Panich, whose biography until now was developing quite well, becomes an emigrant. From the Soviet Union, he travels on an Israeli visa. The reason was the inability to continue his creative career. Initially, Julian Panich did not intend to go anywhere. His emigration was provoked by the special services who suspected Panich in connection with the Zionist organizations. And this in the Soviet Union was the basis for the ban on the profession. But in Israel Julian Panich stayed very short. From there, he moves to the United States, then to Germany. And for permanent residence chooses France. In this country at that time, many prominent representatives of Russian culture and literature lived and worked continuously. Some of them have settled in Paris since the First World War and the Revolution. Much is said by the fact that in the capital of France in the second half of the twentieth century several literary magazines were published in Russian and books by writers of Russian diaspora were published in considerable numbers.

On the radio "Freedom"

Yulian Panich really found himself only in the role of journalist of Radio Liberty. In this system he will be destined to work for several decades. And Panich begins his radio career as a permanent leading literary program. He happened to sound on the air a lot of works that made up the golden fund of Russian literature of the twentieth century. First of all, it is the "GULAG Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "The Soldier Ivan Chonkin" by Vladimir Voinovich, the poem "Moscow-Petushki" by Venedikt Erofeev. And also the works of Vladimir Maksimov, Vasily Grossman and many other authors whose work was not available to readers in the Soviet Union. In total, on the radio Panich, 38 literary productions were delivered. To numerous listeners of radio "Freedom" Julian Panich was remembered also as the author and the constant leader of the cultural and analytical program "Over the Barriers". The actor summed up his creative biography in the memoir book "Four Lives of Julian Panich, or the Wheel of Happiness."