Alexei Loktev - star of the Soviet cinema of the 60s

Alexey Loktev was incredibly popular and popular in the 60s of the last century. The actor himself, like his partner in the film "Farewell, pigeons!", Refers to people with an unrealized creative destiny. However, two such cult films, "Farewell, pigeons!" And "I walk around Moscow", in which Alexei Vasilyevich starred in the leading roles, forever put his name on the list of stars of Soviet cinema.

The departed idols

Alexei Loktev himself did not like the words that came to our lexicon after the collapse of Soviet ideology. "Star", "cult" - it's not about him. "Idol" - yes, he was an idol. And the last (2006) film, in which he played himself, is called - "How the idols left". People of the older generation remember the images created by him in such pictures as "The Life of Klim Samgin" or "Award (posthumously)." And in other roles he was always good, and the images created by him cause nostalgia for those glorious times, to which the songs "Here we are for a year grown up ..." and "And I'm walking, walking in Moscow ...".

Victim of a car crash

Alexei Loktev joined the endless list of actors who died in car accidents. And this death, not through his own fault, seems even more tragic from the fact that the artist, seemingly forever broke his career and life with alcoholism, managed to return to normal human and creative life and even create his own theater.

Heredity

The creative biography of Alexei Loktev began with an episode in the popular film "Different Fates" by L. Lukov, released on the screen in 1956. The boy was 17 years old, and he already tried to enter the VGIK, but did not go through the contest with the motivation "not oil-efficient". About the career of the actor as the only possible boy dreamed since childhood. The craving for the theater he inherited from his mother, who herself was a talented actress amateur theater. Her talent is indicated by the fact that her work was noted by the leaders of the Moscow Art Theater who toured in the Urals and was invited to Moscow. But my parents did not let me go.

The beginning of the creative path

Alexei Loktev was born in 1939 in Orsk, but already in 1943 he became a Muscovite, since his father was transferred to the capital. The boy went to the school and the actor's studio under ZIL. There, over the years of training, Alexei overplayed many roles from Buratino to Mercutio and, naturally, dreamed of going on stage. Therefore, I began to act right after school in VGIK. After the failure, only my mother and son were grieving, my father was glad and took the young man to his factory. Likhachev. However, a year later, A. Loktev successfully passes the entrance examinations, and he is enrolled as a student in the Theater Institute. Lunacharsky.

First success

And right away in the first year Alexei Loktev is an actor. He was invited to the main role of Genka in the film "Farewell, pigeons!". They invited him aggressively, because he believed in his nephotogenicity and hid from assistant directors Yakov Segel. The picture comes out on screens in 1961, and an incredible popularity hits the young man (in the film he introduced himself to the girl "Gennady, written with two" n).

The most stellar role and further career

In 1962, after graduating from GITIS, he entered the theater. Pushkin. Alexei Loktev (actor), whose biography in the big cinema began more than successfully, working in the theater, continues to appear in films. The second picture brings him the all-Union glory. And the role of the Siberian Volodya Ermakov, who turned out to be a trip in Moscow, became his most stellar. Then one after another went the work in the paintings "The First Snow", "Our Home", "Tunnel", "In Russia". All the pictures were diverse, the popular actor coped well with the roles. He was loved and recognizable. After 10 years of service in the theater. Pushkin Alexei Loktev in 1972 moved to the Maly Theater, which operates until the 1980s. Then he moved to Leningrad and became an actor of the Drama Theater. Pushkin.

Heavy years

In the courtyard 80's. Very many actors did not suffer a heavy perestroika time. Eugene Matveev, who until 1986 served as secretary of the Union of Cinematographers, could not without tears say that the salary of a theatrical actor is equal to the cost of a sausage stick, and to do with this little is possible. Actor Alexei Loktev, whose personal life was also not cloudless, began to drink heavily in Leningrad. In the city on the Neva, he lived with his younger son and civil wife Elena Alekseyevna Usenko, because of the serious illness of which they later moved to the village of Kalinino (Tver Region). The official wife, the actress of the theater at Liteiny, Loshchinin-Loktev, dies in 1988.

Director's talent

But Alexei Vasilievich had the strength and courage to start a new life. In 1989 he returned to Moscow. He was admitted to the theater "Glas", which was directed by Nikita Astakhov. AV Loktev in the 90's tries himself in directing. They were staged performances that were not left unnoticed by the public and criticized: "I'll be back!" (About Igor Talkov), "I Believe!" (Shukshin's plays), "Theodore and Anya" (about the last love of F. Dostoevsky). "Dostoyevsky's Last Love", in which A. Loktev was the director and played the main role, on the stage of the Theater. Mayakovsky went with great success for several years. The actor and director creates his own theater (TAL), and the musical and poetic performance "Visions on the Hill" dedicated to Nikolai Rubtsov was very successful among the audience.

Death of the actor

In September 2006, Alexei Loktev came to the film festival "Amur Autumn". Actors and directors visited the surrounding villages with concerts. The car in which A.Loktev was, the chairman of the jury of the festival Novozhilov, his assistants and the driver, ran at a huge speed into a minibus traveling along the main road. Alexey Vasilevich died on the way to the hospital. Literally before his death, Honored actor of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize (the role of Pavel Korchagin in the play "Dramatic Song"), A. Loktev gave an interview in which he said that he lives powerfully, interestingly and is in general in harmony with himself. The actor was buried at Volkovsky Cemetery in St. Petersburg. Alexei Loktev left four children and five grandchildren. In each article about him it is noted that the husband of the eldest daughter is the soloist of the group "Alisa" Konstantin Kinchev. The song of this group, entitled "What's Next," is dedicated to Loktev.