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Evgeny Shvarts: biography, photos, works
A very difficult life lived a wonderful playwright, novelist, screenwriter Eugene Schwartz. All that was enough in his life was a wound, from which he did not recover until the end of his life, and refusals in the publications and productions of his works, and the loss of friends during the repressions. There was also a great love that lasted thirty years until his death.
Childhood and youth
Eugene Schwartz was born in the family of a Jewish doctor, but he always considered himself Russian. He graduated from a real school, and soon the cadet, more precisely, already promoted to the rank of ensign, got to the front in eighteen years. In the capture of Yekaterinodar in the army Kornilov got a concussion. He has left his hands trembling for life.
After demobilization, he seeks himself, and only after hitting Leningrad, Eugene Schwartz from 1923 begins to publish in children's magazines "Hedgehog" and "Chizh". He is included in the literary environment. He is kindly accepted as a wonderful storyteller and inventor. At the same time, he draws closer to the literary group "Serapion Brothers", which includes Vsevolod Ivanov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Veniamin Kaverin. Kaverin introduces Eugene Schwartz with his sister Catherine. And the mutual love that they have carried through all life flares up. It is about this love, as many people think, says the Wizard of the "Ordinary Miracle".
Dramaturgy
In 1929 in Leningrad, in the Youth Theater, his first play, Underwood, was staged. Later two more plays. As a result, Evgeny Shvarts was admitted to the Writers' Union. This, of course, is a success.
But the NKVD crushed the publishing house "Chizh". And friends of Schwartz Nikolai Oleinikov and Nikolai Zabolotsky are arrested. Children's literature is becoming suspicious and dangerous.
Eugene Schwartz tries to write comedies for adults. But his plays, for example, "Shadow", were too close to political satire, and therefore they were not put. But there are publications of articles in the newspapers.
War
The first blockade winter, Yevgeny Lvovich is in Leningrad, and as he himself testifies, he sees how people cease to be people from fear. But at the top of the decision to evacuate Schwarz to Kirov. There he will write a play "One Night", which no one will take. The same will happen with the next play "The Far Edge". The play "Dragon" is also not put.
Shooting movies
In 1946 he released the film "Cinderella", still loved. And the writer's work is separately noted.
Relentless work
Eugene Schwartz is full of new ideas and ideas. He writes more and more plays and scripts, which almost all do not pass censorship. "Vasilisa Worker", "First Name", "One Day". And, finally, in 1954 Kozintsev took up his script "Don Quixote". However, at the congress of Soviet writers Eugenia Schwartz is accused of severing forms from content. Spitting in the face. And for a while, Eugene Lvovich stops writing.
In 1956, for his sixtieth birthday in Moscow and Leningrad, his program tale "Ordinary Miracle" was staged. In the same year in Leningrad there is a solemn evening in honor of Yevgeny Lvovich. And by the end of the year he is awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. And his plays were published for the first time in one collection. That's what Eugene Schwartz looks like (photo).
In 1957 in Cannes show his film "Don Quixote". This is a significant event in his life. But health is already failing. On the eve of 1958, the premiere of the play "A Tale of the Young Spouses", which he waited ten years. And in two weeks the writer dies. It was so difficult for a wonderful storyteller, who was Eugene Schwartz. His biography consisted of work and attempts to put his plays. And if he wrote and unreasonably, joyfully, all things began with the fact that dark forces were gathering, but the ending was usually joyful and cloudless. His creativity brought the people hope. Perhaps, and not all had time to tell us Eugene Schwartz. The biography will briefly list everything he wrote. After all, he gave all his best in his works.
Life after death
In 1971, the film of Nadezhda Kosheverova on the play-tale of Schwartz "Shadow" was released. In a fairytale magical land, a scientist, simple-minded and trusting Christian Theodore is in love with a beautiful princess.
In 1988, the director Mark Zakharov put the film-parable "Kill the dragon" based on the play by Schwartz "The Dragon".
Good storyteller Eugene Lvovich Schwartz always asked that in his tales not looking for subtext and allegory. But it was all read out right away, even where the author himself did not expect. And nowadays it is just necessary to address again and again to his works, because they are ambiguous.
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