Soviet Film Theatre Actor Ulyanov Signed Autograph Letter Aвтограф Ульянов

Soviet Film Theatre Actor Ulyanov Signed Autograph Letter Aвтограф Ульянов

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Mikhail Ulyanov Note (size 7 cm x 22 cm) addressed to the students of Moscow State University, dated February 2, 1965, he wrote this note in the visitor’s book. Good condition. Rare.   

Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov (1927 – 2007) was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognized persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named A People’s Artist of the USSR in 1969 and a Hero of socialist Labour in 1986 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.Ulyanov worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1950 and directed it from 1987. He played a wide range of characters on stage, with Rogozhin in Dostoevsky’s Idiot being the most remarkable of them. In 1979 he staged Vasily Shukshin’s epic novel “I have come to give you freedom” where he starred as Stepan Razin. In 1985 Mikhail Ulyanov staged the satirical pamphlet The Child Buyer by the American playwright John Hersey.As regards movies, he was frequently cast in the parts of Communist leaders like Vladim Lenin and Marshal Zhukov. His well-known character Yegor Trubnikov in Predsedatel (Chairman) (1964) became a Soviet classic and his most emblematic role.The Brothers Karamazov, a 1969 film he co-directed, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.  He also starred in Tema (1979) and Private Life (1982), the films that won top awards at the Berlin Film Festival and Venice Film Festival respectively.More recently, he was acclaimed for the roles of Julius Caesar in the screening of Shakespeare's play (1990), Pontius Pilate in the film adaptation of The Master and Margarita (1994), and an avenging veteran marksman in The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999), directed by Stanislav Govorukhin.

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