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Native name
  
Борис Амарантов

Years active
  
1962–1987

Occupation
  
actor, director, mime

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Born
  
14 September 1940 (
1940-09-14
)
USSR

Died
  
3 March 1987, Moscow, Russia

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Boris Georgievich Amarantov (Russian: Бори́с Гео́ргиевич Амара́нтов; September 19, 1940 - March 3, 1987) was a Soviet actor of the original genre, actor and director. Winner of many international competitions and festivals.

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Biography

Born September 19, 1940 in the family dynastic priest.

Repeatedly I have done in Moscow, and only managed to enroll the sixth time the State College of Circus and Variety Arts (GUTSEI). Young candidate supported by a well-known clown-mime Leonid Yengibarov, a member of the selection committee.

In 1962 Boris graduated from GUTSEI performances Ke-la-la, which gave him Sergei castellan. With this performances he made in the Little Blue Light and starred in the film Tailwind, 'Blue Bird'!.

In the same year was awarded Amarantov VIII World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki, having made a real furor c is very topical for the time miniature Save the world (Nuclear workers finished badly) - a warning threat from escalating Cold War, the nuclear nightmare. The room was based on the combination and contrast two pieces of music - lyric of the song Top, top, stomping the baby by Tamara Miansarova and composition in rockabilly style called I Want You to Be My Baby, performed by American singer Lillian Briggs.

Soon Boris Amarantov creates its own theater of pantomime where born performance Miracles in his bag, delivered by Grigory Chukhray, Mark Donskoy and himself Amarantov. The play was a great success.

Later Amarantov became a victim of the machinations of the Soviet bureaucratic machine: as a result of intrigues on the part of senior officials of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR his theater closed repeatedly, and after recovery from it was himself fired Amarantov. Losing a job by profession, he was forced to make a living, serving as a night watchman. In July 1975, he wrote a letter to the Supreme Soviet Presidium of a statement renouncing his Soviet citizenship and the requirement to give him the right to exit from the USSR to the West. Having been refused, threatened and harassed.

In August 1977, he emigrated from the USSR to the United States arrived in November. Contrary to the hopes, the career of the actor in Amarantov in the US has not developed. He moved to France, where he attended the school of mime Marcel Marceau.

Back in the USSR, Boris Amarantov died under mysterious circumstances March 3, 1987. He was buried at the Vostryakovskoye Cemetery (129 section).

Filmography

  • On tomorrow's Street (1965)
  • Tailwind, 'Blue Bird'! (1967)
  • Love for Three Oranges (TV, 1970)
  • The big attraction (1974)
  • References

    Boris Amarantov Wikipedia