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Occupation
  
Actor, Singer

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Mark Bernes


Awards
  
Years active
  
1929-1969

Children
  
Natasha Bernes

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Full Name
  
Mark Naumovich Neyman (Neumann)

Born
  
September 25, 1911 (
1911-09-25
)
Nizhyn, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire

Died
  
August 16, 1969, Moscow, Russia

Movies
  
Two Soldiers, The Turning Point, The Third Blow, The Ural Front

Spouse
  
Lilia Bodrova (m. 1960–1969), Polina Linetskaya (m. 1932–1956)

Similar People
  
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Leonid Utyosov, Iosif Kobzon, Vladimir Vysotsky, Leonid Lukov

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Mark Naumovich Bernes (Russian: Ма́рк Нау́мович Берне́с) (October 8 [O.S. September 25] 1911, Nezhin, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire - August 16, 1969, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet actor and singer of Jewish ancestry (his father's last name was Neumann), who performed some of the most poignant songs to come out of World War II, including Tyomnaya noch (Russian: Тёмная ночь, Dark Night; 1943) and Zhuravli (Russian: Журавли, Cranes; 1969). His voice had some similarities to Bing Crosby, but his style was closer to French chansonniers such as Yves Montand.

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Life and work

In late 1930s, not long before the war, Mark Bernes starred in two motion pictures: Man With a Rifle and The Fighter Planes . In both of these films, he performed songs, which immediately became famous all over the Soviet Union after each film was released. In the former film, he performed the song Clouds Rose Over the City, which was a romantic song of a simple young Soviet worker. In the later film, he performed a famous patriotic ballad Beloved Town. This pre-war song was full of hope and optimism, and several years later, this song helped soldiers during the war.

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When the war began, Bernes became among the first singers to perform for the Soviet troops. In 1943, he starred in the motion picture Two Fighters. He played a young soldier from Odessa named Arkady Dzubin. In that film, Bernes demonstrated typically Jewish wit and humor, such humor that was characteristic of Jews from Odessa. In that film, he sang two masterpiece songs: Tyomnaya noch and Shalandy polnye kefali (Russian: Шаланды полные кефали, Scows Full of Mullet).The second song is the humorous account of Kostya the sailor man from Odessa who ironically spoke to his fiancee Sonya the fishing girl. The first song, "Dark Night" was a serious ballad about a wife with a baby child waiting for the soldier, who was in the midst of a deadly fight. The song was sung by Bernes from the point of view of that soldier, who addressed his wife at home and assured her that he will live through all the deadly battles as long as she waits for him. "Dark Night" is the most recognizable Soviet song from World War II.

Bernes's name had become closely associated with World War II. After the war, he continued to perform songs about the war. His greatest hits of the 1950s were Boys From Moscow (also known as Sergey From Malaya Bronnaya Street) and Enemies Burned His Home Village. Both songs were about hardships suffered by people who lost family members in the war. Both songs expressed extreme melancholy and pain of the losses in the war, and both songs directly confronted death and grief. The latter song, Enemies Burned His Home Village was banned by the government, because it was considered too pessimistic and too anti-Soviet. In the song, the soldier grieves for his killed wife and laments that his hopes had been shattered. By the reasoning of the Soviet authorities, it was unpatriotic to sing about broken hopes when the war was won, and thus, all the hopes became reality. In the 1950s, Mark Bernes also performed torch songs such as the sentimental ballad I Dreamed of You Three Years and inspirational optimistic songs such as the march I Love You, My Life.

In 1969, Mark Bernes was dying from lung cancer. In the summer of 1969, he recorded his last song Ballad About the Cranes, which became his testament before death. Bernes sang that the soldiers that perished in war turned into cranes. He sang that the cranes are still in their flight and that soon, he will join their ranks. On August 16, Mark Bernes died. Ballad About the Cranes was played at his funeral.

  • "Zhuravli" ("Журавли")
  • "Tyomnaya Noch" ("Тёмная ночь")
  • "Shalandy polnyie kefali" ("Шаланды, полные кефали")
  • "S Chego Nachinayetsya Rodina" ("С чего начинается Родина")
  • "Ya lyublyu tebya, zhizn'" ("Я люблю тебя, жизнь")
  • "Khotyat Li Russkie Voyny" ("Хотят ли русские войны")
  • "Spyat Kurgany Tyomnyie" ("Спят курганы тёмные")
  • "Kogda poyot daliokiy drug" ("Когда поёт далёкий друг")
  • "Vragi sozhgli rodnuyu khatu" ("Враги сожгли родную хату")
  • Honors

    Bernes received People's Actor of the RSFSR (1965), was awarded the Stalin Prize (1951), two orders, and many medals. in 1993 Bernes get star on the Star Square in Moscow.

    A minor planet 3038 Bernes discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1978 is named after him.

    Filmography

    Actor
    1967
    Zhenya, Zhenechka i 'Katyusha' as
    polkovnik Karavayev
    1966
    Skazki russkogo lesa (TV Movie)(1966)
    1963
    Eto sluchilos v militsii as
    polkovnik Proshin (as M. Bernes)
    1963
    Shestnadtsataya vesna as
    Narrator (voice)
    1963
    Appassionata (TV Movie) as
    Gil - shyofyor Lenina (as M. Bernes)
    1959
    Osobyy podkhod as
    Nikolay Dmitriyevich Nalimov (as M. Bernes)
    1958
    V sest rano na letisti as
    Kapitán
    1958
    Tsel ego zhizni as
    Ivan Maksimovich Anufriyev (as M. Bernes)
    1957
    Nochnoy patrul as
    Pavel Obruchev / 'Ogonyok'
    1956
    Delo N. 306 as
    Vasiliy Gradov (as M. Bernes)
    1956
    Oni byli pervymi as
    Ivan Rodionov (as M. Bernes)
    1955
    Dym v lesu as
    Vasili Fedoseyev (voice)
    1955
    More studyonoye as
    Okladnikov
    1954
    The Boys from Leningrad as
    Lev Kolomyagin, trener (as M. Bernes)
    1954
    School of Courage as
    Afansii Chubuk
    1954
    Ogni na reke as
    Starshiy pomoshchik kapitana (as M. Bernes)
    1953
    Maximka as
    Russian ship's doctor
    1951
    V stepi (Short)
    1951
    Taras Shevchenko as
    Captain Kosarev (as M. Bernes)
    1950
    Far from Moscow as
    Umara-Magomet (as M. Bernes)
    1948
    Tretiy udar as
    Soldier Chmyga
    1946
    Bolshaya zhizn. 2 seriya as
    Petukhov
    1945
    The Turning Point as
    'Minutka' - the commander's chauffeur (as M. Bernes)
    1944
    Bolshaya zemlya as
    Aleksei Kozyryov
    1943
    Two Soldiers as
    Arkadiy Dzyubin
    1943
    Doroga k zvyozdam as
    General Kozhukharov
    1942
    Diary of a Nazi (segment "Block 14") (as M. Bernes)
    1942
    Boyevoy kinosbornik 8 (segment "Three in a Tank")
    1941
    Wings of Victory as
    Air Parade Commentator
    1940
    Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Short) as
    Inspector
    1939
    Bolshaya zhizn as
    Petukhov (as M. Bernes)
    1939
    Istrebiteli as
    Sergey Kozhukharov
    1938
    The Man with the Gun as
    Kostya Zhigilev
    1938
    Staraya Krepost'
    1937
    Shakhtyory as
    Krasovskiy - shpion
    1936
    Prisoners as
    Prisoner (uncredited)
    Soundtrack
    2017
    The Americans (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Dyatkovo (2017) - (performer: "Zhuravli")
    1968
    Shchit i mech (TV Mini Series) (performer: "S chego nachinaetsya Rodina")
    1957
    Nochnoy patrul (performer: "Pesnya o Rodine")
    1943
    Two Soldiers (performer: "Tyomnaya noch", "Shalandy, polnye kefali", "Bessmertnyy Leningrad")
    1939
    Istrebiteli (performer: "Lyubimyy gorod")
    1938
    The Man with the Gun (performer: "Tuchi nad gorodom vstali")
    Self
    1967
    Zabavlja vas Mija Aleksic (TV Series)
    - Episode #2.1 (1967)
    Archive Footage
    2019
    The Other Day with Leonid Parfyonov (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Namedni-1946 (2019) - Self
    2005
    Kak ukhodili kumiry (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Mark Bernes (2005) - Self
    1994
    Valentina Georgiyevna, Vash vykhod! (Documentary)
    1991
    Kak eto delalos v Odesse... ili Odessity vsekh stran, soedinyaites! (TV Movie documentary)

    References

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