Radomir Vasilevsky is a famous Soviet and Ukrainian film director and cameraman. His most famous camera work is the painting "Spring on Zarechnaya Street". From this article you can find out the biography of Radomir Vasilevsky, a list of his film works and facts from his personal life.
Early years
Radomir Borisovich Vasilevsky was born on September 27, 1930 in the city of Chelyabinsk, in a we althy family of the head of an oil trust. On his tenth birthday, Radomir received a Smena camera as a gift from his parents. Despite his young age, the boy quickly mastered the camera, and soon developed and printed pictures on his own. Showing interest in school geometry lessons, by the age of 14, Radomir learned how to perfectly line up frames for photographs.
Boris Vasilevsky wanted to see his son continue his profession and sent him to study in Moscow. However, after studying for two years at the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas, the young man realized that this was not his profession, and dropped out of school. In 1951 heentered the camera department of VGIKA, studied at the workshop of Boris Volchek.
These short films by Radomir Vasilevsky "The Tale of a Child's Toy" and "Ilmensky Reserve" became graduation works, which even won the main award at the International Student Film Festival.
Camera work
After graduating from the institute in 1954, Radomir Vasilevsky was invited to work in the camera staff of the Moldovafilm studio. His debut camera work was the film "Moldovan Melodies" - it was the first feature film of the film studio and the Moldovan production as a whole. After that, Radomir got a job at the Odessa film studio, where his first work was the famous feature film "Spring on Zarechnaya Street". Radomir Vasilevsky performed the work of the second cameraman and was responsible for all large and medium shots of the picture.
The list of films directed by Vasilevsky includes such films as "Eaglet" (1957), "Green Van" (1958), "Chernomorochka" (1959), "Return" (1960), "Companeros" (1962), "Come Tomorrow" (1963).
Creativity break
Despite his advances in camera work, 33-year-old Radomir Vasilevsky was still not sure he had found himself. After finishing work on the film "Come Tomorrow", he took a sabbatical for two years. In 1965, Vasilevsky appeared in a cameo roletrapper in the short film "Komesk". This appearance on the screen was the only one in Radomir's entire career, however, in many informational articles, for some reason he is often called an actor.
Become a director
In 1966, Radomir Vasilevsky decided to try himself as a stage director. The debut was his joint work with Valery Isakov "Pursuit". In 1967, Radomir met Radiy Pogodin, a children's writer from Leningrad and the winner of the international Andersen Prize, and decided to make a film based on his script. It was called "Dubravka" and received the main prize of the Republican Film Festival. In this work, Radomir finally felt that his vocation was directing children's films. In a duet with Pogodin, he shot three more children's films: "Step from the Roof" (1970), "Turn on the Northern Lights" (1972) and "Stories about Keshka and his friends" (1974). All three films were hugely popular with the audience, and "Step from the Roof" even received an award at the International Film Festival in Italy.
In 1975, Vasilevsky made a picture for an adult audience - "The Journey of Mrs. Shelton". However, unlike the director's children's work, the audience took it coldly. From 1976 to 1981, two more children's films written by Pogodin and two adults were released. The director's next success was the 1982 film "4:0 in favor of Tanya". Critics called it "scarce" material among the same type of stream of children'spaintings. The next film, again created in collaboration with Pogodin, "What Senka Had", filmed in 1984, was also highly appreciated by critics and viewers and won an award in the children's program of the international festival in West Berlin. Throughout his career, Radomir Vasilevsky directed 19 films. His last directorial work was the children's fairy tale film "Like a Smith of Fortune Searched", which was released in 1999, after the director's death.
Private life
Radomir Vasilevsky met his first wife, Lilia, while studying at VGIK. They entered the same year, but at different faculties. In 1951 they got married, and in 1952 their daughter Tatyana was born. In 1956, during the filming of the film "Spring on Zarechnaya Street", an affair started between Nina Ivanova and Radomir Vasilevsky. Not thinking about the future fate of his wife and daughter, Radomir announced to Lilya that he fell in love with another woman, and they parted. The shock of the unfortunate woman was so strong that she lost her sight and partially turned gray. In the same 1956, Vasilevsky married Nina. Their marriage did not last long, as Radomir soon convicted his second wife of treason. Nina Ivanova in the photo below.
For the third and last time, Radomir Vasilevsky married only in 1977 to costume designer Tatyana Poddubnaya, and in 1978 they had a daughter, Elena.
Radomir Borisovich died on February 10, 1988 at the age of 67.
