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Vladimir Balon - Biography, News, Personal Life Age: 88 From the birthday of death: 75 years Vladimir Yakovlevich Balon. Born on February 23 in Leningrad - died on February 2 in Moscow. The Soviet and Russian actor and director Trucks, athlete athlete, USSR master of sports Vladimir Balon was born on February 23 in Leningrad now St. Petersburg. Mother - Antonina Vladimirovna Balon - worked in the editorial office of a newspaper in Murmansk, later, when the family moved to Leningrad, worked as a ticket at the Alexandrinsky Theater.

In childhood, he was very ill, grew a weak child. He had tuberculosis, bronchial asthma and a whole bouquet of diseases, because of which he studied at the forest school, registered in a tuberculosis dispensary and did not engage in physical education. However, he was tired of this, and Vladimir, in the year, having mined the “linden” certificate that he was healthy, for the company with friends went to the fencing section of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers.

In the year, Vladimir Balon graduated from the Institute of Physical Education named after P. Lesgft, coach - Konstantin Trofimovich Bulochko. In years in Leningrad, he enjoyed a reputation as a stool, led a rather stormy lifestyle: “The local newspapers of that time were full of feuilletons like:“ The musketeer on a slippery path by that time was already a bad glory, as if I were a tag of all the nasty things, drunkenness and debauchery.

In fact, this was not so. It was just my wife at that time that was the first soloist of the Berryska and all time and all time and all the time. The husbands of her girlfriend -colleague gathered at the tour and “quietly” was the time of the “birch”, all the “bumps” poured out at me, ”he recalled, and when Eldar Ryazanov began the filming of his film“ Hussar Ballad ”, Balon was invited to the picture as an experienced fenc All the tricks and fights, I will never forget my arrival in the place of Dmitrovo, on February, the village with the House of Rest, where the filming group was thrust.

And with the gold medal "Champion of the USSR" on the lapel. Everyone gasped! Because everyone has the shape of clothing - boots and a sheepskin coat, ”Balon recalled. Vladimir Ball in the cinema, he participated in the masses in roles of either the French or Russians during the battles. He also played one of the episodic roles - adjutant Kutuzov. After that, in the year Vladimir Yakovlevich left professional sport and went to cinema, although he did not have acting.

Often, the directors invited him to star in some role in those paintings where he was the director of the battles. So in the year he starred in two paintings, where he played three characters - “Damn a dozen” and “step from the roof”, where all the heroes fenced him. But there were also films where there were no battles, and the balon was just starring as an actor - “Give me a complaint book”, “Nikolai Bauman”, “Princess of the Circus”, “Insolence”, “Petka in space” and others.

Sometimes Vladimir Balon was invited to put fencing on the theater stage - so, he put fencing in the play “Romeo and Juliet” in the production of Anatoly Efros in the theater in Malaya Bronnaya. This meeting with the great director took place thanks to the recommendation of Leo Durov, whom Vladimir Yakovlevich met on the set of the film "Sea Stories".

In the year he was invited to shoot the film "Director". Due to the tragic death of the main role, Evgeny Urbansky, the picture was suspended. And later it was already removed with other actors. In the year, Vladimir Balon was invited as a fencing director to the film “Beware of the Car”, where Eldar Ryazanov also tried him for the role of Semisvetov, which was then played by Andrei Mironov.

Interestingly, in the novel by A. Dumas de Jussak, only one time appears - in the stage of the duel of the musketeers of the king and the guards of the cardinal at the monastery of Dekho. But it was Vladimir Balon who suggested that the director make this role in the film a larger - a collective image, since according to the book of supporters of the cardinal of enemies of musketeers there were five or six.

All actors who played the main roles in the first film were invited. Vladimir Balon was the director of the tricks in the Musketeers twenty years later with the participation of Vitaliy Vasilkov and the Secret of Queen Anna, or the musketeers thirty years later, "and in the painting" Return of the musketeers, or the treasures of Cardinal Mazarini "taught actors fencing and set fencing battles.

In the year, director Svetlana Druzhinina invited him to put fencing in the four -class picture “Midsurina, forward! Vladimir Yakovlevich repeatedly spoke about the production of tricks in this picture in an interview with reporters: “I remember that in the“ midshipmen ”they shot a long battle between Boyarsky and Zhigunov. The fight begins in the room, then they move up the spiral staircase, fight on the balustrade, then both fall down, fencing there and fly back to the same room.That is, such a vicious circle turned out when I told the operator on the eve of how it will happen, he grimaced: “Listen, why are these difficulties?

They waved blades in front of the camera for the look - and good! But the scene turned out brilliantly - I would have it into the top three of my best staged battles. I turned out to be a“ dialogue on the gland. ”As Vladimir Balon admitted, on the shooting, on the shooting, on the set. He seriously injured the actor Sergei Zhigunov’s sword - the Balon’s sword was slightly higher than the eyeball, and Zhigunov almost lost his vision in the year.

At the end of the 10th - early X, Vladimir Balon gathered the Tricky team of PTK "Potylikha" and led them this team took part in the films "Stalin's funeral" and "Vivat, midshipmen! Later, on the basis of this team, the Mosfilm-Autotryuk auto studio was created in the year, where Vladimir Yakovlevich served as the director for up to a year, until he left the studio in connection with a change in its structure.

In the x years, Vladimir Balon starred little. In addition to the “return of the musketeers, or the treasures of Cardinal Mazarini,” he tried himself in the genre of the series by playing the role of the criminal authority of Gennady Karamyshev “The Mars of Turkish” and the teacher on the stage movement of Nikolai Protasov “detectives-3”. His last work was the episode at the beginning of the film “Syvy Merin”.

But the disease was won with the help of surgical intervention. However, after some time the disease returned. In May, the balon was diagnosed with lung cancer. This time the operation did not bring positive results. Vladimir Balon died on February 2, not having lived a few weeks before his flying. Personal life of Vladimir Balon: The first wife is Tatyana, his classmate. Were married to a year.

The couple had a daughter Elena, who is currently living in Vilnius, works as a biology teacher and the director of the Russian school at the same time. The second wife is Jella Stepanovna Agafonova genus. We got married in the year. At the time of acquaintance - the soloist of the ensemble "Birch". They were introduced to his friend actor Igor Dmitriev.