Oleg Dal was born in Moscow region, Liublino (25. 05. 1941). His father was a famous railway engineer, the mother was a school teacher. Oleg was fond of basketball but then the theatre has took all his attention. In 1959 he entered the Shchukin Higher Drama School. which graduated in 1963. O. Dal worked in several theatres. The first movie role was during his student years in A. Zarkhi's "My younger brother", where he played Alik.
The next roles let Oleg Dal to open his incredible, natural gift as a born artist. He was brilliant in any kind of movie: comedy, tragedy, fairy-tales, war films... No matter what time or character Dal chose, classical writers were as close as modern |
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ones for him. Every person became the person from the big letter. He could to show the inner movements of soul with slight intonation or just a look. Oleg Dal played two characters in the same film (Soldier and puppet theatre man) and both of them were alive and real. Not all of his films reached the people in time. "The holiday in September" by Vampilov's play got at the shelf and could be seen only in 1987. Prince Florizel is considered the one of the best works of Dal. Ironical man, who isn't afraid of anything, even the death, gets in various adventures, surprise with unusual reactions and wit comments. Oleg Dal died in Kiev in 1981.
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Screenplay and Director: Georgi Kozintsev, Music: Dmitri Shostakovich. Starring: Yuri Yarvet, Elza Radzinya, Galina Volchek, Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, Alexei Petrenko. Drama by the tragedy of W. Shakespeare (translation of Boris Pasternak, the fool’s songs in S. Marshak’s translation).
© Film studio “Lenfilm”, 1970, 140 minutes, black and white.
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Director: Elena Kosheverova. Starring: Oleg Dal, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Marina Neyolova, Liudmila Gurchenko, Andrei Mironov, Sergei Filippov. A fairytale film after Evgeny Shvarts’s play is a wise and funny story about the struggle of a kind and clever Scientist against his miserable and mean Shade.
© “Lenfilm”, 1971, 92 minutes, color film.
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Eugene, Little Eugene and Katyusha
Director: Vladimir Motil. Starring: Oleg Dal, Mikhail Kokshenov, Georgy Shtil, Galina Figlovskaya.
A private Zhenja Kolishkin, the fragile intellectual who grew up on Moscow's Arbat, is completely unfit for a war. Having gone on a new year's eve to receive mail, he comes across a German dugout. He's lucky to escape safely, but punishment in guardroom is inevitable. Zhenja's unenviable destiny is brightened up by Zhenechka ('Little Eugene'), she is a radio comminications soldier in a Katyusha platoon ('Katyusha', a tender name for Ekaterina, is also a nickname for famous WWII artillery installation). Time will pass, and they will meet in an enormous empty house in the city freed from the Nazis,
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| and will play a childrens game Cat and Mouse... This is one of the most gentle pictures about war. |
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Directors A. Mkrtchyan, L. Popov. Starring: O. Dal, V. Dvorzhetsky, G. Vitsin, Ì. Esambaev, N. Gritsenko, A. Chuhrai et al.
After V. A. Obruchev’s novel. The secret land lost among the arctic ice has been exciting the travelers for over one hundred years. The film heroes go on an expedition that is financed by a rich owner of gold mines. They found a flourishing oasis among an icy silence. But as it turned out an earthquake would destroy the oasis very soon…
© “Mosfilm”, 1973, 91 m
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A bad, good man
Director: Iosif Heifits.
Starring: Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotsky, Liudmila Maksakova, Anatoly Papanov.
Based on A.P. Chekhov’s short story “The Duel”. A dramatic story of the young men, two intellectuals of nineties of the previous century. The story tells the public how complicated human nature is …
“Lenfilm”, 1973, color film, 90 min. |
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Director: L. Gaidai. Starring: Ì. Pugovkin, N. Grebeshkova, V. Nevinny, Ì. Svetin, O. Dal, S. Kriuchkova, Ì. Kokshenov, N. Selezniova, Å. Zharikov, L. Eremina, L. Kuravlyov, V. Telichkina, L. Shagalova, Vitsin, S. Kramarov, S. Kharitonova, S. Filippov et al. A satirical comedy based on the literary works of Mikhail Zoschenko. The film consists of three short stories about provincial life of the country of Soviets: “Crime and Punishment”, “A funny Adventure” and “A Wedding Incident”. The action takes place at the end of twenties and at the beginning of thirties but the events the film is laughing at, i.e. dullness, hard drinking, aspiration for profit and a lightminded attitude to life are still existing quite well and everywhere.
© “Mosfilm”, 1975, 92 min.
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Director: Å. Tatarsky. Starring: O. Dal, D. Banionis, I. Dmitriev, Å. Solovey, L. Polischuk, Å. Kindinov et al. Based on the short stories of R. Stevenson “Club of Suicides” and “Rajah’s Diamond” the film narrates (ironically, to some extent) about a thrilling struggle of the prince from a far-away country against a mysterious and horrible Chairman – the king of the criminal world.
© USSR Gosteleradio, 1979. “Lenfilm” studio production, 190 min.
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