Tatyana Pelttser

Tatyana Pelttser

Tatyana Pelttser in the 1920s
Born Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser
(1904-06-06)June 6, 1904
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died July 16, 1992(1992-07-16) (aged 88)
Moscow, Russia
Years active 1944 - 1989

Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser (Russian: Татья́на Ива́новна Пе́льтцер; June 6, 1904 in Moscow – July 16, 1992 in Moscow), was a Soviet theatre and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1960), and People's Artist of the USSR (1972).

Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser born into the family of the well-known actor Ivan Pelttser first took the stage at the age of nine. Initially she played in provincial theatres, and then was engaged in MGSPS Theatre (Moscow) and in Moscow Theatre of Miniatures subsequently. From 1947 she was a leading actress of the Satire Theatre.

Tatyana Pelttser made her film debut in the satirical comedy Marriage (Svadba) (1944), and then appeared in the drama film She Defends the Motherland (Ona zashchishchayet rodinu) (1943). Her first remarkable film role was that of Plaksina in Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s Simple People (1945). The actress gained enormous popularity with her role of Lukerya in the stage play Bride with a Dowry (Svadba s pridanym) (1953), which was filmed and demonstrated in the country's cinemas on a large scale. It was followed by another successful film, namely Soldier Ivan Brovkin (Soldat Ivan Brovkin) (1955), where she played the main character’s mother. Her first role in the Satire Theatre was that of Mrs. Jacobs in Evgeny Petrov's pamphlet "Island of Peace". In her benefit role of Aunt Tonia in the play Wake Up and Sing Tatyana Pelttser would sing, dance and fly upstairs with the sprite of a young girl, though she was already nearly seventy. In the same manner she performed Marselina in the play Crazy Day, or Marriage of Figaro. Among the great number of her roles in Satire Theatre there stood out her lead in Mother Courage and Her Children: it was an aged woman worn out by war and deprived of her childrenи.[1]

In 1972 Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser became the People's Artist of the USSR, the first one in the 48 years of the Satire Theatre's existence.[2]

Later the actress followed the stage director Mark Zakharov who shifted to the Lenkom Theatre.[3] In the late years of her life Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser started losing her memory. Specially for her Mark Zakharov staged the play A Funeral Prayer after the scenario by Grigori Gorin, who made up the character of the old Jewish woman Berta for Tatyana Pelttser.[4]

In 1992 after a nervous breakdown Tatyana Ivanovna found herself in a hospital and died on 16 July 1992. Tatyana Pelttser was buried at Vvedenskoe Cemetery nearby her father’s grave.[5]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Гениальная актриса Татьяна Пельтцер и азартная королева игры в преферанс. | Luckpoker
  2. ↑ Татьяна Пельтцер (Актерские трагедии)
  3. ↑ Корифей Театра сатиры актриса Нина Архипова: "На репетиции Татьяна Пельтцер сказала Марку Захарову: «Почему, если человек ничего не умеет, он лезет…» // Газета «Бульвар Гордона»
  4. ↑ Татьяну Пельтцер жестоко избивали пациенты психиатрической больницы
  5. ↑ Могила Пельтцер на Введенском кладбище

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