Nikolai Okhlopkov
Actor
Biography
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Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (15 May 1900 – 8 January 1967) was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold. He was born in Irkutsk, Siberia and started his acting career there in 1918. Since 1930, he directed the Realistic Theatre in Moscow, although his directing style was hardly realistic: he was the first to place spectators on the stage around the actors, in order to restore intimacy between the audience and the company. In 1938, his theatre was closed and he moved to the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 1943 he established the Mayakovsky Theatre, which continues his traditions to this day. Okhlopkov was awarded the Stalin Prize and four USSR State Prizes. He also directed a production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1954, the first time this play was staged there since World War II. Okhlopkov died at Moscow in 1967.
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As Director
Filmography
Alexander Nevsky
as Vasili Buslai 1938
Lenin in October
as Vasily 1937
Lenin in 1918
as Vasili, Lenin's protege 1939
Story of a Real Man
as Kommissar Worobjew 1948
1812
as Gen. Barclay de Tolly 1943
The Traitor
as Unknown sailor 1926
Banda batki Knysha
as Violinist 1924
The Bay of Death
as Sailor 1926
The Fires of Baku
as Shatrov 1958
Men and Jobs
as Foreman Zakharov 1932
Light over Russia
as Anton Zabelin 1947
Far from Moscow
as Batmanov 1950
Yakov Sverdlov
as Feodor Chaliapin 1940
Mitya
as Mitya 1927