Tarkovsky and I had many plans. He wanted to make Hamlet into a movie with me. One day he came running excitedly: “Oleg, let’s teach Hamlet in English - we have money.” - “I’m crazy, how can you learn Hamlet in English?” In “Nostalgia” I played in Italian, but “Hamlet”... He said: “No, just learn the monologue “To be or not to be?” I can only guess how he wanted to film...
I had to play for him in “Sacrifice”. But he was already a defector, and I was not allowed to film.
Work and meetings with Andrey seemed to me like a random gift of fate; they were accompanied by fear, lack of faith in one’s own strength, and were insane happiness. I never tried to understand these mixed feelings, much less understand them. I just absorbed, like a sponge, everything that came from Andrei, from his environment, from his father. It was a short - huge - life with its own color, light, smell, poetry and look...
We weren't close friends. Andrey always remained a mysterious, not completely understandable person for me. A strange, unexpected director. Our relationship was not easy to build... Like Vysotsky, he was one of the leaders of our generation. The only director to whom I, as an actor, wanted to entrust myself completely, without thinking, without any doubts.
He could only work with those with whom he had a natural, some kind of biological connection.
Tarkovsky was a truly Russian artist, the embodiment of conscientiousness, maximalism, inner freedom, and spiritual strength.
Andrei was, perhaps, the only director I knew of whom it was absolutely pointless to ask anything, to demand specific instructions. Contact happened only when I “dragged my soul,” straining not only acting, but also human efforts... It was impossible to lie to Andrey, because in such people the conscience of a generation is embodied.
This closed, tough man could be funny, and touching, and tender, and dead tired.
From the memoirs of Oleg Yankovsky
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Крейцерова соната (1987)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1987)
Oleg Yankovsky as Poznyshev
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You've just finished watching the 1978 Russian romantic drama The Shooting Party, in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man. Now you fall asleep dreaming of Oleg Yankovsky with a 70s soundtrack to match.
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Oleg İvanoviç Yankovski, Rus oyuncu. Modern entelektüellerin güç psikolojilerini canlandırdığı rolleriyle ünlenmiştir. 1991'de, Alla Pugacheva'yla birlikte, SSCB Halkın Sanatçısı olarak isimlendirilen son kişi olmuştur.
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