Victor Rozov

Viktor Sergueïevitch Rozov (in Russian: Виктор Сергеевич Розов, 8 August 1913 - 28 September 2004) was a Soviet dramatist. He was awarded the Stalin Prize (USSR State Prize) in 1967. He wrote more than 20 dramatic pieces and 6 film scripts, including Вечно живые/Life Eternal, the basis for his film script The Cranes Are Flying. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Letters, and was the president of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.

Viktor Sergeyevich Rozov
Native name
Виктор Сергеевич Розов
Born(1913-08-21)21 August 1913
Yaroslavl, Russian Empire
DiedMoscow, Russia
Resting placeVagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
OccupationPlaywright
CitizenshipSovietRussian

Biography

Viktor Rozov was the son of accountant Sergueï Fiodorovitch Rozov (a soldier who fought in World War One) et Ekaterina Ilinitchna. During the Yaroslavl rebellion in 1918, the family home was burned, the family moved to Vetlouga. It was there that Viktor complete three years of primary education. From 1923, he lived and studied in Kostroma. In 1929, he failed the entrance exams at the Russian State University of Agriculture in Moscow and started working in a textile factory in Kostroma. That same year, he became a regular actor and spectator of Kostroma's youth theater. In 1932 he entered the Technical School in Kostroma. In 1934, he entered the Theatre of Revolution School in Moscow (under the direction of Maria Babanova).

After the entry into war of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Rozov joined the 8th National Division Popular militia in the Krasnopresnenskaya district. In the autumn of that year, he was seriously injured. He left hospital in mid-1942, and led a propaganda group at the front; at the same time, he took correspondence courses at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. At the end of the war, he interrupted his studies at the institute and founded the Theatre for children and youth of Almaty. Returning to Moscow, he worked as an actor and director at the Theatre of the Central House of Railway Culture. In 1953, Rozov completed his studies at the Institute of Literature.

From 1949, his plays have been staged in various theatres. His play Friends, presented in 1949 at the Central Youth Theatreh failed to see the light because it was considered "too sentimental". Director Anatoly Efros directed Rozov's "Well and good!", "Finding Joy", "The Wedding Day" and "Before Dinner"),[1][2] with Oleg Yefremov. Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying, was an adaptation of Rozov's "Life Eternal". He received the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival "for his humanism, his unity and his high artistic quality".

Rozov died at the age of 91 and was interred at Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow.

Personal life

Rozov married Nadiejda Varfolomiéiévna Kozlova (born 1919). He had a son, Sergueï (born 1953) - a director -, and a daughter, Tatiana (born 1960) – an actress at the Moscow Art Theatre.

Works

Plays
  • Life Eternal (Вечно живые, 1943)
  • Her Friends (1949)
  • The Page of Life/Your Way) (1953)
  • In the good time! (1955)
  • Finding Joy (1958)
  • Freemasters (1959)
  • The unequal battle (1960)
  • On the Road (1962)
  • Before dinner (1962)
  • On the wedding day (1964)
  • The inventor (1966)
  • Ordinary history (1966, according to I. A. Goncharov)
  • The Traditional Collection (1967)
  • On the treadmill (1968)
  • From evening until noon (1970)
  • Boys (Brother Alyosha) (1971, based Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov)
  • The Situation (1973)
  • The Four Drops (1974)
  • Riders from the station Rosa (1978, by. V. Krapivin)
  • The nest of the grouse (1979)
  • The Host (1982)
  • By the Sea (Kabanchik) (1986)
  • At Home (The Return) (1989)
  • Hidden spring (1989)
  • Lyubkin (1991, according to N. Narokov’s novel Imaginary Values)
  • Hoffman (1996)

Filmography (screenwriter)
  • 1956 - In good time!
  • 1957 - The Cranes Are Flying - the screen version of the play "Life Eternal"
  • 1959 - Letter Never Sent
  • 1960 - Noisy Day - the film adaptation of the comedy "Finding Joy"
  • 1961 - Auf der Suche nach Glück ( Germany ) - German television version of the film "Finding Joy" (1957)
  • 1962 - På jakt efter lyckan “Finding Joy” (Sweden, in collaboration with Lennart Lagerval)
  • 1968 - On the wedding day
  • 1972 - For All the Responsibility - the film adaptation of the play "The Traditional Collection"
  • 1972 - Life Page
  • 1973 - In Good Time! - TV version of the play of the same name
  • 1975 - To the end of the world ...
  • 1980 - A Siketfajd fészke (The Grouse's Nest) ( Hungary )
  • 1980 - Before dinner (TV show)
  • 1981 - 'From evening until noon
  • 1982 - A few drops (movie)
  • 1987 - The Riders
  • 1987 - Grouse's Nest (drama play)

Distinctions

He received Russian and Soviet orders and awards, such as:

References
  1. Walter, Manon (2006). Springer (ed.). Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917–2000. p. 70. ISBN 9781403984692. OCLC 124039430.
  2. Efros, Anatoly (2007). Peter Lang (ed.). The Craft of Rehearsal: Further Reflections on Interpretation and Practice. p. 216. ISBN 9780820488608. OCLC 608231765.
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