Minker Biography
The photo is Alexander Menacer - biography of Menacer Alexander Semenovich - a famous Soviet actor, director, pop artist, one of the duet participants called Mironov and Menacer. Honored Artist of Russia. Childhood and youth, as the well -known aphorism reads - "people at all times laugh only at three things in this world - politics, natural needs and sex." And if the last two in the Soviet Union was under the strict prohibition, then the political satire was masterfully turned into a way of promoting the general line of the party.
In such an atmosphere, Alexander Menacer was able to find another topic capable of laughing huge masses of people. For residents of the Soviet Union, the reason for laughter was the recitables about the distribution of roles in the family, as well as the daily dialogues of the spouses. At the same time, the comedian became famous not only thanks to his jokes, but also due to the fact that he is the father of the famous actor Andrei Mironov and Baletmeister Kirill Laskari.
The artist known throughout the country was born on April 8 in the city of St. Petersburg in a house on Goncharnaya Street. In a Jewish family, Semyon Menaker, who graduated from the Imperial University and held the position of lawyer and his wife Anna Iosifovna. A year after the birth of a boy, his father, who successfully engaged in exchange operations, joined the first merchant guild.
The family was considered very wealthy, in the city they had their own house in the very center of the city, as well as a suburban estate in Gatchina. Alexander Menacer, in his youth, children's and youth years of Alexander's biographies passed during the revolutions and transformation of the entire political system in the country. Nevertheless, parents sought to give the heir the best, in their opinion, education.
All their efforts came to naught when they realized that the child had no craving for academic education, but only a love of playing music and artistic improvisation. Among the hobbies of Little Alik, and that’s what the homemade called Alexander, was the creation of musical instruments from everything that fell under his hand, including domestic utensils. At the age of fifteen, Menacer found the work of a musical designer in the Living Newspaper Leningrad called the “machine”.
There, he was happy to blow on the puffs, played the piano, extracted all kinds of sounds and a noise and a rattle. Over time, a talented guy was noticed by Boris Krupyshev, at that time a well -known performer on the stage. It was this artist that helped the young guy enter the Blue Jazz group under his leadership, as an equal participant. Simultaneously with work and performances, the future star of the stage received professional education in the studio at the Great Drama Theater, where he entered the acting department in the year.
And later in the year he transferred to the technical school of stage arts to the director's faculty.
In the year, the young man got a job at the state association of pop music, music and circus, and in the Langorestrad, where he performed feuilletons and musical parodies. A year later, he had already worked in the Music Hall, where he served as a director and actor. The theater and cinema in the period with a year to Menacer performed on the stage of the musical Hall in Leningrad in a pair with Evgenia Mikhailovna Fish, who at that time was already the wife of Vitaly Police.
He became one of the directors of the television program “Mosk dependent”, as well as the performer and creator of the musical feuilleton called “Pray for it! Thanks to acting and organizational abilities, the theater of two actors appeared in the biography of the menaker. A partner in it was a wife with whom they played ridiculous miniatures dedicated to family life. In these sketches, Mironova portrayed a near imperious woman, and the time Alexander played the role of a miserable henpecker.
Alexander Menacer in the duet “Mironova and Menacer” for the year - the duet “Mironova and Menacer” began his solo performance. Among the first numbers were miniatures “Familiar Portraits” and “Moscow Meetings”. The artistic director was Menacer. Their main program included “talking letters”, “in our house”, “family affairs”. In the duet he created, Menacer faded into the background, allowing his beloved wife to shine with all the faces of his acting.
In the family archives, today you can see photographs on which the performances of the star couple are captured. If we talk about filmography, then films are dominated by the Reia style shot in the style. In which comic scenes and pop numbers are in an original way. The debut picture in the biography of Alexander Semenovich was a film, which came out in the year and called "short stories." Subsequently, film critics said that this film became a prerequisite for the creation of the television project “Object of 13 chairs”.
The duet of Menaker and Mironova on this project created the images of Mrs. Christina and her spouse, who aroused keen interest among viewers. Alexander Menacer in the film “Short Stories” by the next picture, in which Alexander Semenovich was proposed by the role of the comedy tape “New Year's abduction”. It is not strange, but here the actor played himself.A spouse and the youngest of his sons also worked with him on the same site.
The storyline tells about the head of amateur performances and all participants who decided to organize a concert on the territory of the fire department, so to speak with a “twinkle”. To do this, it was necessary to kidnap the famous artists. The crime undertook to investigate the local policeman, whose role was brilliantly played by Mikhail Pugovkin. In the full-length film, which was called “Funny Stars”, the names of the actors Maria Vladimirovna and Alexander Semenovich were preserved, but they were not artists, but appeared before the public in the image of an official-bureaucrat and his beloved, but capricious wife.
The playwright in this story was Leonid Zorin, who did his job exclusively for a married couple. The film as its name resembles a film from Claude Lelush and in it Menacer appeared before fans in the image of Ananiah of Garunsky - "a man of rather vulnerable and imaginary." At the same time, his wife was supposed to show eight different female images at once. They may be familiar.