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$3 Million

Mini Biography

Leonid Iovich Gaidai was created about January 30, 1923, in the city of Svobodny, Amur region of Siberia, USSR. He was the 3rd kid in the category of a railroad employee. His father, called Iov Isidorovich Gaidai, was exiled to Siberia from Poltava, Ukraine. His mom, called Maria Ivanovna Lubimova, originated from the Russian town of Ryazan. In 1930 the family members shifted to the Siberian town of Irkutsk. There Gaidai visited college and graduated in June of 1941. In 1941, through the Nazi occupation of Russia in the next World Battle, Gaidai was drafted in debt Military. He was designated towards the front-line Military intelligence in the Kalinin Front side near Moscow. Because he spoke German, he was involved with clandestine intelligence procedures against the Nazi invaders. In 1943 he was significantly wounded, when he stepped on the property mine. He became literally handicapped and was embellished for his courage. He was discharged with honors like a disabled experienced of WWII. Gaidai returned to Siberian town of Irkutsk, Right now there he studied performing at the Theatre Studio from the Irkutsk Theatre Theater. He graduated in 1947, and was an acting professional of this theatre until 1949. From 1949-1955 he researched as film movie director at Condition Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) under Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Romm and Ivan Pyrev. From 1955 Gaidai was a film movie director in the Mosfilm Studios under his coach Mikhail Romm. Gaidai utilized literary materials by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov, Mikhail A. Bulgakov, Mikhail Zoschenko, and O. Henry among additional writers. His early movies from the 1950’s had little achievement. In the 1960’s Gaidai developed the “goldmine” with comedians Yuriy Nikulin, Georgiy Vitsin, Evgeniy Morgunov, and Aleksandr Demyanenko. Comedies with those stars had been the highest-grossing package office strikes ever in the Soviet Union using the attendance of 222,800,000 in the 1st 15 weeks. Total admissions from the Gaidai’s comedies through the 1960’s just in the USSR exceeded 600,000,000 without keeping track of the reruns as well as the international sales. Through the 1970s and 1980s Gaidai caused the very best comedians from the Soviet cinema, such as for example Evgeniy Leonov, Leonid Kuravlyov, Archil Gomiashvili, Mikhail Pugovkin, Yuriy Yakovlev and several other renown actors. Alhough the unavoidable changes in culture during “perestroika” affected the film market, Gaidai’s movies still remained at the top. Gaidai’s comedies on video actually gained popularity following the collapse from the Soviet Union. Inside a 1995 poll in Russia, ‘Brilliantovaya ruka’ (1968) was voted the very best Russian humor ever. Financial success didn’t reach Gaidai personally, he lived inside a co-op toned and had the same 1 car, “Lada”, powered by his wife, actress Nina Grebeshkova for quite some time. She was the fortress behind his achievement when you are a peaceful help rather than demanding a lot more than that they had. She referred to her spouse, Gaidai, to be like the popular personality ‘Shurik’ in his movies. Leonid Gaidai passed away of thrombo-embolic disease and problems of his WWII wounds on November 19, 1993, in Moscow. He was laid to rest in the Kuntsevsky Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.

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