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Smoktunovsky, Innokenti : Collection of photographs of the Russian-Jewish Actor Innokenti Smoktunovsky (birth name Smoktunovich)

Russia, ca. 1960s.

Collection of 37 photographs 87 x 112 mm in rolls as 'Hamlet (1964)', directed by Grigori Kozintsev. and possible in Tchaikovsky (1969),'Uncle Vanya (1970). IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov: Innokenti Smoktunovsky (birth name Smoktunovich) was born in Siberian village of Tatianovka near Tomsk in 1925. His ancestors were Polish Jews exiled to Siberia for the Warsaw uprising in 1863. His father was killed in WWII. Smoktunovsky was drafted in the Red Army during WWII and was seized by the Nazis as a POW. He was on the road to a concentration camp, but managed to escape from the Nazis. He joined the partisans and served until the end of WWII. After the war he was under suspicion as a former POW and his career was limited to Siberia. Smoktunovsky was praised by Laurence Olivier for the leading role in 'Hamlet (1964)', a B&W screen version directed by Grigori Kozintsev. Leading roles in Tchaikovsky (1969), 'Uncle Vanya (1970)', were among the highlights in film career of this great Russian actor. He worked with Georgi Tovstonogov from 1957-72 on stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater (BDT) in Leningrad. He later moved to Moscow, where he worked at the Maly Theater and at the Moscow Art Theater (MKHAT). Moktunovsky wrote an autobiographical book titled "They left me alive", in which he described his survival in Siberia, in WWII, and back again in Siberia, where he started his brilliant acting career.

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