Biography of Nikolai Danelia

He shot the first films as a student, the debut picture became “Hey, Semenov! In the year in Moscow, George Danelia published a collection “I was fine, is it that the happiness began to be born in Soviet times in a creative family - a director and actress, a stamping in a movie, fiction, literary environment? To have access to cultural values ​​that are not available to other youths just by the right of their birth.

Yes, in addition to be born a comprehensively gifted personality with a magnificent imagination and a hot rapid temperament, at the same time be a beloved son, for whom all paths in art are open? Yes, this is a huge gift of fate, but, as it turned out, and the medal about the two sides ... But, by the way, about that next. So, in the year in the family of the legendary filmmaker George Danelia and the famous and popularly beloved actress Lyubov Sokolova, the son of Kolya was born, who possessed all the above benefits.

Olga Ball in an article from the anthology “Leave. Live ”T. made the impression of a bright, successful, rarely harmonious person. For those interested, we add: the films “The amazing story of one chicken”, “Man” and “Hey, Semenov! And Kolya, in addition to the directorial and artistic experiments in painting,, like his father, gravitated to a surreal, absurd, grotesque images as a poet.

But these verses are strange. They absolutely do not fit into the textbook framework of the Russian poetic tradition. And in general, they do not fit in the tradition. These verses are by no means an attempt to build a poetic career, print in magazines, publish books .... This, if you want, is part of his self -expression, protest and rebellion. The films, the paintings that he managed to make is still an allegory.

Poems of Kolya Danelia are the other side of the coin. These are aliens without skin running along a hot roof. In them, he expressed all his most sincere opinions about the surrounding, his youthful maximalist rebellion. Of course, the mood played an important role here, which penetrated on Wednesday of Soviet bohemian youth from France at the end of X, where at that time there were serious student uprisings.

The driving force of uprisings, in addition to the general youth protest, the most famous slogan-“prohibiting forbidden”, there were different extreme left ideas: Marxist-Leninist, Trotskyist, Maoist, anarchist, often rewritten in the romantic and protest spirit. Probably, precisely because the verses of Danelia a little later became popular among rock and rolling youth.

Elena Kuzmenok, originally from Minsk, who was personally familiar with Kolya, living in Moscow and studying at VGIK, wrote under the pseudonym Ena Trump's story “Marseillaise”, where the main character, rock singer, sings songs on the verses of Danelia. And now you can see that his poems laid out in the VKontakte community affect the souls of young and impudent. Poems from the first book “My Friends” were addressed by Nikolai just to friends, so everything is very true, signed by “Nikolai Danelia [Goodwin]” and published by friends in Minsk in the year, do not shine with virtuoso rhymes, many rhymes and vocabulary intentionally?

These are the works of mocking, sarcastic, causing, ironic to the world and to themselves. They generally look like an experiment, psychotherapy, with which the author is trying to figure out himself and in difficult reality. They are extremely frank. Nikolai is not shy in those places where it is justified to use obscene vocabulary, the mention of drugs is found.

Danelia was not dependent on substances, but from time to time experimented with an altered state of consciousness. There is an assumption that friends who gained poems with manuscripts tried to convey the schedule as close as possible, and in the manuscripts the handwriting of Danelia was just so - large that he once again emphasizes the sharpness, sweeping, pain, scream, with which he tried to charge these lines.

Let's make a remark: the circulation of a book, which was 10 thousand, was mainly lost or destroyed for unknown reasons? In the second book “I started it perfectly ...”, which was published by Father George Danelia in Moscow in the year, the caplins were shot. The second book is more elegant and stylishly designed, published on thick paper, competently compiled, but ...

looks desuited, ironed, “trimmed”, as if bashfully hiding what the poet probably wanted to scurry about. Of course, in the second book there is no longer an obscene vocabulary, frank sexual statements, drug references ... The cover of the book of Nikolai Danelia “I started it perfectly ...” M. definitely no one will say now. Although friends also indicate that it could be a criminal story.

Elena Mashkova recalls Nicholas in the last years: “Somewhere at the end of the winter of the year, Kolka moved to Sviblovo. In the year he had a youngest daughter. Poems, by the way, are also written in Sviblovo, before the birth of a daughter. In M, he launched at Mosfilm with a debut. In the summer of the year he took it off. In M, he wrote a script for a full -length film, with which he would certainly start in production.And on December 6, something went wrong ...

”One can definitely say one thing-the death of a young talented son became a deep drama for his parents and especially for George Danelia, a drama, which he experienced until the end of his life, with a high degree of probability, carried the burden of guilt that he did not save his son. A large ship is a great swimming. When a lot is given, a lot and one wonders.

Of course, over the young and hot artist Nikolai Danelia, who tried to find his tongue in art, was affected by the powerful authority of his father. No, not cruel, but very loving. And trying to show his son as it should. But, perhaps here, of course, we cannot say anything, only to assume, in this way he became one of those against whom Colin Riot was directed. Parents moved into another world, insisting on the formula "died under unclear circumstances." However, who knows that for the story of Verrier - naked truth or fiction?

But also no one knows what is more bitter from ... The verses of Nikolai Danelia are a painful, sometimes terrible experience of self -knowledge, an attempt to understand and express what the earthly world is. Quite often, a technique is found, as it were, removal from yourself, from your body, a look at yourself from the side and a conversation with yourself - not to those, others. Nikolai Danelia is still primarily a director and artist.

He is the poet in the third place. As is known from the memories of friends, he always rejoiced when the poem turned out, but did not attach much importance to it, did not try to publish poetry. These verses are with a few exceptions, about which Olga Ball writes in the article in the anthology “Leave. To live ”are deprived of or, say, are freed from the influences of both the classics of the 19th century, and emasculated socialist realistic poetry, and the energy field of the Silver Age.

To some extent, this is the position of Voltaura's candidate, which, from its “simple-minded” positions and through unpretentious forms, tries to show nonsense, curvature and the vicious of the moments on which the eye of society was blurred. Although ... some seemingly unpretentious works are actually not so simple. It is not for nothing that many verses are so difficult to graphically recorded: a column, a complex ladder, a broken, prickly, deceiving the expectations of an unequivy of unions to another line, which, when reading, creates a special rhythm.

Danelia also uses the techniques of absurdity, grotesque, toxic sarcasm. And his statement - largely thanks to this - hits the point even more aimed. Poems by Nikolai Danelia:.