"From the Soviet Information ..." - the words, familiar from old movies, military chronicle 1941-1945 gg. Nobody thinks, they could be sounded completely different person. meanwhile, the risk was never to hear the voice of Levitan. And that's why…
From childhood, "Jura-pipe" wanted to be an actor or an opera singer. However, the Film Institute was not accepted due to highly visible Jewish appearance. Then, on the fence, he saw an advertisement for the contest announcers. Even without a clue, what is it, the young man went on trial. Thanks to the intercession of the People's Artist of the USSR Vasily Kachalov, celebrated a rare timbre entrant, the young man took the training.
For the first time on the radio, Yuri Levitan went out into the night 25 January 1934 of the year. hearing his, Joseph Stalin once ordered: this young man will read my report to the 17 party Congress! In this way, at 19 years got dizzy start of his career.
When the war began, people learned from him about the defeat and retreat, and then - the victory and liberation of the city. His voice was known. And apparently he did not recognize anyone, in May 1945 the year is almost played a trick on him. The announcer could not get through to the studio, to announce the victory of the Soviet Union, through the crowd, Waited its ester. People told him: stand and wait for Posts by Levitan, as everybody…
Why Levitan called the symbol of the USSR? What was the fate of the great announcer? For what it liked Stalin and Hitler hated? How much effort it cost him to keep his composure during the transmission of reports from the front? Why Gagarin himself stretched out in front of him to attention "attention" and more, You learn from the video.
/Artem Kuznetsov /
