Archila Gomiashvili biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. His father Mikhail Gomiashvili, a graduate of the Moscow School of Red Professors, at that time worked as chairman of the coal miners' committee in the Donbass. Upon learning of the appearance of the heir, Mikhail sent his wife a congratulatory telegram with a request to name the boy Victor. But relatives decided that the newborn should bear the name of the grandfather-priest Archil, repressed by false denunciation.

He was released only at the end of the Great Patriotic War, after which he returned to Georgia, broken by party betrayal. Arch Gomiashvili in childhood, Archil’s childhood took place in Ukraine and Georgia, but he never felt the oppression from his peers due to nationality or place of residence. He graduated from a Russian school, and in Georgian he began to speak only at fourteen.

The boy early began to show leadership abilities, and his indefatigable energy often served as the reason for drives to the police. So, at the age of sixteen, he was already arrested for contact with crime.

Having graduated from the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi, in the year, Archl went to the Alexander Griboedov Theater to design the production of the Lisichka play. The performance was staged by Georgy Tovstonogov, the artistic director of the troupe. For Gomiashvili, it was a surprise to the director’s proposal to play the role of Leo Hammer, but from that moment Archil began to play in almost all Tovstonogov’s productions.

Archil Gomiashvili in his youth in the year of the director was invited to Moscow, and he invited Archil to go with him. The actor without specialized education entered the Moscow Art Theater School. But the character could not be changed, and Gomiashvili again fell into an unpleasant story, becoming a participant in a fight in a bar, after which he was expelled from the university.

Archil went back to Georgia and began to work at the Konstantin Marjanishvili Theater. After some time, Gomiashvili was again invited to the troupe of the Tbilisi Theater. In parallel with the service in the theater, Archil also starred in the cinema. So, in X he starred in the paintings “Mole”, “Other times now” and “Explosion after midnight”. However, despite the film works, Gomiashvili still remained a little -known provincial actor, about which the general public knew almost nothing.

Nevertheless, he was recommended by Leonid Gaida when he began to work on the feature film “12 chairs” at the end of the X. Archil Gomiashvili and Leonid Gaidai, the director had already chosen almost the entire composition of the actors, including Sergei Filippov, who eventually brilliantly embodied the image of Kisa Vorobyaninov on the screen. But with the choice of the hero to the main role of Ostap Bender, problems arose.

They also offered this role to Vladimir Vysotsky, who was prevented by alcohol dependence. Archil Gomiashvili in the image of Ostap Bender after numerous samples for the role was approved by Alexander Belyavsky, but the young actor did not have enough charismatic and brightness. The shooting was suspended and began to look for a new Ostap. Leonid Iovich, along with the assistants, went to Gorky, where he just toured with his musical-monospel Gomiashvili.

Gaidu liked the assertiveness and energy of the summer actor, his ability to stay on the stage and a cunning gleam in his eyes. And although Bender in the script was no more than thirty, Archil Mikhailovich was approved for the role. Gomiashvili showed the power of his talent, and after the coming of the comedy, the audience fell in love with the screens. The stunning success of the film in the year brought Archil not only all -Union glory, but also a warrant for a three -room apartment in Moscow, where he soon moved.

Nevertheless, in his later interview, Gomiashvili complained that Gaidai did not give him the opportunity to reveal the role as he wanted - Bender on the screen almost completely voiced Yuri Sarantsev, and Archil only later found out that without his consent had no right to do this. The songs that sounded in the picture were performed by Valery Zolotukhin.

Gomiashvili believed that he did not reveal the character of the hero, playing him as if on the run, following the rhythm of the picture. Nevertheless, the whole country recognized him as an actor thanks to Ostap Bender. After overwhelming success, the artist was going to continue to play this role in the Lenin Komsomol Theater, whose troupe hit after the move.

Having proposed to Zakharov’s script for his musical, Archil did not know that the director had his own option about the great combinator. The release of the film “12 chairs” with Andrei Mironov in the title role painfully hit the pride of Gomiashvili. But the telepremier reconciled him with Gaidai, who called the new version of the comedy “criminal offense”. Archil himself until the end of his days believed that Mark Zakharov was to blame for his failed theater career.

Then he starred in the role of a scoundrel-member of Mimino, Jacob in the Golden Rune and Pasha Fokin in my beloved clone five times Gomiashvili created in different films the image of Joseph Stalin “The State Border.The year forty -first ”,“ Stalingrad ”,“ The tragedy of the century ”and“ War of Western direction ”The actor’s last work in the same role - both in cinema and, in principle, took place in the year in the Military Drama of Yuri Ozerov“ Angels of Death ”.

Archil Gomiashvili in the film “Mimino” The failed Stirlitz is difficult to imagine someone except Vyacheslav Tikhonov as the legendary intelligence officer Maxim Isaev, but, according to Gomiashvili, he was initially approved for the role of Stirlits in the television movie of spring. However, to his misfortune, working on the script, Archil fell in love with the director Tatyana Liosnova, and they had a service novel.

Archil Gomiashvili and Tatyana Liosnova already had a name in the cinema, and he managed to prove to the leadership of the studio that the role was created specifically for him. Liosnova, on which they put pressure on the top, was self -confused from a specific choice, which was very offensive to Archil. Offended, he threw everything and went to Georgia. Having received a telegram with a request to return, he ignored it.

According to Gomiashvili, when the role was given to Tikhonov, he was offered to play Müller, which seemed even more offensive to the actor. He went to West Berlin to discuss the idea with Michael himself and agree on financing the project. After success in the cinema, Archil Gomiashvili became a businessman, a German businessman refused to contact the film business, but gave Archil ten casino playing halls.

In addition, Gomiashvili won more than one hundred thousand marks in the casino. So the desire for creativity overnight made him a wealthy man, and Gomiashvili decided to open his own club with a restaurant in Moscow, calling him the Golden Ostap. The Archila Gomiashvili club of the Golden Ostap, the institution has become one of the most popular places in the capital of the beginning of X, recognized as the best even by European standards.

The personal life of Archil Gomiashvili despite the popularity among women of the creative environment, the first wife of the actor was Yana Mailova, a doctor. In this marriage, Gomiashvili had a daughter Karina. The birth of the child did not hold out the knot, and the couple dispersed. The second wife of Archila was the Georgian actress Liana Mandzhavidza, whom Gomiashvili met in Tbilisi.

Two boys appeared in the family - Zurab and Michael, and a little later the couple broke up. The second wife of Gomiashvili Liana Mandzhavidza, as the actor himself said, Liana’s jealousy sometimes went into mania, and even in his habit to take a cold shower every morning, she suspected the future betrayal. Archil was not holy and loved women, but was not going to get divorced.

Nevertheless, the families did not work out, although Gomiashvili always adored his boys and supported in every possible way. A few years after the divorce, the actor lived a bachelor, engaged in a career. But once a man met a young ballerina named Tatyana, who offered his hand and heart, despite the greater age difference, his lover was 24 years old. The artist remembered his second marriage with a laugh: “Marrying me, she knew how to do anything.

I remember that in the early days of our marriage, Tanya decided to pamper me and prepared my favorite soup with giblets. I cut the chicken stomach and found there everything that was originally in a living chicken ... Now Tatyana is preparing all the dishes of our Golden Ostap restaurant. And some are better than cooks! Archila’s daughters - Nina and Katya Gomiashvili despite her own youth, the woman was wise and loving, always ready to help a friend and faithful companion in life.

The daughters of Gomiashvili, Nina and Catherine tied their lives with art and gave Archil's grandchildren. The death of actor Archil Gomiashvili always attentive to his own health and was examined annually. That is why the diagnosis of doctors - a cancer of the respiratory tract with metastases to the lungs - struck for Archil and his relatives like thunder. In America, a summer actor was done by several operations to remove a tumor and lymph nodes - there were more than forty of them.

As soon as Archil Mikhailovich felt better, he immediately escaped from the hospital, arrived in Moscow and gathered all friends in his Golden Ostap. Archil Gomiashvili in old age according to the granddaughter of actor Anastasia, death complications were hidden from him, although Gomiashvili and began to guess about them after a sharp deterioration. Tatyana's wife was nearby.

Metastases spread throughout the body very quickly, so in the last days of his life Gomiashvili was already silent and did not recognize anyone. The actor died on May 31 in the oncological department of the hospital. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery of Moscow next to the grave of Natalia Gundareva. The relatives installed a memory in the grave of her beloved husband, father and grandfather Monument - the figure of Archil Gomiashvili as Ostap Bender.

He stands, leaning forward a little, leaning his boot on the famous carved chair, and looks somewhere into the distance. Fans from Cheboksary also honored the memory of Gomiashvili, erecting his monument in the role of Ostap Bender in one of the local squares. Archil Gomiashvili: The latest news and articles.