Victor Mamaev

Soviet and Russian actor, theater director. In 1979, Mamaev graduated from GITIS. His thesis work was a performance at the Theater. Kirov "His people are considered" Ostrovsky and "Brutal Games" Arbuzov. In 1980, together with his teacher and director Iosif Tumanov, he staged the play “Little Earth” based on the work of the same name by Brezhnev. In 1980, Mamaev became co-director of the XXII Olympic Games in Moscow (the main director was I. Tumanov). It was Victor who launched the Olympic Mishka into the sky. During the Olympic Games, he became close to the creative team of filmmakers, headed by directors Yuri Ozerov. From 1979 he staged 47 performances, directed the theater studio "Russians" (1979-1996). A separate line is the work in the cinema as an actor. Mostly they are strong guys, builders of communism, naval sailors, just strong men, mostly film directors exploited the texture of Mamaev, but the actor-director himself thought out his image and tried to be on the screen different in character and appearance. In 1980, Viktor Mamaev graduated from the Higher Directing Courses and his graduation work was the short film "Brass Band" (1983), based on the story of the same name by Henrietta Semar.