Николай Крючков. Мировой парень

V sovetskom kino Nikolaĭ Kriuchkov - figura znakovaia i ėpokhalʹnaia. Kak Zhan Gaben - vo frantsuzskom. V molodosti emu dostavalisʹ roli 'parneĭ s rabocheĭ okrainy' - boĭkie, zadornye, romantichnye (' Traktoristy', 'Parenʹ iz nashego goroda'), V zrelye gody ėto byli obrazy sovremennikov - raznokharakternye, no vsegda psikhologicheski ostrye ('Delo Rumiantseva', 'Sud'), Iod konets zhizni - umudrennye opytom stariki ('Gorozhane', 'Osenniĭ marafon'). No v kazhdoĭ roli, v liubom filʹme Nikolaĭ Afanasʹevich neizmenno ostavalsia samim soboĭ. Kazalosʹ dazhe, on i ne igraet vovse, a zhivet v kadre.Ne raz na stranitsakh knigi ee avtor posetuet: nu ne sposobna bumaga peredatʹ nepodrazhaemuiu khripottsu kriuchkovskogo golosa! I vse-taki Kriuchkov i bez togo poluchilsia v knige zhivym. Zaiadlyĭ rybak, zapevala i shutnik, neutomimyĭ truzhenik, artist vsegda osvaival professiiu geroia, kotorogo emu predstoialo sygratʹ. Dazhe istrebitelʹ voditʹ nauchilsia. Otsiuda i estestvennostʹ ego ėkrannykh geroev, ikh tvorcheskoe dolgoletie.

In Soviet cinema, Nikolai Kryuchkov is a landmark and epoch-making figure. Like Jean Gabin in French. In his youth, he got the roles of "guys from the working outskirts" - brisk, fervent, romantic ("Tractor drivers", "A guy from our city"), In mature years, these were images of contemporaries-diverse, but always psychologically acute ("The Rumyantsev Case", "The Court"), And at the end of his life - wise old men ("Citizens", "Autumn Marathon"). But in every role, in every film, Nikolai Afanasievich always remained himself. It even seemed that he did not play at all, but lived in the frame.More than once on the pages of the book, its author complains: well, paper is not able to convey the inimitable hoarseness of Kryuchkovsky's voice! And yet Kryuchkov was already alive in the book. An avid fisherman, a singer and a jokester, an indefatigable worker, the artist always mastered the profession of the hero he was to play. I even learned how to drive a fighter plane. Hence the naturalness of his screen characters, their creative longevity.