Childhood and family of Ilya Rutberg
Ilya was born in Leningrad.
His mother was from a family of aristocrats. She taught English and worked as a translator. Rutberg's father is from the proletariat. He was a fairly famous builder. My father participated in both the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. Two days before the start of the siege of Leningrad, Ilya, his mother and younger brother left for evacuation. There, the future actor almost died of dysentery and hunger. After some time, the father was able to move the family to Moscow. Ilya graduated from the one hundred and seventieth Moscow school, which was located between the Dynamo stadium and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko musical theater
Ilya Rutberg in his youth
Rutberg's school hobbies were physics and sports. After graduating from school, he decided to enter the Energy Institute. After passing the interview, Ilya became a student. At that time he did not think about anything else except science. This continued until the young man enrolled in a student drama club. Ilya got sick of the stage. The new hobby pushed even physics into the background. Soon, with his comrades, he organized the “Our Home” Student Theater, and then became one of the members of the “First Step” ensemble. There the future actor met Maya Kristalinskaya and Savely Kramarov.
In 1956, after graduating from college, the certified physicist decided to connect his life with art and cinema. Several times he entered theater universities, but each time he was expelled for participating in student “cabbages.” Only in 1966 did he manage to graduate from GITIS, where he studied at the directing department.
Jewish World
Sad news. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Ilya Grigorievich Rutberg (1932 – 2014) died in Moscow at the age of 83. Rutberg, a Jew, was born in Leningrad in the family of engineer Grigory Rutberg and English teacher, translator Maria Rabinovich. In 1966 he graduated from the directing department of the State Institute of Theater Arts, course of Maria Knebel. He played in such films as “Aibolit-66”, “Welcome, or No Trespassing”, “Nameless Star”, “The Woman Who Sings”, “Mary Poppins, Goodbye!” and in many others. Recently he has starred in the popular TV series “Voronin” and “Daddy’s Daughters”. He was a master of pantomime and one of the founders of the Moscow State University Student Theater. Head of the world's only department of pantomime and plastic culture of the theater of the Academy of Retraining for Workers of Art, Culture and Tourism. He played in several dozen films, his textured appearance and talent did not go unnoticed by viewers, despite the fact that his roles were mostly episodic.
DIRECT SPEECH
Yulia Rutberg, actress, daughter of Ilya Rutberg:
“It wasn’t the first time I entered Shchuka; moreover, when I entered, they called me unsuitable for the profession and even wanted to expel me. Favorite teachers have repeatedly set my dad as an example: “How is it that the great mime, wonderful artist, Ilya Rutberg, has such a mediocre daughter?! I protected my dad from such opinions, and only allowed him to come to my graduation performance, when I had already learned something. I am grateful to my parents for everything that is in me, in every sense. Mom and Dad belong to the generation of the sixties, with its brotherhood, romance, mutual assistance, the desire to give everything - just to help a person. When I studied at Shchuka, our apartment was both a rehearsal room for my classmates (we tore the curtains from the windows and made decorations and outfits out of them) and a dining room. Mommy cooked pots of food for everyone - borscht, cutlets, and buns, and no one left hungry. At the same time, we lived quite poorly - but we shared the last with friends.
Mark Zakharov, artistic director of the Lenkom Theater:
“My interactions with Ilya Rutberg left a very strong impression on me for the rest of my life. As soon as I appeared at the student theater of Moscow State University, I immediately became acquainted with the variety group of Mark Rozovsky, “Our House,” which was working at the same time, and they showed funny miniatures in the form of a skit. One of them stood out to me in particular. Ilya Rutberg played a student who comes to the exam, is poorly prepared, scared, and when the professor invites him to take a ticket, he replies: “I took it for myself, for myself.” Ilya was wonderful, one of the best pantomime performers in our country. Personally, I don’t know an artist who moves better than Rutberg and has the same comic infectiousness? Ilya Grigorievich was engaged in pedagogy and raised many people who have excellent control over their bodies, which is necessary for a modern artist. He was a wonderful person and a great artist!
Mikhail Lipskerov, writer, animator:
— I’ve known Ilyusha since 1958. And I knew, I knew, I knew... And I knew Ira, Ilyusha’s wife, I knew and I know. And Yulka still calls me Uncle Misha. Now my eldest son Mitya is friends with them. And my dad was my friend before me. Not that he was friends... he defended his studio theater with Alik Axelrod and Marik Rozovsky. in front of the "party caudles". This is the connection between generations. I have a lot of words about Ilyusha and they are all good. But one day, when I returned from the Kuril Islands and came to their theater all in a beard, Ilyusha whispered in amazement: “Teddy bear ...” and then: “I came up with a story: “From Moscow to Tula they drive a flock of crayfish under their own power.” That's all. I remember 50 years. And then... and then there was a lot of things. And it won't happen anymore.
Dmitry Lipskerov, writer and playwright:
— A man of great talent, inexhaustible kindness and optimism. An amazing friend with whom my grandfather was friends, then my father, and I have been friends for the last 34 years. I learned from him joy, generosity and modesty... Ilyusha, if possible, ask him to give me a place near you!..
Ilya Rutberg, from an interview on the jewish . ru 01/25/2008:
— Oddly enough, Jewish traditions were supported to a greater extent not even by my paternal grandfather, who was a synagogue elder and a blacksmith-gunsmith, but by grandfather Rabinovich, an aristocrat and a well-educated man. He was not a believer, but he had a brilliant knowledge of Jewish culture, and therefore maintaining traditions was not a fact of faith, but rather a fact of culture. I remember very little, because I practically didn’t see Grandfather Rabinovich, he was arrested in 1937, exiled, and he died on the way to Siberia. But both dad and mom supported the traditions of this family. My father knew Yiddish very well and spoke almost exclusively to Yiddish with my grandmother and his mother. In addition, grandfather Rabinovich had a library of over 10,000 volumes, in which I grew up and which was almost all destroyed during the siege of Leningrad, along with a magnificent piano and the apartment in general. Now we have an international family, and issues of national culture are respected as much as possible. There are no national contradictions.
Yulia Rutberg , from an interview on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, 02/17/2002:
“I had a completely wonderful situation, you know, how should I approach this? Here you are, a fresh viewer. I come home and say, dad, how strange, today in our math lesson (we had a teacher, Klavdia Vasilievna, who caught Kolchak as a child, walked on bowed legs with a kettle all the time, with an aluminum one, such nonsense, but she taught mathematics), and suddenly she, my last name begins with “R”, in our class there were many different last names Gelevich, etc., by national definition, everyone knew about me that I was Jewish. As my son said to his mother when he was a child, are you a Jew?.. So, Klavdia Vasilievna began to find out, instead of mathematics, who’s father and mother work where, party affiliation and nationality. And she commented on all this. Suppose Petrov, a party member is very good, the head of the troupe of such and such a theater is excellent. It came to me. I started with my mother: Suvorova Irina Nikolaevna, non-partisan, silence, no comments, piano teacher good, Russian good. Rutberg Ilya Grigorievich, non-party silence, director, teacher silence, Jew. Suddenly there is a pause, Klavdia Vasilievna takes off her glasses and with an absolutely affectionately democratic face, looks at the whole class and says, well, so what? And we are all equal! And so I say dad, what is this? He says this is wonderful, this is wonderful! We really are all equal. Absolutely! Like this. There were, of course, sadder things. But I can say that this is such a strange thing. I generally sit between 2 chairs, I have a Russian mother, so for Jews I am a Russian person for life, but my father is Rutberg, and look how much I look like him! Therefore, for all Russian-speaking people, I am a Jew of the city of St. Petersburg. Moreover, my dad is from St. Petersburg. I had never thought about this in my life until I was specifically asked about my nationality. As soon as they asked me specifically, despite the fact that my passport says Russian, I always said Jewish. And it was a terrible situation. I was very sick for 2 years, I had blood poisoning, in general, very bad things happened. And my very close friend, my son’s godson, Igor Minaev, who is now Father Isidore, and has already become the abbot of the monastery on Valaam, this is my absolutely amazing friend, beloved person, who said I think that you should be baptized. And with absolute faith, with absolute desire, having learned the prayers, I went. I was baptized by some monstrous priest with a cataract on his eye. Those. just Chekhov's stories, what's with the nut? Ah, “Surgery”! This is the same sexton. And then, when we were given certificates, there is such and such, Rutberg, and suddenly he speaks from the Jews? And I just got a lump in my throat, I say yes, from the Jews. He says, well, go, little Jew, save yourself. When I came out, I had no face. Igor, who was already dressed in a cassock, rushed towards me. And I actually fell into his arms. And when I told him, he said don’t you dare, immediate first test, don’t you dare! It’s a sin for him, it’s terrible, you did everything right. And your soul is bright. I cried so much, I was humiliated so much, and I didn’t understand why? Well, this is generally a rhetorical question, why? And why the Poles, and why anyone, gypsies, etc.? But I remember that it was something terrible. It was scary, because then I wanted to stand up for the whole people. You see, it was some kind of Holocaust in the form of one person. Therefore, as long as I live, no matter how much they ask me why I don’t go to Israel, to the USA, why, etc., whether I profess Jewish culture, a representative, a native speaker, I always say that I speak Russian , I am a representative of Russian culture, that I grew up in Russia, that I have been reading Russian writers since childhood. And for me, to the same extent, Leo Tolstoy, Gorky, Sholom Aleichem, they are equal. And I adore Tevye.
Source: www.zelikm.com - “Jews through the eyes of famous friends and foes”
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Ilya Rutberg's work in cinema, filmography
Often, a talented actor was offered serious roles, but he always refused, as he felt a desire to create funny and eccentric characters in films.
Rutberg worked on the set with such famous actors as Lev Durov, Vladimir Nosik, Alexey Smirnov, Elena Sanaeva. Ilya Rutberg is not only a wonderful actor, he is also a talented mime. He first learned about “pantomime” back in 1957, after seeing Marcel Marceau play. Marceau knew how to speak sign language on stage. Ilya was so fascinated by this that he decided to create his own pantomime group, despite the fact that he did not understand or know anything about it.
Ilya Rutberg is not only a film actor, but also a stunning mime
Rutberg went to a Marcel Marceau concert, and after the concert he was lucky enough to meet the great actor. This acquaintance soon grew into a friendship that lasted for many years. Every time Marcel Marceau came on tour to the Union, they always met. Friends often had the opportunity to communicate during pantomime festivals in Europe.
The artist’s most famous numbers with which he performed on the stage are “Late for the Lecture” and “Giraffe”. Rutberg was an incredible success.
Ilya Grigorievich was a professor. He headed the department of plastic culture and pantomime. This department is the only one in the world. The pantomime center has collected a lot of information from all over the world. Today, what Rutberg started is continued by his students.
Death of Ilya Rutberg
The actor died of a heart attack on October 30, 2014. He was eighty-two years old. Until the very end, he acted in films and taught.
Ilya Rutberg died suddenly of a heart attack
Among his latest works are work in the series “Voronin”, “Thursday 12”, “Emergency”, “Gagarin. First in Space", "In No Man's Land".
Filmography of the artist
Rutberg's filmography includes about 70 film roles . Of course, this is the result of many years of hard work by the actress. Julia made her debut in cinema in 1989, when she received a cameo role in the feature film “The Maid of Rouen, nicknamed Dumpling.” Rutberg's partners on the set were famous artists, including Valentina Talyzina, Konstantin Raikin, Leonid Yarmolnik, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. A year later, the actress was invited to play a role in the drama “Stalin’s Funeral.”
After that, the actress played a killer in the drama “Male Character” , then starred in the thriller “Check” along with Nikolai Fomenko and Nikolai Rastorguev.
In the late nineties, Julia completely immersed herself in filming television series. In 2000, with her participation, the detective story “Kamenskaya” , in which Elena Yakovleva played the main role. Rutberg received a cameo role in the series. This marked the start of the actress’s successful film career. Then Julia began to be invited to other TV series.
Personal life of Ilya Rutberg
Ilya Rutberg has two daughters.
The eldest daughter from her first marriage is named Alena. She lives with her family in England. The second daughter is Julia. She became an actress, and today she can often be seen in films and television series. Julia has a son, Grigory, the grandson of Ilya Rutberg. Grigory continued the acting profession. He entered the Shchukin School, and after some time he got married. Gregory recently had a son, who was also named Gregory. Yulia Rutberg helps the young acting family as best she can, understanding how difficult it is for them to study and raise a child. The actor’s wife is Irina Nikolaevna Suvorova. They met at the “Our House” studio, when a quartet consisting of young girls came to this studio from the Gnessin School. Ilya Grigorievich immediately liked Irina Nikolaevna. The family always gathered in full force for the holidays. Rutberg compared the relationships in his family with an Italian family, since everyone often calls back to find out how things are going, if everything is okay. Irina Nikolaevna is a hospitable hostess.
The actor collected masks and camels all his life. It started completely by accident. Once he was given an advertising picture of a camel, everyone looked at the image and realized that Ilya Grigorievich was extremely similar to this peculiar animal. The actor himself agrees with this. Since then, the collection began to grow. It began to take up a lot of space. These include camels made of straw, camels made of thread, made of Swarovski crystal, plush camels.
