There was an unwritten law among the employees of the editing workshop at Lenfilm during the Soviet era: do not fall in love with actors! But Elizaveta Eikhenbaum violated this law and fell in love with the artist - Oleg Dahl. I fell in love, feeling and accepting in him what others - his colleagues, relatives, close ones - maybe could not or did not want to see in this person in full: tenderness, sensitivity, vulnerability, defenselessness ... “A man without skin ", - said Elizaveta Dahl about her beloved. Together they lived ten difficult, tragic and happy years, in which there was everything: joy and peace, quarrels and resentments, meetings and partings ... Being the wife of a talented artist is always not easy, especially an artist of such a kind as Oleg Dal.

He was an "uncomfortable" actor and a person - too honest, too principled, too direct. Dahl did not get along with anyone, left theaters and directors, interrupted filming, drank. He has not received any of the cinema awards. With bitter irony, Oleg Dal called himself not a folk, but a "foreign" artist. But the woman destined for him by fate did not love "in spite of something" and not "for something" - she simply loved and was happy that her love was mutual. The years spent with Dahl, Elizabeth considered "the greatest gift of Fate."

They met on August 19, 1969, when Eliza-veta Eichenbaum celebrated her thirty-second birthday in a restaurant. It was in Narva, on the set of the film "King Lear" directed by GM Kozintsev. Oleg Dal played the role of Jester in this film, and Liza worked as an editor. “The fact that I got to the film“ King Lear ”played a huge role in my life,” Dahl later recalled from El-Covenant. - For me, there is still something mystical in this: if this film was not shot by Grigory Mikhailovich, but someone else, but Oleg was filming, we would not have become husband and wife. There was something here ... I remember the arrival of Grigory Mikhailovich for the next viewing of the material and his words, addressed to me: "Liza, what Oleg was like with us yesterday on the set !!!". I thought then - why does Kozintsev tell me about this, maybe he knows something more than me? Then I myself did not have any serious thoughts about me and Oleg ... ". They did not have any romance on King Lear. But strangely - as soon as they met, Liza there, in Narva, suddenly said to Oleg: "Come to me in Leningrad, I will show you what happiness is." And then she wondered at herself. Why did she suddenly say these words? Where did she get the confidence that she can create family, domestic happiness for this person? However, this is how it all happened. Dahl came to her, and they were together until his death.

Elizaveta Dal recalls how they met in Leningrad for the first time after the filming of King Lear: “It was at this time that I had an affair with Seryozha Dovlatov, who was then the secretary of the writer Vera Panova. One evening he was sitting at my house, we grilled meat and drank vodka. Oleg called and asked for a decision to come. I invited him. And so my two supporters tried to sit out each other all evening. At some point, I called Oleg into the corridor and invited him to leave with Serezha, and then return himself. He looked at me so angrily, but obeyed ... I saw in his eyes that he did not like it terribly. Then, when I got to know Dal well, I realized that he did not love and did not know how to cheat. Never in anything. Even in the little things. So: Oleg Dal and Seryozha Dovlatov left together, and then Dal called me from a pay phone. He asked very strictly: "So what do you say?" I said simply: "Come." He came ... Early in the morning he had to go to the airport - he flew with the Sovremennik theater to Tashkent and Alma-Ata on tour ... Before leaving, Oleg offered to wake up his mother, saying that he wanted to ask her for my hand ... “We have to register, as we will travel a lot and live in hotels. I don’t want to be accommodated in different rooms,” Oleg said. It was in May 1970, and on November 27 of the same year, Oleg Dal and Elizaveta Eikhen-baum (after Apraksin's father) became husband and wife. Liza was not going to change her maiden name, but in the registry office Oleg looked at her so sternly and shone like a child when she agreed to become Dal ...

“Why did I marry Oleg, although I saw that he was drinking heavily? It was interesting to me with him. I was already 32 years old, and I thought I could handle his weakness. With some kind of inner feeling I felt: this person cannot be upset with a refusal ... ”- said E. Dal. The first years of their family life were especially difficult: Dal drank very hard, then he began to "sew up" and could not drink for a long time, so he broke down again ... "Then Oleg drank seriously, and I could not get used to it, not could cope, - recalled Elizaveta Alekseevna. - My mother, who adored him from the very first day, mostly coped - and he did her too. There was a time when I simply could not go to work - he did not come to spend the night or came robbed, they took off his watch, hat ... I had to go to the sobering-up center for him. And at the same time, there were wonderful months when he did not drink and everything was wonderful ... Oleg understood perfectly well that our life was crumbling, he really wanted to get rid of this habit. All this is recorded in his diary. He understood, but there was nothing he could do. Although he was a man of very strong will. "

But in spite of everything, Oleg and Liza almost did not quarrel - largely thanks to Lisa's patience, her ability to forgive. Only at first she was offended when her husband, even when he was sober, in a rage tore out his anger on her! Then she realized that all this anger did not apply to her, that Oleg just needed to throw out his emotions, get rid of them. She learned to endure. And she learned. And after saying nothing, not answering him in kind, immediately, five minutes later, she received from him such, albeit not expressed in words, gratitude for taking everything upon herself, smiling, not in the least offended ... Liza felt the main thing: It is very important for Oleg to know that he can come home the way he is, and he will be understood. He did not have to spend extra energy on pretending, playing, acting at home. “Living with Oleg, I changed every day, remade myself. I lived his life, ”said Elizaveta Dahl.

Before meeting each other, both Lisa and Oleg already had experience in family life. Dal was married to actress Tatyana Lavrova, their marriage did not last long - only six months, and Elizaveta was married for four years to Leoni-dom Kvinikhidze, who later became a famous film director (viewers know him from the films "Straw Hat", "Heavenly Swallows" ). These were early, student marriages. Family relations for various reasons did not work out. “It’s not surprising that nothing came of it,” said Oleg Dal about his first marital experience.

Two years after Oleg and Liza got married, they moved to Moscow, exchanging a luxurious Leningrad apartment in a writer's house for a two-room Khrushchevka at the end of Leninsky Prospekt. The apartment was tiny, the audibility was terrible, the old woman living on the floor below was quite seriously indignant: your kittens stomp and prevent me from sleeping ... However, the new settlers did not lose heart. “The four of us lived there,” recalls Lisa. - Oleg, me, mom and a sense of pestilence. When someone unexpectedly came to us, I could not say that Oleg was not at home, because sometimes his leg, his hand, or his nose were sticking out in the apartment ... Oleg's mom lived in a two-room apartment. apartment in Lyubli-no. At this time, Oleg moved from Sovremennik to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, the director of which was then Dupak - a very enterprising person. Oleg asked him to help exchange our two apartments for one in the center, otherwise he threatened to leave the theater, as he had to travel very far. Dupac helped us. In 1978 we moved to a four-room apartment on Smolensky Boulevard. Oleg fell in love with this apartment of his and arranged it in every possible way ”. A strange story is connected with this apartment in the very center of Moscow, which the artist adored. Once Oleg Dal with actor Igor Vasilyev drove past this house - it was still under construction - and said: "I will live here, this will be my house." He said and forgot. I remembered only ten years later, when I came here with an inspection warrant. Dahl was happy in this apartment. Previously, he often called himself a vagabond and said that he did not like home, now everything has changed. “This is not an apartment,” he said. - This is a dream". But the feeling of home warmth, comfort came to him not only and not so much thanks to the new house, but mainly due to the spiritual closeness that existed in their family. “Oleg immediately became friends with my mother .... Her father, my grandfather, Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, was a famous literary critic, professor, teacher of And-ronikov and a colleague of Tynyanov and Shklovsky. When my grandfather was gone, I thought that there were no such people anymore. And suddenly I discovered similar features in Oleg, ”says Elizaveta Alekseevna.

Dal adored his mother-in-law Olga Borisovna, and she reciprocated. “I liked him at first sight. Amazing eyes ... - said O. Eikhenbaum. - When I looked at him for the first time, I said to myself: "Well, my Liza is gone!" I knew that he had been a cold boy for a long time, had parted with Tanya Lavrova and lived alone for five years ... By the way, I did not have the impression that he was madly in love with my daughter. True, the completely charming Letters from Alma-Ata convinced me of Liza's choice ... He was a special person, so it was very easy for me to be with him. I didn’t love all of Liza’s fans, so I wouldn’t be an easy mother-in-law for everyone ... ”. Dal called his beloved mother-in-law Olya, Olya. I began to call my mother and Lisa in the same way. Oleg Dal also called his women Elder and Younger Kangaroo. He called them without malice and anger - kindly. "Why kangaroo?" - they once asked Elizaveta Alekseevna. She laughed in reply: "Probably because we carried very heavy bags."

Then they made a study out of the hall for Oleg, and his happiness became simply prohibitive. He could, when he wanted, remain alone with himself. I read, wrote, painted, listened to music. Now he spoke to Elizaveta Alekseevna seriously and ceremoniously: “Madam! You are free for today. I will write no one. And then I'll fall asleep on the sofa, in the cockpit. " Olga Borisovna exclaimed: “Olezhechka! But the sofa is narrow. " “I'm too narrow,” Dahl reassured his mother-in-law. Oleg later brought his mother to Smolensky Boulevard. Both mothers - both Oleg and Liza - did not work, being already pensioners. And Liza didn't work. That's what Dahl wanted. He said: “When you serve me, you bring more benefits to cinematography than sitting at an editing table. They can replace you there. " And Liza began to serve Ole-gu. And I never regretted it. The wife of one actor once said to Lisa: “Of course, he loves you! Why not love ... You tell him every day from morning to evening that he is a genius. " Lisa laughed. If she told Dal that he was a genius, it was only as a joke, he seriously would not allow her ... Maya Kristalinskaya, whom Dal once introduced Lisa to, after looking closely at her, said: “You probably very happy". Elizabeth thought about it and after a short pause agreed: "Yes." But since then she answered this question without hesitation.

Elizaveta Alekseevna Dal once said that it is very important to know that you are happy at the very moment when you are really happy; not after, not later, when everything has passed and you suddenly wake up and start killing yourself: ah, it turns out that I was happy then and did not know, did not know about it; no, you need to know about your happiness at the moment of his birth, at the moment of existence. Elizaveta Dahl often recalled how, in 1973, on her birthday, while filming in Tallinn the film Omega Variant, Oleg presented her with a bucket of roses. Exactly thirty-six pieces, and in the same place, in Tallinn, presenting her to Rolan Bykov, she said proudly and significantly: "Lisa Eikhenbaum, she is the Count Apraksina, she is now Dahl." Such bright flashes of happy moments that happened in their lives, they both greatly appreciated and cherished in their memory. These memories helped Elizabeth to survive when Oleg was no longer around. Of course, they brought not only comfort, but also pain and suffering. “It's strange: when I remember our life, I see THEM together, HIM and TU Lisa. Not me. TU Liza was buried together with Oleg, and I remained as some kind of witness, - E. Dal recalled. - This is not a fictional image, but my feeling. I always see not myself with him, but the two of them. I do not know why...". Dahl was lonely in the acting environment. Liza understood this like no one else. She introduced him to wonderful writers - Shklovsky, Andronikov, Ka-verin. I adored the distance of these great old men. And they loved him dearly. But still, Oleg Dal did not have really close friends. He was a closed person, and those around him often seemed gloomy and unsociable, although this was not so. “Oleg seemed to many to be a gloomy person, but at home he was always cheerful and kind,” says Elizaveta Alekseevna. - He had a cherished dream - to play a comedic role. Once Oleg very funny portrayed an old man, and I suddenly felt scared: I realized that he himself would never be an old man. I have never left the feeling that a thin thread connects him with life, which can break off in any se-kundu. " Oleg Dal did not have a chance to fulfill his old dream. It seemed that it had almost come true - the artist was invited to Kiev to play in the long-awaited comedy, but three days after his arrival in Ukraine - March 3, 1981 - Oleg Dal passed away. He had a presentiment of his departure - in the artist's diary there are thoughts of death. In October 1980, he wrote: “I began to think often about death. Depressing nickname-nothingness. But I want to fight. Cruel. If we are to leave, then leave in a frantic fight. Try my best to say everything that I thought and think about. The main thing is to do it. " He never showed his Diary, which the artist had kept since 1971, to anyone. Only sometimes he called his wife and mother-in-law to his office and read small excerpts from his notes. “I read the entire diary only after it was gone,” E. Dal recalled. “And I was horrified. I knew how difficult it was for him, how he suffered, not fitting into the existing system. But I didn't even know how his heart was breaking. "

“I'm next,” Dahl said at the funeral of Vladimir Vysotsky, who was not his friend, but who is very close to him spiritually. Actor A. Romashin, who lived not far from the Vagankovskoye cemetery, at about the same time he said the following phrase: “Tolya, do you live there? I'll be there soon. " And yet, although thoughts of death haunted him, the actor did not strive for it, as many of his colleagues believed. Some of them even thought that Dahl had committed suicide. The fact that Oleg Dal did not want death is confirmed by the artist's widow: “Oleg loved life very much. These are all dirty rumors that he drank a lot and died due to drunkenness. In recent years, he did not drink much. He was in poor health. Oleg himself imposed a ban on alcohol. There were rumors in Moscow that he committed suicide. And he died just in a dream from a cardiac arrest, it had been weak since childhood. For the last months we have been living in Monino, in a dacha near Moscow. During this time, he said a lot of good words to me. One day he came to the kitchen in the morning and said that he had dreamed about Volodya Vy-sotsky, who had called with him. I answered: "Volodya will rain, Olezhek, he is not bored there."

Already “after all,” one friend said to Lisa Dahl: “Now he will always seem to you. You leave the house, and suddenly someone’s gait, someone’s head turn, someone’s facial features will remind him. ” But no one, ever, anywhere, and in any way reminded her of him. “Even before I met Oleg, when I just watched him in the movies, he amazed me with some kind of unearthlyness. He remained so alien, ”said E. Dal. It was not by chance that Dahl called himself not “folk”, but “foreign” artist. There was indeed a certain foreignness in him. At the same time, he was very demanding of himself, of art and of his colleagues. E. Radzinsky said very well that Dal was sick with a wonderful disease - delusions of perfection. It was she who, perhaps, did not allow him to do more than he did. He left one theater for another, from one director to another.

At the same time, Dal brilliantly played in a variety of films - from classics to fairy tales and adventures. He loved almost all of his roles and was dissatisfied with only one of his work - the painting "Sannikov's Land". The rest he and Diza liked to watch together - it "was almost a family ritual." When her husband was gone, Elizaveta Dahl watched films with his participation even more often. “This is a meeting for me every time. One-sided, but meeting, she said. “In addition to what is shown on TV, I also have cassettes, I watch when I want, and this is a joy for me.”

After the death of her husband, Elizaveta Alekseevna did not try to re-arrange her personal life. “I could not replace Oleg with anyone. After all, I did not fully recognize him. It was an absolutely mysterious, mysterious person. I could guess any of his wishes, understand his condition, forgive anything, but as a person and as an artist, he remained a complete mystery to me. "

Elizaveta Dahl survived her husband by twenty-two years. For twenty-two years she kept the memory of him. No hysterics, no anguish, no public suffering. She just loved him. As if he hadn't died. Her love for him was quiet, restrained, lively, warm, delicate. Lisa Dahl has never played the role of an inconsolable widow. I was not looking for the right acquaintances. And lately she hardly left the house. She often sat in her husband's office, where everything remained the same and reminded of him: theatrical posters, photographs, books, on the table - a turntable and favorite records. “I will always love and remember Oleg,” said Elizaveta Alekseevna. “I feel like I was buried with him. And now I live only so that there is someone to tell about the actor and the person Oleg Dal ... "

The widow of the great actor died five days before his birthday. On May 25, 2003, Oleg Dal would have turned 62 years old. The years without a husband were not easy for Eli-Covenants in every way. She had no children, but Lisa had to take care of two mothers - her own and Oleg's. After a long break, she went to work at the Soyuz-Sportfilm studio - at Mosfilm, where there were many acquaintances, she did not want to go. When, after a few years, both mothers, one after the other, passed away, Lisa was left completely alone. But in the early 90s, fate gave her a meeting with a then still very young girl - Larisa Mezentseva Childless Elizaveta Alekseevna fell in love with her as a daughter, and she became a second mother to Larisa. “Liza was very sick,” L. Mezentseva recalled about the last days of E. Dal’s life. - She suffered from bronchial asthma and ischemia. We bought the necessary medicines, but her pension and my salary, even if we hadn't eaten anything for a year, would not have been enough to pay Liza a good treatment. Her death was unexpected, sudden. In the morning, leaving for work, I asked: "Well, how are you?" She replied: "You know, today I am much better!" I worked quietly, and when I returned home, I found her already dead. She left a few hours before I returned home. " She went to the one whom she remembered and loved all her life. Probably, her soul was so yearned that there was simply no more strength left ...

The writer Viktor Konetsky, who was a neighbor of Elizabeth and Oleg in the house on the Petrograd side in Leningrad, has a story "The Artist", dedicated to Oleg Dal. It is impossible to read it without tears. There are the following lines: "I finish with the words from the letter of Oleg's wife:" Our dear neighbor, an orphaned one! I remember how he came to your unlocked door to your men's council. His soul is with you now. The road to you is open for her. You tell me that I love him as souls love God. Find the words - I don't know them now, who always loved him like an earthly woman. "

They met on August 19, 1969, when she was celebrating her thirty-second birthday at a restaurant. It was in Narva, on the set of King Lear. We got married almost immediately.
In 1973, again on her birthday, while filming Omega Variant in Tallinn, he presented her with a bucket of roses. Exactly thirty-six pieces. And in the same place, in Tallinn, presenting her to Rolan Bykov, he said proudly and significantly: “Lisa Eikhenbaum, she is Countess Apraksina, she is now Dal”.
She was not going to change her maiden name, but in the registry office he looked at her so sternly and shone as brightly as a child when she agreed to take his last name ...
Novaya Gazeta has already talked about Oleg Dal, and the last time was quite recently (No. 20 (D) from May 25-28, 2000). Among the readers' responses to this publication was the following: "The only thing that was missing was photographs of Oleg Dal's wife and a little more information about her." I once again visited Elizaveta Alekseevna Dal, took photographs, and we talked about her herself.
It seems to me that Liza's life without Oleg Dahl is interesting. Although, of course, it is happiness that Oleg Dal was in her life.
Let me remind the kind reader that Elizaveta Alekseevna is a granddaughter, and her mother, Olga Borisovna, is the daughter of Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, a famous literary critic, literary historian, and a world-famous scientist.
August 8 this year it will be a year since Olga Borisovna Eikhenbaum passed away.
And in the spring of next year it will be twenty years since Oleg Ivanovich Dal passed away.
Juliet Mazina was once asked: "Is it difficult to be the wife of a genius?" Federico Fellini's wife replied, "It's better than being the wife of a fool."
Elizaveta Alekseevna Dal was the wife of a genius

When Dal and Liza got married, they began to change their Leningrad apartment to Moscow. They changed for a long time - two years. We found an option on Novatorov Street ("Olechka said: at the settlements"), a Khrushchev, two-room apartment. Dahl had to get to the theater for an hour and a half. The taxi cost 5 re. And Oleg received 160 re at the theater. There was no particularly large amount of money from the cinema either. Dahl did not act in films to make money. And he refused more than agreed. So: there was not always money for a taxi, and Dal hated to go by bus, he was recognized, pestered with questions, drunks offered to drink.
The apartment was tiny, the audibility was terrible, downstairs the grandmother was indignant: your kittens stomp and prevent me from sleeping ... However, Dal did not lose heart. “The four of us lived there,” recalls Lisa. - Oleg, me, mom and a sense of humor. "
Once Liza went to the store for a minute, and when she returned, she found this picture: Oleg and his mother were lying on the floor and painting the battery with different colors. The battery is hot, the paint evaporates and smells, and the painters laugh to tears and make Lisa admire their skill: the battery is of all the colors of the rainbow, this is beautiful, this is the avant-garde! And on the pink door of their bedroom, Dahl painted a naked woman in the Garden of Eden. Lisa bashfully sketched the details for her. Then, when they moved to Smolensky Boulevard, people who moved into their apartment on Novatorov Street, looking at the radiator and the door, wondered: who lived here? some kind of kindergarten ...
Everything was strange with the white house on Smolensky Boulevard. Once Dal with actor Igor Vasiliev drove past this house - it was still under construction - and said: I will live here, this will be my house.
He said and forgot. I remembered only ten years later, when I came here with an inspection warrant.
Dahl was happy in this apartment. Three rooms, a huge hall, and when you approach the window, there is a lot of sky and the roofs are visible. "This is not an apartment," Dahl said. "This is a dream." Even on Novatorov, he once confessed to Liza: “I dream of such an apartment so that when they call me on the phone, you could say,“ I’m going to see if he’s at home or not, ”without bending your heart.
Then they made a study for him out of the hall. And the happiness became transcendental. He could, when he wanted, be alone with himself. I read, wrote, painted, listened to music.
Now he spoke to Elizaveta Alekseevna seriously and ceremoniously: “Madam! You are free for today. I'll write at night. And then I'll fall asleep on the sofa in the study. " Olga Borisovna exclaimed: “Olezhechka! But the sofa is narrow. " “I'm too narrow,” Dahl reassured his mother-in-law.
Oleg brought his mother to Smolensky Boulevard. Both mothers, Oleg's mother and Lisa's mother, did not work, both were pensioners. And Liza didn't work. That is what Oleg wanted. He said, “When you serve me, you add more value to the cinematography than sitting at the editing table. They can replace you there. "
And Liza began to serve Oleg. And I never regretted it.
The wife of one actor somehow passionately told Lisa: “Of course, he loves you! Why not love ... You tell him every day from morning till night that he is a genius. " Lisa laughed. If she told Dal that he was a genius, it was only as a joke, seriously he would not let her ...
Maya Kristalinskaya, whom Dal once introduced her to at the House of Cinematographers, after looking closely at Lisa, said: "You are probably very happy." Liza thought for a moment and after a pause said: "Yes." But since then she answered this question without hesitation.
Elizaveta Alekseevna tells me: it is very important to know that you are happy at the very moment when you are really happy; not after, not later, when everything has passed and you suddenly wake up and begin to worry: ah, I, it turns out, was happy then and did not know, did not know about it; no, you need to know about your happiness at the moment of his birth, at the moment of existence.
At first, she was selfishly offended when, even when sober, he came home in a rage and took the evil out on her. Then I realized that this did not apply to her, that he just needed to be discharged. She learned to endure. And - I learned. And after saying nothing, not kicking up, right there, five minutes later, I received from him such mute gratitude for taking everything upon herself, swallowing it and smiling, not in the least offended ...
She felt the main thing: it helps him a lot - to know that he can come home as he is, and they will understand him. He did not have to spend extra energy on pretending, acting, acting even at home.

Liza introduced Dahl to Shklovsky, Andronnikov, Kaverin. Dahl was lonely in the acting environment. And I adored these great old people. And they loved him dearly.
Shklovsky called Dahl "a man of perfect movement."
Andronnikov, after listening to Lermontov's poems performed by Dahl, said: "He owns Yakhontov's secret - the secret of slow reading."
And Kaverin admitted: “I was deeply shocked to learn about his untimely death. I hoped that in time we would become friends. "

The first telegram she received from him (not yet married): "Let me kiss you."
Then there were the miracle letters. He loved to write to her from the tour. I could write suddenly: "I dream of you being cheerful and in a sundress."
Or here - from 27.9.70. From Moscow - to Leningrad:
“In the morning of this day, wandering over the yellow leaves that cover the cold ground, I thought of you with beautiful longing.
With beautiful because she was bright.
I feel good and calm in my soul, because you are in my thoughts.
My mood is calm and blissful. I share it with you generously, like autumn.
I hug you gently and gently and barely touch your face, kiss and breathe with your eyes.
I don’t know what love is. I don’t know how to understand this designation of a certain feeling or its meaning.
But, it seems to me, I feel something extraordinary, like a child waiting to wake up after New Year's Eve. The air smells of tangerines, a Christmas tree, plush hares, and I want to keep my eyes closed for as long as possible ... "

In February 1980, Dahl said: "Vysotsky will leave first, and then I will."
Vysotsky died in July 80th. Dahl died on March 3, 1981.
And a month before that, Lisa woke up and found him sitting in front of the TV. He watched cartoons early in the morning. He looked so seriously, with concentration that she was frightened. She came up and hugged him. He raised his head and quietly said: "I am so sorry for you three." Meaning her and two mothers. “Why, Olezhka? - asked Lisa. "We are happy with you." - "With me ... And without me?"
“After all,” the friend said to Lisa: “Now he will always seem to you. You leave the house, and suddenly someone’s gait, someone’s head turn, someone’s facial features will remind him. ”
But no one, ever, anywhere, and in any way reminded her of him.
“Even before I met Oleg, when I just watched him in the movies, he amazed me with some kind of alienness. He remained so alien ”.
He really is so unlike anyone else that you still involuntarily wonder: is he of earthly origin?
I would like to believe that it is earthly. Otherwise, it's a shame for humanity.

P.S.
I'm afraid I again succeeded not only about Liza, but more - about Oleg and Liza, or even Oleg too much ... Although, no, Oleg Dal cannot be much. For her.

Oleg Dal was an insanely talented actor, a pretty good screenwriter, and his poetry reading was simply mind-blowing. Crowds of people appreciated, and most importantly, respected his work. The artist is attractive enough by himself, and, which is not unimportant, charismatic. He acted out the roles in such a way that he simply took his breath away, he could convey to the viewer all the feelings and emotions.

His wonderful game was often called perfection, which could not be said about his personal fate, which he actually ruined by hand with his bad habits. But a great future shone for him, perhaps even world fame.

The artist has sunk into the soul of a large number of fans who remember and love him, and films with his participation are watched even now.

Height, weight, age. How old is Oleg Dal

The artist's appearance is quite memorable, Oleg was slender, handsome and very young. By nature, the man was difficult to climb, stubborn, in a sense explosive and impulsive, this was especially true in the work collective. But at the same time, he belongs to the type of people who are quite caring and affectionate in the family circle. And in his work, the artist simply dissolved and was perfection itself, one might even say an ideal for the majority of viewers.

Many ladies were in love not only with his characters, but also with the actor himself. Therefore, it is not surprising that people were and are interested in him now, in his parameters such as height, weight, age. How old was Oleg Dal when he passed away.

Everything is elementary simple, the artist's height was 185 centimeters. Oleg Dal was young, one might say, a man in his prime, but unfortunately, he did not live to see his fortieth birthday only a couple of months, and died at the age of 39.

Biography of Oleg Dahl

A boy was born on May 25, 1941 in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, in a simple hard-working family. He was the second child, and the boy also had an older sister. The boy grew up quite active and intelligent, already in early childhood his complex character manifested itself, constantly conflicted with his peers. The guy studied well and after graduating from school decides to enter the Schepkinsky theater. For some time, the parents were against the choice of their son, they say this is not a profession, but after a while they reconciled and even began to be proud of their boy.

The guy was very hardworking and already studying at the institute, he simultaneously began to act in films and theaters, and it was from that moment that the creative biography of Oleg Dal began.

Filmography: films with Oleg Dahl

The artist's filmography is simply off scale with the number of films shot with his participation and numerous theatrical performances.

In 1962, he played the first role of Oleg Dahl in the film "My little brother", where he played the main role of the creative boy Alik Kramer. After that, he received several proposals at once, but already at the very beginning, the artist carefully selected roles to his liking and did not waste his time on trifles. Then he starred in the psychological motion picture "The Man Who Doubts."

Already in 1967, Oleg came to fame thanks to the film "The Chronicle of a Dive Bomber", where the actor was in the role of a radio operator, this role won the hearts of many fans, especially women.

In 1968, the artist starred in the wonderful production of "The Old, Old Tale", where he played simultaneously two completely different roles of a soldier and a cheerful puppeteer. Only the most talented people can play several characters in one plot, and according to critics, both roles he succeeded excellently, to each he found his own subtle approach and expressed the full power of the production.

Then the actor devoted a large amount of time to the theater, he himself believed that he was primarily a theater and it was this scene that was created for him, and cinema stood in the background for him. Despite this, he continued to act in films.

The artist had his own understanding of beauty, and he often did not agree with the opinions of colleagues and directors, so Oleg had to change his place of work.

Dahl considered his most important participation in the film to be the roles in the plots “On Thursday and Never Again” and “Vacation in September”, which he played just delightfully, putting all his strength and feelings into them, conveying all the most significant to the viewer.

In the late 70s, the artist increasingly began to refuse offers in filming and thereby earned himself a not very good reputation. He began to drink more and more and move away from everyone. And on March 3, 1981, the great talent and idol of many fans passed away.

Personal life of Oleg Dahl

Our actor belonged to this type of people, as very explosive, like a hurricane, his character is heavy, and at the same time attracted with his charisma and incredible talent. The artist himself was often the very opposite of his characters, it seemed that this person is an incredibly happy and cheerful person, striving for self-development. However, all this was just a mask, and of course the artist's insane talent.

The personal life of Oleg Dal is marked by a large number of female diversity. There were three legal marriages in his life. Each of which was wonderful in its own way, the man for a long time tried to find the very one that could endure his quarrelsome nature. This is exactly what he found, in his third marriage, Elizaveta Apraskina, who managed to brighten up his lately, dull mood, and give him a desire for life itself, but she did not wean him from a bad habit, a craving for alcohol.

Like all stars, there are crises in life, some cope and rise to the pedestal again, and some withdraw into themselves. Dahl is the type who could not cope with themselves, and plus his addiction to alcohol made the final contribution to the life of a man. No one could have imagined that the cause of death would be alcoholism. It was hard to believe in the death of such a wonderful talent, and many wondered: "Oleg Dal is death for what reason." An important fact that influenced his death was that the young man was encoded, and taking a large amount of alcohol provoked hemorrhage and instant death. The funeral was held with great anguish in the hearts of all fans, acquaintances and friends.

The funeral of Oleg Dahl. Cause of death, for what reason?

The news of the loss of such a talent flew by instantly, everyone was shocked by what had happened. No one could even imagine such a quick loss of a rather young artist, and they constantly asked questions: “The funeral of Oleg Dal. Cause of death, for what reason? " After all, only the closest people of the star knew about the addiction to alcohol.

Farewell to the brilliant talent took place on March 7, 1981 at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in the capital itself. To see the actor for the last time, a large number of fans, friends, colleagues and relatives came, everyone was saddened by such a loss, and some walked in confusion from what had happened.

The memory of Oleg Dali will be with us forever, fans of his work constantly watch films with his participation and admire such talent to this day.

Oleg Dahl's family

The boy was born into an ordinary family, his mother was a teacher at a local school, and his father worked as an engineer on the railway. His appearance came at the height of the Great Patriotic War, so the boy's childhood was not so hot. Oleg also had an older sister, Iraida, with whom he had a very warm relationship. The family of Oleg Dal was very friendly, despite all the events in their lives.

The artist himself desperately wanted a family, for a long time he was in search of the very woman who would make his soul shine from within. He wanted to find a woman who would appreciate the family hearth and at the same time be like him. For his beloved, he was ready for anything, if only she gave all her warmth, which the man so needed. He had two not very successful attempts, and the third was crowned with success, as the people say, "God loves a trinity."

Children of Oleg Dahl

The artist considered his roles to be his biggest brainchild. He put his soul into them, along with the roles, his professionalism grew and with them he studied all the new subtleties of the aspect of the ideal role.

Due to his very nasty character and addiction to alcohol, the young man did not have successors of his family. And also influenced by the fact of premature departure from life, because the artist was still young and handsome. Fans believe that if he had heirs, the children of Oleg Dali would certainly become no less talented and successful people.

The ex-wife of Oleg Dal - Nina Doroshina

Oleg met his first lady of the heart at the Sovremennik Theater, where they both worked, her name was Nina Doroshina. The artist became famous for such films as "Love and Doves", where she played the main role, which became her hallmark in the world of cinema.

The girl was young enough, attractive and talented, many people just screamed at her, and our actor was no exception. The artist immediately fell in love and quickly began to look after the girl, although at that time she was having an affair with Efremov, but our hero managed to attract his attention to himself and the couple soon got married. Not even a day had passed since the wedding, when the ex-wife of Oleg Dal, Nina Doroshina, without hiding, again began to meet with Oleg Efremov. The first marriage was crowned with disappointment and a great failure. Nina herself said that their marriage was not destined to last long, since they were completely different and simply did not agree in character.

The ex-wife of Oleg Dahl - Tatyana Lavrova

After the first unrequited love, after a short period of time, Oleg meets the actress Tatyana Lavrova. She was pretty and also quite talented and smart. The man wanted so much simple family happiness that he did not hesitate to marry another darling. For Lavrova, this was already the second marriage, which also did not last for a couple of three years. Having lived with her for two years together, Tatyana decides to leave the artist, explaining that he is not the one she needs. The young man was insanely upset that again he did not have family happiness, which he dreamed of so much, according to him, Tatiana was callous in a relationship, and he wanted more tenderness and affection.

Most friends and relatives believe that Oleg Dal's ex-wife, Tatyana Lavrova, pushed him onto the path of alcoholism. Since after the divorce, the man was greatly depressed and disappointed in his own life.

Oleg Dahl's wife - Elizaveta Alekseevna Apraksina

The actor met his future wife Lisa in a restaurant where the woman celebrated her birthday surrounded by her colleagues on the set, because she worked as an editor. In a joking manner, she invited him to visit her in Leningrad. Without thinking twice, Oleg comes to her in the city, and after a couple of days he already invited her to marry him. Such an act was quite risky, because the young man had already had two unsuccessful experiences behind him, but Oleg was not frightened at all. They soon got married and lived in perfect harmony. The artist finally found the one he had been looking for for so long, she was not only good-looking, but also gentle, intelligent and very educated, the spouses always had something to talk about, it seemed to them that they even had the same view of the world. The couple was in seventh heaven with happiness, but the woman could not ward off the addiction of her husband. Oleg Dal's wife, Elizaveta Alekseevna Apratskaya, was with her husband until his last days, they lived together for 10 long years. Death for a woman was a real tragedy and shock. According to Lisa herself, she died with her husband, and a part of her soul and in the future she did not live, but existed.

Everyone is very sorry that a great artist left us so early, because he could delight us with his performance for many years to come. It is simply impossible to forget such talents as Oleg Dal, he will live in the hearts of every admirer of his work.

Who interests many of his fans, he was one of the brightest and most controversial figures in Soviet theater and cinema. This man was very delicate and vulnerable, even sometimes cocky. But he was forgiven a lot: harshness, maximalism, and sometimes drunkenness. He could start rehearsing, and then, deciding that the film or play is not good enough, take and refuse the role.

The people around him understood: he was not like everyone else. He has his own path, his own road, which constantly winds between heaven and hell. Famous actor Oleg Dal. Biography, personal life, career, everything that touched this person, of course, has an insanely vivid character.

The decision to enter the theater, or speech defect

The future artist was born in 1941 on May 25 in a Russian family. As a child, Oleg Ivanovich dreamed of being a pilot, but he could not enter the aviation institute. And then I decided: since they are not taken as a pilot, he will become an artist. When the parents found out about this, a scandal began. All relatives on my mother’s side are hereditary teachers and philologists. Oleg's dad is a railway engineer, a party man.

How could they then guess what kind of famous artist Oleg Dal would become? Biography, nationality and other facts from the life of famous people are very often studied by specialists. And there is information that according to some sources Oleg Ivanovich is the great-grandson of the famous compiler of the dictionary. Quite naturally, the parents considered the stage a frivolous occupation for their son.

In addition, Dahl had him bursting from childhood. But I constantly tried to overcome it. He studied in the central house of children of railway workers in the studio of the artistic word. As a result of this, his unusual structure of phrases and pauses was born. The specialist taught him how, after a little hesitation, he pronounces words. This is how the artist Oleg Dal was born, whose biography will now be associated only with theater and cinematographic art.

Completion of training and the beginning of a creative path

After graduating from the Shchepkin School, Oleg Ivanovich enters Sovremennik. At the time, it was one of the most famous theaters in the country. Then it seemed that Dahl pulled out But work in the theater, unfortunately, does not work out. Oleg feels that he is capable of much, is constantly waiting in the wings, but five long years have passed, and he has not had a single serious role in Sovremennik.

I had to learn only some hasty introductory roles, when the text was given in the morning, and by the evening the performance was staged on the stage. And not a single serious character. Thus, the actor has accumulated not only a huge amount of unspent energy over a long period, but also resentment. Oleg Dal was a very hot-tempered person. His biography contains many stories of his relatives and friends, which characterize him as a rather emotional person. The same thing happened this time, Oleg Ivanovich left the theater, slamming the door.

Salvation in cinematography

When there were no serious roles in the theater, cinematography saved me. Filming of the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha" began in 1966 in Peterhof. The center of the collective was two actors - Oleg Dal and Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov. Both are young, ambitious and completely different. When they found themselves on the set together and started joking, none of the people around could help laughing.

Sometimes, after the end of the working day, the artists forgot to hand over their ammunition to the costume designer. They were so used to fighting that they continued to play war even after the camera had already turned off. Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov himself often recalls how they wandered around the city in uniform at that time and were stopped by a patrol asking where they were from.

Character problems, or Filming under police escort

But what was Oleg Dal really like? Biography, personal life, what tormented the actor - all this interested people only after his death. And then, on the set, Oleg Ivanovich was the ringleader, and what is going on in his soul, no one knows. Numerous problems that overwhelmed the actor's soul began to be expressed in hard drinking. The director often deliberately puts him with his back to the camera. Oleg Ivanovich's face swells from what he had drunk the day before, his eyes become cloudy. And yet everyone forgave him.

In the midst of filming, Oleg Dal again went into a binge. Moreover, he got into the police and got fifteen days for the director Vladimir Motyl understood that the shooting was under threat. In order not to disrupt the schedule, he negotiates with the head of the police station and Oleg Ivanovich is brought to the site under escort, and in the evening he is again taken away.

That dialogue, when the hero of Dalia Kolyshkin was talking with Zhenechka, sitting in the guardhouse, was filmed during this period. Perhaps that is why it is played so touchingly and authentically. Such was the actor Oleg Dal. Biography, personal life, filmography of this man, of course, had a very bright character. And there is hardly a reader whom this person will leave indifferent.

The Ending Filming of a Popular Movie, or How Life Turns to Hell

Oleg Dal did not like much in the world around him, and he did not know who to express his dissatisfaction with, and from this he was constantly nervous and turned on. With rudeness, mediocrity and narrow-mindedness, Oleg Ivanovich sorted out the relationship with his fists. I had to fight not only in life, but also on the screen. The most famous hand-to-hand scene in the film "Zhenya, Zhenya and Katyusha" took place in the dugout.

Dahl, this film brought unprecedented popularity. True, the artist did not have time to enjoy it. For thirty years this painting was banned. And the wording is simple enough. The film is immoral, and the main characters are drunks and hooligans. After filming this movie, Dahl's life turned into a real hell.

All film studios in the country were forbidden to film this artist and generally forget who Oleg Dal is. His biography really contains information that at that time he was included in the black list of objectionable artists. But times are changing, and today this film is shown on every Victory Day.

A new twist of fate, or an unspoken order of the leadership

Dahl was versatile. He could play the Shadow in a children's fairy tale, create the image of a scout, a recidivist criminal and even a prince. Oleg Dal was infinitely talented. The biography of this artist, starting in 1978, finally tells about some positive moments in his life. This year begins work on the film "The Travels of Prince Florizel". The director is sure that Oleg should play the main role in this picture.

But it was almost impossible to approve Dahl's candidacy at the film studio. For all Mosfilm officials, Oleg Ivanovich is persona non grata. Too picky, capricious, arrogant. Other actors are happy about any offer, and Dal refused to work with Kazakov, Ryazanov, Gaidai. At the end of the 1970s, an unspoken order from the management began to operate at the film studio, which read: for three years, Oleg Ivanovich Dal should not be filmed anywhere.

Perseverance of the director and the beginning of filming

Tatarsky refused to work without Dahl. As a result, the director was given the go-ahead, but was warned that Oleg Ivanovich was an uncontrollable artist, inadequate and drinking heavily. The scandal erupted on the very first day of shooting while trying on a suit. To fit the jacket that was picked up in the props on Dahl's figure, the suit was pinned at the back with pins.

For Oleg Ivanovich, who is used to looking great, it was a shock. And he refused to play in an old suit that did not fit. Dahl believed that the prince should look so that the audience, seeing him on TV, tomorrow began to dress the same as him. So Prince Florizel on the screen becomes the height of elegance, and Oleg Dal on the set - the height of professionalism. Everyone who starred next to him knew that the actor was constantly improvising. He is an unpredictable artist.

Filming ended in 1979. Viewers saw the film two years later. Finally, Dahl was happy. At that time, Mosfilm had five paintings with his participation, and everything was banned. He understood that the fact that Florizel came out was a miracle. Television, radio and newspapers attacked Oleg Ivanovich, he liked it. He gave interviews with great pleasure. And the journalists were interested in absolutely everything. What is Oleg Dal, biography, personal life, children and future plans in cinema.

Nice appearance and obnoxious character

Eyes, smile, strong-willed gait, unique manner of speaking. All this attracted girls like a magnet. On the set, half of the group was in love with him, from costume designers to the actresses themselves. The fans on the street did not give Oleg a pass. So who was the lucky woman chosen by Oleg Dal? Biography, family, children - this is all that is always of interest to many fans of the talent of their favorite actor.

Many loved Oleg Ivanovich Dal, but he could not find his other half for a long time. The artist's personal life did not work out. The affair with actress Nina Doroshina ended right at the wedding. With his second wife, Dal lived a little more than six months. It was almost impossible to bear Oleg's character.

Oleg Dal: biography, wife, or in search of personal happiness

It seemed that Dahl had no chances for personal happiness. But on the set of the picture, there was a meeting that changed his whole life. On August 19, 1969, Oleg Ivanovich met Lisa Eikhenbaum. She worked as an editor for the picture. And soon they got married. Introducing her to his colleagues, Dahl always spoke proudly and significantly.

Elizabeth was also very kind to her husband. She always made sure that he was not tired, hungry or cold. Oleg Ivanovich always took his wife with him to the shooting. This relationship was very tender. This woman was the only one who could find an approach to a talented actor with an obnoxious character.

Another unfulfilled hopes

Good artists are often compared to children. In the case of Oleg Ivanovich, this is the best definition. After all, it was almost impossible to outplay Dahl, as well as outplay the child. Filming of the film "September Vacation" began in 1977. When Dal found out that Lenfilm was preparing this film based on Vampilov's play "Duck Hunt", he immediately realized that he would be offered the main role. Naturally, I was waiting for the call.

With the approval of the roles, Melnikov pulled to the last. When permission to shoot was received, I called Oleg Dal. The actor worked in this film selflessly, and this became one of his best roles. However, the finished picture was not allowed to rent, it was called decadent and put on the shelf for eight years. Another shock that Oleg Dal went through.

The biography, the cause of death of any favorite actor is always of interest to many admirers of the talents of Soviet cinema. And very often you can find in the destinies of artists of that generation such a dismissive attitude of officials towards their talent. Of course, this always negatively affected not only the psychological state of the actors, but also often undermined their health. The premiere of the film took place only in 1987, when Oleg Ivanovich was no longer alive.

The last days of the artist's work

What else interests those who know and love an artist like Oleg Dal? Biography, cause of death and events leading up to his death. "Uninvited Friend" is the last work of Oleg Ivanovich. During the filming, Vladimir Vysotsky dies. It became a sign for Dahl. He understood that they were walking the same road with Vladimir Semenovich. Together they worked on the set of the film "A Bad and Good Man", even then Vysotsky more than once warned Oleg Ivanovich against frequent alcohol consumption.

In 1981, Oleg Dal was offered to star in a lyrical comedy. He goes to Kiev. On the eve of their departure, their last conversation with Yevgeny Tatarsky took place, in which Oleg Ivanovich mentioned how often he dreams of Vladimir Vysotsky and invites him to his place. On March 1, Dal left for the capital of Ukraine, and on the 3rd of the same month he was gone.

They say that a candle cannot be lit from both ends. It then ends too quickly. Oleg Ivanovich burned his candle mercilessly and did it deliberately. Tore my heart to pieces, and it could not stand it. Oleg Dal passed away. Biography, children who could still appear with this wonderful person, further creativity and much more, what Oleg Ivanovich was capable of, as if frozen in this moment. He passed away at thirty-nine, but for those who were close to him, who revisit films with his participation, he is still alive today.

Oleg Dal "

Born May 25, 1941 in Lublin, Moscow Region, in the family of a prominent railway engineer and teacher.

In 1963 he graduated from the Theater School named after M.S. Schepkina (teacher Nikolai Annenkov).
In 1963-1969, 1973-1976 he was an actor at the Sovremennik Theater.
In 1971-1973 he was an actor at the Leningrad Lenin Komsomol Theater.
Since 1976 he has been an actor at the Malaya Bronnaya Theater in Moscow.
Since 1980 he has been an actor at the Maly Theater.
In 1980-1981 he was a teacher at VGIK.

The first film work was the role of Alik Kramer in the film directed by Alexander Zarkhi "My little brother" (1962) based on the story "Star Ticket" by Vasily Aksyonov, where Dal played the hero of the 1960s, a young intellectual from a Moscow gateway. Most of Dahl's heroes in the early period of his creative activity are his peers. He appropriated many of his traits to them. First of all, of course, the appearance of a thin, but very graceful young man, with clear big eyes, expressive, peculiar plasticity and an amazing, cunningly gentle, a little sad charm inherent only in him. In the young Dahl there was something that did not depend in any way on texture and external data. Trepidation, poetic inspiration helped the actor to express the time, which manifests itself in a passion for art, a desire for arguments and faith in life.

In 1966, Vladimir Motyl offered Dal the role of Zhenya Kolyshkin in the film "Zhenya, Zhenya and Katyusha." The premiere took place in August 1967 and aroused great interest among viewers. Nevertheless, the picture did not get on the wide screen then: the minimum number of copies was printed, distribution was allowed only in the provinces.

An important stage in the creative life of Oleg Dahl was his performance as Yevgeny Sobolevsky in Naum Birman's film The Chronicle of a Dive Bomber (1967). Thanks to the image he created of an intelligent and charming guy Zhenya Sobolevsky, 27-year-old Dal became one of the most popular actors in Soviet cinema.

The role of the Dollmaker and the Soldier in The Old Old Tale (directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova, 1968) further strengthened the audience's love.

In the same year, at the Sovremennik Theater, Oleg plays Vaska Pepla (At the Bottom by Maxim Gorky, director G.B. Volchek), plays brightly and unexpectedly. Dahl saw a man in the thief. Vaska Ashes in Dahl's interpretation is a single and impetuous impulse to happiness and beauty.

Oleg Dal continues to work in cinematography. He starred in the role of the Jester in the film "King Lear" directed by Grigory Kozintsev (1970). This character was built by Dahl from some sharp angles: a naked skull, protruding ears, sunken cheeks. Tragic and wise eyes. Instead of a buffoon's attire - a shabby rags. His task is not to entertain, but to reopen wounds.

In 1971, Dahl starred in the film "Shadow" directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova, playing two roles at once: the Scientist and his Shadow. The scientist is a kind, sweet loser in a shabby velvet suit, an eternal youth, waiting for a meeting with fabulously beautiful love, with adventures. But suddenly the adventure turns into a split personality, and Shadow-Dal rushes among the Andresen's scenery with long breaking fingers, with a face-mask, with wild animal habits.

Since 1974, Sovremennik has hosted four performances with the participation of Oleg Dal:
"Valentine and Valentine" by Mikhail Roshchin,
"Provincial jokes" by Alexander Vampilov,
"From the notes of Lopatin" by Konstantin Simonov,
"The Princess and the Woodcutter" by Mikael Mikaelyan and Galina Volchek.

Such directors as Valery Fokin, Iosif Raikhelgauz, Galina Volchek work with him. And the play "The Princess and the Woodcutter" was the first experience of Oleg Dal as a director.

In 1975, Anatoly Efros makes it possible for Oleg Dal's old dream to come true, inviting him to star in the TV show "Through the Pages of Pechorin Magazine". While still a schoolboy, after reading "A Hero of Our Time" by M.Yu. Lermontov, Dal decided to become an actor in order to play the main character of the story someday.

Meeting with A.V. Efros again returned Oleg Dal to the bosom of the theater. He came to the "Theater on Malaya Bronnaya", where he played various roles, including Alexei Nikolaevich Belyaev ("A Month in the Country" by I. S. Turgenev), who, like the wind, burst into the stillness and languor of the Islaevs' house.

In 1977, Oleg Dal starred with Anatoly Efros in the film "Thursday and Never Again" in the role of Sergei. Their last joint work was the painting "Islands in the Ocean" (1978). “He was a very tall person mentally. It is very tough, and behind this toughness there is an extraordinary subtlety and fragility ", - said A.V. Efros.

Shooting in the film "Vacation in September" (based on the play "Duck Hunt" by Alexander Vampilov, director Vitaly Melnikov, 1979) became a significant event in Dahl's work.
Zilov-Dala bore the stamp of high talent. He could write wonderful poetry, compose songs. But from the first seconds of his appearance on the screen, he knew that he would die. In the very ritual of the duck hunt, in anticipation of it, something convulsive, absurd, was caught, how absurd this countdown was not days, not hours, - minutes.

On November 11, 1980, Dal was enrolled in the troupe of the Maly Theater, where he played the role of Alex only once (December 31, 1980) (Yuri Bondarev's "Shore", director V. Andreev).

The last work in the cinema was the role of Viktor Sviridov in the film "Uninvited Friend" directed by Leonid Maryagin (1981).

Oleg Dal usually thought out the task of the role himself, its drawing, fantasized, improvised. Dahl prepared for rehearsals, and especially for performances, as a surgeon, on whom the outcome of a complex operation depended. Actors and directors loved to work with him. His mental, psychophysical apparatus, when creating images, was a delicate, jewelry instrument. Extremely plastic and internally very mobile, Dahl could play in completely different rhythms in one performance or film.

The usual state of almost all of Dahl's heroes is restlessness. They cannot find themselves in the world around them, and most importantly, they cannot find themselves in themselves. They are characterized by contemplation and self-absorption.

In all roles, Dahl was gullible and wide open, possessed a special, tragic perception of the world. He began to think about death very early, he seemed to have a presentiment of it. Departure from life largely determined his life itself. From the diary: “Try my best to say everything I thought and think about. The main thing is to do it !!! " He was afraid not to have time to say, do ... He was always on the lookout.

Dahl read poetry remarkably, slightly "pulling back" the sound, thoughtfully living it, and not reciting it. In Oleg Dahl, one could discern hidden tenderness, and dissatisfaction with himself, and spiritual insecurity. He knew what deep sadness and deep sound were. He fell into them like into a deep well. Hence its originality and uniqueness.

Oleg Ivanovich Dal died on the morning of March 3, 1981 at the age of 40 in a hotel room in Kiev.

Chapter 11 of the cycle "To be remembered" by Leonid Filatov is devoted to the life and work of the actor.

theatrical works

1963 - The Naked King - Heinrich
1963 - "Older Sister" - Cyril
1963 - "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" - Dwarf Thursday
1963 - "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov - Misha
1964 - "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand - Marquis of Briceil
1965 - "Always on sale" - Igor
1966 - "An Ordinary History" based on the novel by I.A. Goncharova - Pospelov
1967 - "The Decembrists" - episode
1968 - "At the Bottom" by Maxim Gorky. Director: Galina Volchek - Vaska Ash
1969 - "Taste of Cherry" - man
1972 - "Choice" - Doubles (Leningrad Theater named after Lenin Komsomol)
1973 - "Balalaikin and K" - Balalaikin
1974 - "Valentine and Valentine" by Mikhail Roshchin - Gusev
1974 - "Provincial Jokes" by Alexander Vampilov - Kamaev
1974 - "From the notes of Lopatin" by Konstantin Simonov - Gursky
1974 - "The Princess and the Woodcutter" M. Mikaelyan and G.B. Volchek. Director: Oleg Dal - Magiash
1975 - "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov - Boris
1975 - Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - Andrew Egyuchik
1977 - "A Month in the Country" by I.S. Turgenev - Alexey Nikolaevich Belyaev (theater on Malaya Bronnaya)
1977 - "Veranda in the Forest" - Cheloznov
1980 - "Shore" - Alex (Maly Theater)

prizes and awards

Prize for the best male role in the film "Vacation in September" - XII All-Union Festival of Television Films, Minsk, 1987 (posthumously).