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This year the Honored artist of Kazakhstan Lev Bokserman
would be 75 years old. For many years the images created by the actor
gathered innumerable audience. Living in Almaty we were luckier than residents
of other cities. Since November 11, 1963 Lev Elyevich started working
in Almaty Academic Russian Drama Lermontov Theatre. It is there that Bokserman's
famous Don Juan ("Slave of Her Own Beloved"), Edmond ("King
Lear"), Prince Yusupov ("Empress's Plot") appeared.
Lev Bokserman was born in Ukraine, in the family of
Orthodox Jews. His father Elya Leybovich had been a house painter
all his life and never spoke Russian well. His mother Sura Iryevna Dashevskaya
was a daughter of a broken businessman. In the beginning of the World
War II the whole family was evacuated to Tashkent. Lev Bokserman's
youth passed in that city.
In 1941 he entered Tashkent Electromechanical Technical School.
Once he called on a theatrical circle and went mad on the theatre. Seeing
his keenness, teachers send Bokserman to study in Tashkent University
of Dramatic Art. There, under the direction of Ridal, he got acquainted
with details of his future profession. Study along with his gifted group-mates
Bronev, Tkachuk, Zaidenberg polished his talent. After graduation he was
sent to work in the Theatre of Young Spectators. But those were only first
steps of the Talent in his long and brilliant creative development.
Lev Bokserman's name for contemporary actors is a symbol
of professionalism and outstanding personality. For older actors his name
also symbolizes the period of people's touching belief in the power of
art. Jewish Community of Almaty could not set his diamond anniversary
aside. Lev Bokserman's memorial evening took place on September 23
in the show-room of Hesed "Polina". Many warm words were said
about the actor by his colleges, national artists of Kazakhstan Rubem Andriasyan,
Liya Nelskaya, Gennady Balayev and admirers Ludmila Varshavskaya,
Adolph Artsishevsky. The actor's close friend Boris Abramovich
helped the guests to look at Bokserman as a person:
"Lev was a very sociable, friendly, open man. He treated
his colleges, admirers, and strangers with equal warmth. His easiness
of behavior attracted young actors. They asked advises, sought for the
"philosophers' stone" in him, and he wondered what a great adviser
they thought him to be. At heart Lev has always been a "beginner",
he never ceased looking for the right intonation fitting a new image,
and he never was quite sure that the role was a success."
Having passed away in his prime, Lev Elyevich will always
remain in memory of thousand of his admirers as brilliant Don Juan.
And it was the reason why his memorial evening was full of bright humor.
The guests remembered him smiling and thinking, how great it is that such
a man lived and lives in his roles and his admirer's memory.
That evening the show-room of Hesed "Polina" was
crowded. Chairs were not enough, but it did not scare people away. "There
is a price to be paid for love!" - they said catching everything
the presenter was saying. Nobody noticed how it got dark. The meeting
lasted for three hours instead of one hour planned. The guests did not
want to go away, they were endlessly saying good-bye, and already standing
on the threshold they were remembering something new about the artist.
Let the outstanding actor Lev Bokserman be remembered forever!
Galina Goldberg
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A few words about our friend |
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Near Lev I felt myself a Jew |
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All his life is in these playbills |
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People remembered about Bokserman and smiled |
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