For the beloved elegant gentleman and actor Ģirts Jakovļevs – 80 / Article / LSM.lv

His masculine elegance has been admired and adored for decades. During his youth major films – especially in the 70s and 80s – he had no competition. If you browse the list of his roles on the website of the Latvian National Theater – do you have all the main roles alone. In the catalog of the National Library of Latvia, his name is mentioned more than 250 times. He is still on stage in the theater today – it is the actor Ģirts Jakovļevs. Master’s Friday, July 10, 80th birthday.

His list of roles in theater and cinema is endlessly long and is still being expanded. Ģirts Jakovļevs has starred in more than 50 different films and television films. The number of roles in the theater is also associated with Jakovlev’s name, which can be measured in several hundred. Humor, high self-criticism and kindness are the most characteristic qualities of a respected stage master even today.

Ģirts Jakovļevs has first remained in the memory of the audience as a representative of the roles of lovers and heroes. The passionate dark-haired, with sometimes even insane gazes, became idols of worship for many (and many). Ģirts Jakovļevs is still an elegant and charming gentleman, who is still recognized when he meets him on the street.

“I am an actor’s director,” says Ģirts Jakovļevs.

“In the hands of the director as such a kneading material – if something comes out to knead, then it comes out. If it doesn’t come out, it doesn’t come out. ”

This year, Jakovlev has a round anniversary – he was born in 1940 and celebrates his 80th birthday, while he started working at the Latvian National Theater in 1960 – he has worked there for 60 years, and the directors still write his name in the latest theater productions.

Does the stage master also have any unrealized dream roles? He admits: “I don’t know what else I want! Well, I would really like to play “Hamlet”. I hope there will be a repertoire in the theater and I will get the role! And then I’ll do my best to get him. ”

He writes about Jakovlev in the theater: Somerset Moem owns the classic phrase “The Most Beautiful Man in London”, and the same is said about Girt Yakovlev for decades. Whether it’s a dark-haired beauty in a series of heroic theater and cinema years of his strength, or an elegant old man whose demand from the directors isn’t even going to subside, now. Amazingly, the attractiveness on stage and in life has accompanied him with a humorous character, honesty, high self-criticism for his own work, companionship and kindness. And talent, of course! ”

“It is a sin to say that, but I have never had such a passionate obsession – so that ‘I have a terrible will,'” Yakovlev reveals.

“It simply came to our notice then. One closer, one further. But that I would have had such an insane passionate wish – “I have to play it, I will!” Time is already erasing everything. ”

“Blow, winds,” replies Liene Jakovleva, the daughter of Ģirts Jakovļevs, naming her father’s work, with which she was most overwhelmed. “” Blow, winds “, Imants Kalnins. Although it is definitely not the best Latvian film – the highest quality and the most valuable – but in my heart…

I can’t watch him at all, I cry all the time. “

Girta Jakovlev’s granddaughter Katrīna Pauls Felsbergs says about Ģirts Jakovļevs: “Where he is, there is an event. Everything happens there, there is life. And above all there is sincerity.

I don’t know a more sincere person who would think and care so much about his family, about those around him, what is dear to him. ”

Ģirts Jakovļevs has his own ideas on how to celebrate this year’s round anniversary: ​​“I will sit at home at the table and charge my mobile, because there will be an infinite number of people calling. And then I’ll be happy to call and unhappy to send text messages, because then you have to send “thank you very much” again and send that text message individually. “

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