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Alexandre Zatsepine is a Sound Russe born on 10 march 1926 at Novosibirsk (Russie)

Alexandre Zatsepine

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Nationality Russie
Birth 10 march 1926 (98 years) at Novosibirsk (Russie)
Awards Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Aleksander Sergeyevich Zatsepin (born March 10, 1926, Novosibirsk, USSR) - a Soviet and Russian composer, famous for his soundtracks to many popular movies, notably comedies by Leonid Gaidai. In 1982 Zatsepin went to live in France, four years later returned ; since then he continued to (using his own words) "work in Moscow, rest in Paris".

Biography

Fils de Sergueï Dmitrievitch Zatsepine, un chirurgien, et de son épouse Valentina Boleslavovna Oksentovitch, une enseignante, Alexandre Zatsepine naît à Novossibirsk. Son père est arrêté en 1941 pour les activités contre-révolutionnaires et condamné, selon l'article 58, à dix ans d'emprisonnement. Après l'expiration de sa peine, il refait sa vie ailleurs. Alexandre est élevé par la mère seule.

À la fin de ses études secondaires à l'école n 12, il intègre l'Institut d'ingénierie d'exploitation ferroviaire de Novossibirsk. Mobilisé en 1945, il apprend lors de son service militaire à jouer de plusieurs instruments et sera pris dans les Chœur de l'Armée de Novossibirsk. Après la démobilisation en 1947, il travaille dans la philharmonie de Novossibirsk. Lors d'une tournée à Almaty il passe le concours d'entrée du Conservatoire national kazakh et sera pris dans la classe du professeur Yevgeny Brusilovsky. Diplômé en 1951, Alexandre Zatsepine devient directeur musical des studios Kazakhfilm . En 1956, il devient membre de l'Union des compositeurs soviétiques et de l'Union cinématographique soviétique. La même année il crée sa première musique originale du film pour la comédie Nach mily doktor de Shaken Aimanov . Pour réaliser les enregistrements, il se rend fréquemment à Moscou, où il fait connaissance du chef d'orchestre du jazz symphonique Viktor Knouchevitski qui lui conseille de tenter sa chance à la capitale.

Installé à Moscou, Zatsepine travaille d'abord comme accordéoniste au restaurant, jusqu'à ce qu'on le recommande à Leonid Gaïdaï qui cherche le compositeur pour son futur film Opération Y et autres aventures de Chourik (1965). En 1965, commence sa collaboration avec le parolier Leonid Derbenyov . Ensemble, ils écriront plus d'une centaine de chansons de films devenues très populaires auprès du public soviétique. Il collabore aussi activement avec Alla Pougatcheva de 1970 à 1978.

En été 1982, il se marie avec une citoyenne française et immigre en France. À cette occasion, les critiques de ses œuvres jadis acclamées se multiplient en URSS, une réaction courante après tout départ à l'ouest d'un artiste soviétique. Il rentre en 1986, à l'époque de la pérestroïka et renoue avec Leonid Gaïdaï qui tourne bientôt Elle avec un balai, lui avec un chapeau noir (1987) et Où se trouve nofelet ? (1988).

Lors de sa carrière, Alexandre Zatsepine a écrit la musique pour quelques 120 films et mis en musique plus de 300 chansons. Il est nommé maître des arts émérite de la Russie (1997) et membre correspondant de l'Académie nationale des arts et sciences cinématographiques (2002).

Usually with

Georgy  Vitsin
Georgy Vitsin
(4 films)
Olavi Tuomi
Olavi Tuomi
(1 films)
Yuri Nikulin
Yuri Nikulin
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alexandre Zatsepine (11 films)

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There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach, 1h37
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Dmitri Kharatian, Kelly McGillis, Mamuka Kikaleishvili, Leonid Kouravliov, Andrey Myagkov, Emmanuil Vitorgan
Rating60% 3.0003653.0003653.0003653.0003653.000365
The plot unfolds during the last years of the Soviet Union. The Cold War is over and the President of the United States and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union must meet for high-level diplomatic talks. However, the meeting is put at risk because of the extent of the criminal activities perpetuated by the Russian Mafia in the United States. A Mafioso named Rabinovich is even able to listen in on the phone lines between Washington and Moscow using a secret wiretap. Fedor Sokolov, a KGB agent and Mary Star, a CIA agent, must work together to take down the head of the Russian Mafia, nicknamed the "Artist" who appears in the guises of Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Hitler, Peter the Great, Saddam Hussein, and Othello over the course of this screwball comedy.
Soul
Soul (1981)
, 1h31
Directed by Alexander Stefanovich
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about disabilities
Actors Sofia Rotaru, Mikhaïl Boïarski, Rolan Bykov, Vyacheslav Spesivtsev, Ivars Kalniņš, Leonid Obolensky
Rating57% 2.8576652.8576652.8576652.8576652.857665
Viktoria Svobodina is a young but already well known popular singer in the Soviet Union, living in Moscow. Her popularity reaches the heights whilst the band she is performing with remains in the shadows. At an important live concert the band turns off the sound, but Viktoria keeps singing the song, changing the lyrics to "I will sing till the end". As they leave the concert she stops the car and rips posters of herself off the walls of the concert hall and leaves the band for a solo career.
The Secret of the Third Planet, 48minutes
Directed by Roman Katchanov
Origin Russie
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Space adventure films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Vladimir Droujnikov, Vassili Livanov, Vsevolod Larionov, Rina Zelionaïa
Rating77% 3.8892453.8892453.8892453.8892453.889245
As part of an expedition from Earth on the ship "Pegas", Captain Zelyonyy, Professor Seleznyov and his daughter Alice Selezneva search for new animal species for Moscow Zoo. On the advice of the archeologist Gromozeka they look for with the help of doctor Verkhovtsev, the director of the museum of Two Captains, but the doctor behaves suspiciously: doesn't show them diaries of captains and starts spying on the expedition. On the planet Blukthey make some valuable purchases, among them a Chatterer — the bird belonging to the missing captain Kim. A suspicious fat man, Merry Fellow U, tries to steal a bird. Having listened to the speech of the Chatterer, the crew of "Pegas" heads for system of the Jellyfish. On the road heroes rescue robots of the planet of Shelezyak from diamond dust, admixed in greasing.
For the Matches, 1h34
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï, Risto Orko
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Historical, Musical
Actors Evgueni Leonov, Rita Polster, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Georgy Vitsin, Ritva Valkama, Sergueï Filippov
Rating67% 3.390363.390363.390363.390363.39036
Antti Ihalaynen (Yevgeny Leonov) lives happily on the farm with his wife Anna-Lisa (Rita Polster). Once, when the house ran out of matches and the Ihalaynens had nothing to make a fire for cooking coffee so loved by the Finns, Anna-Lisa sent her husband to a neighbor Hyuvyarinen (Sergei Filippov) for matches.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession, 1h33
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Origin Russie
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Théâtre, L'usurpation d'identité, Time travel films, Comedy science fiction films, Films based on plays, Escroquerie
Actors Yury Yakovlev, Leonid Kouravliov, Alexandre Demianenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Vladimir Etouch, Natalia Kratchkovskaïa
Rating81% 4.096854.096854.096854.096854.09685
The story begins in 1973 Moscow, where Engineer Aleksandr (Shurik) Timofeev (Aleksandr Demyanenko) is working on a time machine in his apartment. By accident, he sends Ivan Vasilevich Bunsha (Yuri Yakovlev), superintendent of his apartment building, and George Miloslavsky (Leonid Kuravlev), a small-time burglar, back into the time of Ivan IV "The Terrible". The pair is forced to disguise themselves, with Bunsha dressing up as Ivan IV and Miloslavsky as a knyaz of the same name. At the same time, the real Ivan IV (also played by Yuri Yakovlev) is sent by the same machine into Shurik's apartment, he has to deal with modern-day life while Shurik tries to fix the machine so that everyone can be brought back to their proper place in time. Superintendent Bunsha and Tzar Ivan IV the Terrible are lookalikes but have completely different personalities, which results in funny situations of mistaken identity. As the police (tipped off by a neighbor who was burgled by Miloslavsky) close in on Shurik, who is frantically trying to repair the machine, the cover of Bunsha and Miloslavsky is blown and they have to fight off the Streltsy, who have figured out that Bunsha is an impostor. The movie ends with Bunsha, Miloslavsky, and Ivan IV all transported back to their proper places, although the entire episode is revealed to be a dream by Shurik.
The Sannikov Land, 1h32
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Yuriy Nazarov, Oleg Dahl, Georgy Vitsin, Makhmud Esambayev, Nikolai Gritsenko
Rating68% 3.432613.432613.432613.432613.43261
The exiled settler Alexander Ilyin persuades the goldmines owner Trifon Perfilyev to sponsor the expedition dedicated to the searches of "Sannikov Land", a legendary warm land behind the Polar circle. Hoping that this land could be filled with gold, Perfilyev agrees. Few more daredevils volunteer for the mission. The finally gathered crew consists of Ilyin himself, officer Evgeniy Krestovskiy, Perfilyev's servant Ignatiy, who is given a task of killing every other crew member in case they truly find any gold, and Gubin, a Katorga runaway and a former doctor.
The Diamond Arm, 1h34
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Yuri Nikulin, Andreï Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordioukova, Leonid Kanevsky, Svetlana Svetlitchnaïa
Rating82% 4.1454654.1454654.1454654.1454654.145465
The boss of a black market ring (known only as "The Chief") wants to smuggle a batch of jewelry from a foreign state into the Soviet Union by hiding it inside the orthopedic cast of a courier. The Chief sends a minor henchman named Gennadiy Kozodoyev (played by Mironov) to serve as the courier. Kozodoyev travels to Istanbul via a tourist cruise ship. The Turkish co-conspirators do not know what the courier looks like; they only know that he is supposed to say a code word to identify himself. Due to a mix-up, they mistake Kozodoyev's fellow passenger from the cruise ship, the "ordinary Soviet citizen" Semyon Gorbunkov (played by Nikulin) for the courier. They place a cast around his arm and put the contraband jewels inside the cast. Upon the cruise ship's return to the Soviet Union, Gorbunkov lets the police know what happened, and the police captain, who is working undercover as a taxi driver, uses Gorbunkov as bait to catch the criminals. Most of the plot are various attempts of The Chief's inept henchmen, Kozodoyev and Lyolik (played by Papanov), to lure Gorbunkov into a situation where they can quietly, without a wet job, remove the cast and reclaim the contraband jewels. In the meantime, Gorbunkov's wife begins to suspect that he has either been recruited by foreign intelligence, or is having an affair.
The Red Tent, 2h1
Directed by Mikhaïl Kalatozov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Peter Finch, Nikita Mikhalkov, Yuri Vizbor, Donatas Banionis
Rating68% 3.4389953.4389953.4389953.4389953.438995
The film begins in Rome many years after the expedition. Nobile has endured years of scorn for his actions during the disaster and its aftermath. He imagines his apartment turned into a court of inquiry against him, where witnesses and judges are his former crewmen – including Captain Zappi, his navigator and his meteorologist Finn Malmgren. Also arrayed against him are Valeria, Malmgren's lover, Captain Romagna, one of the expedition's would-be recuers, famed aviator Lundborg, professor Samoilovich, chief of the Soviet rescue mission, his pilot Boris Chukhnovski, and Roald Amundsen who lost his life in the search for survivors of Nobile's expedition.
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, 1h17
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Actors Alexandre Demianenko, Natalia Varley, Yuri Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov, Georgy Vitsin, Vladimir Etouch
Rating82% 4.14534.14534.14534.14534.1453
A kind, yet naïve, ethnography student named Shurik (Demyanenko), known from earlier films as a student at the Polytechnic Institute, goes to the Caucasus to learn ancient customs and traditions practiced by the locals, including local "myths, legends, and toasts". At the start of the film, Shurik is making his way along a mountain road in the Caucasus on a donkey. He comes upon a truck driver named Edik whose truck refuses to start. The donkey gets stubborn and neither man is able to get his respective mode of transportation going.
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures, 1h30
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Alexandre Demianenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Aleksei Smirnov, Vladimir Bassov, Georgy Vitsin
Rating84% 4.2404154.2404154.2404154.2404154.240415
On a bus a boor and drunkard named Fedya takes a seat reserved for children and disabled persons and then refuses to let a young pregnant woman sit claiming that "she is neither a child nor handicapped". Shurik, who is riding on the same bus, puts on a pair of sunglasses, and pretends to be visually impaired. When Fedya is urged to let him sit in his seat, Shurik offers the seat to the pregnant woman. Fedya is enraged at being deceived and gets into a fight with Shurik. As a result, Fedya is arrested and sentenced to 15 days of Community service, Russian administrative arrest or simply '15 sutok' (15 days). Ironically, he is sent to serve his term to the same construction site where Shurik works part-time. The manager puts them on the same work crew. Fedya does not do his work properly, bullies Shurik, and plans to get revenge on the young student. When Shurik finally hits back, the two get involved in a Tom and Jerry-style chase throughout the construction site using building equipment and various materials as weapons. In the end Fedya is subdued and reeducated by Shurik.