Igor Yasulovich

Igor Yasulovich was born September 24, 1941 in the village Reinsfeld in Kuibyshev region.
His father was a navy officer. In 1964 he graduated from the Actors Faculty of VGIK and started working in an Experimental Theatre-Studio of Pantomime “Ektemim” as an actor.
During 1964-1994 he worked in the theatre-studio of cinema actor. Since 1994 he became an actor of Moscow Theatre of Young Spectator. His debut in the cinema was in 1962 in such films as “Adventures of Krosh” and “Nine days of one year”. On the whole he played more than 120 roles in films of all genres – from comedy to drama, war and fantastic features.
Yasulovich is a character actor. He is good in different genres – in drama, in psychological detective, in comedy. Among his successful works Felix in “Across the cemetery”, Finn in the film based on “Ruslan and Ludmila”, Bertolet in the film “No way back”, Korezkiy in dilogy “The sky over the clouds” and “There, after the horizon”. . In 1974 he graduated from the Directors Faculty of VGIK, where he had studied in the workshop of Mikhail Romm. The same year he directed the short film “The first and the secondЭ. Afterwards he had directed several children features (“Lost and found” 1977, “Hello, river” 1979 with P. O. Arsenov and Y. V. Grigorjev).
Igor Yasulovich is an Honored Artist of RSFSR (1988) and People’s Artist of Russia (2001).

Igor Yasulovich about Firs:

He is a patriarchal person in all ways. I have seen such peole: My grandmother was of this kind, my mother and aunt too. He lives in a world with a certain way of life. There it seems a catastrophe when a man was not fed.