Eduard Konstantinovich Izotov (

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: ''Эдуа́рд Константи́нович Изо́тов'') (11 November 1936 - 8 March 2003) was a

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film actor. Izotov was born in the

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near Surazh. His parents were Konstantin Iosifovich Izotov and Anna Iosifovna Izotova. He studied acting at the

Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...

between 1954 and 1959, and in 1959 made his film debut in Sergei Kazakov's ''In the Silence of the Steppe'' (''V stepnoy tishi''). In 1964 he starred as the young hero Ivanushka in the fairy-tale film ''

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'', the role for which he is best known today. Izotov enjoyed a successful film career until 1983, when he was implicated in a scheme hatched by some fellow artists to finance a

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by illegal means. During the trial, he was defended by many distinguished colleagues, among them Pyotr Glebov,

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, and Marina Ladynina. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to three years in prison. The experience was devastating for the sensitive Izotov, and left him in poor health and psychologically damaged. After his release, he had trouble finding work, and suffered from chronic ill health. In 1999 he was honored as a

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of the Russian Federation. He died in 2003 in

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, and was buried in the northern suburb of

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. From 1956 to 1980 he was married to

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, a fellow veteran of

Alexander Rou Alexander Arturovich Rou (also, Rowe, from his Irish father's name) (russian: Александр Артурович Роу, – 28 December 1973) was a Soviet film director, and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1968). He directed a number of chi ...

's fairy tale films who went on to have a long career in

and

cinema. Their daughter,

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(born 1960), also became an actress.

Filmography

References

External links

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''Eduard Izotov's entry on kinopoisk.ru''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Izotov, Eduard 1936 births 2003 deaths Russian male film actors People from Vitebsk Region