Zinaida Reich

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jun 21, 1884 (141 years old)
Death date
Jul 15, 1939

Zinaida Reich

Known For

Meyerhold's theatre and biomechanics
0h 42m
Movie 2003

Meyerhold's theatre and biomechanics

Russian actor and pedagogue, Gennadi Bogdanov, presents the most important etudes and principles of Vsevolod Meyerhold's Biomechanics. Includes archival photographs and film of Meyerhold's original work and also recent scenic work from Europe and the U.S. developed on the principles of bio-mechanics.

Biography

Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich was a Russian actress and became one of the main stars of the Meyerhold Theatre until it was closed under Joseph Stalin. She married poet Sergey Yesenin and had two children with him. After their divorce, she married the director Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 1939 Meyerhold was arrested by the NKVD, and she was brutally stabbed in her apartment by NKVD agents who staged a robbery.

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