Aleksandr Zatsepin

Aleksandr was born on 10 March 1926 in Novosibirsk in the family of the surgeon Sergei Dmitriyevich Zatsepin and teacher Valentina Boleslavovna Oksentovich. In 1941, Aleksandr's father was arrested under Article 58 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. After his release, he did not return to his family. The mother raised her son alone.[1]

After graduating from high school number 12, he entered the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers. In March 1945 he was expelled from the university and drafted into the army. While in the military service, he independently mastered playing several instruments. The platoon commander, where Aleksandr served, was the future artist Yevgeny Matveyev, who invited Aleksandr to participate in the army amateur performances.[2] As a result, he was admitted to the Novosibirsk Army Song and Dance Ensemble.

After leaving the reserve in 1947, he worked at the Novosibirsk Philharmonic. According to Zatsepin, if he had not joined the army, he would not have become a composer.[2]

The future composer earned money by playing the accordion in restaurants. Then director Leonid Gaidai began work on the comedy Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures. Prior to that, he collaborated with Nikita Bogoslovsky, but for the next picture he decided to find a new composer. An aspiring composer was recommended to him, and the creative tandem took place.[3] That is how Zatsepin began to work in the field of Soviet cinema.

Since 1965, Zatsepin worked with Leonid Derbenyov. Together they wrote over 100 songs.

In the summer of 1982, the composer went to live in France without changing his citizenship.[3] After his departure, his songs were mercilessly criticized, in particular, the newspaper Work on June 3, 1983 published an article "Is there only a moment?", Where it was said that this song, in fact, is about weak people who only whine that life is fleeting and care only about their own destiny. It was argued that this is frank vulgarity, clothed in a beautiful melody, and therefore easily remembered, disturbing young souls with false romanticism, philistine ideas of happiness.[4] In 1986, with the advent of Perestroika, the composer returned to the Soviet Union.

• People's Artist of Russia
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
• Medal "For Distinguished Labour"

• "Pesenka o medvedyakh" (1966, from the film Kidnapping, Caucasian Style)
• "If I was a Sultan" (1966, from the film Kidnapping, Caucasian Style)
• "Island of Bad Luck" (1968, from the film The Diamond Arm)
• "The Song about Hares" (1968, from the film The Diamond Arm)
• "There is Only a Moment" (1973, from the film The Land of Sannikov)
• "January Blizzard is Ringing" (1973, from the film Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future)
• "Conversation with Happiness" (1973, from the film Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future)
• "There was Suddenly no Peace" (1989, from the film Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation)
• "Cooperative" (1989, from the film Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation)
• "Hello, America!" (1992, from the film Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach)
• "My Train has Left" (1992, from the film Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach)

Films

1. 1961 — Absolutely Seriously
2. 1965 — Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures
3. 1966 — Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
4. 1966 — Man without a Passport
5. 1967 — The Formula of Rainbow
6. 1968 — The Diamond Arm
7. 1968 — Film, Film, Film (together with Yevgeny Krylatov)
8. 1969 — The Red Tent
9. 1970 — Well, Just You Wait!, second episode (together with Georgy Garanian)
10. 1971 — The Twelve Chairs
11. 1972 — Commander of the Lucky 'Pike'
12. 1973 — The Land of Sannikov
13. 1973 — Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future
14. 1975 — Captain Nemo
15. 1975 — It Can't Be!
16. 1976 — The Throw, or Everything Started on Saturday
17. 1977 — Incognito from St. Petersburg
18. 1978 — The Woman who Sings
19. 1978 — 31 June
20. 1980 — The Orion Loop
21. 1980 — Borrowing Matchsticks
22. 1981 — Dusha
23. 1981 — The Mystery of the Third Planet
24. 1982 — Sportloto-82
25. 1987 — Where is the Nophelet?
26. 1987 — She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat
27. 1987 — Island of Lost Ships
28. 1990 — Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
29. 1992 — Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach
30. 2014 — Kidnapping, Caucasian style! (used music)

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