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The Detroit Jewish News, 1986-12-19

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LIONEL ROLFE

Special to The Jewish News

L

arisa Eryomina can't
go home again. Actu-
ally, she probably
wouldn't want to go home
again. She had good reason
for leaving "home" in the
first place.
In the Soviet Union where
she came from, her plastic
face, her green eyes, her light
brown hair, all project a cer-
tain undefinable star quality.
She admits to enjoying play-
ing women of mystery, and,
after all, this was her
trademark when she was a
movie star during the '70s in
the Soviet Union.
Larisa was in the odd posi-
tion of being a Jew who was
making it big in her native
land, yet she was constantly
surrounded by an intense and
demoralizing anti-Semitism,
from friends and colleagues
as well as neighbors and
bureaucrats. She felt she had
to rebel, had to protest. Her
dignity demanded it. Her
sense of self-worth gave her
no choice.
No doubt for that reason,
Larisa, as well as her col-
leagues in the Soviet film in-
dustry, on occasion, pondered
whether that qu'ality that
enabled her to play so many
intriguing characters, was
somehow a part of her Jewish
nationality.
Larisa has regrets about
having left an important act-
ing career behind in the
Soviet Union and moving to a
country where she is in no
way a household word. She
doesn't have to wear dark
glasses, and go around with-
out make-up so she won't be
recognized as she used to do
in the Soviet Union.
She came to the United
States in 1979, with most of
the members of her family
during the Brezhnev years
when Jews were being
allowed to emigrate. She may
not have immediately become
a big star in her adopted

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Friday, December 19, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Larisa Eryomina is rebuilding her^ acting career in the
United States.
avoided me because they
country, but you may well
themselves were ashamed of
have seen her in such films
being Jewish. They regarded
and television shows as Mos-
being Jewish as a disgrace.
cow on the Hudson, Brews-
Being Jewish interfered with
ter's Millions, Raise the
their lives and could spoil
Titanic, The Young and the
their careers. Usually such
Restless and Scarecrow and
people tried to marry Rus-
Mrs. King. She didn't play
sians so their children would
the starring role, but rather
not have a hard time of it."
lesser characters — in one,
It was a Jewish director
for example, she was a Rus-
who told her he could not
sian agent. In another she
hire her because he could see
played a high society British
in her face she was Jewish.
model.
"That wouldn't be good for
In the Soviet Union, she
the film," he stormed.
starred in everything from
She was aware of anti-
Chekov on the stage to roles
Semitism when she journeyed
as aristocrats and ballerinas
to Leningrad. She went to
on the screen. Altogether, she
audition for some parts and
starred in 14 Soviet films.
they "treated me very well
She also played the lead roles
until the moment they looked
in Moscow Art Theatre prod-
at my passport and saw my
uctions.
nationality."
She did not come from an
She laughs, bitterly.
exalted background. Her
I asked her how the Rus-
people were Jews 'without
sians think about some of
money. Her father died
their greatest cultural heroes
young, and her grandfather
who are Jewish, names such
supported her family. He was
as Eisenstein and Oistrakh.
a tailor in Moldavia. Life was
She says they "don't think
hard.
about it. Moiseyev, he is a
She thinks now about the
Jew (whose troupe played re-
fact that her mother and
cently in Detroit). Moiseyev
grandfather had singing,
doesn't consider himself a
dancing and performing abil-
Jew. He considers himself
ity, but the world they
above being a Jew. He con-
existed in was so far from one
siders himself a Russian."
in which people ever thought
She says despite the fact
about doing these things for a
that she changed her name
living.
from Grossman, she always
Like more than one child of
protested anti-Semitism veh-
poverty, she spent a lot of
emently. But it was
time reading and dreaming of
everywhere. Even her best
different, more glamorous,
girl friend was amazed, for
example, whe she discovered
kinds of lives.
that Karl Marx, who is con-
During her Soviet years,
sidered a god in the Soviet
she was rarely employed by
Union, was himself Jewish.
Jewish directors — mostly
"How can that be?" the
Russian directors. "And there
girlfriend said in amazement.
are many Jews in the film
To Larisa, P. Massalsky —
industry in the Soviet Union
her teacher and mentor at
— usually they are directors,
the Moscow Institute — was
not actors. The directors

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