Sofia Magarill studied at the A. Morozov Theater Studio, and in the FEKS workshop under the direction of G. Kozintsev and L. Trauberg. She worked in cinema since 1924 till her death in 1943 from typhus.
Early life and education
Sofia Magarill was born on April, 5, 1900, in St.Petersburg, Russia, into a Jewish family. She studied at the A. Morozov Theater Studio, and in the FEKS workshop under the direction of G. Kozintsev and L. Trauberg, she graduated in 1925. Magarill worked in cinema since 1924. In 1933-1936 She completed an acting school at Lenfilm under the direction of Boris Zon.
Career
She worked in the Leningrad New Theater. From 1941 she was an actress of TSOKS – Central United Film Studio, witch 1941-1944 operated in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR (now Almaty, Kazakhstan), where she died October 15, 1943 from typhus.
Her filmography:
* The Club of the Big Deed (1927)
* Kastus Kalinovskiy (1928)
* The New Babylon (1929)
* Cities and Years (1930)
* Lieutenant Kijé (1934)
* Masquerade (1941)
* The Murderers are Coming (1942)
Sofia Magarill’s beauty was called “out of this world”: the ideal foreigner, a mysterious spy, a vaudeville and operetta inhabitant. Half-closed round melancholiac eyes, a bizarre outline of the lips, an elegant silhouette, golden curls, and too white skin. She did not fit into the official table of ranks. Vishnevskaya’s meek eyes in “S. V. D.”, Nina’s dashing playfulness in “Our Girls”, the spy’s tough pretense in “Two Meetings” did not fit together. Either a beautiful marchioness, or a psychological actress, or some kind of unclaimed type..
Yes, she was a very talented actress.
Alexander Kosintsev
Personal life
In 1923 Sophiya married Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev(1905–1973, born Grigori Moiseyevich Kozintsov), a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. The couple remained married until her death in 1943 from typhus. Magarill had taken a part in many theatrical plays and movies that her husband directed.
Legacy of Sophiya Magarill
From the second half of the thirties, she plays less and less. In the era of pre-war repressions and during the war, there is no place for her theatrical excess. There is nothing left to play, and she no longer plays.
With the outbreak of war, she is evacuated to Alma-Ata. In the hospital there, she takes care of an old acquaintance, the writer Sergei Yermolinsky, who has fallen ill with typhus. Yermolinsky will be saved, Magarill will fall ill and die, and two years later the war will end, and Kozintsev will marry again.
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