Rostislav Plyatt

Rostislav Plyatt is a Soviet theater and film actor. At school, Rostislav began attending a drama club led by Vladimir Lebedev. He studied drama courses in Moscow under Yuri Zavadsky, and then worked at his Theater Studio. In 1936, he moved with the theater to Rostov-on-Don, where he worked at the Maksim Gorkiy Theater and appeared in many performances. After returning to Moscow, he became an artist at the Lenin Komsomol Theater. Plyatt was also an actor at the Moscow Drama Theater. He began acting in films in 1939. He played in Lenin in 1918 (1939) and in The Foundling (1940), which immediately made him famous. Rostislav Plyatt's most famous character is Pastor Schlag from Tatyana Lioznova's TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973). The actor's last film role was in Vizit k Minotavru (1987), based on the Vayner brothers' novel of the same name.