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Марк Бернес

(Mark Bernes)

Mark Naumovich Bernes (born 8 October 1911 in Nizhyn, Ukraine) was a Soviet actor and chansonnier whose career spanned from the pre-war 1930s into the late 1960s. After early theatrical work, Bernes entered the film industry in the late 1930s, appearing in Chelovek s ruzhyom (Man With a Rifle) and Istrebiteli (The Fighter Planes), where his performances of “Clouds Rose over the City” and “Beloved Town” gained nationwide attention. His breakthrough came in 1943 with the wartime film Two Soldiers, in which he sang the poignant ballads “Dark Is the Night” and “Scows Full of Mullet”,...