The great Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk was born on September 25, 1920 in the Odessa region, in a village called Belozerka.
Biography Sergey Bondarchuk. Education
The young man’s father, Fedor Petrovich, urged him to get an engineer degree, but Sergey insisted on his choice of the profession of an artist. Therefore, in 1937, Bondarchuk entered the studio at the Rostov Theater, but the war began and the aspiring artist did not have time to finish his studies. In 1941-42, he worked as an actor in the theater of the Red Army in the city of Grozny, and after demobilization in 1946 he continued his studies at VGIK.
Biography Sergey Bondarchuk. Personal life
A young talent begins under the leadership of Sergey Gerasimov, his diploma work becomes participation in the film of his mentor “Young Guard” (1948). At the same time, the director meets his first wife Inna Makarova, with whom she has been married for 10 years, their daughter Natalya is born to them.
Bondarchuk successfully starred in the movie. After working in the movie "Taras Shevchenko", he deserves the praise of Stalin, Sergei was awarded the title of People's Artist.
In 1955, the director meets his future wife Irina Skobtseva, the first meeting with a student of the Moscow Art Theater School took place at the opening day of Vasily Efanov. He starred in the film “Othello” by S. Yu. Yutkevich, where he plays the main role, after which, in 1959 he marries Irina, with whom she has been living soul to soul for 35 years.
Biography Sergey Bondarchuk: filmography
For his directorial debut, the author chooses a military, epic genre. Bondarchuk makes the film "The Fate of Man" dedicated to the Great Patriotic War (based on the story of Mikhail Sholokhov). Critics noted the talented work of the director and director, who, using the most uncomplicated techniques, told the viewer the story of an ordinary person who is captured, loses his family in the war, but retains human dignity and kindness. Bondarchuk himself plays the main role, and subsequently receives the Lenin Prize and prize at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Sergey has been shooting his main film, War and Peace, for almost three years (1965-1967). He shows spectacular scenes of military battles and intrigues of the peaceful rear, inviting to the shooting of such leading figures of domestic cinema as Lanovoi, Tikhonov, Vertinskaya, Tabakov, Efremov. “War and Peace” brought him fame almost a genius - he received an Oscar and became known abroad.
Sergey Bondarchuk: biography in the movie
Further directorial career Bondarchuk evolved perfectly. The films Waterloo (1970), They Fought for the Homeland (1975 - became one of the cult films about the war), Steppe (1978, according to Chekhov's story), Risen Mexico and 10 Days That Shook the World (based on books by John Reed), Red Bells and many others showed the general public a competent, professional and at the same time very sensitive and hardworking director who could make films that remained in the audience's memory for decades.
Biography: Sergey Bondarchuk, the latest work
The last work of Sergei was the film adaptation of the tragedy of A.S. Pushkin "Boris
Godunov ”, where the author himself plays the main role. Before his death, he signs a contract with Italian distributors for the film adaptation of "Quiet Don", but the Italians are deceiving the director. Bondarchuk does not have time to rehabilitate, because shortly before the press conference in October 1994, the director suddenly dies.