Konstantin Smirnov - director. He is also engaged in producing activities. Born in 1961. He came to the cinema at a very young age, playing in the films “Everyday Life” and “You Have Me” in 1976. At the time of writing, as a director, he has eight cinematographic works in his track record, among which the series “Champion” can be called his most famous brainchild. Creates art television films of the serial format of genres of melodrama, crime, detective story.
Konstantin Smirnov. Biography in a nutshell
Konstantin received a philological education at Moscow State University. His specialization is Russian language and literature. At one time he was an employee of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. He also worked in the publication "Socialist Industry". In 1987, he got a job in the magazine "Spark" as a special correspondent. Here he worked until 1993. In 2005, he made his directorial debut. Konstantin Smirnov then presented to the wide audience his first series called “Secret Guard” with Evgeny Sidikhin and Elena Zakharova.
Movie roles
In 1976, Konstantin Smirnov appeared as a young actor in the short film directed by Sergei Potepalov, "You have me." This is the story of the year 1944, when the evacuation of one of the orphanages is required. Vitya, the protagonist of this picture lasting 31 minutes, meets a girl who is trying to get to her aunt on a train carrying orphanages. The music for this Soviet drama was written by Viktor Lebedev. The main roles were played by Konstantin Smirnov, Irina Fominskaya and Tatyana Bedova.
In the same year, the actor and director was among the artists who played in the novel by Yuri Solovyov, Mikhail Ordovsky and Sergei Potepalov, "Everyday Life". The film, in which the legendary actor Oleg Borisov played one of the main roles , presents three dramatic stories about the consequences of the war. In the novel “Everyday Life”, a soldier Gvozdarev, who recently returned from the front, is busy looking for his son. On the way to his goal, he finds himself in the house of a woman - a widow with many children. In the story “Where is Dunyashov’s love?” the main character is trying to find the girl with whom he once had a constant correspondence in wartime. The third short story “You Have Me” has already been described in this review of the work of Konstantin Smirnov. This Soviet film was shot at the Lenfilm film studio. In the Soviet Union, the picture first appeared on the screens in August 1977.
Detective series
In 2005, the director Konstantin Smirnov, along with the director Yuri Muzyka, presented the television series “The Secret Guard”. This is a story about one of the FSB units, headed by Colonel Zimorodok, who is charged with identifying and neutralizing the terrorists besieging the capital's markets. The Russian series of the detective genre lasting 624 minutes saw the light at the end of October of that year. The film is based on the eponymous work of the writer Dmitry Cherkasov.
Comedies
In 2006, the creative duet of Smirnov and Music created another project of the serial format “Demon in the Rib, or the Magnificent Four”. This time a comedy genre. The series with episodes of 45 minutes has a category of 16+. This is a story about elderly rebels who intended to shake antiquity. The four middle-aged rich people who have achieved much on their own in life, now wanted to get hold of everything that they had been deprived of during these long, monotonous years. In the comedy film, a brilliant acting ensemble was selected: Ivar Kalnysh, Dmitry Nazarov, Vladimir Gusev, Boris Smolkin.
In the same year, Konstantin Smirnov, together with Dmitry Magonov and Gennady Skorobogatov, created the series “Peter the Magnificent” with Alexander Ustyugov and Artem Mikhalkov in the lead roles. This is a Russian film about a young money-less provincial named Petya, who found himself in the capital. The guy is poor, but rich in charm and self-confidence. It happens that he finds himself in the house of an influential person on the eve of his suicide. Before his death, the landlord invites the new settler to look after his family. The comedy series "Peter the Magnificent" with a duration of each episode of 44 minutes has an IMDb rating of 3.257 points.
Drama and Romance
The series "Woman Without a Past", created in 2008, became another brainchild of director Konstantin Smirnov. This is a story about a successful woman in business circles, Alexander, who once lost her memory, and then after that she has to bit by bit restore the picture of her past. In this Russian television crime drama of category 16+ with episodes of 43 minutes, the title roles went to Maria Anikanova and Andrei Andreyev.
In 2008, Konstantin Smirnov became a director of the melodrama “Champion” with Elena Korikova and Viktor Dobronravov in the lead roles. A multi-part picture, which was released in early March 2008, tells about the difficulties in relations between the football player Alexander and Tina, the owner of the club for which he stands. Once in their youth they were a couple, but then their paths diverged, and after years the heroes of this story again found themselves nearby, tormented by revenge, jealousy, love.
Two years later, Konstantin Smirnov took part in the creation of the Russian-Ukrainian cinema project "Maroussia". A melodrama with Polina Dolinskaya and Alexander Davydov of category 18+ brings to the forefront the relationship of the heirs of the wine king after his death during the struggle for his inheritance. A girl named Maroussia (a worker in a grape farm, distinguished by her proud disposition and inaccessibility) somehow surprisingly finds herself at the center of all the events described in this visual narrative.
Crime genre
In 2011, director Smirnov Alexander and his colleagues presented the film "Prosecutorial Verification" with Pavel Ilyin and Dmitry Belonogov in the lead roles, playing themselves. This is a television project about education lawyers working in the prosecutor's office, who often have to save unjustly convicted people. The premiere of this Russian soap opera of the criminal genre took place on March 28, 2011. Each episode of the television short story about the difficult service of prosecutors lasts 56 minutes.
In 2013, Konstantin Smirnov and his colleague Konstantin Frolov began shooting the series “Investigator Protasov” with Vyacheslav Razbegaev and Anatoly Kotenev. This is a film about the investigator of the prosecutor's office Protasov, for his harsh character nicknamed Leshim.
Producer
Konstantin Smirnov also acted as a producer in two projects: in a melodrama with elements of the detective genre “Pirate and Pirate” with Sergei Shakurov and Natalia Vdovina and in the documentary “Freedom in Russian. History of Russian parliamentarism ”, one of the heroes of which was a rock singer and composer Yuri Shevchuk.