Alexander Mitta is a prominent figure in Russian cinema. His films are watched by the whole country, and novice directors seek to adopt the rich experience of Alexander Naumovich, attending Mitta's lessons in his author's school-studio. How did the career of the famous director begin? And which films of Mitta are most popular with the public?
Biography of Alexander Mitta
The real name of Mitta is Rabinovich. For his creative work, Alexander took a pseudonym, borrowing the name of one of his relatives.
Alexander Mitta is a native Muscovite. He was born in 1933. In 2013, the director celebrated his 80th birthday.
Mitta did not immediately realize that he was attracted to the world of cinema. He received higher education at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Kuibyshev University. Then Alexander Naumovich got a job as a caricaturist in several comic books at once.
After Mitta graduated from VGIK (his artistic director was the Soviet film director M. Romm), he collaborated with Alexei Saltykov (Sibiryachka) and made his first film, My Friend, Kolka! This picture at the London film festival received an award, and before Mitt, the doors to the world of big cinema opened.
Acting
Alexander Mitta did not spend his entire creative life in the director's chair. At the beginning of his career, he received acting experience in films.
In 1966, the film “July rain” by Marlene Hutsiev was released on Soviet screens. The picture is about the young woman Elena performed by
Evgenia Uralova, who is trying to build a relationship with the promising scientist Vladimir. After going through a series of collisions, this couple eventually breaks up. In the film, Alexander Mitte was assigned the role of the boring know-it-all Vladik.
The film was poorly received by film critics, who considered the drama “July Rain” to be rather weak, strained and far-fetched.
Subsequently, Mitta appeared several times in the frame, but already in those projects that he was shooting. We are talking about the series "Border: Taiga novel", "Thank God you have come!" and the movie Hot Saturday.
Director's work
The filmography of Alexander Mitta has 18 works. Of these, only four paintings are especially popular.
The film novel "They Call, Open the Door" was shot by the director in 1965. In this film, Elena Proklova, who later became a famous actress, appeared on the screen for the first time. The plot of the tape is tied to the bright feeling that the schoolgirl Tanya Nechaeva experiences in relation to the pioneer leader. The girl is trying to please the subject of her sigh: she helps to organize a pioneer gathering, looking for interesting people for performances. But nothing helps: the young man does not notice Tanya, and on the ice rink she meets him with various girls. In the end, Nechaeva realizes that Petya is not the hero of her novel, and is disappointed in the pioneer leader.
In Venice, the picture “They are ringing, open the door” won the main prize - “Leo of Saint Mark”.
In 1976, Mitta made a historical film entitled “The Tale of How King Peter the Arapa Married”. The script of the tape was created based on the work of Alexander Pushkin. Ibrahim Hannibal in the film was played by the legendary Vladimir Vysotsky. After the filming of this film, friendship began between Vysotsky and Mitt.
Mitta is also the author of the first Soviet disaster film called The Crew. According to the plot, a Soviet passenger plane landed at the airport of the fictional city of oil workers. There was an earthquake, the runway was destroyed. But right now, the Tu-154 crew needs to raise the plane into the air at all costs, because soon everything around should be filled with boiling lava. The film constantly keeps the viewer in suspense, because it is not known whether the heroes will be able to escape?
Of the latest film works by the director, the series “Border. Taiga novel ”, which tells of the tragic denouement of a love triangle between nurse Marina, captain Goloshchekin and Lieutenant Stolbov. Celebrities such as Olga Budina, Marat Basharov, Alexei Guskov, Renata Litvinova and many others starred in the film.
Alexander Mitta: personal life
Alexander Naumovich took his current wife Lily Mayorov from another man. In 2017, Alexander Mitta and his wife will celebrate a diamond wedding. The couple has only one child - son Eugene, who works as an artist.