The legendary film about the time of the Great Patriotic War is known to all. Just mention the singing squadron, you can hear in response: "Yes, it’s" Only the elderly go into battle, "a film about Romeo, Grasshopper and Smuglyanka."
Everyone remembers these characters, but few people can immediately remember Ivan Fedorovich. In a singing orchestra, he played drums. A typical Ukrainian face, restrained manners and a thin thread of slightly piercing antennae above the upper lip. It was him who was played in the legendary film by Alexander Nemchenko, which subsequently appeared in another significant film about the military - “Combats”.
short biography
Actor Alexander Nemchenko (11/12/1953) was born in the Ukrainian city of Rivne. He successfully graduated from school No. 2 and entered the Karpenko-Kary Institute in Kiev at the acting department. There he was subsequently seen by Leonid Bykov and took on a role in the film "Some Old Men Are Going into the Battle".
Alexander Nemchenko devoted most of his life to the theater, he starred in films quite a bit. From the time he graduated from the institute until 1976, he worked at the Kherson Kherson Music and Drama Theater. In the period from 1976 to 1977 he served near Aktyubinsk in sound reconnaissance.
After serving in 1977, he moved to Vinnitsa, where he began working at the local Sadovsky Theater until 1989. For another four years, he was artistic director of the pop miniature studio "Ivan Ivanovich", simultaneously acting in the film "Oxygen Hunger".
Then Alexander Nemchenko was seriously carried away by health-improving practices. And since 1993, he was professionally engaged in holistic medicine: valeology, vibrotherapy and endoecology, working at the Odessa Medical Center until 2002.
Then Alexander Dmitrievich returns to Vinnitsa, where he continues to conduct seminars on healing and cleansing the body.
The filmography of the actor
The list of films starring Alexander Nemchenko is very modest. In total, he played five roles in the cinema.
- “Only Old Men Go Into Battle” (1973) - the role of Ivan Fedorovich, drummer in the military field orchestra. She is considered the best role of Alexander Nemchenko, which he played, while still a student at the Kiev Theater Institute.
- The Difficult Site (1977) is a short film.
- “The Right to Lead” (1981) - the role of a lover in Tatyana, daughter of the collective farm chairman. The film is about actual rural affairs in those days. The life of ordinary workers, the honor and conscience of man on it stand in the foreground.
- “Combats" (1983) - the main role of major tanker Ivan Zverko. Another film about the war, about the courage of Soviet soldiers and their patriotism.
- “Oxygen Famine” (1991) - in this tape, the actor played an episodic role of Private Egorov. The film is about hazing in the army, about the difficult everyday life of soldiers and their state of mind. The picture turned out to be psychologically difficult, the spirit of decline permeates every frame of it.
- "Madhouse" (The Secret of the Old House) (2006) - Ukrainian series with elements of a detective story and fantasy. In it, Alexander Dmitrievich also played a small role, which was the last in his acting career.
There is little film with Alexander Nemchenko because he preferred “live” art, namely playing on the stage.
About the role in the film "Only Old Men Go to Battle"
This military film was played mainly by young guys whom Bykov scored at the acting department. The main condition was the ability to sing and play a musical instrument.
To the question: “Why is his hero, a young man, called by his first name and patronymic?” Alexander Dmitrievich answers with pride that most of the characters in the film had real prototypes in life. The entire film was marked by war veterans as a real one, very accurately depicting the military everyday life of pilots. The drummer, whom he played, also had his own prototype - a guy from Barnaul. He really did not like being called simply Vanya, so he constantly corrected everyone: “Ivan Fedorovich, please.” This he was remembered by the
great director, who later captured this moment in his favorite film.
What is Alexander Nemchenko doing now?
Once a year, actors from the legendary film gather, arranging an evening in memory of Leonid Bykov. They share memories, sing songs and tell curious cases about filming. Nemchenko left the big stage for a long time, preferring to bring other kinds of good to people: he heals, heals and conducts seminars.
Few people recognize the merry Ivan Fedorovich from a cult film the first time in a gray-haired doctor, but this does not bother the actor at all. He is pleased that he is benefiting, and does not boast at all the honorary title of “People's Artist of Ukraine”.