Anton Yakovlev is a famous domestic film actor and director. Also known as screenwriter and theater artist.
Actor Biography
Anton Yakovlev was born in 1969 in Moscow. It is worth recognizing that the acting future was actually predetermined for him. After all, his father was the famous People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Yakovlev, who became famous for his roles in the Vakhtangov Academic Theater, as well as in the films “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes the Profession”, “Hussar Ballad”, Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! “, Kin-dza- dza. "
Anton is the son of Yuri Yakovlev from his third wife, Irina Leonidovna Sergeeva. She directed the museum of the Vakhtangov Academic Theater, in which the artist played.
Theater education
Anton Yakovlev decided to follow in the footsteps of his father. In the early 90's, he graduated from the acting department at the studio school of the Moscow Art Academic Theater. He was engaged in the creative workshop of the honored artist of the RSFSR Vasily Makarov, who became famous on the Soviet screen in the 40-60s as Felix Dzerzhinsky in the films "Jacob Sverdlov", in the films "Light over Russia", "Kremlin cadets".
Anton Yuryevich Yakovlev received his additional theater education in 1990, when he was sent to an internship in English Oxford from the Moscow Art Theater School. It was an invaluable experience, the director himself now admits.
In 2000, he also received a diploma of higher education for scriptwriters and directors. His direct curators were the director of the films "Muslim" and "72 meters" Vladimir Khotinenko and the famous screenwriter Pavel Finn.
Movie roles
On the big screen, Anton Yakovlev made his debut in 1983. In Tamara Pavlyuchenko’s dramatic television play, “The Man from the Country of Green,” he starred the 11-year-old Tirrey Davenant. This picture was an adaptation of the works of Alexander Green, "Running on the Waves" and "Road to Nowhere."
In 1992, in Jan Young’s drama "Three August Days", he played in an art film that tells about the events in Moscow during the August 1991 coup. On screen, the filmmakers tried to recreate a reconstruction of these events.
In 1995, in the multi-part drama melodrama Vadim Zobnin, Mark Orlov and Leonid Pchelkin "Petersburg Secrets", he played the role of Cornet Likharev. This was one of the first Russian historical series in which Vsevolod Krestovsky’s novel “Petersburg Slums” was filmed, which was considered one of the most socially significant works of the 19th century.
True, the creators of the series abandoned all social issues, radically changing the plot and characters of the main characters. As a result, an action-packed series with an admixture of melodrama was released on the screens instead of a social work. At first 48 episodes were shot. Then 12 more were added to them, entitled "The Ending" of Petersburg Secrets. The scriptwriters and directors even refused the tragic ending, which was in the original source, ending with a happy ending.
The last time in a big picture in 2008 was Anton Yakovlev. The actor played in the drama of the Dardenne brothers "Silence of Lorna." This painting, which won the prize for the best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of a fictitious marriage of an Albanian girl with a drug addict in order to obtain Belgian citizenship. The next client plans to be Andrei from Russia, played by Yakovlev. He should already marry Lorne after the death of the addict.
After this role, the hero of our article finally concentrated on the career of the director.
Director's work
In 2004, Yakovlev staged a high-profile play "Small Marital Crimes", which was on the stage of the St. Petersburg Russian Entreprise Theater. With him, he was nominated for the highest theater prize of the Northern capital "Golden Spotlights".
In 2006, on the stage of the Russian Academic Youth Theater, the play "Nonsense" directed by Yakovlev. The following year, for the Vakhtangov Theater, in which his father played, he staged The Little Devil based on the eponymous work by one of the most mysterious Russian writers of the early 20th century, Fedor Sologub.
In 2008, the Kreutzer Sonata based on the story of Leo Tolstoy is being held at the Chekhov Moscow Art Academic Theater. In this performance, Yakovlev acted not only as a stage director, but also as the author of the staging.
His last significant work was the production of Shakespeare's “King Lear” for the Moscow Maly Theater.