Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko - director, actor, screenwriter: biography, personal life, filmography

Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko believes, and moreover, proved it with his labor that a person comes into the world for a reason, he is called upon to educate and perfect himself. It is necessary to train teachers in this direction, and then, the director believes, it is easier for a person to find his place in life.

As a child, when he wanted to grow his own bread, his mother allocated a small plot in the garden, which the boy planted with wheat. When the wheat ripened, Volodya managed to grind it, and his mother baked a cake to him. It turned out to be small and uneven, but unusually tasty. Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko for a long time remembered the work of a farmer.

The director does not cease to worry about the question of what will happen to the whole civilization if the lights are turned off? How will people climb the fiftieth floor of the office, what will happen to the sewers, what will they cook for? It turns out that any metropolis will turn into hell. But not so long ago, people lived without light. Vladimir Khotinenko does not call for living under the torches, but the work of a farmer and a craftsman making a chair with his own hands should be valued no less than the work of an office worker.

Vladimir Khotinenko. Biography, origins

The future famous director was born in the small Altai city of Slavgorod in 1952. The boy did not even think about the director's profession, he studied diligently at a local school, and his parents worked at the factory. Volodya dreamed of becoming a pilot or archaeologist and living in Moscow.

Then his parents moved to Kazakhstan, and he received his secondary education in Kazakh Pavlodar. The young man was engaged in athletics and even became the champion of Kazakhstan among high school students in high jumps. After graduating from school, Volodya Khotinenko began working as an artist and designer at the Pavlodar Tractor Plant.

As can be seen from the biography, the director Khotinenko was not going to connect his life with the movie, but fate led him in a different way. The purposeful young man achieved his goal and graduated with honors from the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute, after which he was drafted into the army.

Meeting with Mikhalkov

After six months of service, Private Khotinenko was given his first visit. He came to Sverdlovsk to relax, and at that time Nikita Mikhalkov arrived in the same city with his famous film “Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano”. The creative director loved creative youth and decided to arrange a meeting with her, where Vladimir got to.

Then Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko said that now he was horrified by the fact that he did not want to go to this meeting, because he might not have talked to the venerable director. And they talked for three hours, after which Mikhalkov advised Khotinenko to come to Moscow after the service and not to forget to take with him everything that was painted or written.

Studying and working in Moscow

Having returned from the army, Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko begins a new life and goes to work in the Sverdlovsk film studio. He is accepted as a production designer. Sverdlovsk film studio was quite famous at that time. Making progress in his service, Khotinenko works on the paintings “Pursuit Race”, “Smoke of the Fatherland”, “Conqueror”, “Here is such music”, “Cossack outpost”. "The voice of the dragon in the bottomless sea."

Having the experience of a production designer, Vladimir Khotinenko travels to Moscow (and it was 1981) and enters the Higher Director's Courses in the workshop of Nikita Mikhalkov. While studying, Vladimir simultaneously works as an assistant assistant in such teacher's films as “Relatives”, “Five Evenings”, “A Few Days from Oblomov’s Life”, and then decides to make his own films.

About Nikita Mikhalkov, the director Khotinenko said that until the end of days he would remain his student, and despite the fact that each of them makes a different movie, they are doing one thing.

First steps to the cinema

His first work on his own was the film "Alone and Without Arms", and she immediately received the prize "For Debut" at the festival in Tbilisi. It was an adventure film about how the Soviet police acted in the twenties of the last century.

The success inspired the director, and his subsequent films became a kind of symbol of Soviet cinema. These included such films as Mirror for a Hero, Roy, Patriotic Comedy, and in 1993, Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko released one of his best works, the film Makarov. The main role of the poet Alexander Sergeyevich Makarov starred Sergei Makovetsky. This is a psychological drama of a person who, under the influence of a weapon (Makarov’s pistol) changes his life, becomes like an appendage to a weapon.

“Mirror for the Hero” is an adaptation of the fantastic parable of Svyatoslav Rybas. The author and the director showed how people, by the will of fate, find themselves in extraordinary circumstances and how these circumstances affect their lives. Two friends, Sergei and Andrei, accidentally carry over forty years ago, May 8, 1949. Fate presents a surprise to each of them. Andrey can prevent death of people, and Sergey can understand parents, find a common language with his father.

Khotinenko Vladimir Ivanovich: filmography

The category “Best Movies” should include the movie “The Muslim” with Evgeny Mironov in the title role. The film also starred Nina Usatova, Alexander Baluev, Alexander Peskov and other actors. It is also a psychological drama about a man who spent seven years in captivity with the Mujahideen, becoming the son of a local peasant who has changed a lot in his own life. Having accepted Islam, Kolya (Abdullah) Ivanov returns to his native village. He does not drink or smoke, leads a “clean” lifestyle, but those around him, including his mother, do not understand him.

Drinking and debauchery thoroughly, they urge Kolya to renounce Islam, even a stranger who vowed to kill him, as he thinks, for betraying a friend, refuses this idea under the influence of the Gospel. It seemed that everything should end well for a young man, but human misunderstanding and pride stand in the way of truth.

Series about the Russian Empire

Every year, the director improves the profession, and now, in 2005, makes a series that is impossible to get around. This is “Death of the Empire”, where for ten episodes it is shown how the counterintelligence of the Russian Empire worked. Starring Alexander Baluev, Sergey Makovetsky, Chulpan Khamatova.

The film unfolds on the eve of the First World War, Russian detectives chase after German spies, gradually the February and October revolutions pass in front of the audience, the plot is famously twisted, but the main thing is that the film contains a spirit of loyalty to family and the Fatherland. The director in the film really showed the tragedy of the Russian people without heroism and revolutionary romance.

Personal life

The director was married twice, first to the Uzbek actress Dilorom Kambarova, who gave birth to his daughter Polina. After the divorce, they left for the United States, where Polina learned to be a costume designer and now works at the Los Angeles Film Studio.

The second wife, Tatyana Yakovleva, teaches foreign cinema at the Institute of Cinematography. In a joint marriage they had a son, Ilya. Also, Vladimir Khotinenko, whose personal life is under consideration, raised Tatyana’s son from his first marriage, Denis. Both boys connected life with the cinema, Denis became a cameraman, and Ilya followed in the footsteps of his father and learned to become a director.

Conclusion

Here is a list of films shot by Vladimir Khotinenko:

• Dostoevsky.
• "Pop."
• "72 meters."
• "Muslim".
• "Mirror for the hero."
• "The heirs."
• "Demons."
• "The death of the empire."
• "Arrival of the train."
• "Passion Boulevard".

Among other things, Vladimir Khotinenko starred as an actor in the films “Cure Against Fear”, “Relatives”, “Cossack Outpost”, “The Plane Flies to Russia” and others, and as a screenwriter he participated in films such as “Roy”, "Patriotic Comedy", "Demons".

On January 20, Vladimir Khotinenko celebrated his 65th birthday, at the present difficult time he continues to call life mysticism and believe in miracles.