Alexander Bashirov belongs to the category of those actors whose personality cannot be indifferent. He is either loved or hated - there is simply no other way. Alexander Nikolayevich earned such an ambiguous attitude not only due to the images created on the screen, but also because of the numerous tricks that are on the verge of what is permitted outside the set. You rarely see a photo of Alexander Bashirov by a teenager on the wall. He was never a fashionable actor, but this does not prevent him from starring in the highest grossing films. The actor sometimes even has to participate in several projects simultaneously. Many roles earned him prestigious prizes and awards.
Childhood
Alexander Bashirov hails from the small village of Sogom, which is located in the Tyumen region. It was there that on September 24, 1955, the future famous actor was born.
His family is very difficult to call prosperous, even by then standards. Alexander’s mother divorced her husband almost immediately after the birth of her son and therefore raised the boy alone. The woman was also dependent on her one-armed father. Disability and principled political views (he was an ardent opponent of Soviet power) did not allow him to work. He also preferred fishing to housekeeping. Nevertheless, according to the recollections of Alexander himself, his mother provided the family with everything necessary, although for this she had to work all day on the railroad.
Youth
Since 1972, Alexander Bashirov decides to live independently. To do this, a seventeen-year-old guy moves to Leningrad and enters the school, where he chooses the working specialty of the tiler-facing worker. The profession leads an as-yet-awful actor to work at a cement plant in Vyborg.
The constant desire to change something in his life, as well as the summons from the draft board, drastically redraw the fate of Bashirov. From 1981 to 1983 he served in the tank division of the Red Army. There, for the first time, they saw the creative core in a feeble boy and sent him to work as a designer in a capter.
Since 1984, the biography of Alexander Bashirov begins to be written from scratch. It was then that he successfully passed the selection and entered the VGIK at the directing department. The training of a newly minted student during the first two years takes place in the workshop of Igor Talankin, and then at the honored meter of feature films Anatoly Vasiliev.
Alexander N. Bashirov in an interview about his unexpected decision to go into the world of cinema, said that radical things began to happen by themselves when he decided to direct life. You never need to depend on fashion, you need to create it. With these words, you can describe all the life beliefs of the actor.
Film debut and life in America
The student then received the first role at VGIK in 1986. Sergei Solovyov instructed him to play Crank in his film "Alien White and Pockmarked." The experience was mixed, but it did not bother the future star of the screen.
A truly finest hour came to Bashirov a year later, when the very same Solovyov invited him to star in the cult film "Assa." The eccentric and emotional actor was noticed by both the audience and other directors, even though his hero, the Air Force’s false major, appeared on the screen only occasionally.
In 1988, Alexander Bashirov received an invitation to participate in another legendary film - “The Needle”. He splendidly managed to play the role of Spartak - a small, absolutely nothing of himself, but at the same time a very dangerous person. This image will then stick to the actor for a long time.
Almost immediately after graduating from the Institute of Cinematography, Bashirov decides to leave his homeland and flies overseas. But even there, he does not deviate from the intended path, so from 1990 to 1991 he was engaged in acting in the studio of Laurens Aransio.
Personal life during this period is also in full swing. The actor will marry an American citizen. Their marriage did not last very long, and one of the reasons for the divorce was a mismatch of characters. Nevertheless, in America, Alexander Nikolayevich had a son, Christopher, with whom he kept in touch, if possible.
Perspective director
Many people know Bashirov as a wonderful actor, but few people realize that he left several bright traces in the director's field. Unfortunately, his early student work, Outsider and Ode to Joy, was not preserved. But the next test pen made a splash in 1998. The creation was provocatively called "J.P.O.", which stands for "Iron Heel of the Oligarchy."
On the account of the director Bashirov such films as the documentary film “Belgrade, Belgrade!” and the series "Good luck, detective." In addition, many musicians are always ready to work with Alexander Nikolaevich. The most famous creation in this area can be considered a clip shot on the song "Nastasya" by Vyacheslav Butusov.
Youth Film Studio "Deboshirfilm"
A project called "Deboshir-Film-Studio" was born in 1996. It was a period when cinema in the country was just beginning to restore its lost position. Bashirov, having chosen the path of youth and underground cinema, literally fell into the stream. His studio very quickly became popular, and therefore on its basis a festival of the same name was organized. It is held twice a year and today is one of the largest in the field of independent cinema. Bashirov is the permanent head of the studio and director.
Inna Volkova - friend of life
Inna Alexandrovna is the second wife of Bashirov. A woman is 9 years younger than her husband. She is quite a popular person in certain circles, since since 1988 she has been engaged in musical creativity and has performed in the Hummingbird group.
Alexander Bashirov and Inna Volkova can boast not only a happy marriage, in which they had a daughter, Alexander Maria, but also a wonderful creative understanding. It is fully reflected in the film "Iron Heel of the Oligarchy." Inna Volkova played one of the roles in the film, and also wrote a song for him called "Not a Hero".
Filmography
The first paintings in which Bashirov took part, as noted above, were “Alien White and Pockmarked”, “Assa” and “Needle”. This was followed by "Accomplicate", "Bread - a noun" and "Black rose - the emblem of sadness, red rose - the emblem of love." The directors more often trusted him with secondary and episodic roles, but the viewer still fell in love with the actor.
Perhaps it was because of popular sympathy that Bashirov was so popular in the 90s. Despite the fact that not so many films were made during this period, he did not remain without work. Among the paintings with his participation, it is necessary first of all to highlight the series “Streets of Broken Lights” and the full-length tapes “Mom, Don’t Cry!”, “Khrustalev, the car!” and Ermak.
For modern Russian cinema, this eccentric actor also means a lot. In favor of this statement speaks of his filmography. Recently, Alexander Bashirov has played in such sensational films as “Down House”, “Sisters”, “Shtrafbat”, “9 companies”, “Zhmurki”, “Peter FM”, “Cargo 200”. Of particular note is the actor’s work in the historical work “The Golden Age”, where he brilliantly coped with the role of Emperor Paul I, and the role of the cat Hippo in the film adaptation of the novel “The Master and Margarita”.
Awards and prizes
Alexander Nikolaevich Bashirov is a regular participant in most film festivals. It can often be found in the lists of nominees for various awards and prizes, but all the really serious achievements of the actor fall at the end of the 90s. Among them are the 1998 press prize at the Vivat, Cinema of Russia! Festival, the 1998 film guild prize of the Window to Europe film forum, and the 1998 Silver Nail prize for the best debut in the field of youth cinema. The film "J.P.O." also recognized as the best at the international film screening in Alexandria, where Bashirov was awarded the prize for Best Actor.