The famous film director and writer, the son of the famous Soviet director, managed to make only three good films and work as a war correspondent in many hot spots. For which he was awarded high state awards - the Order of Courage and the medal "For Courage". Sergei Govorukhin lived a short but vibrant life.
early years
Sergey Govorukhin was born on September 1, 1961 in the city of Kharkov, in the family of the outstanding director Stanislav Govorukhin and actress Junona Kareeva (nee Freidman). She is an honored artist of Tatarstan, she teaches at the theater school. The most famous role is in the movie “The meeting place cannot be changed,” where she played witness Galina Zheltovskaya.
Parents divorced when he was a child. However, Stanislav Sergeyevich was always there when help was needed. At the age of two months, he was taken to Kazan, where he spent his childhood, adolescence and youth of Sergei Govorukhin. He himself says that birth in a European city left a mark on his soul, and he was always drawn to Europe. However, in his youth, having traveled to Greece, Germany and Israel, he completely satisfied his interest in the European way of life.
Beginning of work biography
After graduating from high school, he entered VGIK at the Faculty of Scripting, which he graduated in 1988. As Sergei Govorukhin himself said that at the institute for six years he was beaten off any desire to write something. And he does not understand how you can be a worker in literature, so he went "to the people" to work with his hands. Gaining life experience. He worked as an installer, a welder, then went to the Far North, where he worked as a prospector.
Since 1994, Sergei Govorukhin has been participating in hostilities as a war correspondent in civil conflicts in Tajikistan, Chechnya, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. For merits with participation in 3 special and 20 military operations, he was awarded military awards. In the winter of 1995, when he was returning from filming in Grozny, he came under fire from Chechen fighters. He was seriously injured by a gunshot, and his leg was amputated.
Director's work
In 1994, Sergei Govorukhin began work on his first film about the modern war in Russia, in the Chechen Republic. The debut picture "Cursed and Forgotten" was co-authored with Inna Vaneeva. The shooting took place in the war zone, the frames of which were alternated in the film with scenes in nightclubs and discos. The picture received several cinematic awards. In 1999, the film director Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin was nominated for the State Prize for this artistic and journalistic film. However, Nikita Mikhalkov became the laureate, who said that he was not nominated for it at all.
He shot the next picture, “An Essay on a Leaving Subject,” in 2001, and simultaneously acted as a director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2008, the film "Nobody but us ...", shot on a book written by Sergei Govorukhin in 2004, was released on television. The last work of the director was the picture "Land of People".
In recent years, he was the head of the film company "Afterword". He is the author of articles by leading magazines of the country and several books, including The Muddy Continent, With and Without Me, and Transparent Forests near Luxembourg.
personal information
Sergei Govorukhin was married three times, he left three children. Nothing is known about the first wife. The second wife is Inna, in whose marriage Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin Jr. was born, full of the namesake of his famous grandfather.
With his third wife, Vera Tsarenko, met in 1992 in a rest house for theater workers in Ruza. The holiday romance ended quickly, Sergey was married, they separated for 1.5 years, then they met occasionally for 6-7 years, about once every three months. Then in the personal life of Sergei Govorukhin changes occurred - he divorced, rented an apartment. But they got married only when he received a complex leg fracture, Vera began to live with him. In this rented apartment, she still lives with their common son Vasya.
Vera is a graduate of the production department of the Moscow Art Theater School. She was the editor of the first two films of Sergei Govorukhin. Now she serves in the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, she played the princess in the play "Woe from Wit." Created a fund to help children with cancer of the brain.
When the director died, his youngest daughter Varvara was only 11 months old, nothing is known about her mother, except that Govorukhin loved her and wanted all his children to communicate with each other.