The leading theater and film director of Russia, an amazing talent, screenwriter and no less gifted actor, Mark Zakharov, whose biography is full of unusual events, is a true treasure of the country. Indeed, without him, the world would not have seen such masterpieces of films as The Prisoner of If Castle, Sannikov Land, The Twelve Chairs, The Same Munchausen, and many other works to which he was involved as a director and screenwriter.
Biography: Mark Zakharov in childhood
The future artist was born in a family of teachers in Moscow on October 13, 1933. Childhood Mark Anatolyevich passed in Moscow. The upbringing of the boy fell on his grandmother, as he often did not see his parents for a long time. His father was arrested in 1934 and sentenced to 3 years, and after being banned from appearing in Moscow, his mother left with her husband. In 1943, they returned to the capital, the father went to the front, and his mother worked for two.
As a teenager, Mark attended various drama circles, including the one whose teacher worked as his mother, who dreams of becoming an actress all her life.
When in 1951, after graduation, he faced the choice of a profession, he began to consider three universities: the Military Engineering Academy, MISI im. Kuibyshev and the Architectural Institute. He did not enter any of them. And then his mother had a dream that her son should be an actor, before that she kept dissuading him from this idea all the time. Mark Anatolyevich became a student of GITIS. And so began his cinematic biography.
Mark Zakharov still recalls his teachers at the university, who have contributed a lot to his development as an artist. Starting from the second year, he plays roles in the performances of Moscow theaters. In 1955, according to distribution, he fell into the Perm Drama Theater, where he worked for 3 years. At this time, he begins to write poetry, draw cartoons and organize humorous evenings.
Biography: Mark Zakharov in theater and cinema
After returning to Moscow in 1959, he got a job in the theater. N.V. Gogol, then worked until 1964 in the theater of miniatures, staged performances with the director of the Student Theater of Moscow State University. And at this time he notices that he is no longer interested in being an actor, he is drawn to the pen and to the leadership of the production process, and he did it very well. So began his directorial biography.
Since 1973, Mark Zakharov has been working as the chief director of the Moscow Lenkom, and as a result of his leadership, the theater has become one of the key institutions of Russian culture.
Significant merits in the cinema are evidenced by his biography. Mark Zakharov is a successful director. His films: Twelve Chairs, Ordinary Miracle, The Same Munchausen, Kill the Dragon - are still loved by viewers all over Russia and far beyond its borders. For the Russian theater life and cinema, Mark Zakharov has done a lot in his entire life.
Biography: family
Wife Zakharova - Lapshinova Nina Tikhonovna, daughter Sasha - actress "Lenkoma". Until now, Zakharov Mark Anatolyevich is an active cultural figure in the country, although he is already 80 years old. He is a multiple winner of many state prizes and awards, the author of publications and books on directing, director, director and screenwriter of the Lenkom Theater.