The filmography of Vyacheslav Tikhonov has about seventy works. In addition, the actor actively played in the theater. But in the memory of many people Vyacheslav Vasilievich remained as the inimitable Stirlitz from “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. How did one of the most prominent artists of the Soviet Union begin his career and what other films with his participation are worth seeing?
early years
Tikhonov was born in 1928 in the Moscow region city of Pavlovsky Posad. The father of the future actor worked as a simple worker in the factory, and my mother raised children in kindergarten. Since Vyacheslav’s parents were far from the world of cinema and art, they were sure that their son would make a good engineer or agronomist in the future.
Tikhonov received his first profession right by the end of World War II: since Slavik's school was given to a military hospital, his parents identified the boy in school - to master the specialty of a turner. The boy spent all his free time in the cinema with his friends. Even then, he began to dream of a career as a great artist.
In 1944, Vyacheslav Vasilievich still had to enter preparatory courses at the Automotive Institute. In 1945, he decided to try his luck at VGIK. The listening was not very successful: at first the young man was refused, but already when the groups were formed, Professor Bibikov invited him to his course.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov: acting, films of early years
Even in his student years, the hero of our story managed to break into the cinema. The list of films with the participation of Vyacheslav Tikhonov opens the cult Soviet film "The Young Guard". Then the aspiring actor got the role of Vladimir Osmukhin - a participant in the underground movement in Krasnodon during the Great Patriotic War. Tikhonov was good at this role, because he himself was a witness to hostilities in his youth.
In 1950, Tikhonov, together with G. Yumatov and E. Bystritskaya, took part in the adventure film "In Peaceful Days." And in 1951 he played the representative of St. Petersburg youth in the biographical drama "Taras Shevchenko."
The artist embodied the image of Lieutenant Gorelov in the film adaptation of the story of K. Stanyukovich "Maxim".
After the role of Vladimir Osmukhin, the main character went to young Tikhonov only eight years later, in the film novel Stars on the Wings. This was followed by the main roles in the films “Heart beats again”, “It was in Penkov” and “Thirst”.
Films: Vyacheslav Tikhonov. The complete filmography of the 60s
In the 60s, the career of Vyacheslav Tikhonov reached a fundamentally new level. The actor began the decade with the role of Vasily Panin in the war film "Michman Panin." And in 1965, the famous painting by Sergei Bondarchuk “War and Peace” was released, in which Tikhonov got the role of Andrei Bolkonsky.
The filmography of Vyacheslav Tikhonov includes many worthy works, but the picture “War and Peace” is special. If only because she won an Oscar overseas. With the presentation of the tape, the artist traveled half the globe: “War and Peace” was seen in Japan, the United States, Great Britain, Czechoslovakia ... If you recalculate the film adaptation budget at the 2007 exchange rate, the figure will be approximately $ 560 million.
In 1965, Stanislav Rostotsky filmed the dilogy “Hero of Our Time”. The main role was played by Vladimir Ivashov. But when the time came to voice the picture, the artist fell ill, so Grigory Pechorin speaks in the voice of Tikhonov.
70s Filmography
The filmography of Vyacheslav Tikhonov in the 70s was enriched with several important paintings.
In 1971, the USSR and Sweden jointly filmed the film "Man on the Other Side." Tikhonov got the main role - Viktor Krymov.
In 1973,
Tatyana Lioznova made a spy film, which is still considered the best Soviet film. We are talking about the mini-series "Seventeen Moments of Spring", in which Vyacheslav Vasilievich got the role of the legendary scout Stirlitz. Almost the entire actor’s “color” of the Soviet Union took part in the project: Leonid Bronevoy, Oleg Tabakov, Valentin Gaft, Ekaterina Gradova, Lev Durov, Evgeny Evstigneev, etc. The name Shtirlitsa became a household name, and Tikhonov entered the history of Soviet and Russian cinema forever. .
After such a triumph, the artist was invited exclusively to the main roles: “Front without flanks”, “They fought for their homeland”, “White Bim Black Ear” - everywhere Tikhonov appeared exclusively as a central character.
80s paintings
The filmography of Vyacheslav Tikhonov in 1981 was replenished with a military film by Igor Gostev, "Front Behind Enemy Lines." In 1984, the actor played political observer Peter Losser in the detective story “European History”. In the same year, Tikhonov happened to play the KGB general in the detective film "TASS is authorized to declare." In this film, in addition to Tikhonov, Yuri Solomin, Vakhtang Kikabidze and Irina Alferova were shot.
Also, the artist could be seen in the tapes "Approaching the Future", "Appeal", "Impatience of the soul" and "Kill the dragon."
Recent screen work
If you list all the films with Vyacheslav Tikhonov, the list would not be limited to 50-60 works. The artist starred from 1948 to 2006 and managed to play many roles.
In 1992, he appeared in the picture of the Talankin brothers “Demons” along with Sergei Garmash and Dmitry Pevtsov. In 1994, Nikita Mikhalkov invited Tikhonov to take part in his Oscar-winning film "Burnt by the Sun."
In 2009, the actor died. Before his death, in 2006, he managed to play his last role in the biographical film of Eldar Ryazanov “Andersen. Life without love. ”
Personal life
Back in his student years, Tikhonov married actress Nonna Mordyukova. In this marriage, the couple had a son, who was named Vladimir. He also acted in films, in 1983 received the title of Honored Artist. In the 1990s, Tikhonov's son died of heart failure.
In the second marriage, Vyacheslav Vasilievich had a daughter, Anna. But there is an opinion that they saw infrequently. The artist lived out his age in the country, in the village of Nikolina Gora, and generally spoke with few people.
At one time, the press actively discussed the fact that Vyacheslav Tikhonov visited the great fortune teller Vanga, who prophesied the date of death and told him where he would spend the last years of his life.