Victor Leonidovich Konisevich, who was born in the capital of Ukraine, the city of Kiev, at the end of January 1963, is considered among the creative elite a unique personality with an extraordinary talent. He realized himself as an actor, director of television and cinema, an art director, a leading clip maker of Russian show business.
Early creative activity
The future director was born in the family of the first order bearer from the pupils and adherents of pedagogy A. S. Makarenko L. V. Konisevich. In 1980, Viktor Konisevich entered the I. Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theater Arts in Kiev at the acting faculty. After his successful graduation, he begins acting on the stage of the Kiev Experimental Theater. In the period from 1990 to 1993 he worked on the Ukrainian TV channel Megapol, he created and directed the majority of television programs that were aired during this period. But already at the beginning of 1994 he moved to Moscow, got a job as art director of the Metapress advertising agency in the capital.
Swift career take-off
In 1994, Viktor Konisevich made his debut as a clip maker in Rice Music, a well-known company in the show business. He instantly becomes one of the most successful musical visionaries. The clipmaker collaborates with the most popular performers: DJ Groove, Valery Meladze, Marina Khlebnikova, Boris Grebenshchikov, shoots clips for the groups "Agatha Christie", "Bravo", "Virus", "Strelka" and others. At the same time, Viktor Konisevich is working on the media project “Station 106.8 FM”, and since 1996 he has been working as the art director of the well-known radio station now. Since 2000, collaborates with Channel One, directs the TV show "Raffle" (2002-2012).
TV director of successful series
Since 2004, Viktor Konisevich, whose filmography currently has twelve television series, focuses on directing.
In a creative tandem with other luminaries of modern film dramaturgy from 2004 to 2006, he worked on the production of the series “Opera: Chronicles of the Slaughter Department” (IMDb: 4.60). This is a television movie about decent and honest people, employees of one of the St. Petersburg Internal Affairs Directorates, who are truly devoted to their profession.
In 2006, together with Sergei Kosach and Dmitry Mednov, director Viktor Konisevich made a criminal television film “Provincial Passions”, which was not a huge success, his rating was only 3.27.
A year later, the director presented the detective series “Day of Anger” (rating 6.04) to the audience. According to Russian film critics, despite the fact that the eight-episode television movie is similar to a comic book with invented characters, its level is much higher than the “good” mark.
Continuing to work in the detective genre in 2008, Konisevich co-authored the television movie “The Adventures of the Notary Neglintsev” (5.54), and in 2009 the megapopular television project “The Sword” (8.25). It is this series of critics that has long been called the best Russian crime movie.
After the triumph of “The Sword”, Viktor Konisevich, joining forces with Sergei Artimovich and Aleko Tsabadze, sets the first season of the television series “Forester” (6.02), without changing the favorite detective genre.
Latest Telework
In 2013-2015, the director continues to work intensively and productively. In 2013, two director’s works went on the air at once: the mini-series “Coma” (6.20) and the first season of the series “Under the Sight” (6.72). But the success of these two projects is overshadowed by the triumphant mini-series "Judge", which was shown in 2014. This time, the director combined in his creation two of the most popular genres - crime and melodrama, which significantly expanded the target audience. The main characters of the television movie are the principal judge in the capital Oleg Levichev and his beloved wife Nina. The couple goes on vacation to the resort town, where instead of a great vacation they are facing clashes with the local mafia. The series “Judge” was so successful that in 2015 its sequel is included - “Judge 2”. In the second season, fate is not particularly favorable to the main characters, an attempt was organized on them, as a result of which Levichev miraculously remains unharmed, and his wife falls into a coma from the injuries received.
Currently, Viktor Konisevich is working on the series "Loner", whose release is scheduled for the end of 2016.