If you like to laugh, you must have watched the cult humorous programs "Watch out, modern!", "Camera! Motor!", "One evening with Dmitry Nagiyev." The director of these and many other rating projects is Andrey Balashov. Details about it will tell our article.
Childhood memories
The future director was born in Leningrad. Grandparents, educated and intelligent people were engaged in his upbringing due to circumstances. That is why Andrei Balashov read and counted from the age of four. He went to first grade with a decent bag of knowledge.
As Andrei himself recalls, his grandfather did not let him go out with his friends until he multiplied millions in his mind. For the child, this was a dubious pleasure, but Andrei Balashov later appreciated his grandfather's “joke”. These exercises tempered his character and taught the main thing - to overcome difficulties and achieve goals.
By the way, Balashov studied in the physics and mathematics class and graduated from the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics. These are the metamorphoses!
First project
Balashov did not work in his specialty. At the institute, he was always the ideological inspirer of any events and skits. He was not only an active participant, but also a scriptwriter.
The road to fame began with Andrei Balashov from the Modern radio station. The creative environment infected him, and after a while he was offered to become a director of a radio program.
At this time, the idea of the radio project "Full Modern!" with the participation of Dmitry Nagiyev and Alla Dovlatova. Later, Sergey Rost joined the team. In this form, the project lasted for some time, gained a lot of fans and transferred to television in the wake of fame. The first short episodes were aired in 1995 on St. Petersburg regional television.
A year later, the series was expanded, each episode lasted 25-30 minutes. His name has changed throughout the usual "Caution, modern!". In total, more than a hundred episodes have been released.
Comedy projects
Andrei Balashov, whose biography is not known to the general public, is not worried due to the fact that television directors are not visible to the viewer. He starred in many minor roles in his projects, but not for the sake of popularity. He approaches everything in life with humor, and therefore the roles of Balashov are quite specific - a homeless person, a prostitute, an alcoholic.
In 2002, the light saw a new series called "Camera! Motor!". The source of inspiration was the filming process. The viewer was able to see twelve series of sketches on this subject.
Andrei Balashov is a talented and creative director, he became the author of the project "Caution, Zadov", where Dmitry Nagiev still played the main role. Two full-fledged seasons were filmed. Among the actors were such meters of cinema as Mikhail Boyarsky, Igor Lifanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Lyubov Polishchuk and others.
In 2006, a new comedy series from the director - "Funny Neighbors" was released. Each series is a story about the inhabitants of an ordinary high-rise building, which now and then fall into ridiculous and funny situations. It can be argued that every person in our country could recognize himself in the heroes of this sitcom.
In 2010, viewers saw Balashov's new work - a pseudo-historical sketch show about Petka and Vasily Ivanovich. As in the famous jokes, the characters get into funny troubles and look for a way out with humor.
Other directorial work
It would be unfair to call Balashov the director of only humorous series, although he certainly succeeded in this. Based on the materials of his works, they even taught the installation of students at VGIK.
In 2008, he left the humorous genre for a while and devoted himself to the detective genre, becoming one of the directors of the Liteiny 4 series. Filming about the special department to investigate particularly important crimes captivated the director. Therefore, in his creative piggy bank several more works of a similar theme appeared.
In 2009, the mini-series "Sea Devils. Fates" was released. In 2011 - "Drug Traffic" - a series that raises acute social issues. A year later, Andrei Balashov removes the series "Rust" on the activities of the anti-corruption committee.
Over the past few years, he has focused on the activities of a screenwriter. The series “Shaman”, “Plague”, “Alien Face” and the feature film of 2014 “Inglourious morons” were shot based on his works.
Interesting Facts
1. Andrei Balashov, whose photo is in the article, hates costumes. The school uniform is to blame.
2. Hates mathematics, however, he always had excellent marks on it.
3. At the institute received an honors degree in engineering.
4. Dismissed from military service, considering such a pastime a great stupidity.
5. Adriano Celentano, Boris Berezovsky, Silvio Berlusconi admires , calling them geniuses in their field of activity.
6. Rome calls its favorite city, but speaks negatively of St. Petersburg, complaining about the climate and dullness.
7. Claims that Bondiana is much cooler in plot and intrigue than Shakespeare's Hamlet. But they do not diminish the merits of this great work.
8. Skeptical of the fashion industry, gloss, brands and trends. He claims that this is all false, hiding the true essence of man.