Our country has always been rich in talented creative people. Russian, then Soviet, and again Russian acting school brought up a number of remarkable artists who can literally work wonders on stage and screen. In order to become visible among the greats, you need to be an outstanding person. That, of course, was Andrei Panin. His filmography includes fifty films, two of which he directed. But not only the quantity matters ...
The beginning of the way
Has childhood dreamed of becoming an actor Andrei Panin? The biography does not indicate this. He grew up as an ordinary Kemerovo guy who knew that he needed to get an education, but in the process of studying, you could also fool around. The Institute of the Food Industry did not understand his creative aspirations and expelled the constantly joking student for poor performance. During a trip to Moscow, the future famous actor Panin Andrey tried to go to school at the Moscow Art Theater in the intervals between shopping, but they also did not see him there the first time. This did not upset him very much; the young man still wanted to study and submitted documents to the Institute of Culture, which he graduated from.
The first place of work was the Minusinsk Theater. But Panin was not such a person to believe that his fate should end in the province, he already dreamed of glory, and only Moscow could give it.
Role of the antagonist
There are people to whom the acting career, as they say, is written by kind. If a person is handsome, stately, his diction is beautiful, and even the ability to empathy is present, then with the will and desire, he will be provided with a path to the stage. And the role will be appropriate: heroes-lovers, military leaders and other positive images are always in demand in the theater and in the cinema. It is more difficult with textured actors, which include Andrey Panin. His filmography is replete with the roles of killers, villains, terrorists and other antagonists. The actor himself spoke of these his works as a great opportunity to get rid of the negative emotions that sometimes arise when faced with unpleasant people.
Such characters were the police “werewolf” from the “Brigade”, Borgia from the “Poisons”, the banker from “Family Secrets”. The same situation was in the theater. Panin loved to play villains; he was interested in understanding criminal psychology. The image of Savinkov turned out perfectly, according to the autobiographical book of which "The Pale Horse" was shot the film "The Horseman named Death." The picture “Thank you for being alive” also turned out to be interesting, and Panina has a considerable merit in that. Luck can be considered a lively and expressive character of the officer in the series "Border".
Acting school
But all this was ahead when Panin began his studies at the Moscow Art Theater School with Alexander Alexandrovich Kalyagin. In this creative workshop, he received those knowledge and skills that were very useful during work in the theater and cinema.
The actor perfects real skill on the theater stage, but on-screen roles give wide popularity, and Andrei Panin perfectly understood this. His filmography begins with the picture "In a Straight", shot in 1992. The role did not bring glory, but you always need to start somewhere. After proving his professional suitability, the actor in five years was able to realize himself in the film “Mom, Do not Cry!”, Which has become a favorite for so many.
Screen adaptation of Russian classics
In 1998, the wonderful television series "Chekhov and Co" was shot based on the stories of this great Russian writer. The cast involved the color of the Russian acting school, including Andrei Panin.
His filmography pleasantly surprises with its versatility. Along with commercial projects like the numerous “Kamensky” and “Bourgeois Birthdays”, he manages to be in demand in the film adaptations of really serious literary works, including Pasternak's “Doctor Zhivago”, “Shukshin Stories” and Bulgakov's “Notes of the Zemstvo doctor” (“Morphine” ) In the same row, the role of Porfiry Petrovich from Crime and Punishment is especially emphasized. These works became real creative successes, since the source material allowed us to fully reveal skill and talent.
However, success was not ensured by a single classic. The “Driver for Vera” impresses with the cast, the plot is very interesting, and its ambiguity makes it difficult to compare the image of a KGB officer with something not only in Russian, but also in world cinema.
The series are good ...
Other films featuring Panin contributed to the growing popularity. Andrei Vladimirovich was involved in the filming of many series, including “Border”, “Kamenskaya”, “Detachment”, “Zhurov”. Some of them are really interesting, the artistic merits of others are a big question. The ability to create vivid and expressive images against the backdrop of faded material is a sign of true mastery, and Panin has always succeeded.
... and different
The character of detective Zhurov is amusing and full of peculiar humor, despite the fact that the borrowing of his plot elements such as a dog and an old car from the Colombo series looks too obvious. "The Brigade" is a controversial film, but gained popularity due to scandalous and sharp themes. The series "Kamenskaya" to failure is full of stamps, which is inevitable with mass production of Marininsky.
Films with Andrei Panin, in which he plays either detectives or criminals, are almost always worth watching, if only to admire the acting.
Family life
Like, probably, every man who became a father in adulthood, Andrei Vladimirovich experienced anxiety, bordering on fear, fulfilling his parental responsibilities. Thoughts about the fragility of human life, he admitted, were constantly pursued, and on every walk with the baby there was a feeling that he was not a dad, but a bodyguard of a very important person. The actor was married twice, how successful both of them were, it’s difficult to judge, because the first one fell apart, although he brought a daughter, now an adult, and the second ...
Noting a certain “Oblomovism” in the behavior of this talented person, one cannot help but recall that, when necessary, he knew how to pack himself and work with full dedication. The serial film “Full Ahead” became a rather successful directorial work, and it is especially interesting that there was no time to create a psychological attitude, an order from NTV came unexpectedly.
Apparently, the second wife, Natalia, who became the mother of his two children, being a creative person herself (she serves art at the Moscow Art Theater), was sympathetic to the complex nature of her husband. The best rest for Andrei Vladimirovich was always a dream, and he also loved hunting. Perhaps he often wanted to be alone, and therefore on that tragic day he was left completely alone ...
Andrey Panin. Photo for memory…
The circumstances of the actor’s death could serve as the plot for a detective film, much more mysterious than most of those in which he happened to appear.
In early March 2013, the media reported that Andrei Panin had died. The photos of the actor were strewn on the pages of periodicals and websites, the comments on them were contradictory and caused more questions, the more extensive they were stated. Why was the body of a famous actor discovered only the day after his death? Was he drunk at the time of his death? Was there an accident or a murder? Was the artist beaten, who did this? To understand all this, Zhurov and Kamenskaya lacked so much. And Holmes would be very welcome along with Watson, whose role Panin had already begun to work on.
Apparently, the general public will never know what happened in the apartment on Balaklava Avenue on that March day. It is likely that the fifty-year-old actor himself would not want to disclose the circumstances of his personal life. And death too.