Sergey Bondarchuk is the name and surname of the great Soviet director and actor. The names of the films “War and Peace”, “The Fate of Man”, “Waterloo”, “They Fought for the Motherland” and many others talk about the incredible height of creative flight achieved by Soviet cinema in its best years.
The son of the great artist, Bondarchuk Fedor, is trying very hard not to drop the honor of the surname. The filmography of this rather young artist and director is impressive both in the number of works and their quality, confirmed by the high level of audience popularity, numerous prizes and international recognition.
Study and army
Fedor Bondarchuk was born in 1967. The creative atmosphere of the family initially implied a desire for art, but its realization requires knowledge of real life. After graduating from school in 1985 and entering the directing department of VGIK, the young man goes to serve in the army on an equal basis with his other peers. He performs military duty in the city of Krasnoyarsk, and then in the famous Taman division, in the cavalry regiment. After “two winters and two springs”, the son of the famous director again begins his studies, which he successfully completes in the workshop of Yuri Ozerov.
The first film works
The first Stalingrad by Fedor Bondarchuk took place precisely then (the film was shot by Ozerov), but this was not the first role, the debut was earlier in Boris Godunov, where he played the role of Tsarevich Fedor. The paternal rigor that he encountered on the set became a good school for the future director. The role, although small, was difficult and difficult, and the exactingness of Sergei Bondarchuk became for him a model of creative behavior. There are no trifles in cinema.
VGIK was successfully completed in 1991. During his studies, there were other works in which Fedor Bondarchuk took an acting part. The filmography of those years is a term paper “Sunny Beach” by fellow practitioner T. Keosayan and very good paintings “Arbiter” and “Demons” (based on the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky).
Pioneer of domestic clip art
In the early nineties, the art of creating video clips was in its infancy and provided a wide field for the realization of creative aspirations. The rock and roll composition of the Moral Codex group was Bondarchuk Jr.'s first work in this field. The song was called “Goodbye Mom”, it was composed by Sergey Mazaev, and the video sequence successfully emphasized its rhythm and high energy fullness. Since 1990, the position of the leading Soviet, and then Russian clip maker, has been firmly taken by Bondarchuk Fedor. The filmography of these short film stories with musical accompaniment covers the songs of the most famous domestic artists, including Alla Pugacheva, Vladimir Presnyakov, Boris Grebenshchikov, Kristina Orbakaite, Valery Meladze, Philip Kirkorov and many others. The successful directing of the video material largely contributed to the popularity of music, and the Ovation Award, received in 1993, became a well-deserved award for work and talent.
Early work
Without knowing the features of acting, it is impossible to become a successful director. This rule was adopted by his father Bondarchuk Fedor. The filmography of the works of the nineties includes the paintings “Angels of Death”, “I Love” (the performance of Lyudmila Gurchenko), “Middle Age Crisis” by Sukachev, “Eight and a Half Dollars” directed by G. Konstantinopolsky and “Showcase”. However, the shooting was intermittent, sometimes lengthy, and most of the time was occupied by advertising plots and music videos, for which there were many orders.
The result of a bold experiment with a modern interpretation of "Idiot" F.M. Dostoevsky was the picture "Down House", in which Fedor Bondarchuk played the main character, Prince Myshkin. It is possible that the artistic merits of this work seemed controversial to some of the viewers and critics, but creativity is impossible without a certain daring.
Afghan Ninth Company Story
The realities of the Afghan war will long excite the citizens of our country. Its little-known pages are of constant interest, especially when talented artists open them. The fate of a small military unit that found itself in a very difficult situation, withstood an unequal battle, obeyed an order and won a moral victory, became the subject of the work that Bondarchuk Fedor undertook in 2004. The filmography of previous years did not touch on such acute topics.
The fact that the picture was a success is objectively evidenced by the extreme spectator success, the interest of the world cinema community and the recognition of the people to whose share this episode of our history fell and take a direct part in it.
Different topics, different films
Films of Fyodor Bondarchuk, in which he worked as an actor, have a diverse theme. These are ordinary everyday stories, such as a melodrama with elements of the comedy “Three Half Graces” (2006), shot against the backdrop of the southern city, and the romantic film “About LyuboFF” (2010), in which important moral and ethical problems are raised, and “Two days” ", A movie that tells about the relationship of power with cultural workers in the universal aspect. The detective story about the state adviser also could not do without the participation of a talented actor, as well as the wonderful series “The death of the empire”, which tells about the last tragic years of old Russia and the hard work of the slandered workers of the tsarist law enforcement service.
Boris Strugatsky considered that Bondarchuk could be entrusted with the film adaptation of one of his fantastic novels written by him in collaboration with his brother, called The Inhabited Island. Work on the film was long and hard, it was released in 2009 and immediately became a topic of discussion.
Your Stalingrad
Military history is the eternal theme of Russian cinema. Fyodor Bondarchuk was prompted to remove his own "Stalingrad" social need for works of art that promote patriotism. And let the film be criticized for the overabundance of effects created using computer technology and the implausibility of some episodes, but the director tried to make it interesting primarily for young people. The work turned out to be bright, the battle scenes are horrifying with realism, and at the same time the heroism of the people and the army shown in this terrible battle remains the main theme.
New films
Soon, the viewer will be able to evaluate other films of Fedor Bondarchuk in 2013. First of all, it is a film adaptation of the immortal Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. “Our All” did not leave the talented director indifferent and indifferent, and it remains to be seen what more patriotism is in large-scale battle-clown films or Russian classics that glorified our culture. All the details of this project are not yet known to the general public, except that the main role is entrusted to Peter Fedorov, who starred in the Inhabited Island. There is hope that this film will not be overloaded with special effects, they are most likely inappropriate in this material, except for the recreation of historical landscapes.
The second film is called Odnoklassniki.ru. This is a fun comedy, its target audience is young people, but it is possible that older social network users will also be interested in it. Actors recruited in the same place, on "Classmates". The storyline will be known soon, and there is reason to believe that this film will be the next creative success of Fedor Bondarchuk, who, apparently, is not going to rest on his laurels. He still has many films ahead.