The hero of this article, Honored and People's Artist of Russia Sergey Makovetsky, is one of the most outstanding and memorable personalities of Russian cinema. People who know closely this amazing actor speak of him as a soft and supple person, “plasticine,” who can easily and absolutely naturally play any role in any genre. And we will soon be able to see this for ourselves as soon as we begin to study a long list of films with Makovetsky.
Brief biography of the actor
The place of birth of Sergei Vasilyevich was a suburb of Kiev, where on the picturesque banks of the Dnieper River was located the dacha village of Darnitsa, in which he appeared on an unlucky date - June 13, 1958, which would seem to determine all his further personal and acting destiny, ever doubting everything, including his own undoubted talent, a person.
As a boy, Sergei grew up active and athletic, was fond of figure skating and water polo, which was one step away from enrolling in the national team. However, the mother raising her son alone, managed to somehow dissuade him from big sport, and then fate in the form of an imperious teacher of a foreign language herself pushed Sergei to the acting profession, by order of determining him in the school theater circle. It was in him that the eighth grader Makovetsky, whose list of films to date exceeds eight dozen works in the cinema and will be presented in this article a little later, first appeared on the scene. It was the scene of the school theater club that brought the future famous actor the first rapture from entering the character of the hero.
After graduating from school, Sergey’s dreams of acting initially suffered a number of failures, but in the end his struggle with circumstances was over, and he entered the Shchukin Theater School, the only specialized educational institution to which he was accepted ...
Filmography
Until the beginning of the 80s, Sergey Makovetsky, by his own admission, only dreamed about cinema, from time to time coming to the building of the Mosfilm film studio and devouring his eyes, hoping to see at least a piece of cinematic life.
The miracle happened already in 1982 - the Odessa film studio gave the novice actor a chance to try himself, entrusting him with the small role of Alexander Proletkin in the three-part television movie Take Alive, dedicated to the harsh everyday life of Soviet intelligence during the Great Patriotic War.
A year later, Sergey Makovetsky already played one of the title roles of the tanker Grisha Chumak in the military film novel "The crew of a combat vehicle" (pictured below).
Recognition also came to Sergey Vasilievich in 1987, when the multi-part film “The Life of Klim Samghin” was released on the television screens of the country, in which he played Dmitry, the brother of the protagonist.
In the period from 1990 to 2000, the list of films with Makovetsky, which by that time had become a very popular actor, was replenished with twenty-one films, the most striking of which were such films as “Sons of a bitch”, “Patriotic comedy”, “Child to November "," Round dance "," Rothschild's violin "," Operation "Happy New Year!" "and" Composition for Victory Day. "
In the next ten years, Makovetsky ’s filmography doubled, presenting the audience with works in such films as “Russian Revolt”, “Brother-2”, “Mechanical Suite”, “The Key to the Bedroom”, “It Doesn’t Hurt”, “Tumbler”, “ Gloss "," Live and Remember "," Miracle "and" Burnt by the Sun-2 ".
In the current decade, the most successful works of Sergei Makovetsky were roles in such films and TV shows as “New Year's Detective,” “Peter the First. Testament,” “Case of Deli No. 1,” “Girl and Death,” “Life and Fate,” “ Two winters and three summers "," Demons "," Homeland "," Death Track "and" Day to. "
Below in the photo - Sergey Makovetsky in the film "Girl and Death".
Let’s find out in which films Makovetsky was shot in addition to the above films and what kind of his works in the cinema we need to dwell on in more detail.
"About freaks and people"
The first in the chronology of the outstanding works of our hero today is the dramatic and scandalous film "About Freaks and People", which premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
The picture tells the story of the protagonist - the owner of Johann's shop, whose role was brilliantly performed by Sergey Makovetsky. The basement of Johann's studio is a kind of indescribable theater of the absurd with naked human animals used to shoot hard erotic photographs.
The monotonous crazy days of the beginning of the twentieth century hang outside the window of the hero of the film, and inside the studio, Johann again and again writes his bitter story about the terrible nature of humanity, turning over and over again ordinary people into lascivious freaks ...
"72 meters"
The list of films with Makovetsky continues with the 2004 drama 72 Meters, released four years after the tragic death of one hundred and eighteen crew members of the Kursk nuclear submarine. Despite the fact that the picture is based on the memoirs of a real submariner, written long before the terrible events in the Barents Sea, the vast majority of viewers perceived “72 meters” as a screen version of that tragedy.
In this tape twisting the soul inside out, Sergey Makovetsky played the role of civilian doctor Chernenko, for the evacuation of which the crew members who remained alive at that time gave him the only working breathing apparatus ...
"The death of the empire"
In 2005, the country launched the first season of the historical multi-part drama "Death of an Empire", which tells about the work of domestic counterintelligence in the second decade of the XX century, when Russia was at the epicenter of the First World War.
While Russian soldiers are dying on the battlefields, waves of revolutionary moods and unrest are rolling across the country. A large-scale picture of the crumbling Russian Empire unfolds in front of the viewer, torn into three parts by the Bolsheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries and Russian officers.
Sergei Makovetsky got the role of Alexander Mikhailovich Nesterovsky, a former law professor, who, by the will of time, was forced to become captain of army intelligence.
"Zhmurki"
In the same 2005, Makovetsky appears before the audience in a completely different and unexpected appearance, reliably playing the “team leader” Crown in the black comedy by Alexei Balabanov “Zhmurki”, whose advertising slogan is “For those who survived in the 90s” - he speaks for yourself.
The hero of Sergei Makovetsky is the Nizhny Novgorod bandit, the “foreman”. Together with his two partners Bala and Aubergine, he gets involved in a heroin adventure, arranged by the corrupt police senior lieutenant Stepan, for which they all will eventually pay with their own lives ...
For Makovetsky, the role of the Crown became one of the most extraordinary in his entire career in the cinema. He had never played anything like this before.
“Liquidation”
This popular detective action-packed television series of 2007, shot on real events, talks about the rampant crime in post-war Odessa. In the film “Liquidation” Makovetsky brilliantly played the image of Fima the half-Jew, in the civilized life of Efim Arkadyevich Petrov, a former pickpocket thief, and now a friend of the main character of the picture, Lt. Col. David Markovich Gotzman.
Fima performed by Makovetsky turned out to be completely charming and real. The actor so brilliantly embodied all the Odessa flavor and Jewish charisma in the image of his hero, that it is simply impossible to imagine any other, even a very famous actor in his place. What are the only ingenious phrases and dialogues of Fima performed by the actor:
- David Gotzman, go throw your head in the dung! I do not know you! I am not interested in walking with you in Odessa alone!
- Fima, you say insulting ...
"12"
In Nikita Mikhalkov’s unconditional masterpiece "12", presented to the audience in the same 2007, Sergey Makovetsky played the vivid role of the first jury - a physicist working as a representative of a foreign company.
The plot of this outstanding film is the decision-making process by twelve jurors, completely strangers to each other, locked in a room, about the guilt or innocence of a Chechen young man who was charged with the murder of his Russian step-father-officer.
An interesting and unique fact of the picture "12" is a ten-minute monologue, uttered by the hero of Makovetsky, which was shot in one take, without a single assembly gluing.
To convey in words this work of cinematography is completely impossible. You need to watch it ...
"Pop"
One of the many films starring Makovetsky was the military drama Pop, which was released in 2010. In this tape, the actor masterfully played the role of father Alexander Ionin, who served as rector in the parish of a small village in the Pskov region.
In June 1941, the Nazis occupied the village, and Alexander's father was overtaken by an unexpected mission to revive the faith of the Soviet people, conceived by the Nazis in order to impose their own power. And pop Alexander finds himself at the crossroads of a choice between betrayal of the motherland and betrayal of his own faith ...
The Quiet Don
In the multi-part film "Quiet Flows the Don" in 2015, shot based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, Sergey Makovetsky got the role of Pantelei Prokofievich Melekhov, father of the main character of the painting Grigory.
Once he was a dashing Cossack, but in the courtyard of 1912, Pantelei Prokofievich was at the head of a whole clan, from time immemorial living in his native village, over which the bloody clouds of revolution suddenly began to gather. His native land is bursting at the seams, torn apart by hatred and fratricidal war, and the entire Melekhov family finds itself in a cycle of terrible events of modern times ...
The dramatic film "Quiet Don" in 2015 was the clearest reflection of the history of the country at the beginning of the XX century and did not leave indifferent any viewer.
"Acquaintance"
The hero of this television movie is the egocentric Nikolai. In search of himself, he has not been working anywhere for a year, spending whole days on social networks. The only person connecting a young loafer with the outside world is his older brother. However, one ordinary morning, Nikolai finds him dead ...
In the two-part detective film "Acquaintance" in 2017, Sergey Makovetsky played the dramatic role of a disabled father torn between two sons, the beloved of whom is already dead, and he prefers not to communicate with the living.
The final monologue of the hero Makovetsky is noteworthy, in which his true attitude to his heirs is revealed: at first he did not want to have children at all, he was subsequently forced to oppress one of them, as he says, “for reasons of justice”. At the same time, the very son he oppressed was always always the most beloved ...
One of Makovetsky’s new works, the film “Acquaintance” of 2017, is definitely worth watching.
"Bad weather"
The basis of this dramatic detective story, revealing the history of finding their place in life by the "Afghans" who returned home in the 90s, is based on the novel of the same name by Alexei Ivanov. The recent soldiers who shed blood for the honor of the Motherland in faraway and alien Afghanistan turned out to be useless to anyone and now they can only trust each other. And then, as it turned out, not always ...
In the serial film "Bad Weather" Sergey Makovetsky played the role of Yar-Sanych Kudelina, the father of the young wife of the main character of the tape. Yar-Sanych is a trainer once famous in the Soviet Union, now drunk because his country no longer exists ...
The image of the screen hero Makovetsky is symbolized by the 90s themselves, when a new and that invisible, but already dried out “glue” was built on the wreckage of one country, it seemed that it had united both countries forever, but did not want to break apart ...
Godunov
Guessing who Makovetsky plays in the movie Godunov is not so easy at first. Make-up artists and dressers of the picture did their best. And if Sergei Bezrukov, who played the guardian of Godunov, can be recognized without difficulty, then the performer of the role of Tsar Ivan the Terrible is recognized only by the characteristic voice of Makovetsky, which cannot be recognized.
This multi-part historical drama is dedicated to one of the most difficult periods of Russian history, which takes a period of time from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to the establishment of the power of the Romanov dynasty. Godunov, the film of 2018, is the revived history of our state, and all the events shown in it took place in reality.
According to viewers, Ivan the Terrible performed by Sergei Makovetsky is incredible.