Everyone knows the film "Big Break." The name of its creator is known to few. The director of this famous film is Alexei Korenev. How was the creative and life path of the creator of popular Soviet paintings?
Biography
Korenev Alexey Alexandrovich was born in Moscow in 1927. Father headed the financial department in a very serious organization. But the son did not become either an economist or an engineer. From an early age he dreamed of a movie. Alexei Korenev entered the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, joined the CPSU. He married a woman who bore him two daughters. The eldest became an artist. The youngest is an actress. After the premiere of "Romance of Lovers", Elena Koreneva knew everything in the Soviet Union.
After graduation, there were a lot of difficulties in the work of the director. At first, due to the lack of an ideological idea, the Black Sea painting was banned. However, Korenev still managed to achieve the release of this film. But later difficulties arose in creating almost every film.
Alexey Korenev passed away in 2000. In recent years, he not only did not make films, but barely made ends meet. In the second marriage, the director had a daughter. In order to feed his family, Korenev had to constantly look for a side job, which often had nothing to do with the world of cinema.
Creation
At the beginning of his career, Korenev worked as a second director in several films. For example, in Carnival Night. Then he gradually began to make films himself.
Alexey Korenev is a director who was one of the first to pay attention to the work of the writer Victoria Tokareva. According to her work, he made the film "Literature Lesson", which was released many years after its creation. For a long time, the picture lay on the shelf. At the artistic council, they decided that the plain story of a teacher who decided to live a day without lies contains enemy propaganda. The film “Taimyr Calls You” also had a difficult fate. The painting was created by the work of Galich. However, the writer was expelled from the country in 1972, after which the film was rented.
Before presenting a description and story of the creation of the most famous films of this director, the most famous films should be listed. What pictures did Alexey Korenev take? His filmography includes the following films:
- "Literature lesson".
- “Taimyr is calling you.”
- "Big change".
- "For family reasons".
- "Three days in Moscow."
Alexei Korenev shot his last film in the unfortunate 1991. The picture is called "Fool." The main roles in it were played by Nikolai Karachentsov, Anna Samokhina, Larisa Udovichenko.
"Big change"
This film has become truly popular. His heroes fell in love with the audience. Songs from the Korenev film became real hits. Of course, the selection of actors for the serial film took a lot of time and effort. But each of the approved artists after the premiere became famous. The success of the film is due to the director's work and the ingenious acting ensemble.
The hero of this film is a young historian. Nestor Petrovich could not enter graduate school. Grieved and got a job as a teacher in evening school. Teaching adult students was not easy. In addition, one of the wards fell in love with a young teacher. She expressed her feelings, anonymously treating Nestor with homemade cakes. Despite the difficulties, the young historian loved his work. In conclusion of this story, his beloved girl, Polina, returned to him.
One of the secondary roles was played by the director’s eldest daughter. Korenev wanted to remove the youngest, Elena. However, she refused, which she later regretted.
"Literature lesson"
The film was created in 1968 based on the story by Tokareva “A day without lies”. The script was written by George Danelia. During the filming, the material was modified several times. The director originally planned the film to be called: "A day without lies." But is it really so difficult for a Soviet person to live without a lie? The Art Council did not like the name. The picture had to be renamed. But even after all the changes, Korenev’s film was not allowed to be rented for a long time.