Sergey Lyalin: from the stars of the Chamber Theater to directors

Former star of the Chamber Theater, and now promising director Lyalin Sergey Gennadievich was born in late April 1962 in Perm. In 1982, he graduated from the Voronezh Art College and was drafted into the army, served in the Airborne Forces. After the end of his life he entered the Voronezh Institute of Arts at the acting department. Some time after his graduation, Sergey was one of the most recognizable and popular personalities in the theatrical environment of Voronezh.

Initially, the artist worked in the Youth Theater, after which he transferred to the Mikhail Bychkov Chamber Theater. The newly-minted theater quickly gained popularity, still Bohemia remembers Lyalin as the leading actor in the performances “The Watchman” and “Jamais”.

Conquest of the White Stone

In 1997, a 35-year-old successful theater actor throws everything and leaves for the capital. There in 1999 he graduated from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors, A. Mitt was his artistic director.

About seven years nothing was heard about Sergey. He wrote scripts for films, constantly offering himself to various studios as a director. He was often refused, occasionally offered to take the post of second director. Sergei resolutely refused, for fear of remaining in the shadows. And after the release came out one film he directed, the second, third. Every year, a talented director became more and more popular.

As it turned out, the spirit of directing has always lived in it. Sergey Lyalin acquired his first movie camera under the name "Aurora" back in the art school. And immediately he began to shoot individual episodes like action scenes. The future director arranged fights with fellow students in local careers. Lyalin himself regarded his play in the theater as a step towards directing. According to the director, now acting does not appeal to him at all.

The first detective series

On the captain’s bridge of the “Blind” television project, Alexey Serebryakov also helped the director-debutant to break through. Sergey Lyalin has almost signed a contract to work on one film project, but the production of the film failed. In preparation for the shooting, he met Serebryakov, who by that time was already a famous actor. Alexei was offered to try on the director’s role in Blind, but he refused, recommending Lyalin to the producers. So the directorial debut of Sergei Gennadievich took place.

“Blind” tells the story of the main character Gleb, who was in a coma for almost 10 years after a serious wound received in Afghanistan. The main character woke up in the state, with a different morality, life values ​​and the foundations of society. He could only become an agent of the FSB and fight against corrupt officials.

Filmography

Currently, Sergey Lyalin is a director, whose filmography includes 13 film and television works, is engaged in the production of an action-packed series commissioned by the NTV television channel called Delta.

The main character of the picture is a brave fish inspector, who, together with a spectacular assistant, is engaged in the search and capture of criminals who killed his friend. Most of the early projects that make up Lyalin's filmography are created in the criminal genre and are full of action scenes. Recent works are presented in the genre of melodrama:

• The series "Blind", a description of which is presented above.
• The television melodrama "Games of adult girls", in which the main characters Zhenya and Alya, who had been friends since childhood, will encounter motherhood problems.
• The historical mini-series "The Last Confession" about the immortal feat of the young members of the Young Guard organization.
• The melodramatic comedy “A Love Story, or the New Year’s Prank” is a good New Year’s fairy tale, the story of Cinderella in Russian.
• The events of the adventure series "Scythian Gold" takes place in the 90s in Moscow. The protagonist (eminent archaeologist A.I. Berestov) is going to implement the most significant project in his activity - to organize a scientific expedition, the task of which is to search for the burial place of the Scythian king Kolaksai.
• The dramatic television movie "One Family", singing family values, does not idealize the characters, reliably depicts the history of modern Russia.
• The criminal action movie "Brothers-2" demonstrates the pressing real problems of modern society, shows how difficult the service of defenders of the Fatherland is. Indeed, on their shoulders simultaneously with the stars lies a huge responsibility.
• Detective serial film "Semin. Retribution ”is dedicated to the personality of the legend of the Moscow criminal investigation department - Colonel Boris Semin, who managed to unravel the most complex deadlock crimes.
  

The newest works that Sergey Lyalin has shot in the last five years are the melodrama “The Sun as a Gift”, “Fern Flower”, “Exclusion Strip”, “Dad for Sofia”, “Syndrome of Untoldness”.

SMERSH

One of the best works, as recognized by Russian film critics, is the detective military action movie "Death to Spies!". The plot narration tells about the events taking place in 1944, about the countless deeds and operations of the special department of the counterintelligence of the USSR SMERSH. The film has a truly stellar cast, very talented and famous actors were involved in the filming process: N. Tyunin, A. Pashutin, A. Serebryakov, V. Zolotukhin, A. Yatsenko, A. Peskov and many others. According to the audience and leading experts in the film industry, "Death to Spies!" is a solid detective, deserving of approval from all sides.

For the future

Sergey Lyalin is married to theater and film actress Eva Aveeva, who is quite willing to act in her husband’s projects, but she played the main role only once. According to the director, the wife does not want to give rumors about her talent, she is afraid that the public will think that her eminent husband is pushing her. In Voronezh, mother Lalina and his sister-artist Lilia live.

Sergey was also fond of painting in his youth, but now he is busy with the camera and intends to follow the example of the legendary Roman Polanski, who wanted to "sleep with all genres."