Russian producer Sergei Selyanov: biography and the best films

Sergey Selyanov has chosen for himself several professional roles: he writes scripts, puts films and produces them. Of course, he achieved high results in all these fields, otherwise he would not have received more than a dozen cinematographic awards and would not have been honored, according to the Expert magazine, to be called the only Russian producer whose name became a brand in the production of feature films.

Sergei Selyanov for many years, runs a well-known film company "STV" in the northern capital, for which he was awarded the prize "Golden Aries". The films "Brother", "Brother-2", "Gruz 200", "Mongol", "Cuckoo" that were produced by him became cult for the Russian viewer, their popularity was simply stunning. Sergey Selyanov enjoyed working with such famous directors as Alexey Balabanov, Philip Jankowski, Alexander Rogozhkin, Sergei Bodrov, Jr.. What is known about this talented person?

Facts from biography

Sergei Selyanov - a native of a small town Olonets, which is located in Karelia. He was born on August 21, 1955 in the family of a fighter pilot. As a child, the boy dreamed of following in the footsteps of his father and flying across the sky.

However, in a few years his priorities in life changed: young Selyanov Sergei Mikhailovich said that he wants to become a writer, and after a while he was beckoned by a career as a filmmaker. The family of the future director and producer very often moved from place to place, but at the age of 13 he already knew where he would go to study after school.

Student years

After receiving the certificate of maturity, the young man submits the documents to the Tula Polytechnic and enters this university. Here Selyanov Sergey Mikhailovich becomes the head of an amateur film studio. His great art attracted him like a magnet, and after a while the young man became a student of the scenic faculty of VGIK. He was identified in the studio of the famous film director Nikolai Figurovsky. In the late 80s of the last century, Selyanov graduated from the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters, being already a graduate of Bykov's studio.

The first film

Trial for a budding director was the work on the film "The Day of the Angel", which he put in a duet with Nikolai Makarov in 1989.

This was a comedy drama, which was positioned by Selyanov as an independent film, since he spent his own savings on the shooting. In addition, the plot of the picture was dissonant with respect to the general policy of the Council Country, so the cinema received the status of "underground". In general, Sergei Selyanov, whose films differ in metaphorical, allegorical content with elements of the grotesque, emphasizes that a creative person should be able not only to come up and create a movie, but also properly organize the shooting process.

Director and founder of "STV"

The second film of the "Karelian" director was released on Soviet screens in 1990. It was called "The Spirits of the Day," and the main role was given to the famous singer and songwriter Yuri Shevchuk, for whom she became a kind of new vector in her career. This creation of the maestro was already legal: the film was shot on Lenfilm.

In 1992, Sergei Mikhailovich created in the "northern Palmyra" film company "STV", "politics" which was based on the promotion and "promotion" of exclusively Russian films. At this time he meets his future colleagues "on the shop" - Alexei Balabanov, Pavel Lungin, Philip Jankowski, Alexander Rogozhkin, senior and junior Bodrovs.

Screenwriter

In 1994, Sergei Mikhailovich tries himself as a screenwriter. Together with Alexei Balabanov they wrote the drama "The Castle", based on the unfinished work of Franz Kafka with the same name. A year later, Selyanov staged the film "The Time of Sorrow has not yet come," which received the Promotional Award in Cottbus.

Producer

Sergei Selyanov - producer of four dozen films of artistic and documentary genres. He was awarded awards at "prestigious" domestic and foreign film festivals.

Maestro was able to prove to everyone that he was able to promote to the market any art-house movies. As already emphasized, the films he produced were always a great success. With Alexander Rogozhkin they made phenomenal pictures: "Features of national fishing", "Operation" Happy New Year! "," Block post ".

"Cuckoo" - a film that won the audience prize of the festival "New Cinema of Russia", held in Vologda. It was received by Sergey Mikhailovich himself. What is this movie about? "Cuckoo" is a film-story about how three absolutely diverse cultures can touch each other, the carriers of which are Russian, Finn and a woman named Anna. Despite differences in mentality and difficult life circumstances, the main characters of the film still manage to find a "common language". This ribbon was awarded the "Golden Eagle" prize.

With Alexei Balabanov, Selyanova associates work on the films "Brother", "Brother-2", "Bloomers", "Morphine".

With Bodrov, Jr., he created the cult films "Sisters" and "Messenger". Work on the latter, unfortunately, did not end in connection with the tragic death of the crew of Bodrov. Sergei Selyanov received Khanzhonkov medal as the best producer of 1995-1998.

The director is married, he has two children: daughter Daria and son Grigory.

"In Russia, few quality films are produced"

Most recently, the maestro celebrated his sixtieth birthday. Sergey Mikhailovich believes that today the domestic cinema is far from showing "good" stories to the viewer. On average, according to the maestro, for a year only 2-3 "good" films are released, the rest can be attributed to marriage. The system of film formation, which dominated the Soviet era, emphasized the education of the artist, while the professionalism of the directors was secondary. Now, according to Selyanov, this basic value is a thing of the past, and we need to gradually follow the path of reform of the education system, so that the script art is given much more time. According to Sergei Mikhailovich, the future of Russian cinema is talented screenwriters.