Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko - director, actor, screenwriter: biography, personal life, filmography

Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko believes, and moreover, proved it with his work, that a man comes into the world for a reason, he is called to educate and improve himself. It is necessary to train teachers in this direction, and then, the director believes, it is easier for a person to find a place in life.

In his childhood, when he wanted to grow his own bread, my mother singled out a small piece of grass in the garden, which the boy sowed with wheat. When the wheat ripened, Volodya managed to grind it, and his mother baked a cake for him. It turned out to be small and uneven, but unusually tasty. Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko for a long time remembered the labor of a tiller.

The director does not cease to worry about the question of what will happen to all civilization if the light is turned off? How will people go up to the 50th floor of the office, what will happen to the sewer system, on what will the food be prepared? It turns out that any metropolis will turn into hell. But not so long ago people lived without light. Vladimir Khotinenko does not call for living under the beams, but the labor of a farmer and a craftsman who makes a chair with his own hands should be valued as much as the work of an office worker.

Vladimir Khotinenko. Biography, origins

The future famous director was born in the small Altay city of Slavgorod in 1952. About the director's profession, the boy did not think, he studied diligently in a local school, and his parents worked at the factory. Volodya dreamed of becoming a pilot or an archaeologist and living in Moscow.

Then his parents moved to Kazakhstan, and he got secondary education in the Kazakh Pavlodar. The young man was engaged in athletics and became even the champion of Kazakhstan among high school students in high jump. After graduating from school, Volodya Khotinenko began to work as a designer of the Pavlodar Tractor Plant.

As can be seen from the biography, the director Khotinenko did not intend to associate his life with the movie, but fate led him another way. The goal-oriented young man achieved his goal and graduated with honors from the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute, after which he was taken into the army.

Meeting with Mikhalkov

After six months of service, the ordinary Khotinenko was given the first visit. He came to Sverdlovsk to rest, and at this time Nikita Mikhalkov came to the same city with his famous film "An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano". The creative director loved creative youth and decided to organize a meeting with her, where Vladimir got to.

Then Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko said that now he was horrified that he did not want to go to this meeting, because he might not have talked with the venerable director. And they talked for three hours, after which Mikhalkov advised Khotinenko after the service to come to Moscow and do not forget to take with him everything that he had painted or written.

Study and work in Moscow

Returning from the army, Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko begins a new life and goes to work in the Sverdlovsk film studio. He is accepted as an artist-director. Sverdlovsk studio was quite famous at the time. Making success in the service, Khotinenko is working on the pictures "Race with persecution", "Smoke of the Fatherland", "The Conqueror", "That's such music", "Cossack outpost". "The voice of the dragon in the bottomless sea."

Having the experience of the art director, Vladimir Khotinenko goes to Moscow (and it was 1981) and enters the Higher Directing courses in the workshop of Nikita Mikhalkov. While studying, Vladimir simultaneously works as assistant assistant in such pictures of the teacher as "Rodnya", "Five Evenings", "Several Days from Oblomov's Life", and then decides to make his own films.

About Nikita Mikhalkov, director Khotinenko said that until the end of days will remain his student, and, despite the fact that each of them makes different films, they are engaged in one thing.

The first steps in the cinema

His first work was the painting "Alone Without Weapons", and she immediately won the "For Debut" prize at the festival in Tbilisi. It was an adventure film about how the Soviet militia operated in the 1920s.

Success inspired the director, and his subsequent paintings became a kind of symbol of Soviet cinema. Among them were such pictures as "Mirror for the Hero", "Roy", "Patriotic Comedy", and in 1993 Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko produced one of his best works, the film "Makarov". In the main role of the poet Alexander Sergeevich Makarov, Sergei Makovetsky starred. This is a psychological drama of a man who, under the influence of weapons (Makarov's pistol), changes his life, becomes an appendage to arms.

"Mirror for the hero" is a screen version of the fantastic parable of Svyatoslav Rysas. The author and director have shown how people are destined to find themselves in extraordinary circumstances and how these circumstances affect their lives. Two friends, Sergei and Andrew, accidentally transferred to forty years ago, May 8, 1949. To each of them, fate presents a surprise. Andrew can prevent the death of people, and Sergei - to understand the parents, to find a common language with the father.

Khotinenko Vladimir Ivanovich: Filmography

To the category of the best films one should refer the painting "The Muslim" with Yevgeny Mironov in the main role. The film also starred Nina Usatova, Alexander Baluev, Alexander Peskov and other actors. This is also a psychological drama about a man who spent seven years in captivity with the Mujahideen, becoming a son to a local peasant, who has changed a lot in his own life. By adopting Islam, Kolya (Abdullah) Ivanov returns to his native village. He does not drink or smoke, leads a "clean" way of life, but others, including his mother, do not understand him.

Drinking and debauchery, they booze drastically, they call Kolya to renounce Islam, even a stranger who swears to kill him, as he thinks, for betraying a friend, under the influence of the Gospel, abandons this idea. It seemed that everything should well end for a young man, but human misunderstanding and pride stand in the way of truth.

A series about the Russian Empire

Every year the director improves his profession, and, in 2005, he shoots a series that can not be avoided. This is "The Fall of the Empire," where for ten episodes it shows how the counterintelligence of the Russian Empire worked. In the lead roles starred Alexander Baluev, Sergei Makovetsky, Chulpan Khamatova.

The action takes place on the eve of the First World War, Russian detectives are chasing German spies, the February and October revolutions pass in front of spectators, the plot is famously twisted, but the main thing is that the film has a spirit of loyalty to the family and the Fatherland. The director in the film really showed the tragedy of the Russian people without heroism and revolutionary romance.

Personal life

The director was married twice, first on the Uzbek actress Dilorom Kambarova, who gave birth to his daughter Polina. After the divorce, they left for the US, where Pauline learned to be a costume designer and is currently working at the Los Angeles film studio.

The second wife, Tatyana Yakovleva, teaches foreign cinema at the Institute of Cinematography. In a joint marriage they had a son, Ilya. Also Vladimir Khotinenko, whose personal life is considered, brought up Tatyana's son from his first marriage, Denis. Both boys tied life with the movie, Denis became the operator, and Ilya followed in the footsteps of his father and studied for the director.

Conclusion

Here is the list of films filmed by Vladimir Khotinenko:

• "Dostoevsky".
• "Pop."
• "72 meters".
• "Muslim".
• "Mirror for the hero."
• "Heirs."
• "Demons".
• "The death of the empire."
• "Arrival of the train."
• "Passionate Boulevard."

Among other things, Vladimir Khotinenko starred as an actor in the films "Medicine Against Fear", "Rodnya", "Kazachya Zastava", "The Airplane Flies to Russia" and others, and as a screenwriter, he participated in such films as "Roy" "Patriotic Comedy", "Demons".

On January 20, Vladimir Khotinenko celebrated his 65th birthday, at a difficult time he continues to call life a mystic and believe in a miracle.