Alexander Kuznetsov: biography, filmography and teaching activities

The Soviet and Russian actor, Konstantin Kuznetsov, was born on December 2, 1959 in the village of Petrovka, Primorsky Krai. After graduating from high school and having worked for a year and a half in the mechanical workshop of his native village, Sasha left for Moscow. He dreamed of becoming an actor in theater and cinema. The biography of actor Alexander Kuznetsov began with the admission to the Theater School. Shchukin. Natural artistry, good plasticity and impeccable diction helped Alexander successfully pass the exams.

Theater in Malaya Bronnaya

Kuznetsov did not miss classes, he studied perfectly, the teachers spoke of him as a rising star of the Russian theater. Many theater directors in Moscow already knew that a promising nugget is studying in Shchukin, which should be looked at. And when Kuznetsov finished the third year, Anatoly Efros, artistic director of the Malaya Bronnaya Theater , met with him. So the future actor Alexander Kuznetsov was accepted in advance to the troupe of one of the best Moscow theaters.

Filmography of the Soviet period

At the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya Kuznetsov worked until 1989. Then the actor received an offer from Hollywood to participate in two American films and went to the US. Prior to that, he was actively filming in Russian cinema. The filmography of actor Alexander Kuznetsov includes the following pictures of the Soviet period:

• Year 1981 - "Heavenly Paths", directed by Zurab Tutberidze. Kuznetsov in an episodic role.
• Year 1983 - "Hello from the front", directed by Ivan Kiasashvili. Character Kuznetsova - Vanya-medicine.
• The year 1983 - "Unheard of" in the production of Sergei Ovcharov. Kuznetsov as Neznam.
• Year 1983 - "Comet", director Richard Victorov. Alexander Kuznetsov in an episodic role.
• Year 1985 - "Mister Veliky Novgorod", directed by Alexey Saltykov. Kuznetsov played Misha.
• The year 1985 - "Men's Anxiety", directed by Anatoly Nitochkin. Kuznetsov - Lieutenant Andrei Kiselev, the main role.
• Year 1985 - "Dream in the hand, or Suitcase", directed by Ernest Yasan. Character Kuznetsova - the pilot Lenya Kulik.
• Year 1986 - "Sorry", directed by Ernest Yasan. Kuznetsov in an episodic role.
• The year 1986 - "Jack Vosmerkin - American," directed by Eugene Tatarsky. Kuznetsov in the role of Yakov Vosmerkin.
• Year 1988 - "Love for neighbor", director Nikolai Rasheev. Alexander Kuznetsov as Ivan Ivanovich.
• Year 1988 - "Seaside Boulevard", directed by Alexander Polynnikov. Character Kuznetsova - Sasha.
• Year 1988 - "Aelita, do not bother with men," directed by George Natanson. Kuznetsov in the role of Shady Fedor Sidorov.
• Year 1988 - "We'll stay true", directed by Andrei Malyukov. Kuznetsov in an episodic role.
• The year 1989 - "Lawlessness", directed by Igor Gostev. Alexander Kuznetsov as Senior Lieutenant Kasimov.
• The year 1989 - "Two arrows", directed by Alla Surikov. Kuznetsov as Ushasty.
• Year 1990 - "The Ridged Bus", directed by Georgy Natanson. Character Kuznetsova - flight engineer.

Hollywood

The year 1990 was the last year of Alexander Kuznetsov's stay in Moscow, he soon moved to America and began to star in Hollywood. The first role of the actor - is Stan in the TV series "Alaska Kid", a joint film project of American and Soviet filmmakers. Many Russian actors took part in the shootings, since the series was shot within two years, the work was enough for everyone. The director of the picture James Hill appreciated the game of Russian artists, all participants from the Russian side were well acquainted with the work of the American writer Jack London, according to which the script was written.

Joint film projects

Another co-production film called "Running on Ice" was released in 1992. The action takes place on the territory of the USSR, in the center of the plot illegal arms trade. The character of Alexander Kuznetsov was a member of the KGB Petrov. The intrigue of the film was that the main character, American intelligence officer Jeffrey West, was deciphered when he met with a senior Soviet official of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. West was going through him to pass a major bribe to the minister, so that he helped in buying weapons of Soviet production for the subsequent dispatch of the arsenal to Afghanistan. However, the American agent was arrested and imprisoned in a Russian prison for 12 years.

Teaching Activities

Over the past period, from 1990 to the present, Alexander Kuznetsov starred in fifty films, some of which are film projects of American cinema, and some were shot in Russia, during the arrivals of the actor to Moscow. Besides taking part in the shootings, Kuznetsov devotes much time to teaching. He organized the International Actors School, a school of mastery with international status for novice actors. Training is based on the Stanislavsky system, and the works of Russian classics are used: Chekhov, Kuprin, Ostrovsky and Dostoevsky. In Russia, Kuznetsov founded the Moscow International School under the name "Forge of Cinema and Television". In all of his projects, actor and teacher Alexander Kuznetsov takes part directly.