Andrei Balashov: biography, photo

If you like to laugh, then surely you saw the cult humorous programs "Caution, modern", "Camera! Motor!", "One evening with Dmitry Nagiyev." Andrei Balashov is the director of these and many other rating projects. Our article will tell about it in detail.

Memories of childhood

The future director was born in Leningrad. His upbringing, due to circumstances, was done by my grandmother and grandfather, people educated and intelligent. That is why Andrei Balashov read and counted from the age of four. In the first class he went with a decent baggage of knowledge.

As Andrei himself remembers, his grandfather did not allow him to go out with friends until he multiplies millions of numbers in his mind. For the child this was a dubious pleasure, but Andrei Balashov later estimated the "joke" of his grandfather. These exercises tempered his character and taught the main thing - to overcome difficulties and achieve the goal.

By the way, Balashov studied in the physics and mathematics class and graduated from the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics. Here are such metamorphoses!

The first project

By specialty, Balashov did not. At the institute he was always the inspirer of any events and skits. He was not only an active participant, but also an author of the scripts.

The road to fame began with Andrei Balashov from the radio station "Modern". The creative environment infected him, and after a while he was offered to become a director of the radio program.

At this time the idea of the radio project "Full Modern" was born! With the participation of Dmitry Nagiyev and Alla Dovlatova. Later, Sergei Rost joined the team. In this form, the project existed for a while, gained a lot of fans and on the wave of glory was transferred to television. The first short issues were shown in 1995 on St. Petersburg regional television.

In a year the series was expanded, each episode lasted 25-30 minutes. Its name has also been changed to the usual "Caution, Art Nouveau!". A total of more than a hundred series.

Humorous Projects

Andrei Balashov, whose biography is not known to the general public, does not worry because the television directors are not in the public eye. He starred in many secondary roles in his projects, but not for the sake of popularity. To everything in life, he comes up with humor, so the role of Balashov is quite specific - homeless, prostitute, alcoholic.

In 2002, the light saw a new series called "Camera! Motor!". The source of inspiration was the shooting process. The viewer could see twelve sketch series on this topic.

Andrey Balashov is a talented and creative director, he became the author of the project "Beware, Zadov", where Dmitry Nagiyev still played the main role. It was shot two full seasons. Among the actors there were such cinematography meters as Mikhail Boyarsky, Igor Lifanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Lyubov Polishchuk and others.

In 2006, a new humorous series was released from the director - "Merry Neighbors". Each series is a narrative about the inhabitants of an ordinary high-rise building, which now and then fall into ridiculous and amusing situations. It can be argued that every person in our country could recognize himself in the heroes of this sitcom.

In 2010, the audience saw Balashov's new work - a pseudo-historical sketch show about Petka and Vasily Ivanovich. As in the famous anecdotes, the characters get into funny troubles and with humor they look for an exit.

Other director's works

It would be unfair to call Balashov director of only humorous series, although in this he, of course, succeeded. On the materials of his works, they even taught the installation of VGIK students.

In 2008, he for a while left a humorous genre and devoted himself to the detective genre, becoming one of the directors of the series "Foundry 4". Filming of a special department to investigate especially important crimes carried away the director. Therefore, in his creative piggy bank, several more works of this kind appeared.

In 2009 there was a mini-series "Sea Devils. Destiny". In 2011 - "Drug Trafficking" - a series that raises acute social issues. A year later Andrei Balashov was shooting the TV series "Rust" about the activities of the anti-corruption committee.

For the last several years he has focused on the script writer's activities. According to his works, the series "Shaman", "Plague", "Alien Face" and the feature film of 2014 "Inglourious Fools" were shot.

Interesting Facts

1. Andrey Balashov, whose photo is in the article, can not stand suits. The fault is the school uniform.

2. Hates mathematics, however, always had excellent marks on it.

3. At the institute he received a red diploma in engineering.

4. Dismissed from the service in the army, considering such pastime a great stupidity.

5. Adriano Celentano, Boris Berezovsky, Silvio Berlusconi admire them , calling them geniuses in their field of activity.

6. His favorite city is Rome, but St. Petersburg is responding negatively, complaining about the climate and grayness.

7. Claims that Bondiana in plot and intrigue is much steeper than Shakespeare's Hamlet. But do not detract from the merits of this great work.

8. Skeptical of the fashion industry, gloss, brands and trends. Claims that this is all a blatant, hiding the true essence of man.