Victor Sukhorukov: filmography, biography, family

Actor Viktor Sukhorukov, People's Artist of the Russian Federation - a man extremely creative and creative. The game of this master is always multi-layered and expressive. The ingenious director Vladimir Bortko, having already removed the film "The Dog's Heart," publicly, throughout the country, expressed regret that he did not know Sukhorukov when he was looking for an actor to play the role of Sharikov. People love him. Victor Ivanovich with a smile tells where only he did not leave them his autographs: on cuffs, on horns of a deer, on saddles of bicycles, in passports, military tickets and even (once) in the diploma.

Actor of great talent

However, the peaks reached to him were given quite uneasy. He was recognized, becoming a popular favorite only 46 years after the virtuoso performance of the role in the films of director Alexei Balabanov "Brother", "Brother 2". Glory did not change his friendly manner of communicating with people, quite simple, adequate. He is loved in his native land: he is an honorary resident of Orekhovo-Zuevo Viktor Sukhorukov. His filmography shows the talent of a versatile, universal actor who plays positive and negative characters, shooting in films of various genres: dramas, comedies, melodramas.

Grandmother Sho-sho

A crazy dream - to become an actor - was not easy given, was suffered by a boy from a working family. The "horrible fantasy", as he called himself, at first chose the profession of a projectionist (after all, he watches movies for free), then - the cook (Vitya's childhood was hungry), then - the hairdresser (and certainly the ladies) and only then - the actor.

My mother discouraged him, persuaded him to live like most children from his city: get a job at a factory, get married ...

Objectively, she was right: Vitya was severely ill with scarlet fever in three years, practically deaf. He understood the interlocutor, "reading on the lips." At that time, his court name was Grandma Sho-Sho. The guy was forced to walk in a kerchief. (Until now, Viktor Ivanovich is deeply grateful to Dr. Valentine Tereshchenko, gradually, an operation for the operation that healed him by the age of 16.)

The case in the competition

Victor firmly decided: to live in his own way. At the age of twelve, after reading in the Pioneer Truth an announcement about screen tests, he went to Moscow. Then the future actor did not pass the competition, but the case with him was a noble one.

Andrei Konchalovsky conducted the interview with the candidates. Noticing that the young interlocutor is reading on the lips, the amazed director exclaimed: "Are you deaf !?" - why the confused guy hurried off to retire.

I was engaged in creativity in my city. In the third year of his studies at the dance studio, he was noticed and invited to the People's Theater by his director, Grinev Yu. L. After eight classes, Victor successfully passed the exams at the circus school. However, they did not take it, postponing the adoption until the end of the 10th grade.

After receiving the certificate, yesterday's student goes to the Moscow Art Theater School. He is refused because of unpresentable appearance. Sukhorukov serves 2 years in the army and is arranged to work in a factory.

"He is either a genius or a madman!"

The repeated actor Victor Sukhorukov could not be satisfied with the repeated and painstaking rhythm of the work. His biography changed on the same day, when he was 23 years old, especially not hoping for luck (for he knew about the huge competition), he prepared a favorite fragment of "Vasily Terkin" and went to GITIS.

He was not allowed to be received. Viktor's speech sounded genius. Someone from the admission committee said: "He is either crazy, or a genius!" It was a victory. Sukhorukov completed the course of Professor Vsevolod Porfirievich Ostalsky in 1978, studying very diligently.

In Petersburg

His further acting destiny, Viktor Ivanovich himself ironically divides into three periods: indigent, unemployed and successful. The first began predictably: from the distribution of GITIS to the Petersburg theater of the comedy. N. Akimova. So often write his biographers. In fact, everything was easier. Victor stole his diploma in the personnel department of the institute and went to St. Petersburg. He was invited by director Fomenko, an innovator and a dissident. Why Sukhorukov? The reason is clear: his teachers were singled out among the strongest on the course (together with him in one thread studied Yuri Stoyanov, Tatyana Dogileva).

The young actor played remarkably when he arrived, and he was given roles, including the main ones, in the plays "The Tale of the Ardennes Forest" (Guillaume), "Characters" (Andrei Erin), "Mill of Happiness" (second brother), "Well, okay , It's good "(Kuzma Yegorovich)," Terkin in the next world "(soldier).

Payment for frivolity

Viktor Sukhorukov immersed himself in a bohemian lifestyle. His filmography began also during this period. He starred in the role of bandit Vasya in the detective "Jewelcrafting" directed by Lev Tsutsulkovsky. Finding a creative profession, he almost lost it, falling into a boyish idle euphoria.

He was fired from the theater. Akimov for the regular abuse of alcohol with a murderous formulation "without the right to work in theaters for six months."

However, even after the above-mentioned period, trying to get back into the theater, Victor faced with refusals: "You have a reputation as a drinker!"

So steel was tempered

A person accustomed to life in Moscow, where he was born, studied, when he came to St. Petersburg for employment, was thrown out to the side of life. It was cruel. His parents could not help him. He suddenly found himself behind the line of a prosperous life, without relatives, without a profession.

Victor did not despair, he lived the future, knowing that he would return, remembering his childhood dream all the two years while he worked as a loader on Vasilievsky Island and while he cut bread in a bakery. If he was hungry, he had to collect bottles. It could break, but it held out. The childhood dream of the Scene was saved, as well as the realization that he still has a creative gift.

Again the theater. Search yourself

And he returned. In 1983 he starred in episodic roles film "Magic Black and White", "Measure of restraint."

From 1983 to 1985 he played at the Young Theater, from 1986 to 1993 - at the Lenkom Theater. They did not assign him the main roles here. Among the works of this period are the Dragon of Schwartz (The Cat), The Belugin's Marriage (Prokhor), The Steadfast Tin Soldier (mole), The Children of the Raika by Prever (Theater Director). Viktor Sukhorukov does not like to remember this "empty period" in his theatrical work.

His filmography during this period was replenished with a fateful film, the cornerstone in all his work.

The movie "Sideburns"

Director Yuri Mamin invited him to the main role in the grotesque comedy "Sideburns". He recommended to him "the talented madman, whom no one knows" the all-knowing assistant to the director VN Studennikov.

And the film was a success. Daring, brave, funny, with a philosophical overtones. With the role of Sukhorukov lucky, he could not get it. After all, Dmitry Pevtsov and Sergei Koltakov refused from it the day before .

The film "Sideburns" the actor perceives as a milestone in his development. Previously, he did not even seriously consider cinema as a sphere of his activity.

Shooting from the director Mamin, Viktor Ivanovich felt his demand as an actor, his responsibility for the overall work as a professional. There was no trace left of the former laxity. On the set, he now went out always charged with creativity, internally collected and sober.

Cooperation with Alexey Balabanov

It was then, filming in the aforementioned comedy, laid the foundation for his future creative take-off Victor Sukhorukov. His filmography was subsequently continued. There was a new, professional stage of acquaintance with the young director Alexei Balabanov, fascinated by his play in the "Sideburns" (previously men lived next door to one communal apartment).

Balabanov invited Sukhorukov to star in his first film "Happy Days." What can be said about this talented intellectual film, shot in the style of arthouse? After all, he was represented in the out-of-competition program of the Cannes Film Festival. This film, using absurdist toolkit, reveals the soul of the City on the Neva.

Organically and deeply plays, setting the mood for the whole picture, Viktor Sukhorukov. "Films with his participation are saturated with new semantic nuances!" - they write about the actor in the press.

Sukhorukov was transformed

Actor Victor Sukhorukov evolved further as a person. He is now very reverent to the theatrical art, and reincarnation for him has become the highest meaning of professional realization. Victor overestimated his actions and realized that he was wrong, being carried away by bohemianism, when the theater director Fomenko, who believed his talent, exposed him from the Temple of Art.

Now fate gave him a second chance. Another director, Alexey Balabanov, who liked him, also saw him as a person. Realizing this, Viktor Sukhorukov could not take more directors.

Films "Brother" and "Brother-2"

The character of Vitya Bagrov was originally designed by Balabanov for the acting of Sukhorukov. The director of the art house conceived a box-office insurgent, as they say, not from a good life. He ran out of money to shoot further films. There was hope - to get a prize at the Suzdal Film Festival. However, despite the fact that he won it, the organizers spodilichali, not paying for the work.

"Brother" and "Brother-2": success

The commercial success of a low-budget militant (spent on shooting $ 20,000) was based on an accurate plot, a remarkable game by Sergei Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergei Makovetsky, Alexander Dyachenko, Darya Lesnikova. The actors played 31 days for a nominal fee, realizing that the money will be earned in the future. The director's tape was updated by songs of rock musicians.

Everything has happened, it has merged into a resounding success, into million-dollar box office in the USA, Australia. To the fact that the film "about freaks and about people" became a cult, Victor Sukhorukov attached his talent and actor.

Filmography Sukhorukova (and this is a fact) is famous primarily for the films of director Balabanov. Why is that? The answer is simple: the film, conceived as a purely cash register, reflected the spirit of the time, becoming a cult.

Victor is pleased when in other cities strangers sincerely welcome him with a shout: "How are you, brother?" People from crime also respect him for the honest, profound refinement of the role of Viti Bagrov. But this respect is human, and how else can one treat an actor who is talented and decent, who, speaking the lines of Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky, "from under the skin oozes a soul"?

Filmography and theatrical works of Sukhorukov in the 21st century

Despite his tight kinography, Victor Sukhorukov also does theater work. However, it plays not regularly, but occasionally and for the soul, on the invitations of the capital's theaters. He prefers his favorite classics and favorite characters: "King Lear" (jester), "Man from the restaurant" (waiter Skorokhodov), Tartuffe (Tartuffe), "Elder Son" (Andrey Sarafanov).

In the main, Viktor Sukhorukov expresses himself in filmmaking. The directors offer him roles after the "Brothers" in abundance. "If you do not want to, you have to choose!" - the actor smiles, at the same time placing the multifaceted character in the priority. Let's try to name some of them: "Truckers" (accountant), "Antikiller" (Ambal), "Theatrical novel" (Philip Philipovich Tulumbasov), "The drinking theory" (chauffeur), "Poor, poor Paul" (Emperor Paul I), "Silver and the Black" (Mandelstam), "The Exile" (Kaleuzov), "The First After God" (sailor), "Blind Man" (Voronov), "Island" (Philaret's father), "Chippendale" (merchant Misha) , "Twenty-two minutes" (Admiral), "Orleans" (Executor).

A convinced bachelor

In all these films, the actor is laid out. However, the special love of the audience was deserved by the image of the suffering Emperor Paul I. He carefully recreated the view that it could be played only by Viktor Sukhorukov with such power in his time.

The personal life of this actor is closed to idle people. Since childhood Victor has been able to keep his and other people's secrets, so his friends have always trusted him. Nevertheless, no journalist has succeeded in obtaining from the actor a single intelligible answer on this topic. It is well known that he never married, that he has no children.

Although, on the other hand, the attention of the female is not deprived Viktor Sukhorukov.

His personal life, however, according to the observations of friends, is marked by the love of many ladies. A beautiful sex really adores such a type of men, in which softness and discretion, strength and tenderness come together. However, Viktor Ivanovich still prefers the life of a hardened bachelor.

Instead of concluding

"I put my life on the altar of creativity," he said in one of his interviews.

Journalists who write about him, for many decades, traditionally end their articles with about such a dialogue:

- When does Viktor Sukhorukov marry?

- His family will appear when a woman meets his tuning for his soul!

Maybe they are right.