Dmitry Efimovich: biography and personal life of the director

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Dmitry Efimovich is a Russian director of series in the genre of comic TV shows, screenwriter. Born March 26, 1975 in the Kirghiz SSR. He received his first higher education with a degree in mathematics, and then studied to be a film and television director.

Out of KVN

In 1997-1998, the director played for the combined team of Novosibirsk University, a three-time champion of the Major League of KVN. This determined his further creative destiny, allowing him to engage in the implementation of television projects, club and concert activities together with the residents of the Club of Merry and Resourceful. He is better known to regular viewers of the TNT channel as: Dmitry Efimovich - director of Comedy Woman.

To date, there are already several successful projects in the director's portfolio. Having started his career at the age of 30 with partner work on the creation of the Comedy Club show (three seasons in 2005 and two each in 2012-2013), he continued it in the series Our Russia (in the first seasons of 2006). Then he independently acted as a director of the first 35 issues of Comedy Woman (2008) and tried himself asscreenwriter and director of the mini-series “Mitrich. Russian Depression in 2010.

Made in Woman

The TV show Comedy Woman, which premiered in 2008, was originally called Made in Woman. Now it is unofficially referred to as the "Women's Comedy Club". But Dmitry Efimovich, as one of the creators of the project, was not going to follow this path. He immediately determined that the new brainchild should not be similar to the female version of the Comedy Club, but should become a variety show, which will include incendiary humor, songs with dances, and clown eccentricity. Unfortunately, Made in Woman lasted only four issues in the given version, and then, after a break, it became exactly what Efimovich wanted to avoid - Comedy Woman, as if a soft answer to tough male humor. All the participants in this show once started in KVN. The former spouses of Dmitry Efimovich are also former KVN students.

Our Russian

The series in the sketchcom genre was born in 2006 with the assistance of Semyon Slepakov and Garik Martirosyan. It ridicules many negative social phenomena, such as corruption, football fans, "care for the people" of some politicians and others. Despite its topicality, "Our Russian" causes a lot of criticism from critics. The film is accused of inciting ethnic conflicts and corrupting the audience, so the creators had to cut some episodes.

Polina first

In the beginning there was a couple - Dmitry Efimovich and Polina Sibagatullina. The director's first wife is one of the participants in Comedy Woman, where she performs under the pseudonym Madame Polina. She plays the role of a very peculiar "Bosnian poetess - secular alcoholic", born allegedly in Sarajevo and earning a living by poetry. According to legend, the Muse comes to her either in the morning or with port wine. Thanks to this stage role, the artist won fame among a wide audience of viewers. Sibagatullina's career began in the KVN team of St. Petersburg. Polina was one of the brightest members of this talented team. Already in the debut season of 1999, the team managed to reach the final of the Major League, taking third place. In the same year, Sibagatullina became "Miss KVN".

Polina second

Pelageya Khanova, an ethno-folk singer, known on the stage simply under the name Pelageya, took part in two KVN games as part of the Novosibirsk State University team in the 1997 season. Now Pelageya's ex-husband Dmitry Efimovich noticed her as an eleven-year-old girl, and married her after thirteen years. At that time, the young vocal singer was the youngest member of the club. In 2000, she created an art-folk group in Moscow under her own name. For the second time, young people met already in the capital, and their romance began here. In 2010, the couple got married, after which Khanova, taking her husband's surname, became Efimovich. This fact was hidden for a long time even from her colleagues from the group."Pelageya". Officially, the singer acquired her current name after receiving a passport, and before that she was recorded in the documents as Polina Khanova. The artist changed her name to Pelageya to avoid legal errors. In the family, since childhood, she was called by her current name in honor of her great-grandmother.

Marriages and divorces

What caused the director's parting with two popular actresses is a secret, but Dmitry Efimovich's family life did not work out. From fragments of rare interviews with ex-wives, it is clear that the name Polina is not the only thing that unites them both. According to the stories of former colleagues from Comedy Woman, the cause of the collapse of the alliance with Polina Sibagatullina was insurmountable differences between the partners, the main of which was the absence of a child. Subsequently, Polina herself repeatedly called the relationship with Efimovich a mistake. Busy in shows and performances, she doubted that she would be able to devote time to the child. Dmitry Efimovich lived with her for only two years.

In marriage with Pelageya, the same situation repeated itself. The singer also could not give her husband a baby. One of the most sought-after performers on the Russian stage has a tour scheduled months in advance. I had to choose: either a career or a child. And in 2012, two years after the wedding, Pelageya filed for divorce, returning her maiden name. Efimovich is already under 40, so his desire to have children is understandable. But Dmitry's infidelity was also mentioned among the reasons for the divorces.

Prediction

It is not known for sure if Dmitry knowsEfimovich, whose photo was once seen by one of the winners of the show "The Battle of Psychics" Natalya Vorotnikova, about her prediction that he would have two more families. The psychic prophesied a civil marriage with a person much younger than him. It is she who will give birth to the director of Comedy Woman long-awaited child. But this union will not last long. He later marries the woman he will be with for the rest of his life.

What to do and who is to blame?

Currently, Dmitry Efimovich is working on new television projects, which are expected to be released on the screen soon. What will they be? The director himself knows: everything that he has done so far is only a rehash of ready-made foreign content. Almost 98 percent of Russian television's program production is purchased from abroad. The director many times wondered why foreign work is preferred over the promotion of his own projects. Lack of personnel, insufficient funding, leadership crisis? Doesn't Russia have its own talents?

Dmitry Efimovich, whose biography in professional and personal life continues to be written further, according to the western horoscope Aries, according to the eastern horoscope - Cat (Rabbit). When combining horoscopes, a Wild Cat is obtained. It seems that the director of the series likes to "walk on his own." Efimovich's personality is contradictory, it is reflected in the conflict of his character: he left the consistently successful TV shows, broke up with his beloved women … And this means that eternal questions will arise before him again and again.