Alexander Kaidanovsky: personal life, filmography

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Alexander Kaidanovsky is an atypical representative of Soviet cinema. His life was full of sharp turns, but at the same time it resembled a rapid flight, which was interrupted so unexpectedly that it seemed that there was some mysticism in the death of this extraordinary personality.

Childhood

Kaidanovsky Alexander Leonidovich was born in Rostov-on-Don, in an ordinary non-acting family. Although there was still some relation to culture and art in this house: the mother worked as a director in the club. The theatrical abilities of the boy were not found. The desire to become an actor was subsequently perceived by school friends with great surprise.

Alexander had a desire for change since childhood. After his parents divorced, he lived with his mother. Then with my grandmother. After he moved to his father. But he didn't get along with his stepmother either. After wandering around with relatives, he lived for a year in a boarding school, and then left his native Rostov and went to seek happiness in Dnepropetrovsk.

He kept love of freedom and independence for the rest of his life. The restless nature did not let him stop. Alexanderwas constantly on the lookout. Deciding to get a working profession, he went to enter the Dnepropetrovsk school. But after studying for only a year, he returned to his hometown again and entered the Rostov Theater School.

Years of study

Alexander Kaidanovsky did not have a calm disposition, which often led to scandals with colleagues, relatives and even random people. The first serious conflict occurred in my student years. A quarrel with the teacher led to the fact that Alexander had to change the teacher. Already in those years, the future actor was known among acquaintances and friends as an extraordinary and somewhat selfish personality. Selfishness, however, is inherent in almost all actors. Alexander's eccentricity subsequently transformed into a bright rare talent.

After receiving his diploma, Alexander moved to Moscow and entered the Moscow Art Theater School. But he did not stay here for a long time, leaving the walls of a prestigious educational institution on his own initiative. Education continued at the school. Shchukin, where he also studied without much enthusiasm, characteristic of any provincial youth. In Rostov, a girl, his future wife, was waiting for him.

Private life

First wife - Irina Bychkova. The marriage lasted only four years. After the divorce, Alexander Kaidanovsky began a long painful romance with the ex alted actress Valentina Malyavina. As expected, nothing serious came of this relationship.

The second wife was Evgenia Simonova. Third -Natalie Sudakova. The fourth marriage became especially fleeting. Kaidanovsky lived with Inna Pivars for only three weeks, although he prepared quite carefully for the wedding and even put on a tailcoat on this occasion. The wedding photos were blown out.

Such incidents happened more than once, which, for example, happened after death, at the funeral, when not a single picture could be taken. This, perhaps, gave rise to rumors about the mysteriousness of Kaidanovsky.

First roles

For the first time on the screen, Kaidanovsky appeared in a cameo role. In the film "The Mysterious Wall" Alexander Kaidanovsky played a researcher. A few months later he got a role in the film based on the novel of the same name by M. Dostoevsky "The Gambler". The following year, viewers saw him in the film adaptation of Anna Karenina.

The first for Alexander Kaidanovsky was the theater. Vakhtangov. But difficult relations in the troupe did not allow him to work in this theater for a long time. Kaidanovsky was fired from the theatre, after which his family found themselves in an almost distressed situation.

In subsequent years, Alexander Kaidanovsky simultaneously played in three Moscow theaters. Then he completely switched to cinema.

Glory

Alexander Kaidanovsky played many roles. The filmography of this actor covers 63 paintings. But he became famous after the role of Lieutenant Lemke.

The role in the film by Nikita Mikhalkov also influenced his life. Fame and alcohol have caused many scandalous situations, one of which almost led to the dock. It should be said, however, that with a quick-tempered character and inability toto compromise, Alexander Kaidanovsky was a man of fine spiritual organization. Somewhere a dreamer and dreamer, he looked at life through the prism of the ideas of Russian classics. Even in his poorly furnished apartment, he saw not poverty, but the original style of Dostoevsky.

The pinnacle of creativity was the role in the film "Stalker" by A. Tarkovsky.

In the nineties, Alexander Kaidanovsky starred a little. The reason was not the directors' lack of interest in him, but rather the unwillingness of the actor himself to act in a bad movie.

Kaidanovsky Alexander Leonidovich played his last role in the Spanish film "Angel's Breath", receiving a huge fee. He died, however, in a communal apartment. The interior of his last refuge inspired a slight horror: angels on the walls and a black ceiling. One of the colleagues joked: “Here you will die.”

So it happened. Actor Alexander Kaidanovsky passed away at the age of forty-nine. The cause of death was a massive heart attack. This heart attack was not the first, but among friends and colleagues there were those who saw a mystical connotation in the untimely death.