Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko - director, actor, screenwriter: biography, personal life, filmography

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Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko believes, and moreover, he proved it with his work, that a person does not come into the world just like that, he is called upon to educate and improve himself. It is necessary to train teachers in this direction, and then, the director believes, it will be easier for a person to find his place in life.

As a child, when he wanted to grow his own bread, his mother marked out a small plot in the garden, which the boy sowed with wheat. When the wheat ripened, Volodya managed to grind it, and his mother baked a cake for him. It turned out small and uneven, but unusually tasty. Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko remembered for a long time the work of the tiller.

The director never ceases to worry about the question of what will happen to the entire civilization if the power goes out? How will people go up to the fiftieth floor of the office, what will happen to the sewer, where will they cook food? It turns out that any metropolis will turn into hell. But not so long ago people lived without light. Vladimir Khotinenko does not call for living under the torches, but the work of the tiller and artisan,making a chair with his own hands should be valued no less than the work of an office worker.

Vladimir Khotinenko. Biography, origins

The future famous director was born in the small Altai town of Slavgorod in 1952. The boy did not even think about the director's profession, he studied diligently at the local school, and his parents worked at the factory. Volodya dreamed of becoming a pilot or an archaeologist and living in Moscow.

Then his parents moved to Kazakhstan, and he received his secondary education in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. The young man was engaged in athletics and even became the champion of Kazakhstan among schoolchildren in high jump. After graduating from school, Volodya Khotinenko began working as an artist-designer at the Pavlodar Tractor Plant.

As can be seen from the biography, director Khotinenko did not intend to connect his life with cinema, but fate led him in a different way. The purposeful young man achieved his goal and graduated with honors from the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute, after which he was drafted into the army.

Meeting with Mikhalkov

After six months of service, Private Khotinenko was given his first visit. He came to Sverdlovsk to rest, and at the same time, Nikita Mikhalkov arrived in the same city with his famous film "An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano". The creative director loved creative youth and decided to organize a meeting with them, where Vladimir ended up.

Then Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko said that he was now horrified that he did not want to go to this meeting, because he might not have talked to the venerabledirector. And they talked for three whole hours, after which Mikhalkov advised Khotinenko to come to Moscow after the service and not to forget to take with him everything that he had drawn or written.

Study and work in Moscow

After returning from the army, Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko starts a new life and goes to work at the Sverdlovsk film studio. He is accepted as a production designer. The Sverdlovsk film studio was quite famous at that time. Making progress in his service, Khotinenko is working on the paintings "Pursuit", "Smoke of the Fatherland", "Conqueror", "That's the kind of music", "Cossack outpost". "The voice of the dragon in the bottomless sea."

Having the experience of a production designer, Vladimir Khotinenko goes to Moscow (and that was 1981) and enters the Higher Directing Courses in the workshop of Nikita Mikhalkov. While studying, Vladimir simultaneously works as an assistant assistant in such films of the teacher as “Kin”, “Five Evenings”, “A Few Days in the Life of Oblomov”, and then decides to make his own films.

About Nikita Mikhalkov, director Khotinenko said that he would remain his student until the end of his days, and, despite the fact that each of them makes a different movie, they are doing the same thing.

First steps in cinema

His first independent work was the painting "Alone and without weapons", and she immediately received the prize "For Debut" at the festival in Tbilisi. It was an adventure film about how the Soviet police operated in the twenties of the last century.

Success inspired the director, and his subsequent paintings became theira kind of symbol of Soviet cinema. These included such films as "Mirror for the Hero", "Roy", "Patriotic Comedy", and in 1993 Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko released one of his best works, the film "Makarov". Sergey Makovetsky starred in the title role of the poet Alexander Sergeevich Makarov. This is a psychological drama of a man who, under the influence of a weapon (Makarov's pistol), changes his life, becomes, as it were, an appendage to the weapon.

"Mirror for a Hero" is a film adaptation of a fantastic parable by Svyatoslav Rybas. The author and director showed how people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances by the will of fate and how these circumstances affect their lives. Two friends, Sergei and Andrei, are accidentally transported forty years ago, May 8, 1949. For each of them fate presents a surprise. Andrei can prevent the death of people, and Sergei can understand his parents, find a common language with his father.

Khotinenko Vladimir Ivanovich: filmography

The picture "Muslim" with Yevgeny Mironov in the title role should be attributed to the category of the best films. The film also starred Nina Usatova, Alexander Baluev, Alexander Peskov and other actors. It is also a psychological drama about a man who spent seven years in captivity with the Mujahideen, becoming the son of a local peasant who changed a lot in his own life. Having converted to Islam, Kolya (Abdulla) Ivanov returns to his native village. He does not drink or smoke, he leads a "clean" lifestyle, but those around him, including his mother, do not understand him.

Deeply drinking and debauchery, they urge Kolya to renounce Islam,even a stranger who swore to kill him, as it seems to him, for betraying a friend, under the influence of the Gospel, refuses this idea. It seemed that everything should end well for the young man, but human misunderstanding and pride stand in the way of the truth.

A series about the Russian Empire

Every year the director improves his profession, and now, in 2005, he shoots a series that cannot be bypassed. This is the "Death of the Empire", where for ten episodes it is shown how the counterintelligence of the Russian Empire worked. Starring Alexander Baluev, Sergei Makovetsky, Chulpan Khamatova.

The action of the picture takes place on the eve of the First World War, Russian detectives are chasing German spies, the February and October revolutions are gradually taking place before the eyes of the audience, the plot is famously twisted in the film, but most importantly, the film has a spirit of loy alty to the family and the Fatherland. The director in the film really showed the tragedy of the Russian people without heroism and revolutionary romance.

Private life

The director was married twice, first to the Uzbek actress Dilorom Kambarova, who gave birth to his daughter Polina. After the divorce, they left for the USA, where Polina trained as a costume designer and now works at a Los Angeles film studio.

Second wife, Tatyana Yakovleva, teaches foreign cinema at the Institute of Cinematography. In a joint marriage, their son Ilya was born. Also, Vladimir Khotinenko, whose personal life is being considered, raised Tatyana's son from his first marriage, Denis. Both boys connected their lives with cinema, Denis becameoperator, and Ilya followed in the footsteps of his father and learned to be a director.

Conclusion

Here is a list of films shot by Vladimir Khotinenko:

• "Dostoevsky".
• "Pop".
• "72 meters".
• "Muslim".
• "A mirror for a hero".
• "Heirs".
• "Demons".
• "Death of the Empire".
• "The arrival of the train."
• Passion Boulevard.

Among other things, Vladimir Khotinenko starred as an actor in the films "The Cure Against Fear", "Kin", "Cossack Outpost", "Airplane Flies to Russia" and others, and as a screenwriter he participated in such films, like "Roy", "Patriotic Comedy", "Demons".

On January 20, Vladimir Khotinenko celebrated his 65th birthday, at the present difficult time he continues to call life mysticism and believe in a miracle.