Andrey Kivinov: biography and creativity

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

Since the time of Zheglov, Znamensky, Tomin and Kibrit, in Russian cinema it was hardly possible to meet criminal investigation officers whom the whole country would know and love, but the heroes of this author were able to, if not bypass their predecessors in popularity, then become with them one well deserved level.

Shipbuilding engineer

Kivinov Andrey Vladimirovich went from detective to police major. Although, as they say, nothing foreshadowed … An ordinary St. Petersburg guy who is passionate about sports, rock music and reading adventures. After graduating from school in his native Leningrad, Andrei Vladimirovich continued his studies, first at the shipbuilding technical school, and then at the shipbuilding institute, working in parallel at the research institute with a degree in shipbuilding technology.

But the work of an engineer did not attract special prospects, and Andrey Kivinov, in search of romance, decided to change his occupation and went to work in the police as a simple operative. According to Andrey Vladimirovich, not only a passion for adventure, but also a higher salary were decisive when choosing. In addition to adventure, he had a passion for literature since childhood. He even triedenroll in the Faculty of Literature of the Pedagogical Institute.

During his work in the police, Kivinov was awarded the medal "For excellent service and law enforcement".

Creativity

Later, when Andrei Kivinov starts working in the police and receives his first rank, he will start writing stories and novels on the topics of police everyday life. Kivinov's works are based on real events, and the characters have their own prototypes. Andrei wrote off the images of the main characters from his colleagues, so the characters look very realistic. And Dukalis, and Volkov, and Major Solovets are real people who worked in an ordinary police department. Moreover, the prototype of Solovets, Oleg Dudintsev, also became Andrei Vladimirovich's co-author when writing "Deadly Force". The hero of Kazantsev was written off from two colleagues of Andrey Kivinov at once, and only Larin is a collective image, maybe that's why he is a little different from other operas.

The first work written by Andrey Kivinov in the early 90s was “A Nightmare on Stachek Street”. Initially, this work was not supposed to become public, but Andrey's friends and colleagues liked the story so much that it was decided to publish it. Since then, more than 170 books have been published by the author, many of them are collected in cycles and series.

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Today, Andrei Kivinov, whose books are a huge success among Russian-speaking readers around the world, is a member of the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg and continues to work at the Agency for Journalistic Investigations, teaches at the police school andis a consultant for Outlaw magazine. The author continues his creative path, replenishing the shelves of second-hand booksellers with his works, sometimes in collaboration with Sergei Mayorov. In addition to traditional printed publications, you can find audio books by Andrey Vladimirovich Kivinov. Based on his stories, they continue to shoot not only serials, but also full-length films. One of the last favorites of the audience was the "High Security Comedy" with the participation of many stars of Russian cinema.

Famous "Streets"

Andrey Kivinov "Streets of Broken Lights" created as a series of stories, but it so happened that this particular series became the most popular. It was on the basis of these stories that director Andrei Ryazantsev made a serial film of the same name. Later, among the directors who worked on the first episodes of the film were Vladimir Bortko and Alexander Rogozhkin.

"A Nightmare on Stachek Street" became the first episode of the cycle. Between 1997 and 2014, 15 seasons of the film were released. The series received more than one TEFI award as the best Russian series. Names, directors, acting characters, the style of filming and the attitude of the viewer to the series have changed.

The most successful, according to the audience, were the first seasons of the film "Cops". In the first series, an emphasis was placed on honesty and incorruptibility. The simplicity of the surroundings and the dullness of everyday life of the 90s immerse the adult audience in nostalgic memories, and the younger generation is given the opportunity to get to know the history of the country at one of its difficult stages of development. We plunged not only into harsheveryday life of a criminal investigation department, the author allowed us to look deeper into each character, to find out how he lives and what he thinks about. They wear shabby jeans and ski hats, sometimes tell vulgar jokes, are tired and irritated, but so close and understandable.

Not a day without a joke

Andrey Kivinov endowed his characters with a good sense of humor, without which it is quite difficult to work in such units. Recalling his work in the department, the writer says that it is impossible to take work seriously. You begin to empathize with the victims, take everything too close to your heart, many can not stand it and leave. Humor in this case is a defensive reaction to stress. The actors were perfectly able to convey the general tone of the works, they each look so natural in their role, and long after the release of the last season with the participation of Casanova, Larin and Dukalis, they were associated precisely with the characters from the series. Many, by the way, it was here that they revealed their acting talent and became known to the general public.

Rebirth

The series "Streets of Broken Lanterns", in fact, became the starting point of the cinema of the 90s. It was after the release of the first episodes of the film that operative heroes began to appear one after another, but none of them can be compared in popularity with either Captain Larin or Tolya Dukalis. Previously, viewers have already watched the life of operatives, but the series "The investigation is conducted by ZnatoKi" has sunk into the distant past, and the niche remainsunoccupied.

New doesn't mean better

The new releases of the film "Streets of Broken Lights" differ significantly from what was at the beginning both in the cast and in the quality of filming, however, the new seasons did not manage to become so popular, the characters do not evoke the same emotions in the audience, and most reviews of the film, unfortunately, negative. Viewers note that the image of the "ment" of the 90s disappeared from the screen, in its place came heroes, devoid of the sincerity and spontaneity that attracted more than one million detective lovers to the screens every evening.

Not only films based on the stories of Andrei Vladimirovich arouse keen interest. His books are selling out at a fast pace. Andrey Kivinov is one of the most widely read authors of the modern detective genre. Despite the popularity of books among readers, he is not a rich man at all. According to him, there is no vein of entrepreneurship in it. The main thing is that readers and viewers are satisfied.