Fyodor Bondarchuk, filmography. The best films of Fyodor Bondarchuk

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Sergei Bondarchuk is the name and surname of the great Soviet director and actor. For the older generation, the titles of the films "War and Peace", "The Fate of a Man", "Waterloo", "They Fought for the Motherland" and many others speak of the incredible height of creative flight achieved by Soviet cinema in its best years.

The honor of the family is trying very hard not to drop the son of the great artist, Bondarchuk Fyodor. The filmography of this rather young artist and director impresses both with the number of works and their quality, confirmed by the high level of audience popularity, numerous prizes and international recognition.

Study and army

Fyodor Bondarchuk was born in 1967. The creative atmosphere of the family initially assumed the desire for art, but for its realization, knowledge of real life is necessary. After graduating from school in 1985 and enrolling in the directing department of VGIK, the young man goes to serve in the army along with his other peers. He performs military duty in the city of Krasnoyarsk, and then in the famous Tamandivisions, in the cavalry regiment. After “two winters and two springs”, the son of the famous director again starts his studies, which he successfully completes in the workshop of Yuri Ozerov.

First film works

The first "Stalingrad" by Fyodor Bondarchuk took place exactly then (the film was shot by Ozerov), but this was not the first role, the debut was earlier, in "Boris Godunov", where he played the role of Tsarevich Fyodor. The fatherly strictness that he encountered on the set was a good school for the future director. The role, although small, was complex and difficult, and the exactingness of Sergei Bondarchuk became for him a model of creative behavior. There are no small things in cinema.

VGIK was successfully completed in 1991. During his studies, there were other works in which Fyodor Bondarchuk took part as an actor. The filmography of those years is the term paper "Sunny Beach" by fellow student T. Keosayan and very good films "Arbiter" and "Demons" (based on the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky).

Pioneer of domestic music video art

In the early nineties, the art of creating video clips was in its infancy and provided a wide field for the realization of creative aspirations. The rock and roll composition of the group "Moral Code" was the first work of Bondarchuk Jr. in this field. The song was called "Goodbye Mom", it was composed by Sergey Mazaev, and the video sequence successfully emphasized its rhythm and high energy fullness. Since 1990, the position of the leading Soviet, andthen the Russian clip maker was firmly occupied by Bondarchuk Fedor. The filmography of these short film stories with musical accompaniment covers the songs of the most famous domestic performers, including Alla Pugacheva, Vladimir Presnyakov, Boris Grebenshchikov, Kristina Orbakaite, Valery Meladze, Philip Kirkorov and many others. The popularity of music was greatly facilitated by the successful direction of the video material, and the Ovation Award received in 1993 became a well-deserved reward for work and talent.

Early work

Without knowing the peculiarities of acting, it is impossible to become a successful director. Bondarchuk Fedor adopted this rule from his father. The filmography of the works of the nineties includes the paintings "Angels of Death", "I Love" (benefit performance by Lyudmila Gurchenko), "Midlife Crisis" by Sukachev, "Eight and a half dollars" directed by G. Konstantinopolsky and "Showcase". However, the shooting was intermittent, sometimes long, and most of the time was occupied by commercials and music videos, for which there were many orders.

The result of a bold experiment with a modern interpretation of F. M. Dostoevsky was the picture "Down House", in which Fyodor Bondarchuk played the main character, Prince Myshkin. It is possible that the artistic merits of this work seemed disputable to some of the audience and critics, but creativity is impossible without a certain audacity.

Afghan story about the ninth company

The realities of the Afghan war will worry the citizens of our country for a long timecountries. Her little-known pages arouse constant interest, especially when they are opened by talented artists. The fate of a small military unit that found itself in a very difficult situation, withstood an unequal battle, carried out an order and won a moral victory, became the topic of the work, which Bondarchuk Fedor undertook in 2004. The filmography of previous years did not touch upon such sensitive topics.

The fact that the picture was a success is objectively evidenced by the extraordinary success of the audience, the interest of the world cinema community and the recognition of people who have had to go through this episode of our history and take a direct part in it.

Different topics, different films

The films of Fyodor Bondarchuk, in which he worked as an actor, are distinguished by diverse themes. These are ordinary everyday stories, such as the melodrama with elements of the comedy "Three Half Graces" (2006), filmed against the backdrop of a southern city, and the romantic film "About LjuboFF" (2010), which raises important moral and ethical issues, and "Two Days”, a movie that tells about the relationship of power with cultural workers in a universal aspect. A detective story about a state councilor also involved a talented actor, as did the wonderful TV series The Fall of an Empire, which tells about the last tragic years of old Russia and the hard work of the slandered workers of the tsarist law enforcement service.

Boris Strugatsky felt that Bondarchuk could be entrusted with the film adaptation of one of the fantasticshort story called "The Inhabited Island". The work on the film was long and hard, it was released in 2009 and immediately became a topic of discussion.

Own Stalingrad

Military history is the eternal theme of Russian cinema. Fyodor Bondarchuk was motivated to film his own Stalingrad by the social need for works of art that promoted patriotism. And although the film is criticized for an overabundance of effects created with the help of computer technology and the implausibility of some episodes, the director tried to make it interesting primarily for young people. The work turned out bright, the battle scenes are terrifying with realism, and at the same time, the heroism of the people and the army, shown in this terrible battle, remains the main theme.

New movies

Soon the viewer will be able to evaluate other films of Fyodor Bondarchuk in 2013. First of all, this is a screen adaptation of Pushkin's immortal "Eugene Onegin". "Our Everything" did not leave a talented director indifferent and indifferent, and it remains to be seen what is more patriotic - in large-scale battle films or Russian classics that glorified our culture. All the details of this project are still unknown to the general public, with the exception that the main role is entrusted to Pyotr Fedorov, who starred in "Inhabited Island". It is hoped that this film will not be overloaded with special effects, they are most likely inappropriate in this material, except perhaps for the recreation of historical landscapes.

The second film is called Odnoklassniki.ru. It's funcomedy, its target audience is young people, but older users of the social network may also be interested in it. Actors were recruited in the same place, on Odnoklassniki. The storyline will be known soon, and there is reason to believe that this film will become another creative success of Fyodor Bondarchuk, who, apparently, is not going to rest on his laurels. He has many more films ahead of him.