Cult director of the crime melodrama Viktor Sergeev

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Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Soviet and Russian film director, producer Viktor Anatolyevich Sergeev was a wise man, a competent specialist and an absolute optimist regarding the development of domestic cinema.

Gaining experience

Viktor Sergeev was born in Leningrad on April 3, 1938. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Leningrad University, but, following his dream, he did not work in his speci alty, but continued his education at the directing department of the Leningrad Institute of Culture. Krupskaya.

In the period from 1960 to 1964 he worked as an assistant, and then as an assistant director at the Belarusfilm film studio. In 1966, he tried himself as a screenwriter. From his pen came the script for the documentary "Sweat", which, after the completion of production, was banned from showing. In 1982, he was directly involved in the creation of the television film "The Life of Berlioz", co-authored by Viktor Sergeev was Jacques Trebutat.

The first author's project

For quite a long period of time Sergeev worked with many famous directors: D. Asanova, A. Batalov, I. Maslennikov as a second director. It happened,that Viktor Sergeev created his first independent film on the eve of his 50th birthday. His feature-length television film Treasure was released in 1988. Many stars of Russian cinema took part in the creation of the picture: Lev Durov, Dmitry Kharatyan, Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Sergey Parshin.

In the 90s, director Viktor Sergeev became known as a master of genre cinema. In 1990, the film "The Executioner" was released. According to the director, he created a very tough and cruel project, which he tends to position as a psychological drama. Given the trends of the time, the emergence of criminals at that time in Russia, such a picture took place. A year later, he shoots the film "Genius" with Alexander Abdulov and Innokenty Smoktunovsky. The film, quite unexpectedly for the creators, became a landmark, cult picture.

Among other notable works of the director: "The Strange Men of Ekaterina Semyonova", "Sin. History of Passion. In 1997, he acts as a director in the political action movie "Schizophrenia", where A. Abdulov again plays the main role. In the film, Viktor Sergeev is trying to explore the electoral system that took shape in 1996.

Climbing all steps of the career ladder

1997 was a significant stage in the development of Viktor Anatolyevich's creative career - he was appointed director of the Lenfilm film studio. According to Sergeev himself, he went through all the stages from assistant director to director of a film studio, each of them gave him experience in organizational, administrative and creative work, which was usefulin life. He left the high post voluntarily in 2002 in order to devote himself entirely to directing.

The director made not only full-length films. Victor Sergeev directed two episodes of "Deadly Force", which were awarded the "TEFI" award, eight episodes of "Antibiotic Crash" ("Gangster Petersburg"). With his participation, such tapes as "American" by D. Meskhiev, "Taurus" and "Moloch" by A. Sokurov appeared. For the production of these projects, Viktor Anatolyevich received the Nika-2001 award in the Producer of the Year nomination.

Private life

Viktor Sergeyev was married twice. For the first time, Alevtina Ivanovna, the mother of the famous cultural figure Nikita Mikhailovsky, became his wife. For a long time Nikita considered Victor his own father, he even got his first creative experience thanks to the efforts of his stepfather. Viktor Anatolyevich helped Nikita get into the movies.

After the death of his first wife, Sergeev married a second time. Irina Kaverzina, costume designer for Lenfilm, became his chosen one.

Viktor Sergeev died in 2006 in Moscow from leukemia, leaving a rich creative heritage to grateful descendants.