Smirnov Andrey Actor Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Due to bureaucratic obstacles, Smirnov was forced to engage in acting and played a lot of bright characteristic roles that were remembered and fell in love with domestic viewers. In the footsteps of his father, his eldest daughter Avdotya and youngest son Alexei, who also tied their lives with directing. Andrei Sergeyevich is proud of the successes of children and himself willingly participate in their projects.

In the photo: Andrei Smirnov, Childhood and Youth Years Andrei Smirnov, a native Muscovite, was born in a creative intelligent family three months before the start of the Great Patriotic War. At that time, his father, Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov, studied at the Literary Institute. He volunteered to go to the front and ended the war in the Austrian grace.

During the war, he commanded the anti -aircraft battery and worked as a military correspondent. Mother, Virginia Genrikhovna Smirnova, half a Jewish, half an Armenian, with a three -month son in her arms left Moscow to her sister in Voronezh, where she got a job at the local theater. Later, the troupe was evacuated to Bashkiria, and then to the Chelyabinsk region.

There Andrei and mother stayed up to a year until he returned to Moscow again. Andrei Smirnov in childhood with his parents in the year of Andrei's father proposed the position of deputy editor -in -chief of the New World magazine, which at that time was Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky. The Smirnov family was allocated a separate two -room apartment on Kyiv, which at that time was unheard of luxury.

Later, her parents changed her to another, in Maryina Grove, a stone's throw from which the French special school was located. Sergei Sergeevich perfectly mastered five languages ​​and strongly recommended his son to follow his example. Andrei learned French grammar over the summer and became a student of this prestigious institution. The school exists to this day and bears the honorary name of Romain Rollan.

Andrey Smirnov. My hero took the first steps in acting and directing Smirnov in an amateur French theater, which was organized at the teacher's house. Interest in the theater arose in Andrei in early childhood, because the boy practically grew behind the scenes. Therefore, after graduating from school, he practically had no doubt about the choice of a future profession.

True, his father advised him not to enter the theater school, but to the director's Faculty of VGIK. Andrei followed his advice and became a student of the creative workshop of Mikhail Ilyich Romm, who adored the work of Maupassant and was conquered by the ideal French pronunciation of the applicant Smirnov. Smirnov played the episodic roles in the paintings “Nine Days of one year”, “Call, open the door”, “The White Sun of the Desert”, and in the last courses he worked on the creation of the short -term “Yurka -Single -Seamless Team”, in which Vasily Shukshin played the main role.

The thesis of Andrei and his classmate Boris Yashin was called “Hey, someone” and so liked the examination commission that the children were immediately recommended for Mosfilm. Andrei Smirnov in the film “Call, open the door” their first full -length picture was the military drama of the Pods of the Earth with Alexander Zbruev and Evgeny Urbansky in the main roles.

She was followed by the Angel Kinovnovella, taken based on the story of the same name by Yuri Olesha.

Unfortunately, the picture fell on the shelf and was only recently restored, digitized and represented by a wide viewer. Andrei Smirnov: About friends and colleagues, family and country, after this failure, a three -year -old simple one followed, and only in the year did the Military Drama of Smirnov “The Belarusian Station”, recognized as one of the best Soviet films about the Great Patriotic War.

The shooting of the film "Belorussky Station" was initially approved for this role inna Makarova, but Smirnov fought for Urgant to the last. He immediately drew attention to the unusual light that the actress’s eyes radiated, and how Nina Nikolaevna performed Bulat Okudzhava’s song “Birds did not sing here, the film“ The Belarusian Station ”was awarded the main award of the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary and became one of Leonid Brezhnev’s most beloved military films.

The frame from the film "Belorussky Station" would seem that after such a stunning success, the young director will no longer have problems with critics and censorship. But it wasn’t there-his next picture “Autumn” was subjected to severe condemnation of officials from culture, who were outraged by the presence of a bed stage and verses of the disgraced poet Boris Pasternak.

Andrei Smirnov, in his youth, was waiting for the same fate “Vera and Truth” with Alexander Kalyagin, Sergey Shakurov and Elena Proklova in the main roles. The picture was so ruthlessly cut that there was no trace of the director. The director’s films were mercilessly cut after that Smirnov decided to leave the directing, and in order to earn a piece of bread, he began to act in films.His filmography began to be rapidly replenished with bright characteristic roles, among which Ivan Bunin appeared “Diary of his wife”, Ivan Alekseevich Ilyin “The Diary of the killer”, Totsky “Idiot”, Bobynin “In a Circle of the First”, Arkady Andreevich Istomin “Apostol”.

Smirnov played a major role in Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film Drada “Elena”, which was presented at the Cannes festival in the year and was awarded the Nick and Golden Eagle awards. In the same year, Andrei Sergeyevich decided to return to directing and began to work on the film “Once upon a time, there was one woman”, in which he touched on the theme of the civil war and attempts to uprising peasants against the Bolsheviks in Tambov.

The picture was awarded a special prize of the “Window to Europe” festival and other prestigious awards. The director finally had the opportunity to freely realize his creative plans, even if it was not so easy to collect money, which was not so simple. Smirnov did not hide that he turned for financial assistance to Roman Abramovich, Viktor Vekselberg, Alfred Koch, his son -in -law Anatoly Chubais and other influential entrepreneurs and officials.

After the “woman” Andrei Sergeyevich began work on his next painting “Frenchman”, whose script was ready in the year. He again occupied a substantial amount from the sponsors and put it in the bank, which suddenly “burst”. The filming of the film had to be suspended, but the director still managed to bring the matter to the end. In the year, the long -awaited premiere of the tape took place, which describes the Soviet reality of the end of the twentieth century, which opened before the eyes of a young Parisian who came to Moscow for an internship.

Andrei Smirnov at the premiere of his film "Frenchman" parallel Smirnov continued to play the cinema, including in the films of his children who continued the family dynasty. These are the full -length spectacular paintings “Fathers and Children” and “Two days”, shot by his daughter Avdotya and the series “Garden Ring”, directed by his younger son Alexei.

Most often, Andrei Sergeyevich gets images of thieves in law, unscrupulous officials and other not the most law -abiding citizens. And in this a peculiar irony of fate is visible, because all his life the director fought for equality and justice and defended the right to honestly and freely express his point of view. The personal life of Andrei Smirnova Andrey was married twice, and both times on actresses.

His first wife was Natalya Rudnaya, who gave birth to his daughters Avdoty G. The film “Autumn”, in which Natalya played the main character and lit up in scandalous bedding scenes, became for her both a star hour and “black tags” at the same time. After his ban, the actress stopped inviting other paintings, and a long simple came in her creative career. This could not but affect her with the director.

In the photo: Natalya Rudnaya in the year Smirnov married a second time - his chosen one was the beautiful Elena Prudnikova, a leading actor in the cult Soviet film “Two Captains”. At the time of the meeting, they were both not free, but literally at first glance they realized that they were created for each other and were not afraid to radically change their lives. Andrei Smirnov and Elena Prudnikova spouses have been together for more than forty years, in his second marriage, Smirnov had a daughter Aglaya and son Alexei G.

All four children were realized in creative professions, and Avdotya and Alexei directly followed his father's footsteps. Dunya writes scripts and makes films, her most noticeable works: “Eight and a half dollars”, “Communication”, “Two days”, “Kokoko”. He easily got used to the proposed image, because earlier the director was already well mastered in this role thanks to the roles in the series “Black Cats” and the criminal drama “Like Vitka garlic driving a slope to the house of the disabled”.

Andrei Smirnov, on the set of the series "Dinosaur" in March, director Tigran Keosayan, who at one time shot the films "Crimean bridge" and "Sea. Keramzit, ”decided to remove the remake of the“ Belorussky station ”. True, he decided to “modernize” the plot and turn the WWII veterans into Afghanistan veterans. Smirnov did not appreciate the idea: I was indignant - how can the Afghan war be interfered with the Patriotic War?

These are different things. And this intention seems outrageous to me. But he said that he would do it anyway. Without my blessing, as he put it - and hung up. That's all. In the wake of public disapproval, Keosayan said that he was never going to shoot a new “Belarusian station” and refused any further comments. In Andrei Smirnov, he received two “nicknames” in April of the same year Smirnov received two “nicknames”: for the film “Frenchman” the best feature film and as the best director of the year, due to the pandemic of coronavirus, the ceremony was not held in the year.

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