Fyodor Bondarchuk | |
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Фёдор Бондарчук | |
Born | Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk 9 May 1967 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Occupation(s) | Film director, actor, producer, clipmaker, TV host, creator. |
Years active | 1986–present |
Notable work | The 9th Company, Down House, Dark Planet, Stalingrad, Attraction |
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (Russian: Фёдор Сергеевич Бондарчук [ˈfʲɵdər sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪdʑ bəndɐrˈtɕuk]; born 9 May 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, TV and film producer, clipmaker, TV host, founder of production company Art Pictures Studio.[1][2][3]
Specializes in action, war, and science fiction films. Some of his most notable films include The 9th Company (2005), Dark Planet (2008–2009), Stalingrad (2013) and Attraction (2017).
As an actor, Bondarchuk is best known for starring in 8 ½ $ (1999), Down House (2001), Two Days (2011), The PyraMMMid (2011) and Ghost (2015).
Is a winner of TEFI award in 2003 in nomination “The best host of the entertainment TV-show”.[2] He is a two-time winner of the Golden Eagle Award: as a Best Actor in a movie Two Days by Avdotya Smirnova (2011) and as a Best Actor in the comedy Ghost produced by Alexander Voitinsky (2015).[4][5]
On 15 October 2012 he was appointed as Chairman of Lenfilm's Board of directors.[6][7]
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We are here now in the house of my mother, Inna Vladimirovna Makarova,... and my father, Sergei Bondarchuk,... where l first met Andrei Arsenievich Tarkovsky many years ago. To be precise, it took place nearby, across the street,... in the house of Irina Zhigalko. lrina Aleksandrovna Zhigalko was a teacher of Romm. l was 13 at the time and l had already read Stanislaw Lem's Solaris. Andrei Arsenievich hadn't yet read the novel at that time. He was a student of Mikhail Romm,... and Romm's students gathered there. Somebody was trying to make a fire in the fireplace, and it was smoking. Somebody was starting a samovar. Somebody was rocking in a rocking chair, just as l am now. The person near the fireplace was Andron Konchalovsky. The one with the samovar was Vassily Makarovich Shukshin. And the one in the rocking chair, with a thin... moustache, was Andrei Tarkovsky. l gave him the book Solaris,... which belonged to Irina Alexandrovna Zhigalko. That's how we met, and later Andrei and l often recalled that time. Now many years have passed. l was 18 when l got my role in the film. Now l am a little older. And Andrei Tarkovsky is no Ionger alive. l am now making a film about Pushkin my most serious film,... and l'm wondering, what is genius? And in general, do people need geniuses? They are not very agreeable people. There are always certain problems with them. l don't know if Tarkovsky was a genius,... but he was extremely talented. When l was studying at VGl K,... l remember hearing a rumor one day,... ''The genius is coming!'' And there, walking down the corridor, was ''the genius.'' He was short, with a little moustache,... in this little hat with a pom-pom... and a scarf, which was a present from Marina Vladi. A genius... As yet unrecognized... was walking by. Nobody had seen his films yet, but everybody knew he was a genius. Everybody was whispering that he had come to cast the actors. l asked for what film and they said Solaris. , l loved the novel so much and l loved Lem. l really wanted to be in the film. At that time l had already played... young Phoebe in Catcher in the Rye,... , Gertrude in Hamlet 42 years old,... and Gogol's Korobochka, who was 82 years old. Perhaps Tarkovsky chose me because of this range. l immediately found myself in the company of Donatas Banionis,... who believed in me right away. He helped me a lot and very much wanted me to get the role. l remember acting, crying... Andrei Arsenievich came up to me after... the audition, shook my hand, and said,... ''Excellent, Natalya, you're acting very well,... just like Gerasimov taught you.'' l asked, ''And so?'' ''l'm not choosing you.'' l said, ''May l ask why?'' He said, ''Look at yourself. How old are you?'' ''Almost 18.'' ''Aha. Ask Donatas how old he is.'' Donatas was much older than me and he... was a poor match as my ''husband.'' Donatas was offended, but he kept it to himself. To avoid wasting my talents,... Tarkovsky recommended me to his fellow director Larisa Shepitko,... and she gave me a role in her film You and l without an audition,... based only on my audition with Andrei. The film was shot in Norilsk, and it was very interesting. The script was by Gennady Shpalikov. Half a year passed. l came back from the shoot... and found out that Tarkovsky had already auditioned many actresses,... including even some foreigners. He auditioned them all and still had not chosen the one. Then... l was sly... l asked Larisa Shepitko... to show her footage to Andrei. They were good friends. So she shows him her footage and he says,... ''Hmm, who is this actress of yours?'' She says, ''She's the gift you gave me... Natalya.'' ''What gift? What's her name?'' ''Natalya Bondarchuk.'' ''That's Bondarchuk? Give me back my gift!'' And that's how l was approved for his film based on her audition. We started shooting. Andrei first of all creates the atmosphere. He is a unique director. l think he was the only Soviet director besides my father... who was well known in the West. His films are addressed to a universal audience. ln our Soviet land at that time these films didn't make any sens! e. They were all about eternity,... and in our land eternity was not recognized. We were all grave diggers,... and his art was about eternity. lt was high poetry, which always rises to God. He was a religious person. Perhaps his faith was more of a cosmic nature,... and he was involved with different things,... but he was spiritual... that was very apparent. Perhaps the harder the life of a great artist is... and Andrei's life was very hard... the more interesting his art is. He had to transcend himself... and prevail over the society that did not acknowledge him. Andrei was a very nervous person. Terribly nervous. Beyond normal. Almost like a disease. l don't mean he was mad,... , but he was, like all of us obsessed with art. He was always nervous and biting his nails. He lived the life of his characters he lived their atmosphere. Everyything was important to him. The amateurs in cinema may say,... ''Well, the acting and the sets aren't great. Let's cover it over with music and it'll all be fine.'' For him everything was important,... from the sets by Misha Romadin,... to every nuance of the cinematography... by the genius Vadim Yusov... a real genius, in my opinion. Let me tell you a story about Yusov. l love Vadim very much. He is a very subtle artist. There was a scene where they were filming me. lt's the scene where Hari, the character l play, meets ''herself.'' A well known scene. We shot it in Zvenigorod, not far from Moscow. They showed me all the filmed material. l look at the screen and think,... ''How interesting these tree roots are! What a beautiful view! l've never been to that place.'' And then l see that it's actually me standing there. l suddenly realized that Andrei had directed it... and Yusov had filmed it so personally... that l didn't even understand at first... that l was a part of this scene. lt was a different place,... because it was shown through the eyes of another artist. l hadn't seen it that way. l hadn't seen those roots, that tree bark, my own face,... and suddenly it turned out l was standing there. lt was phenomenal, because each artist is very individual. He used to say, ''lf l can't make a long,... boring film, l'll shoot myself.'' He was joking, of course,... but that was the kind of thing he showed... grass swaying in the wind, etc. When we are looking at a landscape, l mean, just looking,... we look and look,... and then we start waiting for something to happen. Our attention becomes focused. lt's like meditation. He was a master of this kind of thing. lf my father could film large action scenes... like nobody else in the world,... nobody could show ''atmosphere'' like Andrei. lt's as if reality moves into a different dimension,... the dimension of art. lf we just look at a landscape, that's a documentary. But if we start seeing and hearing something else,... what the artist makes possible for us to see,... that is art, and it bewitches us. But it affects only those who have it inside themselves,... who have already accumulated so much... in their soul that they can take it in. That's why this sort of art is certainly not for everybody. How did we work together? l trusted him completely. Completely. For example, he might say, ''My heart hurts,...'' and l knew that meant l didn't act well. Most of all he disliked high pathos in art. What does that mean? For example, l'd start acting too dramatically,... and he'd exclaim, ''What are you doing? You're a woman! They won't listen to you. Why would they? You sound like a screeching door!'' That's the way he directed. Only later did l understand how right he was. Because if l rose to high pathos,... as if Hari were some kind of Soviet-era patriot,... it would be the wrong image. Hari couldn't be like that. She was nobody, just a matrix, a mold. She understands that she is not human,... that she is just some kind of likeness. lt's an incredible conflict. Later Andrei and l talked about it... we were close friends and kept in touch... and l asked him, ''Andrei, you know who l was playing? l was playing the Little Mermaid. She also had no right to love a human being. She was a mermaid, with a tail like a fish. She lived for three hundred years, but she didn't have a human soul. But she loved a man so deeply that she herself became human.'' So it was with Hari. She had no right to love, but she did. She starts understanding another person, and she herself becomes,... a person right in front of our eyes. This transformation is unique. lt's my favorite film,... even though l played in The Red and the Black,... based on the brilliant novel by Stendhal,... a film made by my teacher, Gerasimov,... and l played Maria Volkonskaya in Motyl's film... The Star of Enchanted Happiness. l played more than 42 roles,... but Solaris was the pinnacle for me. It's my favorite film. , When l became a film director l understood... There was a time l saw all his films at once, one after another. lt was at a film festival in Surgut. Yankovsky came, Margarita Terekhova, all the best actors. And we watched all Tarkovsky's films end to end. When it was over, we couldn't Ieave each other. We were all thinking about this miracle, this phenomenon,... because it felt as if we had watched just one film. One film. Because the most interesting thing in all of them is Tarkovsky himself. He's in everything. He was in my character, and in Donatas' too. But it doesn't limit the film in any way. It's almost strange. Because when it's all about the director,... it could be limiting,... but it wasn't. Perhaps because he so loved atmosphere,... sounds, unusual characters,... a movement of the eyelashes. He created atmosphere like nobody else. Once he had this strange idea... to take four different cinematographers, the best... Antonioni, Bresson, l don't know the best, the real genius directors!... and let them film one and the same story,... using the same actors. He thought it would be phenomenally interesting,... because they would make absolutely different films. His own films are extremely individual. Solaris received the Grand Prix du Jury... at the Cannes film festival. which is the second-highest official prize at Cannes,... an important prize. Something else that was suppressed during the Soviet era:. We also received the Catholic Church Prize... for the divine nature of the film. lt was kept a strict secret in the USSR,... because how could a Soviet director receive such a prize? l believe that the money he received from the Vatican... helped him to survive. Andrei's life at that time was terribly hard. Solaris had not yet been released,... and neither had Andrei Rublev. That was the situation. lt was only for three months,... but those three months could have cost him his life. The censors told us to change 42 things. We might just as well re shoot the film. Most of their criticism of course,... focused on the scene of my resurrection. lt's the most serious scene in the film,... and l did a lot of preparation for it. They covered me with a crystal solution. By the way, it was the first time this had been tried,... and nobody knew whether l would survive it or not. But nobody was concerned with that. The main thing was to shoot the scene. Whether l survived was secondary. So they covered me with this stuff, which crystallized,... and l was to keep it on for just a few seconds. l was supposed to hold my breath and appear to be dead. l have just drunk liquid oxygen and turned to ice. lt was not clear how long l could stay covered with this stuff. l could communicate with Andrei only through gestures. He asked, ''Do you think you can Iast for half a minute?'' l said yes. But l lasted for a minute and a half,... because l used to dive and could hold my breath for a long time. He was very happy that he managed to... shoot the scene and exclaimed,... ''Well done! You're my Snow Queen!'' Then something terrible happened. l couldn't resist a smile, but the crystal mask was still covering me,... and it could easily have cut my face. Fortunately, there was a bucket of water to thaw me out. l grabbed some water and splashed it on my face, and the mask thawed. Then l told him just what l thought of him. But most of the time we were great friends. Andrei took great care of me,... and it was a great pleasure to work with him. All of us actors worked in harmony with each other. Donatas simply adored me,... mostly because he and l rehearsed together in secret from Andrei. Our genius categorically refused to rehearse. He wanted everyything to be like in real life. For example, it would take me two hours to fix my hair,... and then he would come and mess it up ''like the wind did it.'' Then l had to spend another two hours fixing it,... because next time he'd say, ''What's wrong with your hair?'' The same thing happened with Donatas. Andrei exhausted him. The main thing was ''just be brilliant... That's all.'' But how can you be brilliant if you haven't even seen the script yet? Especially since Donatas came from the stage. He needed the essence of the part. Andrei wasn't interested in the essence of the part. He was interested in the actor's state. Those are two different things. The atmosphere on location was very interesting. He treated each actor individually. Most of all he tormented his favorite, Solonitsyn. Solonitsyn played in Rublev,... and Tarkovsky knew that unless he drove Anatoly crazy,... he wouldn't get the best out of him. So he would torture Anatoly... until Anatoly's eyes started jerking back and forth... only then would Andrei begin shooting. He treated me very delicately. He would read me poetry to inspire me. He was just wonderful. With Banionis, however, he was somewhat competitive. Banionis was a People's Artist, an important figure... Donatas sensed the competition,... and he felt the lack of Andrei's attention. Then there were Vlad Dvorzhetsky and Yuri Yarvet. A fabulous cast of actors, every one of them superb. My favorite scene was in the library. Misha Romadin created this incredible microcosm. They are traveling in space,... and they've brought along all the best from Earth. Pushkin's death mask, The Dragon, a Brueghel painting,... and Donatas and l are floating in the air. Working with him was very interesting and easy,... because our faith in our director was absolute. l liked it when he'd come up to me and say,... ''You know, it's not important to me how you act or what you say. What matters is that you are alive. That your eyelashes tremble,... that tears appea,, r in your eyes... Without being dogmatic,... he could explain the life of the human spirit. Spirit above all else. Once he gave me a phenomenal suggestion. ln the freezing scene there is a moment... when Hari is coming back to life. He said, ''She is being reborn through pain. She is developing internal organs. The corpse is returning to life through death.'' He suggested l should focus my attention on my hands. That proved very helpful. l came to believe that there is no death,... that we shall survive everything. There is no death. l am convinced of that. There is transformation, whatever but the spirit does not disappear. Only our body, the shell, disappears. We shared the same life philosophy. He also felt that this shell meant nothing. When through this physical shell something else emerges... ln the beginning of the film l Iook somewhat ethereal. lt wasn't Hari looking at you,... not someone from Earth. lt was Solaris looking at you through her eyes,... or Cosmos, or God, or whatever you like. l think there are very few films like this. Very few. l saw Solaris when it had just been released,... and l've seen it many times since. l traveled to 42 countries with the film:. New Zealand, Australia Bolivia, Guinea,... France many times, Italy, Canada, the USA. lt was shown at a festival in San Francisco. Each time, l saw people stagger out of the theater,... tuned by the divine atmosphere... he knew how to create. What is Solaris? For me, as l am today, it is life after life. Each of us will have an encounter like that with our conscience,... that conscience which no amount of earthly prayer... can ever expiate or extinguish. When we leave, each of us will meet his own ''guest.'' lt's something we are guilty of... and which it's too late to correct,... because these people are no longer alive. And friends will tell you, ''Hari's suicide was not your fault. You had nothing to do with it. It was an accident.'' But it wasn't an accident, and the heart knows it,... that you did not love enough, or you mortally wounded her,... and she departed... For nonexistence. But it only seems that she departed,... for in fact she draws closer and closer to you. The older you get, the heavier this sin weighs on your conscience,... and sooner or later you have to confront it. All Andrei's films were prophetic. Unfortunately, they were also prophesies about his own life. Because when he left the country... ln Solaris there is a phrase... Let me try to paraphrase it for you:. ''We love only what we can lose. Home, homeland, woman...'' And at a certain point he lost it all... and fell fatally ill. The values he held as a person,... the home he was almost never able to enjoy,... the comfort that nobody gave him,... a woman who could fully understand him,... and his homeland, which he Ioved very much... but which neither understood nor accepted him. For a long time he thought about escaping. When his mother died,... he could not return to his homeland to bury her. lt was then that the cancer cells attacked him. Some believe cancer is a kind of self-defense on the part of the body. l don't know. But in any case, Andrei was always doomed somehow. Doomed to suffer. On one occasion, in Goskino... when they told us to change 42 things in the film... we stood together looking out a window,... and he stood there and cried. He said, ''l bring unhappiness to everybody. To you too.'' l said, ''No, Andrei, you've given me great... happiness... Working with you.'' He always remembered these words. And then there was the Cannes festival. But the artist could hardly stay on his feet. Once we went to visit Romadin. Andrei was a bit of an epicure. He liked fine things. He was always impeccably dressed. At dinner, he picked up a fork and a knife,... and then a piece of food fell on the floor. He picked it up, put it back on his plate and ate it. He was hungry. He had no money. He owed 11,000 rubles... and didn't have a kopeck in his pocket. This was during Soviet times. You may remember how much 11,000 was. lt was much more than $11,000. l very much wanted to see Andrei when l learned that he had cancer. But you had no way to get in touch with him, right? l'll tell you. l got that opportunity when l went to France... for a children's film festival. l had just filmed Bambi... and had received several international awards,... and l was traveling with the film. So l asked if they could arrange a meeting with him. The KGB man who followed me everywhere said,... ''Absolutely not! l won't allow that!'' and he drove right past the cancer clinic. l will never forget that horror. l was desperate and ready to jump out the door,... like Hari when she broke through the steel door. l didn't know then that Larisa had already abandoned him... and left him to die in the cancer clinic. l didn't know that, but if l had known,... l would have slipped away at night to see him. l didn't know my way around France. They took me to the provinces soon after and that was that. That was a true horror. One time he and l had an intimate conversation. We were returning from the festival in Cannes. The authorities were concerned that the... two of us might stay in France,... because on occasion we had been seen meeting Russian immigrants. Baskakov was there. He was watching us all the time. We went to buy some perfume. Andrei bought some for his wife, and l bought some too,... and it got a little late. We got back and found Baskakov all purple in the face. l asked Andrei, ''What's the matter with him?'' ''He thought we might stay here.'' l said, ''what?'' It had never even occurred to me. Andrei said, ''You know, we could.'' l asked, ''What do you mean?'' And he said, ''Never mind. Who needs me there anyway? l can only make my long, boring films here.'' He said, ''l love my home. My son Andrushka has just been born.'' No, he wouldn't have left if it hadn't been for Larisa. Larisa wanted a different life. And then she left him,... and he never came back.
Early life
Fyodor was born on 9 May 1967 in Moscow, his mother actress Irina Skobtseva and his father director Sergei Bondarchuk.[8]
In 1992 he graduated as a film director from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, in the class of Yuri Ozerov.[8]
Career
His acting debut was with his father in 1986 in the film Boris Godunov (1986). Sergei Bondarchuk was also the director of the movie.
In 1990 started his career as the first Russian producer of music videos. In 1993 he won the Ovation award as the best producer of musical video.
Bondarchuk's breakthrough as an actor came with his dual role in the 1999 cult film 8 ½ $ by Grigori Konstantinopolsky, where he played both Fyodor and Stepan.[9] In 2001 Fyodor played the role of Count Myshkin in Down House, loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot.
Fyodor Bondarchuk started his career as a film producer in 2002, beginning with the film In Motion (2002). Since that he has produced over twenty film projects that were great box-office successes. Bondarchuk won the 2003 TEFI Award for "the Best Host of the Entertainment TV-Show".[2] In 2005 he directed his debut film The 9th Company, which was based on real events which happened during the Afghan war (1979–1989).[10] The filming process took place in the Crimea, and lasted 5 months. The 9th Company eventually won 7 awards and was nominated eight times. It also broke the former box office record. The 9th Company became the first Russian film earning $25 million.[11] In 2006 The 9th Company was submitted for Best Foreign Film on Academy Award, but it was ultimately not nominated.
“This film is about my generation, about the war and friendship. About men's love, feat, treason and loyalty” – Bondarchuk said, – “Probably the truth I was trying to show there will not be pleasant to our generals. But Afghan soldiers who were excited after viewing our film is the best proof for me. That is really important”.[12]
Also Fyodor created Dark Planet (2008). In 2006 Boris Strugatskiy gave him the rights to adapt the fantasy novel Prisoners of Power. The overall time of the shooting took 222 days. Production and distribution of Inhabited Island was realized by Fyodor Bondarchuk's film company Art Pictures Studio. The film earned $30 million and took the third place of the box office of CIS area in 2009. In 2012 Bondarchuk received the Golden Eagle Award for the Best Actor in the film Two Days (2011) by Avdotya Smirnova.[13] At the same year, Fyodor and film producer Alexander Rodnyansky officially announced the beginning of the cooperation with IMAX Filmed Entertainment (also known as IMAX Corporation).
Greg Foster, the president of the company, said:
“Fyodor and Alexander showed me a 15 minute fragment of Stalingrad. And I'm very glad that we did a right choice in choosing a partners”.[14]
As a result, their project Stalingrad was the first Russian film[15] shown in IMAX format. It was released in October 2013.[16]
In 2017 Fedor Bondarchuk directed the science fiction film Attraction. It was a box office success and earned $18 million.[17] Over 4 million viewers watched Attraction in cinema, and it was the leader of online streaming after the digital release. The follow-up of this story, the film Invasion, came out in theaters in January 2020 and grossed over $11.5 million in cinemas (with more than 2 million audience). Fedor Bondarchuk's most recent project is his first TV-series Psycho – a dramatic story about a modern psychotherapist with Konstantin Bogomolov and Elena Lyadova in leading roles. Psycho was released on more.tv streaming service on 5 November. Russian NMG Studio and Renta Videostudio are producing.[18]
Other roles
Bondarchuk is chair of the board of trustees of the Kinotavr Film Festival, a member of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science (responsible for the Nika Awards) and a member of the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia (responsible for the Golden Eagle Awards).[8]
Business
Art Pictures Studio
Fyodor is a founder of Art Pictures Studio production company, which he founded in 1991 together with his friends Juhan Saul Gross and Stepan Mikhalkov and reorganized it into the Art Pictures Studio in 2006 with his partner Dmitry Rudovskiy. The main area of the company is film and video production and distribution. The company is working with a variety of projects, ranging from music and advertising videos to feature films.
Musical and advertising videos made by Art Pictures received a lot of Russian and international awards. The company worked with Heinz, Philips, Sony, Zikr (Colgate total), Pepsi etc. In 2002 Art Pictures moved into film production.[2]
In 2012 Fyodor Bondarchuk produced the screen adaption of Sergey Minaev's book of the same name, Dukhless. Released in October 2012, it became the most successful Russian fiction film that year.[19] The sequel, Dukhless 2, was released in 2015.
In 2018 he produced another Minaev adaptation, Selfie, and the box-office hit musical film Ice which grossed $22 million against the budget of $2 million.
Among the most famous Art Picture Studio's film projects are the dilogy Soulles (2012) and Soulles 2 (2015) (both features were based on Sergey Minaev's books of the same name). The first picture of this series became the most successful Russian fiction film in 2012. The sequel Soulles 2 grossed more than $8 million. In 2018 Fedor Bondarchuk produced another Minaev's adaptation Selfie (grossed more than $4 million). In 2018 APS also released a musical film Ice that became a box-office hit and grossed more than $22 million against the budget of $2 million. Its sequel Ice 2 (2020) was released in February and grossed more than $21 million.[20]
One of the latest Studio's projects, sci-fi thriller Sputnik (2020). In Russia the picture was digitally released in April and was viewed more than 1 million times after just one month of streaming.[21] After its release in the USA Sputnik also became Number 1 in American iTunes (the "Horror" category) and made it to the service's top-5 in general.[22] Sputnik's Rotten Tomatoes score is almost 90%, the first Russian project to be rated this highly. APS is also developing its first documentary focusing on a figure of Academy-Award winning director Sergei Bondarchuk. Helming the project are journalists Denis Kataev and Anton Jelnov with Ilya Belov as a director.
Art Pictures Studio also has a subdivision Art Pictures Vision that specializes in TV production. This company's portfolio includes such hits as The Year of Culture (TNT channel), 90's. Funny and loud!, Psychologirls (STS channel). In 2019 other Vision's projects were digitally released on Amazon Prime streaming service: sports drama Junior League (STS), spy thriller Sleepers (TV 1st channel) and a horror story The day after.[23] Among current popular Art Pictures Vision projects are a road-movie type of comedy Let's go!(STS) and sports comedy Lanky Girls (STS). Among new releases are – a detective period piece An Hour before the Dawn (post-production) and story about a Russian moto sport team Kamaz Master – Truck Racer (post-production).
Glavkino
In 2008 Fyodor Bondarchuk together with Konstantin Ernst (Director General of the Russian Channel One) and Ilya Bachurin founded the large-scale project Glavkino.[24] The project consists of a television and television complex, a hardware complex, a production center, a script laboratory. In 2011 Glavkino and New York Art Academy founded a grant named after Sergei Bondarchuk.[25]
In 2017 Glavkino ownership was transferred from its founders, including Fyodor Bondarchuk, Konstantin Ernst, Ilya Bachurin, Vitaly Golovachev and Nikolai Tsvetkov, to the creditor VTB Bank. Each of the five founders of Glavkino received $1800 each, while VTB repaid the studio's debts, estimated at $52 million.[26]
Kinositi
In 2009 Fyodor Bondarchuk with producer Sergey Selianov initiated the project Kinositi. The main mission of this company is to create network of multimedia educational cinema complexes throughout Russia. In 2012, Kinositi became the official partner of cinema chain Premier Zal.[27]
Restaurant business
Fyodor Bondarchuk is a co-owner of two restaurants in Moscow (together with his friends and partners Stepan Mikhalkov, Arkadiy Novikov and Kirill Gusev).[28]
Television
Fyodor Bondarchuk is a popular television host in Russia. His show about the world of cinema aired weekly on the STS TV channel in Russia. His guests in the studio included Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Bay, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Craig, Til Schweiger etc.[29] In 2003 he received TEFI as the best TV host of entertainment program, in March 2004 Bondarchuk became a member of Russian Television Academy's fund.[3] At the same year Fyodor started to host the reality show You are a Supermodel.
In 2013 Fyodor started his career as a TV producer with two projects on the STS channel in Russia.
Political positions
In 2005, Bondarchuk joined the United Russia party and became a member of the board of its youth organization, the Young Guard of United Russia.[3]
In 2006–2008, Bondarchuk was a member of the Council for Culture and Arts under Russian President Vladimir Putin.[30] In 2008, he, together with Rudovsky and the VTB banking group, co-founded Glavkino LLC, a company established by the president of Uralsib Nikolai Tsvetkov to manage the construction of a film and television complex in the Moscow Oblast. In the same year, he was mentioned in the press as the owner of a 30% stake in Glavkino. In the spring of 2009, the general director of Channel One Russia, Konstantin Ernst, was also named as one of the possible co-investors in the media project. It was reported that if negotiations on Ernst's entry into the project and Rudovsky's exit from it are successfully completed, the general director of Channel One, Bondarchuk and Tsvetkov's structures will own 49% of the LLC, and VTB will receive the rest. Subsequently, confirmation of information about Ernst's inclusion in the list of Glavkino founders was not published. In June 2009, the media named Tsvetkov, VTB, and Bondarchuk as co-founders of the LLC; the shares were not disclosed, but in November of the same year Bondarchuk noted in an interview: "Together with Konstantin Ernst, we are building the Glavkino studio on Novorizhskoe Highway. The facility should be commissioned in 2011." Already in January 2010, it was announced that VTB withdrew from the founders of Glavkino. At the same time, as the Vedomosti newspaper reported, the state bank intended to continue financing the project, for which it had already allocated $12 million. At the same time, General Director of Glavkino Ilya Bachurin assured journalists that "the state will still remain a co-owner of the project": according to him, "after some time another structure close to the state will become the new shareholder."[3]
From 2007 to 2009, Bondarchuk was a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (as part of the commission on culture).[30]
In November 2009, at the 11th Congress of the United Russia party, Bondarchuk became a member of its Supreme Council.[30] In January 2010, Bondarchuk became the curator of the party project for the construction of digital cinemas in 250 cities. He then assured that no money would be required from the party: it "can only help with information and, perhaps, in some places, with the allocation of a site for construction." In April 2010, the RBK Daily newspaper reported that the project for the construction of cinemas in small towns of Russia, developed by Bondarchuk together with the founder of the Kronverk Cinema chain Eduard Pichugin and producer Sergei Selyanov, would be financed by the Russian government.[3]
In September 2010, it became known that Bondarchuk and Pichugin each bought 15.04% of the shares of AB Finance Bank and joined its board of directors. The purchase, according to Pichugin, cost each of them 150 million rubles. Bondarchuk explained the acquisition of banking assets by the fact that in order to conduct an investment business, it is "more profitable for them to have their own bank."[3]
In 2012, Bondarchuk was a trusted representative of Prime Minister and presidential candidate Putin.[30][31]
In October 2012, Bondarchuk headed the board of directors of the Lenfilm film studio. On 10 November 2012, Putin decided that the state would act as a guarantor of the loan necessary for the reconstruction of Lenfilm. Receiving a loan in the amount of 1.5 billion rubles was provided for in the development concept of Lenfilm, drawn up by Eduard Pichugin and adopted during public hearings.[32]
From 2013 to 2015, Bondarchuk was a member of the public council under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.[30]
In March 2014, Bondarchuk supported the annexation of Crimea and signed a letter to President Putin in support of the annexation.[33][34][35]
On 20 January 2016, Bondarchuk came out in support of Ramzan Kadyrov with the slogan "#Kadyrov is a patriot of Russia," supporting Kadyrov's call to treat representatives of the non-systemic opposition as "enemies of the people," which caused a public outcry.[36]
During the 2018 presidential elections, Bondarchuk was a trusted representative of Vladimir Putin.[30][37] In May 2018, he was a guest at Putin's fourth inauguration.[38]
In 2018, Bondarchuk was a confidant of Moscow mayoral candidate Sergey Sobyanin.[30][39]
On 20 November 2018, Bondarchuk, in accordance with a Decree of the President of Russia, was included in the new composition of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art.[30][40]
Bondarchuk is a member of the Government Council for the Development of National Cinematography.[30]
Filmography
Actor
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
1986 | Boris Godunov | Feodor II of Russia |
1988 | Solnechnyi bereg (original title) | young soldier |
1989 | Stalingrad | Ivan |
1989 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Fedor |
1992 | Arbitrator | Roman |
1992 | Demons | Fedka Katorzhnyi |
1993 | Angels of the Death | sniper Ivan |
1994 | Shooting Angels | Ivan |
1997 | Midlife Crisis | Vlad |
1998 | Stop (original title "Ostanovka") | |
1999 | 8 ½ $ | Fedor/Stepan |
2000 | Showcase | Store manager |
2000 | Formula of Happiness | |
2001 | Down House | count Myshkin |
2001 | Men's Work (TV) | Rebrov |
2002 | In Motion | Gazizov |
2002 | Cinema about Cimena | Nikolay Zhiltsov, film producer |
2002 | Men's Work 2 (TV) | Rebrov |
2004 | Our Own | the chief of Police |
2004 | My Fair Nanny (TV) | cameo |
2004 | B-day of the Best Friend | |
2005 | The 9th Company | Khokhol |
2005 | From 180 and Higher | Savik Galkin |
2005 | The State Counsellor | Burchinskiy |
2005 | Dacha for sale | Vladimir |
2005 | Mama, ne goryui 2 (original title) | Leva |
2005 | The Fall of the Empire (TV) | General Anton Denikin |
2005 | Happypeople | |
2006 | 9 Months (TV) | Kostya |
2006 | Tri polugratsii (original title, TV) | Kurbatov |
2006 | Open Season (animated film) | Boog (Russian dubbing) |
2006 | Heat | film director |
2007 | Gloss | |
2007 | Sem kabinok (original title) | drug dealer |
2007 | I'm Staying | instructor |
2007 | Kilometer Zero | cameo |
2007 | Artistka (original title) | film director |
2007 | Tiski (original title) | Igor Verner |
2007 | 18-14 | graf Tolstoi |
2008 | Admiral | Sergei Bondarchuk (pseudo cameo) |
2008 | Dark Planet | Umnik |
2008 | Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (animated film) | Tonny Dennis (Russian dubbing) |
2008 | Open Season 2 (animated film) | Boog (Russian dubbing) |
2009 | The Best Movie 2 | Fedor Bondarchuk (cameo) |
2009 | Dark Planet: Skirmish | Umnik |
2010 | Moscow, I Love You! | suicide |
2010 | Pro lyubоff (original title) | Vladimir Victorovich |
2010 | Pseudonym for Hero | Director |
2011 | The PyraMMMid | Belyavskyi |
2011 | Lecturer (TV) | Vladimir |
2011 | Svadba po obmenu (original title) | Ruslan |
2011 | Two Days | Petr Drozdov |
2011 | Bezrazlichie (original title) | Petya Selyutin |
2011 | The White Guard (TV) | Shpolyanskiy |
2012 | The Spy | Alexey Oktyabrsky |
2012 | Gold | |
2012 | 7 dní hříchů | Major Uvarov |
2012 | Tri bogatyrya na dalnikh beregakh (original title, animated film) | Kolyvan (dubbing) |
2012 | After School (TV) | cameo |
2013 | Molodezhka (original title, TV) | Oleg Ivanovich Kalinin |
2013 | Odnoklassniki.ru: NaCLICKai udachu (original title) | Fedor |
2014 | Chudotvorets (original, TV) | Viktor Stavitsky |
2014 | Gena Beton (original title) | |
2015 | Ghost (Призрак) | Yury Gordeyev |
2015 | The Warrior | Andrey Rodin |
2015 | A Warrior's Tail | Elza (voice) |
2016 | Santa Claus. Battle of the Magi | Miran Morozov, the Father Frost (Santa Claus) |
2017 | About Love. For Adults Only | |
2018 | Selfie | |
2020 | Sputnik | Colonel Semiradov |
2021 | Saving Pushkin | Bespalov |
2022 | Land of Legends | Grand prince Ivan III Vasilyevich of Russia |
2023 | Lord of the Wind | Fyodor Konyukhov |
2024 | Guest from the Future | Robot Werther |
Director
Year | Title | More |
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1989 | Dream in a Summer Morning | short film |
1993 | Lyublyu (original title) | special project |
2005 | The 9th Company | |
2006 | And Quiet Flows the Don (TV) | final editing of a film directed in 1992 by his father |
2008 | Dark Planet | |
2009 | The Inhabited Island: Skirmish | |
2012 | Nowhere to Hurry | |
2013 | Stalingrad | |
2017 | Attraction | |
2019 | Attraction 2 |
Producer
Year | Title |
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2002 | In Motion |
2003 | Gololyod (original title) |
2003 | Kamikadze's Diary |
2005 | The 9th Company |
2006 | Heat |
2008 | Dark Planet |
2009 | The Inhabited island: Skirmish |
2010 | The Phobos |
2011 | Two Days |
2011 | New Year SMS (TV) |
2012 | August Eighth |
2012 | Soulless |
2013 | Odnoklassniki.ru (original title) |
2013 | The Best Girl of Caucasus |
2013 | Yes and Yes |
2013 | White Lily |
2013 | Evgeny Onegin |
2014 | Baba Yaga |
2015 | Soulless 2 |
2015 | Warrior |
2016 | The Queen of Spades |
2016 | The Good Boy |
2018 | Selfie |
2018 | Ice |
Awards and nominations
Awards
- Sozvezdie 2002 – Best Supporting Actor (Kino pro kino)
- TEFI, 2003 – Best TV host of entertainment TV show (Kreslo, STS)
- Nika Award, 2006 – Best Feature Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Eagle Award, 2006 – Best Feature Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best directing debut (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – People's choice Award (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best feature film according to Internet voting (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- VIVAT (Russia), 2006 – Grand Prix of the festival (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Blockbaster 2009 (Box office record on CIS area) (Dark Planet, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Turkey), 2010 – special prize for the contribution to the world cinema
- Golden Eagle Award, 2012 – Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Two Days, director Dunya Smirnova)
Nominations
- Nika Award, 2003 – Best Supporting Actor (Kino pro kino)
- Nika Award, 2006 – Breakthrough of the Year (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Nika Award, 2006 – Best Director (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Eagle Award, 2006 – Best Feature Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Eagle Award, 2008 – Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Tiski)
- Golden Eagle Award, 2012 – Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Spy)
- MTV Russia Movie Awards, 2008 – Best Actor (Ya ostayus)
- MTV Russia Movie Awards, 2008 – Best Movie villain (Tiski)
Personal life
Fyodor was married for more than 20 years to Svetlana Bondarchuk (née Rudskaya), main editor of Hello! magazine (Russia). They have 2 children: son Sergey and daughter Varvara.[41] After divorcing from Svetlana, Fyodor became romantically involved with actress Paulina Andreeva.[42] In March 2021, the couple gave birth to their son, Ivan.[43]
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