Andron Konchalovsky biography

With Gerard Depardieu in Sochi at the Festival "Kinotavr", the city of Theater and Cinema, screenwriter. People's Artist of Russia; He was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the IV degree, an academician of the National Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences, an officer of the Order of the Arts and Literature of France, the Order of the Honorary Legion of France, the president of the Nico film academy graduated from the Central Music School, in the year - the Musical School at the Moscow Conservatory.

In the GG he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the piano class. A cinematic education received in a year, graduating from the directing faculty of VGIK, the workshop M. during his studies starred as an actor in the episodic roles “Ivanovo Childhood”, “Court of Mades”, “I am twenty years old”, wrote with Andrei Tarkovsky the script of the film “Ivanovo Childhood” later they will write the script for the film “Passion for Andrei”, “Andrei Rublev”, “Andrei Rublev”, “ He shot the short film “Boy and Pigeon”, which received the main prize at the Debuts contest of the Venice Film Festival for children and youth in the year.

In the year, the director, inspired by the work of Akira Kurosava, takes off the “first teacher”. The next film was “The story of Asi Klyachina, who loved, but did not marry”, which the wide viewer saw only in the year. With the main characters of this tape, the audience met again in the year when Konchalovsky removed its peculiar continuation - “chicken of a pockmarked”.

In the year, the director turned to the classics, putting the “noble nest” according to I. Big audience’s success of 40 million cinema Poem “Sibiriada”, which covered almost the whole century of life of Russia, was awarded a special prize of the Cannes Film Festival in the year. It is there that he makes films that later became classic and included in world film encyclopedias: “Beloved Mary”, “Bug train”, “Homer and Eddie”, as well as the American blockbuster “Tango and Cache” - with Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Shart in the title role.

In addition, in America, Konchalovsky shot the films “The Duet for the Soloist” and “Surveying People” in the beginning of Konchalovsky returned to Russia. He shoots the “Near Circle”, a film -reflection film on the nature of Stalinism on the material of the fate of the “little man” - Stalin’s film mechanic, as well as the tape of “Ryaba Kurochka”, the grotesque continuation of the fate of Asi Klyachina in post -communist Russia.

The spectacular series “Odyssey” with Armand Assante in the title role in the title role in the title role successfully went successfully on television screens of the world. This project has become the most expensive television production in the world at that time and received the highest television award in the USA - Emmy. In the year, at the Moscow International Film Festival, actress Gina Lollobrida handed Andrei Konchalovsky prize “For Contribution to Kinematographer”.

In the years, Konchalovsky publishes two autobiographical books connected by a common idea: “Low Truths” and “A lifting Deception”. These two extremely personal, frank books experienced several successful reprints. At the 59th Venice Film Festival of the year, Konchalovsky’s tape “House of Fools” - the story of the inhabitants of a crazy house near the border with Chechnya during the first Chechen war - was awarded the jury Grand Prix.

In the year, Konchalovsky shot in England for Hallmark Entertainment the historical drama “Leo in winter” - based on the play by American writer James Goldman. In the year, the film was released-“Gloss”, and in the fantasy “The Nutcracker and Rat King”, created by the best masters of Hollywood: the executive producer was Morzan Bormann “Terminator”, the author of Libretto-Sir Tim Rice “King Leo”, “Jesus Christ-Superstar”.

In the city of Andrei Konchalovsky he was awarded the Golden Star - the highest award of the International Film Festival in Marrakesh - with the wording "For contribution to the development of world cinema." As a co -producer, Konchalovsky took part in the creation of the film about the last days of the great Russian writer L. Tolstoy “The Last Resurrection”, which received several awards of the Golden Globe Award and nominated for the Oscar, as well as the documentary tape of Mardzhi Kinmont, King Konchalovsky, not only in the cinema.

He carried out several sensational theatrical productions: A. Chekhov’s “Seagull” at the Paris Theater “Odeon”, opera P. Prokofiev “War and Peace”, on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and in the “Metropolitan Opera”, the opera “Ball Mascarad” by J. Verdi at the Parma and the Mariinsky Theater, our ancient manner. The capital ”on Red Square in the city after six years he puts a similar spectacular show in St.

Petersburg on the balustrade of the revived Konstantinovsky Palace to the summer anniversary of the city. Konchalovsky staged the play "The Seagull" at the Mossovet Theater. And in the city in Turin, in Teatro Regio Di Torino, the premiere of the opera Boris Godunov took place in the production of Andrei Konchalovsky, with the participation of Russian and Italian musicians and performers.

In December, as part of the celebration of the Flight of the birth of A.Chekhov, on the stage of the Mossovet Theater, took place the premiere of the performance of the Konchalovsky “Uncle Vanya”, and in the same place, the performance “Three Sisters” was staged in the same place of the director and summer anniversary of his work in the fall of the year. Chekhov’s productions caused a great resonance in the theater world and were successfully shown in America and the Baltic states, in England, Italy and Israel.

In June, the director took part in the VI theater festival in Naples, where he presented one of William Shakespeare's most fun plays “Taming the obstacle”. It was staged in Italian with the participation of local actors and was a great success with the public.

In October, in one of the oldest existing theaters in the world, in the Olympico Theater in the city of Vicentz Italy, the premiere of the performance “Oedipus in the Colon” ​​in the production of Andrei Konchalovsky - an abbreviated version of the Sophocles tragedy of the same name. In recent years, Andrei Konchalovsky actively involves his wife, actress Julia Vysotskaya. She plays the main roles in the films “House of Fools” and “Gloss”, starred in the film “The Nutcracker”, participates in many theatrical productions of the director.

Andrei Konchalovsky is the host of Internet blogs, the publicist author of many articles and books, such as “Parabola Interest”, “White Lilac”, co -authored with Yu. Nagibin, “Low Truths”, “Hind Deception”, “Low Truths: 7 years later”, the collection “On the Tribun of the Rebel”, “9 chapters about the movie, etc. Konchalovsky works a lot for television. For a year, the Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky On April, he continues to remove the political documentary cycle “The Ben of Power”, whose heroes became Y.

Andropov and G. Aliyev, and in the year the film “Battle of Ukraine” was released in the framework of the cycle. In the same year, he became the laureate of the second international prize named after the writer Genghis Aitmatov International Chingiz Aitmatov Award ICAA - “For the workshop, the adaptation of the first teacher of the year. In the year, during the opening ceremony of the sixth All -Russian festival of the author’s short paintings “Artkino”, Andrei Konchalovsky was awarded a prize for an outstanding contribution to the development of author's cinema.

In the same year, Konchalovsky is elected president of the Russian film Academy "Nika". In September, on 71 μF in Venice, Andrei Konchalovsky’s “White Nights of the Postman Alexei Zhanapitsyn” was awarded the “Silver Leo” - a prize for the best directorial work. During his creative biography, Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky wrote 34 scenarios, shot 27 films, made 8 sensational theatrical deliveries, including 5 opera productions, published 6 books and more journalistic articles, received many bonuses, awards, and titles.

For more than fifty years, Andrei Konchalovsky, with dignity and professionally, has been working in a big movie and theater, always remaining a modern artist who has great creative plans.