Biography
The audience of all ages love to revise the ribbons of Igor Maslennikov. The secret is that they are addressed to the young soul. The director of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, created by the director of Sherlock and Dr. Watson, are recognized as the best cinemas in the homeland of characters - in the UK.Childhood and youth
Igor Maslennikov was born on October 26, 1931 in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of an engineer. Among the ancestors Igor Fedorovich - peasants and nobles. Both grandfather for the technique - one worked in the forge, the other - in the workshop for the production of locomotives.
Soon the father of the boy was transferred from the Krasnaya Sormovo enterprise to the "Izhora Plant" under the beginning of the brother Artist Vasily Mercuryeva - Peter, and the family moved to the suburb of the Northern Capital. At 8 years old, the boy fell ill with heavy otitis and survived the healing trepanation of the skull.
Since the beginning of the war, Maslennikov was evacuated to the Urals, since Fedor Pavlovich appointed the head of the Chelyabinsk tank KB. With the post-war returning family in Leningrad, friendship was resumed with the Merkurium clan, in the house of which Maslennikov, who did not have housing, lived 2 years. Young Igor surrounded the artistic atmosphere, but about the director's path of the young man, enthusiastic drawing and literature, did not think.
A year after the death of Joseph, Stalin Maslennikov became a graduate philologist and began working in a native university's Militail. Igor worked up the design of performances, and then received a direction to television, where he created the transmissions addressed to the youth audience.
The decision to change the profession came to him after the recovery on the party line for the television tape on the taxi drivers, over which the young man worked as editor. At 34, Igor went to directorial courses.
Films
Igor Maslennikov filmography is very diverse and includes children's films, melodramas, television series, paintings about war and historical dramas, the adaptation of Russian classics.
The first tapes of the master - "Personal Life of Kuzyaev Valentina" and "Tomorrow, the Third April" - are devoted to the non-delete problems of adolescents of the Brezhnev era. A film about male friendship "Racers" (1972) and the military drama "under the stone sky" (1974) unites the acting duet of Evgeny Leonov and Oleg Yankovsky.
Vladimir Dashkevich wrote music to these pictures, cooperation with which continued in the subsequent tapes of Maslennikov and turned out to be very successful. Joint Polish-Soviet tape "Yaroslavna, Queen of France" (1978) is devoted to the younger daughter Yaroslav Wise.
1979 became a milestone in the biography of Igor Fedorovich - on the screens for the first time a film appeared about Sherlock Holmes, who glorified the creators. The brilliant acting ensemble, brilliant music, amazing atmosphericness and self-irony of the authors made the ribbon extremely popular. Spectators and Goskino demanded the continuation, and the history of the English detective was embodied by Maslennikov on the screen in 70-80 years 4 times.
In 1982, Maslennikov shielded the story of Pushkin "Peak Lady". In 1985, the director was waiting for a new triumph - his picture "Winter Cherry" perfectly fell into the target audience: according to statistics, half of the Soviet women did not marry, of which one were still half of them.
Maslennikov tape is largely similar to the film of Deloia "Autumn Marathon". But at the Marathon, the audience see what is happening by male eyes, and in the "cherry" - female. In the 90s, Mother removed the sequel "cherry" paintings. The man's best believer is not very famous to the Russian viewer, the Mystical film "Letters to Elsa", filmed in 2002 according to the scenario of Arkady Vysotsky.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Igor Maslennikov was marked by the screening of the play of his beloved playwright Alexander Ostrovsky, as well as an attempt to revive the domestic children's cinematograph - filming the comedy fairy tale "Timur and his Commandos". The protagonist of the film is the son of "New Russian" - forms from the brigade of guards with gangster sacks of the squad, touching and ridiculously helping modern grandmothers.
Personal life
The first love of Maslennikova - Svetlana Bogacheva, who studied with Igor in the same class and attending, like the future director, a circle of young writers at the Palace of Pioneers. The Master told this in an interview with the Express Gazette in January 2017, in which the unexpected details of his personal life reported.
As it turned out, in addition to the lawful wife, Inna, from which Igor Fedorovich tied fate in his youth, the director also has a second girlfriend of life - Natalia Andreeva, who gave the youngest daughter Katya.
Maslennikov's older children know a little: the son of Nikita realized the youthful dream of the father and became an architect, Anna's daughter worries a film crew. The granddaughter Maria Nikitichna lives in the USA.
The long-term friendship tied the director with the now the late screenwriter Valutsky and "Dr. Watson" - Vitaly Solomin. Working with Vasily Livanov Igor Fedorovich recalls with a shudder - the performer of the role of the Great Detective, according to Maslennikov, maliciously violated the discipline, fell into a pin, arranged scandals.
Igor Maslennikov Now
In 2016, Igor Fedorovich suffered severe injury, but recovered, although the photo looks very thinned. Matra is now worried about the fate of Russian cinema, displacement of reflection films "films attractions", lack of government financing of telecast and film for children.
The director stands for intelligent protectionism in film distribution, advises to take an example from France, which has high taxes raised by Hollywood films. A man in conjunction with Alice Freindlich, Svetlana Kryuchkov and Mikhail Boyarsky, turned to Vladimir Putin with a proposal to revive the eliminated Goskino.
In October 2018, Igor Maslennikov talked with students of the Institute of Cinema and Television and urged not to forget that the most important in films is irony and plot.
In 2019, the director intends to raise money for the final tape of the "Cherry Epopea", which will be told about the fate of children of major characters.
Filmography
- 1967 - "Personal Life of Kuzyaev Valentina"
- 1969 - "Tomorrow, the third April ..."
- 1972 - "Racers"
- 1974 - "Under the Stone Sky"
- 1976 - "Sentimental Roman"
- 1978 - "Yaroslavna, Queen of France"
- 1979 - "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"
- 1980 - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"
- 1981 - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Baskerville Dog"
- 1982 - "Peak Lady"
- 1983 - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Treasure Agra"
- 1985 - "Winter Cherry"
- 1986 - "The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: the twentieth century begins"
- 1990 - "Winter Cherry 2"
- 1993 - "Winter Cherry 3"
- 1996 - "Theater Chekhonte. Pictures from the recent past "
- 1999 - "What did the dead man say"
- 2000 - "Memories about Sherlock Holmes"
- 2002 - "Letters to Elsa"
- 2004 - "Timur and his Commandos"
- 2006 - "Russian money"
- 2009 - "Bankrupt"