Biography
Pavel Chukhray - Soviet and Russian film director, People's Artist of Russia, who for merits in front of cinema received several dozen premiums at the film festivals. In addition, Chukhray was the nominee of American awards "Oscar" and "Golden Globe", as well as the Spanish film "Goya".
Pavel Chukhray was born in the Moscow region, in the village of Bykovo, in the family of film director Grigory Chukhray, the author of the military tape "Ballada about a soldier." Mom Paul, Iraida Penkov, taught Russian and literature in high school.
In early childhood, Pavel Chukhray lived with her grandparents on his father's line in their house in the village of Kaplunovka, which was located in the Kharkiv region. Only when the boy was six years old, his father received a direction to the Kiev film studio named Dovzhenko, and the whole family finally reunited. Pavel Chukhray got used to wander along the building of the film studio. Due to the fact that he saw the shooting, duplicate, montage, the boy began to refer to the cinema as interesting art.
However, Pavel Chukhray continued to consider the work of the actor with something like entertainment. Only later, when he himself in adolescence will receive his only acting experience in the film about the pioneer camp "Hello, Children!", Chukhray will understand how difficult this work is not very difficult.
In 1955, Pavel Chukhray, together with his parents, moves to Moscow, where his teenage and youth years are held. He continues to visit the film studio, this time in Mosfilm. The idea to tie their life with cinema captured Pavel Chukhray to senior classes. The young man decides not to continue daytime training, but is arranged in 1962 by a radio order and illuminator on a film studio, and the secondary education ends with the help of an evening school.
In 1964, Pavel Chukhray becomes Student Vgika. The Faculty of Acting Mastery The young man did not even consider as a possible option, and his father forbade the directorial direction to Paul. Therefore, the choice of young men fell on the operator's faculty, which he graduated in 1969.
Having worked in this profession a couple of years and removing the social short drama "House of five walls" as the operator, Pavel Chukhray again sits down the desk and by 1974 externally examines the exams and protects the cinomoremaster's diploma. By the way, Chukhray's classmate was another famous master of Russian cinema - Karen Shahnazarov.
Pavel Chukhray not only led the movie creation process. He often wrote scenarios himself, continued to take a film in the hands, and also worked a lot on television as a TV presenter. For example, Pavel Chukhray led the Serpentine program, "Kinopanoram", "Great Illusion", in which he told movie lovers about various films. In addition, he was a special guest of the seventh and eighth seasons of the entertainment television show "Dancing with the Stars".
Films
Pavel Chukhray began directing with melodramas "sometimes remember", followed by an adventure fighter "Who will pay for good luck?" And a film about the border guards "People in the Ocean". The first great success was the youth social drama "Cell for Canary", in which the actress Eugene Dobrovolsky debuted. It was the first work in the filmography of Pavel Chukhraya, which received the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia and demonstrated on the "Cinema Week" in Cannes. Previously, his paintings were honored only by domestic prizes.
The next film "Zina-Zinul" was removed in the genre of the production drama and, despite the excellent actor's game Evgenia Gleashenko and Viktor Pavlov, as a whole was met calmly. But the brilliant game of AI Savvina in the melodraman "Remember me," allowed Pavel Chukhray to re-become the winner at the film festivals in Prague and Tokyo.
The next project Pavel Chukhray has become a TV film "Key" about the investigation of the killing of the banker in St. Petersburg. The film is unfolding in 1917, on the eve of the February Revolution. Alexander Kalyagin, Anatoly Romashin, Veniamin, played the main characters in the film. The picture entered the project "Russian stories" for French television along with the television films "Manuscript", "Chekist", "On Irtyshe" and others.
In the 90s, Pavel Chukhray is first taken for the documentary TV project and removes the film "Hawk", which expresses the opinion of Politics by Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Also in the first half of that decade, the director switches to commercial shooting: it creates commercials. But Pavel Chukhray would not be a people's artist if it was also not suitable for advertising. His clips for Rikk-Bank received awards "Silver Leo" and "Bronze Lion" in the category of advertising at the Cannes Festival.
Another breakthrough in the Russian cinema and in the creative biography of the director occurred when Pavel Chukhray took the film "Thief". The picture entered the top three of the most cash in Russia, as well as had a huge success in European countries. For the "thief" Pavel Chukhray received a special prize "For Humanism" from the head of the Vatican, and also visited the Oscar and Golden Globe awards, where the picture was nominated in the category "Best Foreign Film".
At the beginning of the XXI century, Pavel Chukhraya at a special invitation of the Hollywood director Stephen Spielberg removes one of the five parts of the filmalman about the Holocaust, which was called "children from the abyss." Almanac had a good criticism, and Pavel Chukhray was awarded the "man of the year" award by the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia.
Large resonance received a melodrama "Driver for Faith" and a peculiar film player's play by Nikolai Gogol "Players", which in the version of Pavel Chukhraya began to be called "Russian Game".
Work in Pavel Chukhraya's projects has always been to the artists of the main roles through the bandwidth ticket for star Olympus Cinema. Thanks to Chukhray, the Russian audience and film crimits discovered future stars of the screen - Eugene Dobrovolskaya, Vladimir Mashkova, Alain Babenko, Catherine Redernov, Mikhail Filipchuk. Each of the actors received for participating in the films of Pavel Grigorievich many prestigious Russian and foreign premiums. Among the artists who collaborated with Pavel Chukhray, it is possible to celebrate such stars as Bogdan Mortar, Sergey Makovetsky, Andrei Merzlikin, Igor Petrenko, Andrei Panin.
In addition to the director, an important place in the creative life of Pavel Chukhray is occupied by scenario art. Among the early works of the screenwriter, movies "People in the Ocean" and "who will pay for good luck" released in 1980 are allocated. The first was created in the genre of the adventure militant, the second - military revolutionary story. In 1988, the drama "It was last summer" about the friendship of two graduates of the Biological Faculty, which decided to devote life to the study of the tundra. Chukhray's next scenario has created only 10 years later, they became the plot for a detective comedy "Classic" about the "duel" of two professional players in billiards. Kolder from the film
In 2014, Pavel Chukhray became co-author of the film "Test" director Alexander Cotta. Kinokarttina was created in the genre of art-house drama and was presented at the Festival "Kinotavr", where he won the Grand Prix in the nomination operator work. The film's action unfolded in the Kazakh steppe. Kazakh girl, a local guy and visitors graduate of the university become the participants of the love triangle.
Personal life
The first wife then still young Pavel Chukhray became Actress Elena Egorova, the daughter of director Yuri Egorova, who was shot, for example, in the film "Land Sannikov", but generally knows more as a dubbing actress. In 1968, Daria daughter appeared in 1968. When the girl grew, she graduated from Vgik and now running a cartoon and screenwriter. With Elena Pavel Chukhray lived for several years, but afterwards this marriage collapsed.
The director married again. With a new wife, Mary Zvereva's film director, film director lives to this day. In 1977, they had a joint daughter Anastasia Chukhray. The second daughter Pavel Chukhraya also did not go to his footsteps. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics, established the educational site "Arzamas", began to work the TV presenter on the channels "STS" and "home", where leads the program "Nest".
The daughters gave Paul Chukhray three granddaughters. Darya had a daughter of Anfis, and Anastasia - Anna and Maria. It is interesting that at the same time by the son-in-law of Pavel Grigorievich was Anton Tabakov. Together with Anastasia Chukhray Son Oleg Tabakov lived 12 years old, Anna was born in this marriage, who became a real star "Instagram" and regularly pleased the fans of bright photos.
The director is pleased with his personal life. In his free time, Pavel Chukhray loves to travel with his family, and also to walk with friends on fishing. The director is a fan of classical music, as well as bard songs performed by Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotsky.
Pavel Chukhray now
In 2017, the director filmography was replenished with another star project - the drama "Cold Tango". This film opened the XXVIII Film Festival "Kinotavr", which was held at the beginning of summer in Sochi. The director was awarded a special prize of the festival in the nomination "For honor, dignity and devotion to cinema."The action of the film takes place in the military and post-war time. Two main characters are in love with each other Maxim and Lyme, both are natives of Lithuania, who during the war they experienced every tragedy. The Jewish boy Max lost his relatives, and the daughter of Lyme traitor was raised by the officer of the fascist army. After the war, young people are trying to survive in new realities and keep love. Rinal Mukhametov, Julia Peresilde and Sergey Garmash played the main characters.
Filmography
- 1983 - "Cell for Canary"
- 1986 - Zina-Zinululy
- 1987 - "Remember me such"
- 1992 - "Key"
- 1993 - "Hawk"
- 1997 - "Thief"
- 2002 - "Children from the abyss"
- 2004 - "Driver for Faith"
- 2007 - "Russian game"
- 2017 - "Cold Tango"