Biography
Pavel Lungin - Russian director, screenwriter, producer, representative of the creative dynasty. He began his director's career quickly late, in 40 years, but this did not prevent the first projects to gain recognition of the international community of film critics. Later film films have always caused a warm response from the audience and often became an event in Russian cinema.Childhood and youth
Writer and director Pavel Lungin - Native Moskvich, was born on July 12, 1949 in an intelligent Jewish family. Father Semyon Lungin was a famous playwright, the author of scenarios to the films "Welcome, or an extraneous entry is prohibited", "Attention, turtle!", "Raffle." The mother of Lilianna Lungina is no less famous translator, specialized in literary translations of the works of Astrid Lindgren, August Strindberg, Hebeta Ibsen and others.
Longin has grown up two children - the sons of Pavel and Eugene. The younger brother Pavel Semenovich later also tied life with cinema. He released movies "Travel to Love", "The Best Evening", "My Girl".
Lungin, as he himself says, came to the work of a winding path. After school, he entered the philological faculty of Moscow State University, in 1971 he graduated from the university and worked for some time a sociologist. Then he moved to the department of science "Literary Newspaper", but the work seemed boring. Then Lungin entered the highest scriptwriters and directors, and in 1980 he became a graduate director.
Films
The debut of Pavel Longgin in the movie took place in 1976: he wrote the script of the film "The whole thing in brother". After 2 years, on his scenario, a picture of the "end of the imperial taiga" about the little-known pages of the life path of Arkady Gaidar, and after another 5 years, the "invincible" about the invention of the Red Army Khromov (Andrei Rostotsky) of a new type of struggle was taken.Soon there was a script for the comedy Vladimir Grammatikov "All the opposite", where Mikhail Efremov and Olga Mashna played in love with the Summary of Senigods of Andrei and Natasha. In 1986, the Drama "Travechik" was published on the scenario of Pavel Lungina on the confrontation of the self-taughtness of Kostlin (Valery of acceptors) and an official of Zbruev (Alexander Zbruev).
The first film director removed in 40 years. It was a "taxi-blues" melodrama. At the base of the plot - 2 people whom fate brought together. One is a taxi driver, the second is a spoke musician. Peter Zhenchenko and Peter Mamonov played the main characters. The film operator was Denis Evstigneev. At the Cannes Festival in 1990, the tape was awarded award for the best director.
In the same 1990, Pavel Lungn moved to live in France. For Russian cinema, it was a difficult period, but Pavel Semenovich managed to find the opportunity to work on joint projects. In 1992, Lungin wrote a scenario to the social drama "East Roman". In the same year, the author's project "Luna Park" appeared.
In 1996, Pavel Lungin removed the criminal tragicomedy "Life Line" about the French Travel in Russia. The picture was composed of cool, unlike the next film of Lungina-Director - Comedy "Wedding", where the bride and the bride played Marat Basharov and Maria Mironova. In 2002, Pavel Semenovich issued a rating criminal film "Oligarch".
Only after 15 years, Pavel Lungin completed the French period of creative biography and returned to Russia. In his homeland, he removed the series "The Case of Dead Souls", "which used fragments of Gogol works. In the same year, the comedy "poor relatives" came out, which became the winner of the Main Prize of the Film Festival "Kinotavr".
In 2006, Lungin presented the next film "Island", in which the themes of God, sin, crime touched. In addition to the artist, Viktor Sukhorukov, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Victoria Isakov, Nina Usatova, Timofey Tribunets, starred in the film.
Soon the director's filmography was replenished with a new work - the historical drama "Tsar" about the life of Ivan the Terrible. Another bright design project is the detective series "Motherland" about the confrontation of the Major Bragin returned from captivity and the management of the FSB, where they investigated the version of the recruitment of military terrorists.
In 2016, the film "Lady Peak" was released in the same name of Alexander Pushkin. In this film, Pavel Lungin experimented with the genre - he set forth the goal to combine the opera and mystical thriller.
Personal life
Pavel Lungin was married twice. With the first spouse, the director met at the Institute. In 1971, the young people were born the son Alexander, who went in the footsteps of the Father - first worked as a screenwriter, then began to shoot and produce films. Student marriage turned out to be fragile.
The personal life of the screenwriter and the director appeared later. With the second wife, Elena Lungin met when he was 26 years old. Elena at that time turned 17. Soon the son of Ivan was born in the family.
Elena says that in France, the family initially lived difficult, but she was accustomed to this country faster than Paul. When Vanya arrived at school in 12 years, he did not know a word in French, classmates looked at the boy with bewilderment. When Elena and Paul returned to Moscow, Ivan was already adults, but also decided to move to Russia. He is an artist, the exhibition of whose works are successfully held in their homeland and in Paris.
Stock Foto Family couples are often decorated with tabloids - Elena, together with her husband, regularly visits secular events dedicated to theater and cinema.
Pavel Lungin now
The creative life of Pavel Lungin does not stand still. Now the producer oversees the International Film Festival named after Andrei Tarkovsky "Mirror" and the Moscow Jewish Film Festival.In 2019, work was completed on the military film "Brotherhood" on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The picture in which Kirill Pirogov played, Fyodor Lavrov, Oleg Vasilkov, Anton Momot, Jan Tsaznik, was presented in early May and caused a flurry of criticism from veterans of hostilities, as well as film critics.
Despite the fact that Lungin emphasized in every interview - the film is based on real events, the film was perceived by the "Afghans" negatively. The work of the director was excluded from the program of the 41st Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF). An overview of the popular Badcomedian blogger was created about it, which also caused a lot of disputes.
After the premiere of the drama Pavel Semenovich fell into the hospital. According to his relatives, he passed a planned survey, since earlier the director began problems with the heart. But many viewers tied his appeal to doctors with the best start of his last work.
Filmography
- 1990 - "Taxi-blues"
- 1992 - "Moon Park"
- 2000 - "Wedding"
- 2002 - "Oligarch"
- 2005 - "Poor relatives"
- 2005 - "Case of" Dead Souls "
- 2006 - "Island"
- 2007 - "Lilac Branch"
- 2009 - "Tsar"
- 2012 - "Conductor"
- 2015 - "Motherland"
- 2016 - "Lady Peak"
- 2019 - "Brotherhood"