Biography
Alexander Korshunov - Soviet and subsequently Russian actor of the theater and cinema, People's Artist of Russia. In addition, Alexander Korshunov was realized as a theater director and teacher, and also headed the Moscow Drama Theater "Sphere".
Alexander Korshunov was born in Moscow and became the successor of the famous acting dynasty. Grandpa Artist Ilya Sudakov and Grandma Claudia Elansky entered the chronicle of domestic theater activities as truly legendary artists. Their daughter, Mother Alexander, Ekaterina Elansky was a director and founder of the "Sphere" theater. The boy's father - People's Artist of the USSR Viktor Korshunov, the star of the Soviet films "Street without end" and "Blow! Still a blow! ", For a long time was the director of the Small Theater.
It is unlikely that Korshunov would have walked through another path, except for artistic, having such creative relatives. Nevertheless, the talents of the little Sasha went beyond the framework of acting reincarnation. In preschool age, his art gift was manifested. The boy drew a lot and enthusiasm, but becoming older, moved from the drawings to the painting. But later the theater still won and Alexander began to study at the actor.
Films and theater
Alexander Korshunov graduated from the MCAT Studio School, after which he immediately got into the troupe of the Moscow New Drama Theater. When the mother of the actor founded in 1981 the Dramatic Theater "Sphere", Korshunov began to put the performances on the stage of this theater and play in production itself. After the death of Catherine Ilyinichna, Alexander took the place of his mother and took over the leadership of the brainchild of Elansky. In parallel, the artist sometimes acts in the performances of the Small Theater.
Since Alexander Korshunov - a highly fired specialist, the artist invited to teach acting skills to the Higher Theater School named after Schepkin, where Korshunov had already achieved the title of professor. From under the wing of the People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Anton Khabarov, Igor Petrenko, Georgy Dronov and others were published.
The cinematic biography, Alexander Korshunov, began with a "key" youth comedy. Then he starred in very popular films "Portrait of the artist's wife" and "I can not say" goodbye ". He also enjoyed the success of a psychological detective "Additional arrives at the second way." But the main part of Korshunov filmography of 1980-90 is occupied by TV links, that is, the actor's theater performances shot on the film.
Much more became an actor to appear on the screen in the new century. He played a medical expert Ilkovsky in an extreme detective "Return of Mukhtar", Feldscher Smirnova in the classic Melongue Drama, Magnifier Maximovich in the adaptation of Lermontov "Pechorina" authorized from Moscow in a mystical thriller "Save our souls", a lonely artist in the tragicomedy "Dove" .
Also, Alexander Korshunova's game can be observed in the drama "Petya on the road to the kingdom of heavenly", the military-patriotic tape "Brest Fortress", a criminal detective "Black Wolves", a dramatic history of love against the background of the Caribbean crisis "Third World War".
In 2014, Alexander Korshunov fulfilled the role of Father of the Main Hero (Artem Bystrov) in the social drama "Fool". The director of the painting was the famous by witty films Yuri Bulls.
The film, like other director works, shows the fate of a "little man" in his opposition system. The plumbing mechanic notices the crack, walking through the wall of the house and the threatening life of his inhabitants, and he tries to save anyone suspects. But it turns out that the authorities are not important residents of communal in the poor area, money for repairs is already divided, and fraudulent schemes are already checked.
Against the background of this problem, an intra-day drama unfolds. Close hero, among whom Korshun's character, against the latter altruism and are ready to go and city, just to preserve their own prosperity life.
The picture received world popularity and was shown at several international festivals. Also, "Fool" received a prize of the name of Gorin for the best scenario and a diploma of the Guild of Kinovydov and film critics with the wording "for the uncompromising artistic statement" at the Film Festival "Kinotavr".
Also, the film won three prizes at the Film Festival in Locarno, the second prize of the 8th Warsaw Festival of Russian Cinema Satellite "Satellite of Poland", Grand Prix and two premiums of the European Cinema Film Festival in Grenoble and the main prize of the Trans-Baikal Film Festival. In addition, the picture received two filmmakes "Nika".
In 2015, the adventure picture "Territory" was released on the screens. The film takes place in 1960 in the extreme north-east of the USSR. The group of engineers works on the territory under Magadan, where the gold is looking for the country. Despite the fact that only tin, devoted to the work of the heroes are ready to take a chance and put on horseback careers to find gold.
The film's plot is based on real events, and the heroes shown in the film are real people who were still able to find the gold deposit, and the grand scale.
Personal life
With the future wife, Alexander Korshunov met in the late 70s. This happened in the new dramatic theater, where the actor worked, and Olga Semenovna Leonov operated the duties of the theater artist. Then the woman was married to another person, and she had no novel with Korshunov.
Much later, young people reached each other, after a dangerous situation on the sea together. Sharing acute experiences during a storm in which they almost died, Alexander and Olga realized that they would like to be together, and since then were inseparable. Two children were born in the family - Son Stepan and Daughter Claudia. Both became actors, and Claudia Korshun even studied at his own father in the Shchepkinsky Theater School.
About Alexander Korshunova's personal life is known to a little. The actor leads a quiet life, does not hit the viewers of scandals or legal proceedings and, unlike younger colleagues, does not talk about his own daily life in social networks or in "Instagram".
Alexander Korshunov now
In 2017, Alexander Korshunov appeared in the secondary role of a doctor in the hospital in the adventure drama "Time of First" about the first way out of people in open space during the technological and cosmic race between the United States and the USSR. The main roles in the picture were played by Konstantin Khabensky and Evgeny Mironov.
Interestingly, the protagonist of the film is the famous Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who became the first person who came out of the rocket in open space, acted as a scientific consultant for the painting.
The film was clearly positive feedback, in which film critics praised special effects, the slightness and logical of the plot, and the average, where the critics were noted a certain straightness, as well as the political painting of the picture. But, despite the fact that the negative reviews of critics did not receive the film, in the hire "time of the first" spoke unsuccessfully, and the first weekend of the film in charge was the worst for several years on the estimates of cinemas.
Also in 2017, Alexander Korshunov played in the comedy melodrama "Mill and Lophukh". Here the actor again met on the set with Konstantin Khabensky. The film tells about the metropolitan veterinarian-zoopsychologist, who, after the conflict with a rich client, runs away with his family to the village. Now the Moscow vet has to conquer respect and the location of the fellow villagers.
Filmography
- 1981 - "Portrait of the artist's wife"
- 1982 - "I can not say" goodbye "
- 2003 - "Return of Mukhtara"
- 2004 - Melonga
- 2007 - "Lenin's Testament"
- 2009 - "Pete on the road to the kingdom of heaven"
- 2008 - "Dove"
- 2010 - "Brest Fortress"
- 2011 - "Black Wolves"
- 2012 - "emergency (emergency)"
- 2013 - "Third World War"
- 2013 - "Two Winters and Three Summer"
- 2014 - "Fool"
- 2017 - "Time of First"
- 2017 - "Digka and Lophh"