Fedor Bondarchuk

On May 9, 1967, Fedor Bondarchuk, actor, director, TV presenter was born

Personal business

Fedor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (53 years) was born in Moscow in the family of director Sergei Bondarchuk and actress Irina Skobtseva. He was the second child in the family (older sister Alena Bondarchuk played in the theater and cinema).

He studied at the 31st Moscow special school with an in-depth study of the English language. He studied badly. Due to the fact that the father was often on business trips, and the mother was constantly on the set, the upbringing of Fedor and his sister was engaged in grandmother Yulia Nikolaevna. According to Bondarchuk, she saw in him the future architect or opera singer - Fedor painted well and even graduated from the art school.

In 1985, he entered the VGIK at the directing department of the faculty. A year later, he went into the army. After demobilization in 1987, he returned to the institute, starred in the film epic "Stalingrad" with his teacher Yuri Ozerov.

Together with Bondarchuk, the course of Ozerov in 1991 was completed by Ivan Okhlobystin, Alexander Bashirov, Mikhail Mukasey.

After graduating from VGIK, Bondarchuk with a childhood friend Stepan Mikhalkov and Sergei Kozhevnikov founded the first in the country the company for the production of Video clips "Art Pictures Group". In 1993, the company launched a festival of advertising and video clips “Generation” (held in 1998). Over ten years of work, Bondarchuk shot videos for songs of many Russian pop groups and performers, including Boris Grebenshchikov, Alla Pugacheva, Kristina Orbakaite, Vladimir Presnyakov Jr., Angelica Varum. In 1993 he was awarded the Ovation Prize.

“I worried people because I am the son of the great Soviet director. And suddenly he took up a completely incomprehensible business. Then no one understood what a video or clip was. Famous directors saw in such work only money and forms that are not worthy of the artists. But if you look from a professional point of view, here you can create and experiment with everything: image, installation! Father liked it, ”the director recalled.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, he starred in the cinema. In 1993, the film “Angels of Death” appeared with his participation. In the same year, Bondarchuk made his debut as a director - he shot the benefit of Lyudmila Gurchenko, the film “I love”. In 2001, he played in the film “Down House”-a film adaptation based on the “idiot” of Dostoevsky. “I like Myshkin madly. I look like him in the interpretation of Vanya Okhlobystin. At first I did not believe it, but Kachanov and Vanya convinced me. I am a kind, modest and executive person. And after two hours of conversation with them I became Myshkin, ”he responded about the role.

In 2002, Art Pictures Group began production of films. In 2006, Bondarchuk, together with producer Dmitry Rudovsky, renamed her at Art Pictures Studio. Bondarchuk became the artistic director and owner of the studio, who took up the producing, filming and promotion of the films “Heat”, “Inhabited Island”, “Inhabited Island”, “Two Days”, “Stalingrad” and others.

Bondarchuk met with the future wife, Svetlana Rutskaya in 1986 during military service. Svetlana - TV presenter, editor -in -chief of Hello! The couple lived together for 30 years. In March 2016, the couple decided to part and submitted documents for divorce.

Bondarchuk's new love was Paulina Andreeva, with whom he began to meet in the fall of 2015. At the end of March 2016, it became known that the couple was preparing for the wedding.

Bondarchuk from his first marriage has a son Sergey (1991) and daughter Barbara (2001).

What is famous

Fedor Bondarchuk - director of the cash register Russian films “9 company”, “Inhabited island”, “Stalingrad”. His paintings are often awarded Russian “Nika” and “Golden Eagle”.

It is often removed in domestic ribbons, mainly in episodic roles or cameo. Of the most memorable acting work-Prince Myshkin in the “Daun House”, Major Nikolai Rebrov (Pasechnik) in the series “Male Work”, and Khokhol in the “9th company”.

“In my diploma, VGIK says that I am a director. There is already Bondarchuk in the big movie, I don’t even want to try to create something more significant, simultaneously proving that I am worth something too. Therefore, in the cinema, I shoot more often than I shoot, ”he noted.

Bondarchuk is a famous TV presenter, the face of the STS channel. He led the television show “Armchair”, the reality show “You are a supermodel”, the program “Cinema in Details”. In 2003, he was awarded TEFI as the best host of the entertainment program (“chair”), since 2004 he is a member of the Russian Television Academy of the Academy.

Fedor Bondarchuk is also a well-known film and television producer (TV shows "Youth" and "Survive after" on STS).

He is the laureate of the Nick Award (2006 - for the film "9 company") and three Golden Eagle awards (2006, 2011, 2016).

What you need to know about

In October 2012, Fedor Bondarchuk became chairman of the Board of Directors of Lenfilm. He is also a co -owner of the Kinositi company, which creates a network of film clubs in Russia, and, together with Konstantin Ernst and Ilya Bachurin, - the Glavkino film studio.

In addition, Bondarchuk has a share in the restaurant business. According to Forbes , in Moscow it is “Vanil”, “Vertinsky” (now closed), Bistrot and confectionery “Bulka”. In Yekaterinburg-restaurants "Paparazzi" and Paparazzi-Express, Sushi-bar "Origami" and confectionery.

Direct speech:

About admission to VGIK: “This is probably one of the main decisions of the father. Because in childhood, he practically did not take part in the formation of my hobbies: art school, circles - it was all without it. And with VGIK it turned out quite hard - he got behind the wheel, came to MGIMO, where I wanted to go and drove me to VGIK. I then told him: "Maybe I don’t need, I still go into the army for two years. Do you want to try in two years?" And he replies: "No, now." After all, I really went into the army and, by and large, I did not care, because I could go even into exploration. ”

About the wife of Svetlana Bondarchuk: “She studied at school when we met. I saw and immediately realized that it was my woman. And she says, immediately felt: "This guy will be my husband!" <...> Svetlana socially connected person. Very. We have a swamp square every morning at breakfast. ”

About fights : “We had the entire course exceptionally pungent. There was one wonderful brewer next to the institute, and when everyone received a scholarship, they carried it there without fail. On the ground floor there often walked gypsies, and on the second - our student international. And then, when we started singing, then after the first five or six songs, the musical people usually rose to us and asked to stop ... “Don’t eat, black raven” usually all began for some reason. The chairs began to fly, blood sprayed on the dishes ... Fun! A rare month did without close communication with doctors from the traumatic center and good police officers. And now ... Now you need to try very hard to get me out of my extent that I get into a fight. Probably, if you insult a woman with me, rude with her - here I can break. ”

About scraps: “I believe that the country should have a national idea. That the anthem, flag, military duty, patriotism, the memory of ancestors are very, very important. That in schools you need to introduce a religious education, because it helps children to become better, more honest and more decent. That a real citizen must sacrifice himself if his country is in danger, since the citizen’s debt is often higher than human rights. Apparently, I did not liberal, but the fact is that I actually believe in it. At one time, I went to the army for two years - you think I did not have the opportunity to echo? Father and mother, of course, really did not want to let me go there, but I would not respect myself if I had not fulfilled my duty. ”

7 facts about Fedor Bondarchuk:

• By his own admission of Fedor, the most beloved film created by his father Sergei Bondarchuk - “They fought for their homeland,” dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad.
• In 2005, when the “Ninth company” was released on the screens, the recruitment in the Airborne Forces troops increased, the director claims.
• Bondarchuk admits that Stalingrad is his best picture: “Twenty -four hours of happiness per day. On the way to shoot I yelled songs in the car. ”
• The director is not excitement. “I never played in a casino, never argued for money. I always lose, ”he explains.
• He was a confidant of Vladimir Putin in the 2012 presidential election.
• He became one of the hundreds of Russian culture figures who signed an open letter in support of the members of the Pussy Riot group convicted of Punk-Moleben.
• In January 2016, he supported Ramzan Kadyrov with the slogan “#Kadyrov - Patriot of Russia”. This performance caused a public outcry

Materials about Fedor Bondarchuk:

Biography on the site "Find out everything"

Biographical certificate on the website "Russia 1"

Article about Fedor Bondarchuk in Wikipedia