Habit of getting married
It was a sin for Alexander to complain - he received love in full. They say that women fell in front of him and “stacked themselves in piles.” A tall, gray-eyed, blond man with a piercing gaze and magnetic charm, Kuznetsov probably knew how to create a life for his loved ones that was pleasant in all respects. And how many women he had, hardly anyone can say for sure.
Officially he was married three times. I walked down the aisle for the first time at the age of 21 with actress Lyudmila Sobko (they played together in the “Comrade” propaganda theater). The marriage produced a son, Daniel . But Alexander soon fell in love with fellow student Zhanna Tokarskaya . Yulia Rutberg appeared . He graduated from Shchuka, she just entered. And immediately... “fell in love.”
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“There is a tradition at the school: the first year is served by the fourth,” Yulia told me years later. “We ironed their costumes and set up decorations. In a word, they communicated so closely that three first-year girls immediately fell in love with the fourth-year students. After which Ksyusha Strizh with Igor Minaev and Sasha and I got married, and Kolya Stotsky and Ira Klimova were close to this... Nevertheless, everyone later separated.
It was, of course, impossible to predict this. Sasha and Yulia organized a real student wedding: with skits, congratulations, and cheerful revelry. We lived with Yulia’s parents on Smolenskaya Square - opposite the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They studied, worked (Kuznetsov, while still a student at Shchuka, ended up at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya), gave birth to Grisha . And they were happy...
Kuznetsov Alexander Vsevolodovich (II)
Born on May 21, 1935 in Moscow. After graduating from school, he entered the economics department of the Gubkin Moscow Petroleum Institute, but after studying there for two years, he took his documents and became a student at the acting department of GITIS on the course of Joseph Raevsky.
After graduating from the institute in 1959, Alexander Kuznetsov was accepted into the Moscow Theater of Miniatures, where he worked as an actor and director. The craving for directing led the actor to the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors, after which in 1970 Kuznetsov worked as a director in various theaters across the country. In Tiraspol they staged Bulgakov’s “Heart of a Dog,” and on the small stage of the Gogol Theater they staged “An Incident at the Zoo” by Edward Albee. During the same period, Kuznetsov led various folk theater groups.
Alexander Kuznetsov’s film debut took place in 1959 with Grigory Chukhrai in “The Ballad of a Soldier,” where the actor created a vivid image of the bastard and grabber Gavrilkin, the sentry guarding the train. Among the actor’s best works: Slava (“Morning Trains”), the sentry (“His Excellency’s Adjutant”), Uncle Brownie (“There, on Unknown Paths”).
Alexander Kuznetsov’s film career includes two directorial works, produced together with Oscar Nikich - the television films “Children” (1970) and “Near the Black Sea” (1975). Kuznetsov is also the author of the script (together with Ina Tumanyan) of the film “When I Become a Giant” (1978).
From 1976 to 1984, Alexander Kuznetsov taught at VGIK - first in the acting course of Alexey Batalov, and then in the directing course of Marlen Khutsiev.
Since the mid-80s, Alexander Vsevolodovich completely switched to literary activity. He wrote a number of plays, which were staged in various theaters across the country. Since 1994, Alexander Kuznetsov has been a member of the Russian Writers' Union. Author of the books “Cheerful and Despite Contrary” and “Embracing the Past - Into the Future.”
movie roles 1986 My dearly beloved detective :: member of the bachelors club 1983 Comet :: Gruzilov 1982 There, on unknown paths... :: Uncle Brownie 1980 April Dreams :: Pasha 1978 When I become a giant :: literature teacher 1976 Schedule for tomorrow :: coach 1975 The price of negligence (documentary) 1975 Near the Black Sea :: Glushchenko 1974 Shoot and Dvaportfolya :: neighbor-witness 1973 Weavers :: Sasha 1972 Cipollino :: Limon's chief of staff 1971 Fifteenth Spring :: German sergeant major 1971 A soldier came from the front :: Pavlov 1970 Children (short film) :: General 1969 Plot for a short story | Lika, le grand amour de Tchekov :: Zhurkin 1969 My dad is a captain :: brawler 1969 Day and whole life :: worker 1969 His Excellency's adjutant :: guard Antosha 1968,1970,1971 Liberation :: cook Gulya 1965 Foreigner :: junior lieutenant police 1964 Hockey players :: Sasha 1964 They went to the East | Attack and Retreat | Italiani brava gente (USSR, Italy) :: cook 1963 Morning trains :: Slava 1963 Shot in the fog :: Slava 1959 Ballad of a soldier :: sentry Gavrilkin with stewed meat
Director 1975 Near the Black Sea 1970 Children (short film)
Screenwriter 1978 When I Become a Giant
Everyone chooses for themselves
Alexander's career was rapidly going uphill. He started acting in his early 20s (despite the fact that before “Pike” he studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute for five years). And at the age of 27 - thanks to Jack Vosmerkin - he gained such fame that it was... well, almost impossible not to become arrogant, not to ascend.
Alexander Kuznetsov in the film “Greetings from the Front.” 1983 Still from the film
Kuznetsov “didn’t go crazy.” It was clear that acting was his calling. And you just need to move on. Step by step. Or - step by step. This is exactly what happened to Alexander. But for this he had to refuse to work with... Gaidai . "Crazy!" - my colleagues were probably gossiping. And he just made a choice. And Leonid Iovich, to be honest, was no longer the same as before. The main role in the film “The weather is good on Deribasovskaya, or it’s raining again on Brighton Beach” went to Dmitry Kharatyan . And Kuznetsov went to real America...
“He went on a business visa to dub a movie,” Rutberg explained. - And then he called and said that he was staying. This was in 1990, and Sasha believed that our country had neither culture nor economy.
Alexander Kuznetsov in the film "Men's Anxiety." 1985 Still from the film
-Have you already broken up then?
- No, but everything was going that way. His decision was the last straw...
— Didn’t he invite you with him?
— Sasha invited me to visit, I went. But I realized that I had nothing to do there. Everything is foreign... Despite the fact that I once knew English very well. You have to be born in this country. Should I start at 25-27 years old with washing dishes? Who Sasha was here and who he became over the years there is incomparable. I am a very proud person. And I prefer to be the first in my country rather than the 1051st in America.
“I couldn’t convince her,” Alexander later admitted. And, it seems, he even regretted it... The six-year marriage ended in divorce. Everyone went their own way.
In the film "Primorsky Boulevard". 1988 Still from the film
MOVIE GAME: Alexander Kuznetsov.
Alexander Alexandrovich Kuznetsov was born on July 22, 1992 in Sevastopol.
Studied at the Kiev Theater Institute named after. Karpenko Kary, but in 2011 he moved to Moscow and entered the Gitis directing department in the workshop of Evgeniy Kamenkovich and Dmitry Krymov (a brilliant education, I think). In 2015, he was accepted into the Moscow Art Theater trainee group. Left the theater in 2017. In an interview, by the way, Sasha says that from the age of five he wanted to become a film actor, but he naively believed that you could play in films if you first worked in the theater. “I come home, having fought with children in the yard, in a marginal residential area. And on TV there are De Niro and Al Pacino. And I clearly remember that moment that I wanted to be there, with these dudes, and not all this.”
What I mean is that when hundreds of the country's most talented actors dream of working at the Moscow Art Theater, Sasha perceived it as ... an annoying necessity and, at the first opportunity, went into cinema. “I even shaved my mohawk on purpose so as not to play in the crowd.”
Let's move on to the cinema.
I really liked everything! Do you love Russian cinema as much as I love it... There are hearts here... and in general I’m writing on Valentine’s Day!
What follows will be chaotic, I don’t know how, I can’t clearly formulate the film’s message, emotions, etc.
So, don’t judge strictly, let’s go!
The first film. Great poetry. 2021. Director Alexander Lungin, cameraman Vsevolod Kantur.
Kinotavr Prize for Best Actor and Prize for Best Director.
So, don’t be a fool here.
I liked the film. He is honest, authorial, sincere. This movie. Although this boyish war game is far from me and incomprehensible, I liked the general feeling of talent.
Two friends, former participants in hostilities in Donetsk and Lugansk, live in a residential area of Moscow. They work in a private security company, guarding a bank under the command of a former company commander. Vitya is our Sasha, and Lekha is the actor Alexey Filimonov. Darling asks for drive, they write poetry, and Lekha is still playing cockfights somewhere in the same area. Well, he lost, of course, he didn’t repay the debt, because he had nothing to do with it and was put on the counter.
The film was beautifully shot. Against the backdrop of dirty landscapes and urban high-rise buildings, truly Shakespearean passions take place. I really liked this contrast!
Our Sasha. Very laconic, mostly silent and close-up eyes. Static. But here, too, without irony. So you believe him, you believe that’s all.
Let's move on to the second film.
Acid.2018. Director Alexander Gorchilin, cameraman Ksenia Sereda (special respect!).
“not a film, but a solid Gogol Center” (this is from the comments on Kino-theater dot ru.)
“Sasha and Petya live the reckless life of musicians in modern techno Moscow: loud parties, a wheel of unstable relationships with others and with themselves. But suddenly an event occurs in their lives that forces them both to take an honest look at themselves.” Sasha plays Petya, and Sasha is played by Philip Avdeev. Awards and how we got there again! Kinotavr, Alexander Gorchilin. Best debut.
Now I'll tell you. I watched Acid a year ago, at home, of course, in parallel with the phone. verdict - well, young people are filming something there, filming, no, but there is something
The other day I watched Kuznetsov’s interview at White Studio with Daria Zlatopolskaya. For the Movie Game. There are plans to review “well, this Acid.” And Sasha says that he acted purely as an actor. This whole story is not close to him, he grew up in a different environment, what the film is about is Gorchilin, etc. And I recently reviewed it and was shocked at how accurate and wise everything was.
The most amazing thing is that I had the same effect. I was dumbfounded, dumbfounded, the effect of low expectations.
How did I not see all this right away! How the movie was made! Ksenia Sereda, cameraman, you are my idol! This is the harsh style of the cinema of the 60s, only the faces of the actors, the camera follows on their heels, only dialogues and faces.
No hateful beautiful pictures, panoramic filming, where people or super heroes are just a background. Either something happened in the universe or someone was killed.
About Sasha's game. He is silent and looks meaningfully. Static. Believe it!!!
I can't help but quote from the movie Acid.
“My father made all these sculptures, and I turn them into modern art. You take Pioneer, then we take acid. Pour water, then pour acid. This results in pioneer splitting.
- What does it mean?
- It doesn't mean anything. It's for sale. That's all. No magic. None"
Film three. "Dad, die." 2021. Director Kirill Sokolov, cameraman .. here’s a moment of attention .. Dmitry Ulyukaev. Alekseevich (shot it brilliantly!). The genre of the film was designated by Fyodor Sergeevich Bondarchuk as “youth dramedy”.
“Notorious scoundrels come to the apartment of the most vile opera in the world, Andrei Gennadievich - a vengeful daughter-actress, an embittered hooligan and a deceived cop.”
Love you. If you've read the post before, then we're on the same page.
I won’t google awards, I’m tired! I couldn’t resist, I googled it, my intuition didn’t deceive me, there were no awards. Straight to the main point - Sasha Kuznetsov plays the “embarrassed hooligan” Matvey. He is silent, his eyes are close-up, but you believe! Organic, damn it!
The film is cool, cool, black humor at its best. They went a little too far with the bloodiness, some moments were a little senseless.
Let's summarize.
Main.
Game by Alexander Alexandrovich Kuznetsov. I like. I’ll even take a swipe at the sacred for the sake of a nice word, but to be so silent and organic in the frame and understand everything and don’t need words - for me only Yankovsky could.
Also. I watched it like Hello, Andrey, about Yuri Stoyanov. There Boyarsky tells him: “It’s so good that there are still actors like you.” And not this muttering realism, thank you, Yura!”
My “thank you, Yura” is actor Evgeniy Syty in the role of a former company commander in the film Great Poetry
and actor Mikhail Gorevoy as Evgenich in the film Dad, Die!
I also watched interviews with Alexander Kuznetsov in the programs White Studio with Daria Zlatopolskaya and Kino in detail with Fyodor Bondarchuk. My opinion coincided with what Fedor exclaimed at the end of the program - I discovered a completely different person!
A few quotes.
How to choose a role
- “The main thing is that the character is a derivative of my inner qualities - tough, brave, emotionally sensitive and sentimental”
-Recently, my favorite heroes were Pechorin, Cyrano de Bergerac, and the heroes of Jack London. “And now I’m trying to return to the world of Disneyland and Harry Potter.” “I want to go to Disneyland, but instead I’m at Big Poetry.”
“Why don’t we live like in the TV series Friends and enjoy cocoa and marshmallows?”
“I am a rude person and a bit of a gop. But, I want to be a very, very intelligent person.” He gives an example - not an officer at war, but a ship’s doctor on a ship. Not to fight, but to save.
“I want to make art like Mercury, but at the same time be Will Smith” and a family man).
- “Are you Will Smith or Kurt Cobain?”
- “I’m nobody yet”
The stars are nearby
For Kuznetsov it was thorny. I had to improve my English to the level where I was no longer ashamed to go on stage. And still he did not grab the stars from the sky. He remained a Russian emigrant. Whose destiny is mainly the roles of former compatriots.
Fortunately, Alexander managed to get into decent Hollywood projects. In the USSR, he starred with Evstigneev, Gundareva, Dzhigarkhanyan, Gaft . In America, he worked on the same set with Sylvester Stallone, George Clooney, Clint Eastwood, Nicole Kidman, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Sandra Bullock ... And meeting Meryl Streep simply changed his life. A private conversation resulted in an acting lesson. Which he then generously shared with his students.
In the film “The Ice Runner” (USA), 1992. Still from the film
“I have never felt disdain for myself because I am Russian,” said Alexander. Sometimes the entire film crew applauded him. It happened that his episode was filmed in the first take. And when he uttered one phrase “Yes, ah no” in front of the camera (they didn’t offer anything else!), director Clint Eastwood decided to change the script and extended the contract for a whole month. At Warner Bros. studio!
In short, for a person not born in America, everything was going well. Alexander attended acting schools. Then he started teaching himself. He went to the registry office again, choosing as his wife the Russian emigrant Anna Aitova , whom he met on the set. The third son was born - Ivan ...
However, this marriage was not destined to last long - Anna found a replacement for Alexander. He believed “it is natural that partners outgrow each other. We grow up, we get wiser, we change.” One thing was upsetting: at first Anna forbade him to see his son. But then everything got better, Alexander enjoyed spending time with the baby. In addition, from the age of 14, the elder Daniil lived with him in Los Angeles...
In the film “The Alaska Kid” (USA), 1993. Still from the film
Return
And suddenly, having lived in America for 18 years, Alexander began an epic journey of... returning to his homeland. The role of Jack Vosmerkin became prophetic for him.
He already lived mainly in Moscow. But I still flew to Hollywood for work. Although in Russia they began to actively invite him to filming. Performances appeared at the Film Actor Theater. Kuznetsov founded an international film school, launched a reality show, conducted trainings, and taught at the Moscow Art Theater School. I was also involved in business... It feels like I was in a hurry. I wanted to make the most of it. Even though the return home was forced: business near Nizhny Novgorod, divorce in the USA, mother’s illness in Moscow...
In the film "Capercaillie-2". 2009 Still from the film
Maybe he took on an unbearable burden? How else can we perceive the blatant injustice that a bright, kind man, a strong, healthy man who went in for sports, yoga and tango, ended his earthly journey at 59 years old?
After all, there was a beloved woman ( Kristina Tatarenkova from the advertising business). And, it seems, he was happy. Seven and a half years...
At some point, having returned to Moscow, Kuznetsov thought about returning to Rutberg ( she had difficulties Anatoly Lobotsky “I thought that I would hardly meet a better woman... I tested the waters very carefully, but it was not possible to enter the same river a second time.”
In 2012, he admitted that he was preparing for his wedding with Christina. That same year, Grisha's son gave birth to his first grandson... Everything went on as usual. Maybe even better than many.
Alexander Kuznetsov with Kristina Tatarenkova, 2015. Photo: RIA Novosti/Vitaly Belousov
Theater
On the professional stage, Kuznetsov made his debut in the play “Oh. Late Love" (dir. Dmitry Krymov), which has been staged at the School of Dramatic Art theater since 2014.
Alexander Kuznetsov in the play “Oh. Late love"
In 2015, at the stage of the directing department of GITIS, Alexander staged the play “Players” based on the play by N.V. Gogol, in which he played one of the leading roles. The performance was performed there until the team graduated from the institute, and later on the New Stage of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, in the theater and other theater venues in the capital.
Alexander Kuznetsov in the play “Players”
Since 2015, the actor has been involved in the production of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov's "Rebels" and the theatrical concert "Night of Lovers". At the beginning of 2021, Kuznetsov worked on a new play “Odyssey”. According to the artist, only the plot remained from Homer’s poem in the production.
Faith Hope Love
But fate loves chess. White starts. And sometimes black people win.
In 2014, suspecting a health problem, the actor went to get examined and heard something terrible: “grade 2-3 prostate cancer.” There was no time to hesitate for a day. The tumor was immediately removed. Alexander underwent radiation therapy. But there was no improvement. He decided on unconventional methods of treatment. And I flew to a Brazilian healer twice. Relatives tried to dissuade me. But the actor believed in the correctness of his path. He even came on television to tell the truth. I believed that everything would be fine. He admitted that the disease must be accepted “as a sign of God... And begin to change.”
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Unfortunately, faith in the best did not save Alexander. In 2018, Christina left him. And then, out of nowhere, the masseuse Maria Stanko appeared, who quickly moved to live with the actor. A woman who left her legal husband in Ukraine to “unwind” in Russia.
The Irony of Fate
June 2019. In the studio of the popular TV show, Maria could neither sit nor remain silent. She got up and walked around. She screamed and waved her arms. It seemed like another minute and she would attack all the women in the hall - ex-lovers, friends, students of Alexander Kuznetsov. The 44-year-old woman, who had devoted herself to acting for the last nine months and then took it upon herself to call herself a widow, blamed everyone. Including employees of the “secret laboratory in Dubna”, who allegedly tested the latest drugs for the treatment of cancer on Alexander. And they killed him...
In the film "Sabre Dance". 2021 Still from the film
Sadly, it all looked like a well-rehearsed performance with a decent fee. Otherwise, why would there be a camera at the ready behind the scenes, like a piano in the bushes, filming how Maria throws accusations at Alexander’s ex-wives, and Yulia Rutberg, unable to stand it, breaks down on the mat...
Such performances have long become a bad tradition on our TV: as soon as they bury a famous person (not even 40 days have passed since Kuznetsov’s death) - and pandemonium begins: showdowns with wives, children, mistresses, inheritance... And, it seems, no one is interested in the fact that a good person and the strong artist left behind a good hundred film roles.
Kuznetsov loved his work. He loved three handsome sons. Yes, I just loved life. In which there had to be women. Shortly before his death, he admitted that he developed a malignant tumor due to excess testosterone. Such is the irony of fate. Bitter...
