Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Alexander Kaidanovsky is a Soviet and Russian actor who is known for his work in theater and cinema. Theatergoers knew Kaidanovsky from productions at the Moscow Art Theater and at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. The creative biography of Alexander Kaidanovsky is also filled with films that were later included in the collection of Soviet classics: "One among strangers, a stranger among friends", "Stalker", "Ten Little Indians", "The Mathematician and the Devil" and others.

Also, the artist is familiar to the audience as a film director and screenwriter. Directing Kaidanovsky was taught by Tarkovsky himself, a cult Soviet director. After the death of Andrei Arsenievich, Alexander Kaidanovsky continued his studies with Sergei Alexandrovich Solovyov. Subsequently, Alexander Leonidovich himself became a teacher of directing skills. The actor worked at the Shchukin Theater School.

Actor and director Alexander Kaidanovsky was born on July 23, 1946 in Rostov-on-Don. His childhood fell on the difficult post-war years. The boy's father worked as an engineer, and his mother worked as a director of children's performances.

From childhood, Alexander grew up as a freedom-loving child, his character was complex. The boy made decisions himself, was in constant search, did not recognize anyone's power.

In 1960, the parents divorced. Alexander Kaidanovsky lived with his mother for several months, and then decided to live with his father and his new wife. After eight years, he left for Dnepropetrovsk to study as an electric welder, but a year later he realized that this was not his profession.

Alexander took the documents from the technical school and entered the Rostov School of Arts. And again his explosive nature prevented him: he quarreled with the director and finished the course already with another teacher - Mikhail Bushnov. Bushnov became his mentor and teacher. He later recalled that Kaidanovsky's uncontrollable character did not frighten him, moreover, they never quarreled.

In 1965, Alexander graduated from college and moved to Moscow. In the capital, he entered the Moscow Art Theater, studied for a couple of months and transferred to the Shchukin School. There Kaidanovsky met and made friends with Leonid Filatov. Filatov recalled how masterly the actor swore, how easily he spoke gangster jargon and how he talked about literature with enthusiasm all night long, demonstrating such knowledge that not every specialist can boast of.

Kaidanovsky's theatrical debut took place when he was in his second year at the Shchukin School. The student played Hamlet - in his own way, outside the box. Some critics did not like this approach to the classics, but they unconditionally recognized the intellectual game and the student's talent.

After the Shchukin school, Alexander Kaidanovsky got a job at the Theater. E. Vakhtangov. It was no coincidence that he was invited to the troupe - they predicted the role of Prince Myshkin in the play The Idiot: it did not happen. Instead, the actor played supporting roles. He endured for three years, but in 1972 his nerves gave way. Kaidanovsky resigned from the theater, saying that "the Vakhtangov corporation poisoned his love for the theater."

The hard times of lack of money began, life in a semi-basement room. Neither the actors nor the directors believed in Alexander Leonidovich. Once Mikhail Ulyanov advised him to return to Rostov and arrange his life there. Kaidanovsky did his own thing - he went to serve in the army. This decision was a turning point in his life.

Alexander Kaidanovsky served in the cavalry regiment at Mosfilm. It was then that he was invited to the film "One among strangers, a stranger among friends." In the film, he played Lieutenant Lemke and woke up famous. Lemke's image was so successful that many directors wanted to repeat it in their films. In the 70s Kaidanovsky starred in the films The Life of Beethoven, Golden River and others.

The film "Stalker" by Andrey Tarkovsky became a landmark - the actor played the main role in it. His hero turned out to be so multifaceted and ambiguous that the audience, with bated breath, watched him on television. After this role, Kaidanovsky decided to make films himself.

His first work was the film "Simple Death", which was awarded a prize at the film festival in Spain. Then Alexander Kaidanovsky made the films "The Guest" and "The Kerosene Man's Wife", played in "Breath of the Devil" and "Ten Little Black Men".

In 1992, Alexander Kaidanovsky received the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

The last acting work of the artist was the picture "Wedding March", released in 1995. This film was released as part of a film almanac called "The Arrival of the Train". In the same year, the last work of Alexander Kaidonovsky appeared as a director. It turned out to be not a film or even a short film, but a music video. In 1995 Kaidanovsky became the director of the music video for the song "Garson No. 2" by B. B. Grebenshchikov and the musical group "Aquarium".

In the 90s, the actor stopped filming and acting - he said that the era of bad cinema had come. The artist made his living by writing scripts, lecturing on script courses. In the last years of his life, Alexander Leonidovich began working on the film "Climbing to Erhard", but never finished it.

Kaidanovsky was married four times, but only three children were born in all four marriages, one child each from different wives in the first three marriages. The actor met his first wife Irina in Rostov, where they signed, and moved to Moscow together. Their marriage lasted nine years - it was a difficult time. As a result, the couple broke up. In this marriage, a daughter was born to Alexander Kaidanovsky.

His second wife was actress Evgenia Simonova. The marriage lasted 5 years. Kaidanovsky and Simonova have a daughter, Zoya. She followed in her parents' footsteps and became an actress.

The third wife of the actor is Natalya Sudakova. In this marriage, Alexander had a son, Andrei. The son followed practically in the footsteps of his father, but became an artist not in cinema, but in ballet. Andrei studied at the Moscow Choreographic School, then the young man continued his studies of choreography abroad.

Kaidanovsky's son studied at ballet schools in the Austrian St. Pölten and Vienna, as well as in German Stuttgart. Andrey stayed in Austria even after his studies. After completing his studies, the young artist was recruited to the Shtatsoper ballet in Vienna.

The actor divorced his third wife shortly before his death, and three weeks before the tragic day he signed with Inna Pivars.

The fourth wife was 26 years younger than him. She was just starting her acting career. Before the wedding, they met for two years.

For a long time, the actor lived in a communal apartment. In mid-1995, the artist finally received a long-awaited order for his own housing and an invitation to the jury at the Festival de Cannes. Unfortunately, the master's health was already undermined.

Alexander Kaidanovsky suffered two heart attacks in a row. On the morning of December 3, 1995, the actor had a third heart attack, which caused the death of Alexander Kaidanovsky.

The grave of Alexander Kaidanovsky is located on the tenth site of the Kuntsevsky cemetery in Moscow. Three years after this tragic event in memory of the work of Alexander Kaidanovsky, director E. V. Tsymbal presented the biographical film "Stalker's Dreams".

In 2000, the first book was published, which described the biography of the actor "Star tragedies: mysteries, fate and death" by Razzakov. And two years later, the publishing house "Iskusstvo" published another biographical book about the artist "Alexander Kaidanovsky. In memories and photographs ”.

Colleagues of the actor said that there was some kind of secret in Kaidanovsky, on the screen and in the direction of the artist was unique. It was possible to join the secret of Kaidanovsky, but no one managed to unravel the secret of the actor's charm and uniqueness, either during the artist's life or after his death.

1967 - "Anna Karenina" 1970 - "A Quiet Day at the End of the War" 1972 - "The Fourth" 1973 - "The Collapse of Engineer Garin" 1974 - "At home among strangers, a stranger among friends" 1975 - "The Lost Expedition" 1975 - "Under the Roofs of Montmartre "1975 -" Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat "1978 -" The Life of Beethoven "1979 -" Bodyguard "1979 -" Stalker "1981 -" ​​And I am with you again "1982 -" Chair "1992 -" Breath of the Devil "1995 -" Confession to a Stranger "

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