Andrey Haritonov

He was called the most handsome man in the Soviet Union and the sex symbol of the 1980s. After playing the leading role in the movie "The Gadfly", he woke up famous throughout the country. Andrey Igorevich Kharitonov was born in Kiev in 1959. There were no artists in his family. Mom worked as a teacher, and dad as an engineer.

The parents took their work seriously and demanded the same attitude from their son to study and life. They wanted to see Andrey as an architect, because he studied excellently at a physics and mathematics school and was good at drawing.

However, the wishes of the parents and the son did not coincide. After all, at the age of 4 the boy, having watched "Fanfan-Tulip", was so fascinated by what was happening on the screen that he could not think of anything else. Therefore, after graduating from school, he took the matriculation certificate to a theater university. Andrey entered the Institute named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary on the first try, choosing the acting department.

The cinematic biography of Andrei Kharitonov began in his student years. At 19, the guy appeared in an episode of the film "Citizen Nikanorova is waiting for you." And the next 1979 he got a larger role in Nikita Mikhalkov's film "A few days in the life of II Oblomov."

Before the finale of training in the theater, the young artist was suddenly overcome by doubts about the correctness of the chosen path. And when the desire to leave the university and transfer to the architectural department of the art institute matured completely, fate presented the young man with a generous gift in the form of a star role, which became his hallmark for decades. Director Nikolai Mashchenko invited Kharitonov to play Rivares in the film adaptation of Ethel Lilian Voynich's novel The Gadfly.

The first day of filming coincided with the actor's 20th birthday. Mom came to congratulate her son on the set and saw him chained in a cave. At the same time, the group just left for lunch, forgetting about the chained Kharitonov. The indignant woman was "reassured" by the head of the dressing room, saying that a real artist must go through all the circles of hell to become a professional.

The role was interesting but challenging. Fortunately, the partners on the set were the stars of the Soviet screen - Sergei Bondarchuk and Anastasia Vertinskaya. Their advice helped the aspiring actor a lot.

After the release of the drama on the screens, Andrei Kharitonov woke up famous. The Gadfly brought him the Golden Nymph Prize at the International Film Festival in Monte Carlo in 1981, as well as the Taras Shevchenko State Prize in Ukraine. And also - the title of a sex symbol and bags of letters from female fans from all over the USSR.

After this picture, offers generously fell on the young artist. The following year, the actor got the role of an icon painter in the film "Yaroslav the Wise". The next wave of audience love "covered" the Kiev artist after the release of the films "On the Pomegranate Islands" and "Assol". The romantic Gray performed by Andrey Kharitonov was amazingly handsome.

In the same 1982, another successful tape was released - the rock opera The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta. Brave gold digger Joaquin, courageous and noble, is another brilliant image in the gallery of the artist's romantic heroes.

The role of Lance Fontescue in the film "The Secret of the Blackbirds" brought Kharitonov to new heights. It seems that after the release of the tape in the Soviet Union there was not a single woman left who did not fall in love with Andrei Kharitonov. In the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel "A Pocket Full of Rye", the actor's partners were Natalia Danilova, Elena Sanaeva, Lyubov Polishchuk, Yuri Belyaev.

In the same year, Kharitonov got the opportunity to reincarnate in the protagonist of Jan Fried's adventure melodrama "Free Wind". Yanko's character - a sailor, an undaunted rebel, falls in love with the first beauty of the town Stella (Larisa Belogurova). Isaac Dunaevsky wrote the music for the film.

The artist himself claimed that he did not feel his stardom. At the time, even popular actors' fees were extremely modest. For a fee from the "Gadfly" he could buy only half of a "Zhiguli" car, and for work in "The Secret of the Blackbirds" - a whole car. The maximum that fame gave him was the opportunity to buy a box of champagne "by pull".

In 1984, Andrei Kharitonov took part in the sci-fi film The Invisible Man. In the film, the artist got the key image of the scientist Jonathan Griffin, whose invention brings him fame, and then turns into a tragedy.

Andrei Kharitonov does not become a hostage to one role, but embodies characters of different characters and destinies on the screen. In the crime film The End of Operation Resident he plays an Italian, in the social drama Mom, Dear, Beloved ... he is reincarnated as the son of a mother with many children, and in the film adaptation of The Life of Klim Samgin, he plays the role of a cynical aristocrat.

Soon, the main characters follow in the drama "Here's a story ...", where Irina Alferova becomes Kharitonov's partner in the frame, and in the children's adventure film "The Secret of the Golden Breguet", in which Andrei Kharitonov gets the image of a red commissar. Interesting works in the filmography of the artist were the Russian-Japanese project "Step", the detective "The Riddle of Endhouse", the mystical drama "I'm bored, devil."

"Dashing 90s" hit the actor painfully. There were no worthy roles. As he later confessed, for five years he "drank thoroughly." He was helped to stop by a Moscow doctor, who fortunately turned out to be a professional and not a charlatan. But with the participation of the actor, significant projects of that time came out: the dramas “The Romanovs. The Crowned Family "and" Split ", dedicated to the history of Russia at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.

In 2004, Andrei Kharitonov also appeared in the melodramatic film Sins of the Fathers, in which he reincarnated as Emperor Nicholas II. The film is about a young nobleman with revolutionary views, who comes from exile to his native Moscow. But at home it turns out that the beloved is already going to marry another. Dmitry Isaev, Igor Petrenko and Ekaterina Klimova played the love triangle among themselves.

Kharitonov thought about realizing an old dream - to make a film himself. With the advent of VCRs, it became possible to watch Hollywood films. The actor, having seen enough of them, decided to try his hand at being a director. And he succeeded in full measure.

The picture "Thirst for Passion", where Anastasia Vertinskaya, Igor Kostolevsky and Viktor Rakov were involved in the main roles, received a warm audience and good criticism. For his brilliant directorial debut, Andrei Igorevich was awarded prizes at the Constellation and Literature and Film festivals. He was also awarded the Kinotavr Prize.

After the difficult 1990s, Andrei Kharitonov concentrated his energies on directing. As a stage director, he directed the projects Films of Our Memory and The Dream Factory. And he also created the author's program "Flash" and was the host of the "Introduction" program on the "Zvezda" channel.

In the new century, the star of the 1980s delighted his loyal fans by appearing in the television projects "Turkish March" and "At the corner, at the Patriarch's." In 2003, the actor starred in the detective story "The Instructor", where, in addition to him, the main roles were played by Dmitry Brusnikin, Andrey Smirnov, Victor Rakov, Ekaterina Volkova.

And in 2006, the artist appeared in the title role of the fantastic series "Young Wolfhound" directed by Oleg Fomin. The main character falls into slavery, from which there was only one way to freedom - to fight in a duel with the overseer Wolf. Alexander Bukharov and Mikhail Evlanov played rivals in the ring and in life.

Among the latest appearances of Kharitonov on the screen are secondary, but vivid images in the detective "Crackle" and the crime tape "At gunpoint". The actor also starred in the role of "Gaft" in the comedy "The Best Movie 2" and in the rating psychological series "Voices", which was produced by Konstantin Ernst and Denis Evstigneev.

Another of the works in the cinema, which made me remember this actor, is the role in the film "Lieutenant Romashov". For her, Andrei Kharitonov was awarded the title of Laureate of the XXII International Film Forum "Golden Knight".

In an interview, Andrei Kharitonov called himself not the actor who was born to die on stage. He worked at the Maly Theater for only six years. With his participation in the mid-80s, the performances "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev, "Phaedra" by Jean Racine, "Profitable Place" by Alexander Ostrovsky were released.

Later, the artist switched to participating in the entreprise. He played in the performances "Hostages of Love", where his colleagues Natalia Egorova, Svetlana Toma and Igor Bochkin, "It's All Over, Dear", "Don't Wake the Sleeping Dog" and "Cactus Flower" took to the stage with him. In the last production, he played with Irina Alferova and Alexei Panin.

Later he appeared in the performances "Doll", "Tricks of the old goat", "I'll be back". Andrei Kharitonov traveled all over Russia with the artists of the entreprise. He toured Siberia, the Far East, the Urals and other regions of the country.

The idol of the 1980s did not like to talk about personal things. As a real man, he never mentioned the names of his beloved, whom he had in his youth and at the peak of popularity there were many. There were rumors about his affair with Anastasia Vertinskaya, but the actor himself claims that this "romance" was only platonic. And he carried this sublime love for the star throughout his life. In recent years, the artists were friends and often called up.

For the last couple of decades, the personal life of Andrei Kharitonov has been associated with a woman named Olga. She is one of the fans of the star and did not intersect with the world of theater and cinema. Olga is engaged in computer technology.

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According to the actor, she is a wise woman with whom he was simple and comfortable. The wife never plagued with jealousy and did not demand an account of the day spent. The couple lived in Moscow. The spouses have no children. But the artist did not like to expand on this topic.

Kharitonov said that he loves loneliness more than anything else. Therefore, sometimes he retired in one of his apartments to stay in silence and reflect on life.

At the end of May 2018, Andrey Kharitonov was admitted to the intensive care unit of the capital clinic. According to information published in the media, the actor's health was assessed as critical. Although information about the diagnosis was not advertised, it was assumed that Andrei Kharitonov had stomach cancer. He has undergone repeated surgical interventions.

Earlier, Andrei was interested in his state of health, for which he turned to the doctor of the Treatment and Rehabilitation Center of the Ministry of Health on Ivankovskoye Highway. The actor realized that he was sick after the incessant pains appeared in the epigastric zone.

On June 23, 2019, Andrey Kharitonov died at the age of 60. Relatives confirmed the actor's long struggle with the disease, which required six operations, but turned out to be stronger.

1979 - “A few days in the life of I.I. Oblomov "1980 -" The Gadfly "1982 -" The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta "1982 -" Assol "1983 -" The Secret of the Blackbirds 1986 - "The End of Operation" Resident "1994 -" The Master and Margarita "2000 -" The Romanovs: Crowned family "2007 -" Young Wolfhound "2011 -" Island of unnecessary people "2012 -" Lieutenant Romashov "2014 -" At gunpoint "

1980 - Prize of the Central Committee of LKSMU at the All-Union Film Festival "Molodist-1980" in Kiev 1981 - Prize "Golden Nymph" for the best male role at the ITF in Monte Carlo 1982 - State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after T.G. Shevchenko 1991 - Special prize in the competition "Cinema for the elite? " at the Kinotavr Festival 1995 - Jury Prize in the Debut nomination at the Literature and Film Festival 2007 - Cavalier of the Golden Order "Serving Art" of the International Union of World Charitable Organizations 2013 - Laureate of the XXII International Film Forum "Golden Knight"

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