Alexander Konstantinovich Fatyushin is a famous theater and film actor who has the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. He was awarded the prize for best actor at the All-Union Film Festival in Riga and the Alexander Dovzhenko silver medal, and for theatrical work he was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1984. In this article we’ll talk more about the famous actor who is no longer with us, about which films he starred in and what Fatyushin Alexander was like. The cause of death, heart failure, became a real shock to everyone in 2003.
A family
March 29, 1951 in Ryazan in a simple working-class family, Alexander Fatyushin was born. My father was a driver, and my mother was a factory worker, my parents were far from the creative environment. Alexander Fatyushin has a sister and brother: he was the youngest in the family. Parents, their three children, and their mother’s brother lived in the very center of the city in an old wooden house, in a communal apartment, they had a small household farm. In addition to them, there were three more families in the apartment.
Sportsmanship
From childhood, Alexander loved football and once played in the Ryazan club Almaz. Later, he entered the football team of actors in Moscow. He was familiar with many famous athletes and was friends with goalkeeper Rinat Dasaev. The players dubbed him their talisman, because when they invited him to the match, they never lost.
In his life there was such a case: when Rinat Dasayev, by the way, who was his best friend, called Fatyushin to his wedding, the actor, of course, agreed. But then it turned out that he would not be released from the theater that day and he would need to go on stage. Of course, he was upset because of this situation, and in order to get to the celebration, he went to the trick: he asked the doctor to write him a sick leave. He attended the wedding, but nearly lost due to this work. Since he was already a well-known man by that time, the theater quickly found out where he really was that day, and almost fired him. It should be noted that Alexander Fatyushin was an avid sports enthusiast and fan, the cause of death of which, in a close and somehow fatal way, turned out to be related to his hobby.
Fatyushin also died as a fan. On that fateful day, CSKA played with Spartak. Throughout the game, the actor was very worried, and when he realized that the team lost, he became ill. When the doctors arrived, it was too late.
The first steps in an acting career
In school years, Alexander Fatyushin began to attend the drama club. By the way, at first his older brother Vasily was engaged in it, who instilled in Alexander a love of theater. He was a kind of example for his younger brother and inspired him to go to the artists too. In general, it happened. Later, Alexander Fatyushin enrolled in the theater studio of the Palace of Culture of Trade Unions. However, over time, Vasily lost interest in the theater, but his younger brother, on the contrary, firmly decided to go further along the chosen path. After graduating from the tenth grade, Sasha told his relatives that he would go to the theater. At that time, even the closest people did not believe that he would succeed. Even his sister told him that he would not be allowed to enter the theater threshold with the surname Fatyushin. He even argued with her that after 10 years everyone would know his name. Alexander Fatyushin, despite the words of his sister, did not take the pseudonym, as he was proud of his parents.
The path to acting fame was thorny and difficult, but still Alexander did not give up and continued to move towards the intended goal. Soon the talented actor Fatyushin Alexander Konstantinovich became known throughout the Soviet Union, the cause of death of which was truly a shock to his fans.
Admission to GITIS
In 1968, he came to Moscow with one intention - to become an artist. To be sure, he decided to try to enter all theatrical schools, but in the end he failed the exams everywhere. For some time after that, it seemed to him that becoming an artist was no longer fate. However, he was not going to give up, and a year later he entered GITIS on the second attempt. He got on the famous experimental course of Andrei Goncharov. In 1973 he graduated from the institute. Immediately after graduation, she begins to work at the Mayakovsky Theater, where she constantly receives interesting roles. For example, he played in such performances as "Rumor", "Running", "Napoleon".
Debut
His first work was the minor role of a business trip in the film "Three Days in Moscow" directed by Alexei Korenev. In the same year, 1974, he was offered to star in the movie "Autumn", directed by Andrei Smirnov. There he played a young guy Edik. The film became a cult and gained great popularity. In the story, the once-separated couple years later meets again: they had an uncomplicated personal life behind them, and now fate gave them another chance to be together again, now forever. Fatyushin played in this film the owner of Edik’s apartment - a young family man who decides to rent a room to the same couple. This film brought great fame to the actor.
"Spring Call"
Thanks to the role of the young guy Edik in the film "Autumn", Alexander Fatyushin began to receive offers from eminent directors. Together with Igor Kostolevsky, he was invited to the main role in the film "Spring Call", after participating in which he received an award for best male role, as well as a silver medal named after Dovzhenko. The young actors in this picture brilliantly coped with their roles and showed a great acting: Kostolevsky played a young intellectual recruiter, and Fatyushin convincingly fit into the image of Sergeant Karpenko.
The film, before entering the screens, first went through the most severe military censorship, but, despite this, he was able to convey the main idea to the audience. In the story, Sergeant Karpenko, thanks to the rank possessing considerable power, begins to abuse it, trying to control not only the appearance of the soldiers, but also interfering in their lives. But by the will of fate, he encounters a man who only begins to pretend that he obeys him, but in fact he deeply despises him. In communication with him, the presumptuous sergeant learns moral lessons and changes. The film was very warmly received by the public, and the work of the main characters was praised.
Dangerous case
In May 1980, in the film "Young Russia, " he starred in the hanging scene, where his hero in the story should have been executed. Fatyushin had to perform the trick himself, acting without a stuntman. To do this, he threw a rope around his neck, before it was neatly cut, which was supposed to break, but this did not happen.
The knot, fortunately, was tied up incorrectly, and Alexander managed to put his hand into the loop, and help arrived in time. After this incident, which nearly killed his life, he received a scar, which became for a long time a memory of this event. Miraculously, the surviving actor celebrated his second birthday annually on this day. This terrible episode throughout his life carried actor Alexander Fatyushin. The cause of death, heart failure, overtook him after this incident after 20 years. Fatyushin lived a life full of creative achievements.
Alexander Fatyushin: the cause of death. Filmography
After his significant role in the film "Spring Call" he began to act in films a lot. 1977, for example, was marked by the role of engineer Radkevich in the film “I Guarantee Life, ” and a year later he worked in the film “Cure Against Fear”, where he played the inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department, Tikhonov. In his filmography, Alexander Fatyushin was mainly involved in secondary roles. In total, on his account more than 60 film works. The most famous films are “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears”, “Solitary Voyage”, “Code of Silence”, “Love in Russian-3”, “34th Ambulance”, “Medicine Against Fear”, “Ladies Invite Cavaliers”.
In addition, films such as “Runaway” (1982), “Young Russia” (1982), “Abduction” (1984), “Two Shores” (1987), “Cairo-2 Calls Alpha” (1990), can be noted. “Charged with death” (1991), “Russian novel” (1993), “Petersburg secrets” (1994-1998), “Russian Amazons” (2002), “And in the morning they woke up” (2003) and other paintings, where he played bright characters Fatyushin Alexander Konstantinovich. The cause of death, which came as a surprise to many, claimed the life of a talented artist who could still play many roles in the movie.
In general, in the 80s his career was very successful: he took an active part in the filming. Despite the fact that he mostly got characters of the second plan, he played them brightly and put his soul into the hero, so that they were remembered by the viewer along with the main characters. His best works were those where he played courageous and strong-willed people. For the most part, he played himself - a hard worker, a Russian good guy. In general, he got one-sided roles, but each of them was bright and unforgettable. For example, paratrooper Kruglov in the film "Solitary Voyage", in the detective "Code of Silence" - a former detective Valentin Silov, who entered into a confrontation with the mafia. The Russian actor Alexander Fatyushin, whose cause of death was associated with a heart attack, was forever remembered to us by his roles in the cinema.
Failed role
The director Eldar Ryazanov specially for Alexander Fatyushin in the script of the film “Office Romance” wrote an interesting and great role for the husband of the secretary Verochka. According to his role, he had to play a fanatic-motorcyclist who was experiencing an internal conflict - he loved both his wife and the motorcycle, but still he loved the motorcycle more. A lot of material had already been shot, and the work was in full swing, but circumstances unexpectedly changed.
During a performance in the theater, Alexander Fatyushin received a serious eye injury. He was hospitalized and underwent a complicated operation. The recovery was delayed, Ryazanov continued to wait for the actor, but the deadlines were all over. Fatyushin suggested Ryazanov cut the role completely, not wanting her to be somehow molded, because work on her was never completed. In the end, it turned out that Fatyushin practically did not appear in the film, although secretary Verochka, according to the script, constantly talked to him on the phone. As a result, his role turned out to be offscreen.
"Moscow does not believe in tears"
His next famous film was the role of the hockey player Gurin in the legendary melodrama of Vladimir Menshov “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”. Actors were invited to audition in pairs. The duet of Alexander Fatyushin and Irina Muravyeva was almost immediately approved. The image of the athlete, whom he played, turned out to be collective.
Many hockey players said that he amazingly played this role and hit the nail on the head. In the final version of the picture, there were not many scenes that did not go through censorship. For example, the final scene was cut with Alexander Fatyushin, where his hero Gurin appears drunk and begins to bicker with Muravyeva - Goskino did not miss this shot. The film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” was highly appreciated by both viewers and professionals.
Alexander Fatyushin did not receive prizes for this role, but he received something more - the love of millions of viewers and recognition of him as a talented actor. The film itself was awarded many prizes, including an Oscar in the category "Best Foreign Film of 1980". Thanks to this film, the Soviet actor Alexander Fatyushin became very popular. The cause of death also struck hockey players - his friends, who could not think that in this way a person who is actively involved in sports would suddenly die.
Theatre
Unlike the cinema, in the theater he got more diverse roles. He played "social heroes" and comedic characters. In the movie, the role of a positive hero was firmly entrenched in him, but in the theater he also played negative characters. Alexander played in the performances of “Rumor”, “Energetic People”, “The Life of Klim Samghin”, “Running”, “A Man in His Place”, “Napoleon”, “Not About Nightingales”, “Children of Vanyushin” and many others.
His last theatrical work was the role of the head of the prison in the play “Not About Nightingales, ” which was directed by T. Akhramkova based on the play by T. Williams. In total, he played 22 roles in the theater.
Actor career
In the early 2000s, she tragically cut short her life and, with it, the career of a talented actor, who was Alexander Fatyushin, the cause of death. Films with his participation will forever remain with us. So, in the period of the 90s, the following pictures were shot: “A Living Target”, “Cairo-2 Calls Alpha”, “Wolfhound”, “Tanks Go Along Taganka”, “Code of Silence-2”.
In the theater, as well as in cinema, during the perestroika time, not the best of times came. Once the actor wrote a letter of resignation, but could not live long without roles and returned back. By the end of the 1990s, several films were released with his participation: the role of the FSB worker in the melodrama Love in Russian-3, the melodrama Leonid Aidlin's Happy New Happiness, the series Transit for the Devil, and the lyrical comedy New Year in November ".
Personal life
Alexander Fatyushin did not marry for a long time. It is known that in the beginning of the 80s he had a long affair with a certain woman, but as a result, the affair did not end with anything, and the actor never reached the registry office. After it turned out that his lover was Irina Kalinovskaya.
While working in the theater, he met his future wife, Elena Molchenko, who was 12 years younger than him. It happened in 1986. After she first saw him in the theater, Molchenko immediately fell in love with the actor, but he, on the contrary, did not pay attention to her for a long time. It all started unexpectedly. Once they walked together to the subway and talked for a rather long time, as never before. A few days later Fatyushin invited her to go to the hospital with him, where at that time his relative was lying. Once in the ward, he introduced the relative Len as his bride. After that, they went to a jewelry store and purchased rings. When the news of their wedding was heard in the theater, it was a real shock for everyone, because young people were not seen in the novel. After they applied to the registry office, the actor moved the girl’s belongings to his apartment. Alexander Fatyushin recalled that "accidentally said - my bride, so she became her." Although, maybe this was not a coincidence at all. Elena Molchenko married a talented and famous actor. Shows how happy was the wedding day Alexander Fatyushin, photo.
And the cause of death, which claimed the life of the actor in the 52nd year of life, was able to separate the couple only after 17 years of marriage.
Returning to the love story, it should be noted that young people decided to get married after three days. The wedding took place on April 15th. She was 23 years old then, and he was 35. At that time, both of them were ready for such an important step in life as a wedding. The newlyweds staged a magnificent celebration, which gathered more than a hundred guests, and it took place in the Cosmos. Together they lived for 17 years, and only death could separate them. The departure from the life of Alexander Fatyushin came as a surprise. The couple lived during these long years happily, but modestly and not richly. Like a bolt from the blue destroyed the family idyll in which Alexander Fatyushin lived, the cause of death. Personal life with the actor was successful for Elena, who then was very worried about the death of her husband.
They had no children. They waited for the baby to appear, but this never happened. After the couple checked, the doctors said that they were doing well. Over time, nothing has changed, and in the end they have already come to terms with this.
According to the memoirs of his wife, the actor was temperamental: if he did not like something, then he spoke directly and very violently reacted to everything. He was an unrestrained and shocking man.
In the evenings they were very fond of turning on karaoke at home and singing, in addition, they read books, and also engaged in culinary creativity: together they prepared different dishes.
