Writer and director Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin was a complex and courageous person. He visited the war several times, had military awards. In Chechnya, he was seriously injured, as a result of which he lost his leg. On the eve of the 50th anniversary, the director made a present for himself - he finished shooting the film "Land of People". But he no longer had time to find out how the audience perceived the picture …
Biography
Sergey Stanislavovich Govorukhin was born on 09/01/1961 in Kharkov. His father, Stanislav Sergeyevich, was a famous Soviet and Russian film director (he died in 2018), and his mother, Juno Ilyinichna Kareva, was an actress in theater and cinema (she died in 2013).
Sergey spent his childhood and youth in Kazan. His parents broke up when he was still small. After the birth of his son, Stanislav Govorukhin went to study at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, then received a distribution to the Odessa film studio. He wanted the family to go with him, but Sergey’s mother, at that time the prima of the Kazan Drama Theater, refused.
In 1978, the boy graduated from high school and entered the University of Kazan at the Faculty of Journalism. Subsequently, dropped out and alternately worked as a laboratory assistant, now a loader, then a watchman.
Then he served in the army for two years, in 1982 he returned and entered the VGIK at the Faculty of Scripting (correspondence department). After receiving a diploma in the specialty, he did not work, but worked as an installer, welder, foreman, prospector in the Far North.
Participation in hostilities
In 1994-2005 Sergey Stanislavovich Govorukhin as a war correspondent took part in special operations and military operations in Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. He was awarded the orders of Sergius of Radonezh and Courage, medals "For military valor", "For courage", "For participation in the counter-terrorist operation."
In 1995, he was seriously injured in Chechnya, due to which he subsequently lost his leg. Then he was shell-shocked twice.
Director's work
In 1997, the directorial debut of Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin. The film "Cursed and Forgotten", co-authored with I. Vaneeva in the artistic and journalistic genre, talks about the First Chechen War. The scenes demonstrate documentary scenes of hostilities, human suffering, corpses and mutilated equipment. The picture received a number of awards, including the Grand Prix of the Yekaterinburg festival "Russia", the award "Nika", the award "Golden Frame" of the festival "Cinematography".
In 2008, Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin presented to the audience and experts a film entitled “Nobody but us …”. This is a picture of the war in Tajikistan, although not so much about the war itself, but about the love between the military cameraman Eugene and the woman Natalia, whom he met shortly before the next business trip to the war zone. The film was highly praised by the public and received several prizes at the Window to Europe festival.
In 2011, the director shot the film "Land of People" based on the story "Muddy Continent", written by his father. This is a story about a writer who, having returned from work in the North, is trying to join the cruel world of Moscow, where money, not literature and morality, rules the minds.
Govorukhin in his films was not only a director, but also a screenwriter and even an actor in episodic roles.
Personal life
Sergei Stanislavovich was married three times. Little is known about the first marriage. The second wife was called Inna, she gave birth to the director's son Stanislav in 1990.
With his third wife, Vera Tsarenko, Govorukhin met while still married to Inna. At first they met secretly, then Sergey left the previous family and married Vera. In 1998, their son Vasily was born. In 2010, the illegitimate daughter of director Barbara was born.
