Actor Viktor Sukhorukov, People's Artist of the Russian Federation - is a man exclusively creative and creative. The game of this master is always multi-layered and expressive. The brilliant director Vladimir Bortko, having already shot the film "Dog Heart", publicly, throughout the country, expressed regret that he did not know Sukhorukov when he was looking for an actor for the role of Sharikov.
People love him. Victor Ivanovich tells with a smile where he did not leave his autographs for them: on cuffs, on deer horns, on saddles of bicycles, in passports, military ID cards and even (once) in a diploma.
Huge talent actor
However, the achieved peaks were not easy for him. He gained recognition by becoming a popular favorite only at 46 years old after the virtuoso role in the films directed by Alexei Balabanov, “Brother”, “Brother-2”. Glory did not change his friendly manner of communicating with people, completely simple, adequate. They love him in their small homeland: Viktor Sukhorukov is an honorary resident of Orekhovo-Zuevo. His filmography shows the talent of a versatile, versatile actor, playing positive and negative characters, acting in films of various genres: dramas, comedies, melodramas.
Grandma Shaw Shaw
The crazy dream - to become an actor - was not easy, it was suffered by a guy from a working-class family. “A creepy dreamer, ” as he called himself, first chose the profession of projection engineer (after all, he watches films for free), then - the cook (Viti’s childhood was empty), then the hairdresser (and certainly the ladies), and only then the actor.
Mom dissuaded him, urged him to live, like most of the guys from his city: to get a factory, get married …
Objectively, she was right: Vitya was seriously ill with scarlet fever at the age of three, remaining almost deaf. He understood the interlocutor, "reading lips." At that time, his courtyard nickname was Grandmother Shaw Shaw. The guy was forced to walk in a scarf. (Until now, Viktor Ivanovich is deeply grateful to Dr. Valentina Tereshchenko, gradually, operation after operation, which healed him by the age of 16.)
Competition Case
Victor firmly decided: to live his own way. At the age of twelve, having read the announcement of film screenings in Pioneer Truth, he went to Moscow. Then the future actor did not pass the competition, but the incident with him happened notable.
The interview with the applicants was conducted by Andrei Konchalovsky. Noticing that the young interlocutor was reading lips, the amazed director exclaimed: “Are you deaf !?” - why the bewildered guy hastened to retire.
He was engaged in creativity in his city. In the third year of classes in a dance studio, he was noticed and invited by the director, Grinev Yu. L., after the eight classes. Victor successfully passed exams at the circus school. However, they did not take him, postponing acceptance until the end of grade 10.
Having received a certificate, yesterday a student goes to enter the Moscow Art Theater School. He is denied because of an unpresentable appearance. Sukhorukov serves 2 years in the army and gets a job at the factory.
“He is either a genius or a madman!”
The repetitive and painstaking pace of work could not be satisfied with the future actor Viktor Sukhorukov. His biography changed on the same day, when he was 23 years old, not particularly hoping for luck (because he knew about a huge competition), prepared his favorite fragment of “Vasily Terkin” and went to enter GITIS.
It was impossible not to accept him. Victor's statement sounded brilliant. Someone from the admissions committee said: “He is either crazy or a genius!” It was a victory. Sukhorukov completed the course of Professor Vsevolod Porfirevich Ostalsky in 1978, studying very diligently.
In Petersburg
Viktor Ivanovich himself ironically divides his further acting destiny into three periods: full, unemployed and successful. The first began predictably: with distribution from GITIS to the St. Petersburg Comedy Theater named after N. Akimova. So often his biographers write. In fact, everything was easier. Victor stole his diploma in the personnel department of the institute and went to St. Petersburg. He was invited by director Fomenko, an innovator and dissident. Why exactly Sukhorukov? The reason is clear: his teachers distinguished him among the strongest on the course (Yuri Stoyanov and Tatyana Dogileva studied with him in the same stream).
Upon arrival, the young actor played great, and he was given roles, including the main ones, in the performances Tale of the Ardennes Forest (Guillaume), Characters (Andrei Erin), Mill of Happiness (second brother), Good, Okay, good "(Kuzma Egorovich), " Terkin in the Other World "(soldier).
Reckoning for frivolity
With a head plunged into a bohemian lifestyle, Viktor Sukhorukov. His filmography also began during this period. He starred as the bandit Vasya in the detective "Jewelcrafting" directed by Lev Tsutsulkovsky. Having gained a creative profession, he almost lost it, falling into boyish, sweeping euphoria.
He was fired from the theater. Akimov for regular abuse of alcohol with the murderous wording "without the right to be employed in theaters for six months."
However, even after the aforementioned period, trying to get into the theater again, Victor was faced with denials: “You have a reputation as a person drinking!”
So steel was tempered
The man, accustomed to life in Moscow, where he was born, studied, arrived in St. Petersburg for employment, was thrown to the sidelines of life. It was cruel. Parents could not help him. Suddenly he found himself beyond the line of a prosperous life, without relatives, without a profession.
Victor did not despair, he lived in the future, knowing that he would return, remembering his childhood dream all two years, while working as a loader on Vasilievsky Island and while slicing bread in a bakery. If he was hungry, he had to collect bottles. He could break, but survived. Saved the childhood dream of the Stage, as well as the realization that he still has a creative gift.
Again the theater. Search for yourself
And he came back. In 1983, he starred in episodic roles of the films “Magic Black and White”, “Preventive Measure”.
From 1983 to 1985 he played at the Young Theater, from 1986 to 1993 - at the Lenkom Theater. They did not entrust him with the main roles. Among the works of this period are “Dragon” by Schwartz (Cat), “Marriage of Belugin” (Prokhor), “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (mole), “Children of the District” Prevera (director of the theater). He does not like to recall this “empty period” in his theatrical work Viktor Sukhorukov.
His filmography during this period was replenished with a fateful film, the cornerstone in all his work.
The film "Whiskers"
Director Yuri Mamin invited him to the main role in the grotesque comedy "Whiskers". He recommended him "a talented madman, about whom no one knows" the all-knowing assistant director V. N. Studennikov.
And the film was a success. Bold, bold, funny, with philosophical overtones. With the role of Sukhorukov was lucky, he might not have got it. After all, Dmitry Pevtsov and Sergey Koltakov refused it on the eve.
The film "Whiskers" the actor perceives a landmark in his formation. Earlier, he did not even seriously consider cinema as a sphere of his activity.
Removing from the director Mamin, Viktor Ivanovich felt his demand as an actor, his responsibility for the common work as a professional. There is no trace of the former slackness. On the set, he now came out always charged with creativity, internally assembled and sober.
Collaboration with Alexei Balabanov
It was then that, acting in the aforementioned comedy, Viktor Sukhorukov laid the foundation for his future creative take-off. His filmography subsequently found a continuation. A new, professional stage of acquaintance with the young director Alexei Balabanov, who was fascinated by his play in the "Whiskers" (previously the men lived in the same communal apartment), took place.
Balabanov invited Sukhorukov to star in his first film, Happy Days. What can be said about this talented intellectual film shot in the style of an arthouse? After all, he was presented in the non-competitive program of the Cannes Film Festival. This film, using absurdist tools, reveals the soul of the City on the Neva.
Organically and deeply plays, setting the mood for the whole picture, Viktor Sukhorukov. “Films with his participation are saturated with new semantic shades!” - they write about the actor in the press.
Sukhorukov transformed
Actor Viktor Sukhorukov evolved further as a person. He is now very sensitive to theatrical art, and reincarnation for him has become the highest meaning of professional implementation. Victor overestimated his actions and realized that he was wrong, carried away by bohemia, when the theater director Fomenko, who believed in his talent, put him out of the Temple of Art.
Now fate gave him a second chance. Another director favoring him, Alexei Balabanov, also saw a personality in him. Realizing this, Viktor Sukhorukov could not let the directors down.
Films "Brother" and "Brother-2"
The character Vitya Bagrov was originally targeted by Balabanov under the acting implementation of Sukhorukov. The director of the arthouse conceived the box office thriller, as they say, not from a good life. He ran out of money to shoot further films. There was hope - to receive a prize at the Suzdal Film Festival. However, in spite of the fact that he won it, the organizers respected it without paying for the work.
“Brother” and “Brother-2”: success
The commercial success of the low-budget action movie (spent $ 20 thousand on shooting) was based on a well-considered plot, a wonderful game by Sergei Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetsky, Alexander Dyachenko, Daria Lesnikova. Actors played 31 days for a nominal fee, realizing that the money will be earned in the future. The director of the tape updated the songs of rock musicians.
Everything turned out, entwined in a resounding success, in the millions of box office in the USA, Australia. To the fact that the film "about freaks and about people" became a cult, actor Viktor Sukhorukov also made his talent.
The filmography of Sukhorukov (and this is a fact) is famous primarily for the films of the director Balabanov. Why is that? The answer is simple: the film, conceived as purely grossing, reflected the spirit of the times, becoming a cult.
Victor is pleased when strangers in other cities sincerely greet him with a cry: “How are you, brother?” For an honest, deep working out of the role of Vitya Bagrov, people from crime respect him too. But this respect is human, and how else can one treat a talented and decent actor who, in the lines of Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky, “has a soul oozing from under his skin”?
Filmography and theatrical works of Sukhorukov in the XXI century
Despite his busy cinematography, Viktor Sukhorukov is also involved in theater activities. However, he does not play regularly, but occasionally for the soul at the invitation of the capital's theaters. Prefers favorite classics and favorite characters: “King Lear” (buffoon), “Man from a restaurant” (Skorokhodov waiter), “Tartuffe” (Tartuffe), “Eldest son” (Andrei Sarafanov).
Basically, Viktor Sukhorukov expresses himself in film-making. The directors offer him abundant roles after the “Brothers”. “If you want to, you have to choose!” - the actor smiles, while giving priority to the versatility of the character. Still, let's try to name some of them: “Truckers” (accountant), “Antikiller” (Ambal), “Theater novel” (Philip Filippovich Tulumbasov), “The theory of binge” (driver), “Poor, poor Pavel” (Emperor Pavel I), “Silver and Black” (Mandelstam), “Exile” (Kaleuzov), “First after God” (sailor), “Zhmurki” (Voronov), “Island” (father Filaret), “Chippendale” (merchant Misha), “Twenty-Two Minutes” (Admiral), “Orleans” (Executive).
Convinced bachelor
In all these films, the actor gives his best. However, the audience’s special image was earned by the reverently recreated image of the suffering Emperor Paul I. Internet reviews of the audience contain the idea that only Viktor Sukhorukov could play it with such force in our time.
The personal life of this actor is closed to leisure people. Victor was able to keep his and other people's secrets from childhood, so his friends always trusted him. Nevertheless, not a single journalist was able to get a single intelligible answer from the actor on this topic. It is known for sure that he never married, that he has no children.
Although, on the other hand, Viktor Sukhorukov was not deprived of female attention.
His personal life, however, according to the observations of friends, is marked by the love of many ladies. The fair sex really adores such a type of men, in which softness and discretion, strength and tenderness are combined. However, Viktor Ivanovich still prefers the life of an inveterate bachelor.
