Oleg Menshikov biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He was glorified by the role of Kostik from the still Soviet musical drama "Pokrovsky Gate." Ostap Bender, Dr. Zhivago, Erast Fandorin ... What other star roles were in Menshikov’s filmography and what was the actor’s path to fame? Childhood Oleg Menshikov does not like to give interviews, so we know little about his childhood. He was born in Serpukhov near Moscow on November 8.

The actor's dad was a military engineer, and his mother worked as a neuropathologist. After the birth of his son, the children's photo of Oleg Menshikov was highlighted by the Khrushchevka near the Kashirsky highway. Here, in the south of the capital, in the Kolomensky area, the actor’s childhood and early youth passed.

He studied well, he was not an excellent student, but the heightened pride could not allow him to grab three. In parallel, he attended a musical school of the violin class. The classmate of the actor Maria Koposova recalled that from the first years of study, all the girls of the class have been in love with Oleg without memory. He was beautiful, polite, witty and always neat, could surprise with some kind of musical improvisation.

At the same time, he was very touchy and, although he treated everyone with sympathy, behaved with restraint. For example, when in the elementary grades a girl was planted at his desk, he led the line in the middle with chalk and made sure that the neighbor would not cross her. Already at school, Oleg Menshikov was popular with the female Passion of Oleg Menshikov at school, Opeetta became.

He went to the performances of the Operetta Theater twice a week. The hobby of operetta led to the fact that in the graduation classes Oleg began to stake up. He made a play for the New Year, where he turned on excerpts from his beloved operett. And he combined his favorite performances with his own literary opuses with music. He was with our unifying beginning.

His musical abilities played a large role in this. In many classes and offices, we had piano. At the breaks, Oleshikov sat down and began to play, played with great pleasure. We sang along. Around him, different guys were grouped - excellent students, hooligans, lazy people, athletes. He got along with everyone, never fought. In general, it is difficult to imagine that someone could raise his hand to him!

On Menshikov - yes never! He remained - special, years of student Talent Menshikov as an actor was seen in the ninth grade. Together with his parents, the young man came to the wedding of a girl whose mother was a costume artist in a small theater. At the celebration, he seemed to turn into an orchestra: he played the piano, accompanied the dancers and singers. He urgedly watched the boy, and at the end of the evening he invited Oleg to listen.

Menshikov introduced to the teacher “desires of glory” Alexander Pushkin. But the main thing was that in these minutes I saw how Oleg himself becomes a poet. I realized that he was gifted acting. And gifted extraordinary. He reminded me of Gerard Philip, the great romance, the prince of the French scene and the screen, he filed documents in the “sliver” and entered the first time.

He was credited to the course of the rector of the school, Nikolai Afonin. Attention to the talented boy was already riveted from the first year. Oleg with classmates constantly created various humorous numbers, and student cabbages with Menshikov were remembered in the school for many years. The subtle humor and observation of the young actor helped to embody funny events from the life of the university on the stage.

Moreover, the main role was written precisely for Oleg, but he himself asked for a secondary character. I was not afraid of this word even then, noting his work, and now I boldly repeat. The whole school ran away to see Menshikov in the role of Werner, it was so interesting to watch him. ” Menshikov on the stage of the Soviet Army Theater Ganya Ivolgin, an “idiot” after the end of theatrical, in the year, Menshikov went to serve in the Maly Theater, and a year later he moved to the theater of the Soviet Army.

The first roles in the movie Debut Oleg Menshikov in the cinema came for a year. He played Shurka from the drama "Wait and I hope" Suren Shakhbazyan. On the set of this picture, Oleg's talent was noticed by director Roman Balayan. At the request of Suren, he watched the shot material, was terribly dissatisfied with the game Menshikov and almost persuaded the director to change the actor, but before that he decided to visit Menshikov in the dressing room.

He did this, it should be noted, remarkably, ”Balayan recalled, amazed at Menshikov’s difference“ in dynamics ”from how he turned out on the film. This happens in the cinema. And what would happen if I had not seen him in the dressing room? Menshikov’s debut in the cinema could be his last movie 10 days after the start of the filming “Wait and I hope” Nikita Mikhalkov called Balayan and asked him to send him Menshikov for filming in the painting “relatives” with Nonny Mordyukova and Svetlana Kryuchkova.

Initially, his character was spelled out in a slurred scenario, but later he was enlarged - Boyko, Elena Kostina, looked for a girl Alisa and laid the protagonist in love with her, Oleg Yankovsky on her shoulder blades.Oleg Yankovsky and Oleg Menshikov “Flights in a dream and in reality” “Pokrovsky Gate” Mikhail Kozakov almost approved the cast of the “Pokrovsky Gate” melodrama, who told about the lives of such non -future people within the same communal apartment.

The poet and connoisseur of the female beauty of Velorov Leonid Broneva, and the melancholy intellectual Ravikovich Lev Khobotov, was found, but Kozakov did not find anyone for the role of the young “burner of life”. Kozakov was already desperate when a spouse came to the rescue, who accidentally saw on TV the first film with Menshikov - “Wait and I hope”. She liked the young actor, she recorded his name and advised her wife.

And as soon as Oleg appeared on the set, it became clear to everyone - this is the same Kostya. Oleg Menshikov about the film “Pokrovsky Gate” is interesting that at that time Menshikov was approved for the role in the film “Private Life” by Julia Raizman, but the directors agreed that Menshikov would still remain in the “Pokrovsky Gate”. The film was shot according to the play of the same name by Leonid Zorin - the play of the autobiographic, but even the most meticulous viewer did not find a single gap between the author and the hero of Menshikov.

For a long time after the premiere of Oleg, they perceived exclusively as Kostya, personifying a carefree spirit of youth. And today, many consider this image one of Menshikov’s most successful in filmography. The first starry role of Menshikov after the first triumph, the directors began to vynly call Menshikov to themselves. In the 10ths, the actor played the most diverse roles: he was a romantic hero in the film “Captain Fracass”, and with scattered red tape in the film “Volodya Bolshoi and Volodya Little”, and a naval officer in the film “Moonzund”.

The frame from the film "Captain Fracass" successfully at that time also developed a theater career. Menshikov played one of the most noticeable roles - Ganechka in the "Idiot", left the Soviet Army Theater in the year, then worked in the Ermolova Theater, where he moved with Tatyana Dogileva and Alexander Baluev. Oleg Menshikov was never afraid of complex material, but his mood was broken by the head of the theater Valery Fokin.

Soon after the trouble with the production of Nabokov, “Invitation to Execution” Menshikov, eager to play Cincinnat, abandoned the role of Pierre and eventually did not participate in the play at all, the actor left the theater and tore his relations with former colleagues. He later went to the theater. The Moscow City Council, where he was busy in the production of Caligula and success was waiting for him here: for the role of Yesenin in the staging “when she danced” the actor was awarded the Lawrence Olivi British Academy of Arts.

He was lucky to play with Vanessa Redgrave. By the way, when the August putsch occurred in Russia, the actor was offered to become a subject of Britain, but he refused. He carefully selected both the roles themselves and the directors, so that each new job became an event. It was he who, according to many critics, that pulled out the painting “Duba-Dube” by Alexander Khun-the tape was even nominated for a gold palm branch of the Cannes Film Festival.

Two years later, Menshikov played one of his most powerful roles - Mitya in the “weary of the sun” by Nikita Mikhalkov - in the past of an intellectual, then a soldier, an immigrant involuntarily, a participant in the white movement and, finally, the NKVDshnik who came to arrest Sergey Kotov. Oleg Menshikov, in the role of Mitya, “Tired of the Sun”, Oleg managed to create a complex and contradictory image of a man who is devastated by revenge: he was pulled out of the house, his beloved woman was taken away, his life was destroyed, immersing in pain and despair.

Nikita Mikhalkov and Oleg Menshikov on the set of “tired of the sun” with the participation of Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, 7-year-old daughter of director Nadi, Ingeborg Dapkunaite, Vyacheslav Tikhonov and a whole galaxy of other wonderful actors was awarded Oscars as the best film in a foreign language. Following - another undeniable luck: ensign Sasha Kostylin from the Caucasian captive Sergey Bodrov, the modern adaptation of the same story by Leo Tolstoy.

Together with his colleague Ivan Zhilin Sergey Bodrov Jr., he falls into Chechen captivity. The picture received the nominations for Oscar and the Golden Globe, and the director and key actors were awarded the Nick Awards for the whole tape gathered 5 nickname figures from seven nominations, and Bodrov and Menshikov received a movie tape prize in the nomination “Best Male Role”.

The frame from the film "Caucasian captive" in the year was again followed by joint work with Nikita Mikhalkov. This time, Menshikov played the main role in the film "Siberian Barber". As always - work at the highest level. In the same tape, he played the hero 20 years younger than his real age-the Summer Cadet of the American Andrew McCren, a descendant of Andrei Tolstoy. According to the audience, this was the first, so elevated and romantic role of the actor.

Oleg Menshikov in the role of Junker Andrei Tolstoy about his hero Menshikov himself in one of his few interviews said the following: his value is that this is a person who managed not to change himself. It seems that such words are not meaningful, but their meaning is a huge person who lived his life as he should live. I personally do not know such people. In the year, the actor, along with Katrin Denev and Sandrin Bonner, starred in the drama of the Russian-French production "East-West", where he played the Soviet repatriate Alexei Golovin.

The film was nominated for Oscar. Oleg Menshikov and Sandrin Bonner “East-West” The New Age in the year Menshikov himself sat in the directorial chair, which resulted in the film-performance “Woe from Wit” according to Griboedov, in which he himself appeared as Alexander Chatsky. Oleg Menshikov: Chatsky’s monologue “Woe from Wit” in Philip Yankovsky’s drama “State Advisor” based on Roman Boris Akunin in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring, in the register of foreign agents of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Menshikov played the main role - the state adviser to Erast Fandorin.

Oleg Menshikov, in the role of Erast Fandorin “Statsky Advisor”, then he tried himself as a great combinator in the next film adaptation of Roman Ilf and Petrov “Golden Calf” director Ulyana Shilkin. Alas, the project did not “shoot” the actor who did not avoid comparisons with Andrei Mironov and Archil Gomiashvili, a flurry of criticism collapsed. Ostap Bender, performed by Menshikov, was greeted coolly “Ostap Bender - one of the most striking and ambiguous types in the domestic literature of the 20th century.