Biography of Alexander Adabashyan

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The general public is known about his orders of order. But it was she who always constituted a significant part of his work. Director and actor Alexander Adabashyan Childhood and Youth Alexander was born in August, in the Armenian family, but he did not master the native language for Sasha, he never mastered the Armenian. His father Artyom Adabashian was an engineer by profession, and in the future - an official of a high rank.

Mom Valentina Barkhudarova received the education of a German teacher. She graduated from the Institute before the war, however, not having time to defend his diploma. And after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the German language went out of fashion, so that the woman did not work in the specialty. She was a housewife and raised two sons - Alexander and his older brother. Thanks to his mother, an intelligent and erudite woman, Adabashian learned the taste of quality literature and good music.

True, not everything was so rosy. Even before school, Sasha fell ill with tuberculosis. He lived in a closed medical institution for six months to get rid of this misfortune. Alexander Adabashyan tells about his childhood to school the boy went in the year. Moreover, in the unusual one - in it they studied the French language in depth, and only boys studied there.

As the actor was admitted, the prospects for the application of knowledge gained in this school later seemed to him the same as if he was given a decent study with an in -depth study of the cuneiform. However, beautiful teachers worked there. Children mastered French from the first grade. The course of French literature, economic geography and recent history in French was taught.

The theater was also organized for students. The plays were also placed in French. In the biography of Adabashyan, an episode even appeared, related to the time when, at the time of the reign of Nikita Khrushchev, friendly ties with France were actively established. And they remembered an unusual school when Nikita Sergeyevich made a speech related to this topic on the air. Schoolchildren were supposed to play under the cameras "Bee" Anatoly Franz, where Sasha had the role of a squire.

The students in anticipation of their exit for two hours, in costumes and make -ups “pickled” on Zhuravlev Square, where the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee made a speech. The future screenwriter studied and the artist was not very good. He was a solid three -year -old. He had the five in his taglos only by work and, surprisingly, by singing, although he completely had no musical hearing.

Alexander Adabashyan in his youth like many peers, Sasha, to put it mildly, was considered a hill. When he studied in the class in the eighth or ninth, they urgently called his father to school, tearing an official from an important meeting. When Artem Adabashian came to the head teacher “on the carpet”, she said that Alexander and another student, being expelled from the lesson for poor behavior, instead of thinking about their actions, took brushes in the toilet and fenced them among the corridor.

Alexander's father was indignant: “That is, you called me due to the fact that two thirteen-year-olds are fenced in the corridor with brushes? What to do? Shoot them in the yard? What do you want from me? But after a swearing with the head teacher, his son also got. He was punished, in the words of the filmmaker himself, “asymmetric”, especially considering that in his “school practice” there were atrocities and worse.

Another episode that the actor recalled was happening when Alexander studied in the tenth grade and introduced a shift at school. Ten -graders were categorically against the innovation. When they were announced that they would not be allowed to class without a replaceable pair of shoes, on the initiative of Adabashyan, young people went to the shoe store and bought ... checkered slippers with pompons.

Alexander Adabashyan. Meetings on Mokhova, as Alexander Artemovich admitted, in childhood, he wanted to be a clown, but he was delayed by art. At school, he painted caricatures at teachers, and when he studied in the class with a sixth-sech, he went to the Stroganov school with an open door with his mother ... and fell in love with him, deciding to go there after receiving the certificate.

The Stroganovka Adabashian became a student in the year. True, after two years of study, he was taken into the army. For three years he served in the Urals in the strategic missile forces, where it suddenly turned out that the level of fitness of the avid troochnik in physics was not so bad. In any case, against the background of many other guys in the military unit, where there was a rather high educational qualification, Adabashian with his knowledge looked quite worthy.

The road to the cinema did not have any special love for cinema for the young artist.

And only a combination of circumstances brought him to this sphere. From the age of fourteen, he was familiar with Nikita Mikhalkov. Even in practice, Adabashyan had a chance to work with a decorator on his set, where at that time the novice director removed the thesis.The student of Stroganovka mastered the skills of the decorator along the way, under the guidance of experienced colleagues, as, however, studied later and everything else in the cinema business - looking at the work of the masters.

His first workplace was the project institute, where he headed the department of technical aesthetics. According to Alexander Artyomovich, such departments were created by ordering from above, and there was absolutely nothing to do in them. True, I had to serve the whole working day from the call to the call. But due to the fact that he began to invite him to various film projects, he managed to move from a boring project institute to a completely different sphere that revealed his various creative abilities.

Working behind the scenario after the first experience as part of the film crew with Mikhalkov Adabashian was an artist-commander at the debut short film of Sergey Nikonenko “Petrukhin Surname” then followed a whole series of Mikhalkov’s paintings with his participation as an artist. Among them, for example, “their own among strangers, a stranger among their own”, “slave of love”, “relatives”.

Alexander Adabashyan, on the set of the film “Relatives” on the right by the screenwriter, he performed in the film “Fan” of the year, in the same “Unfinished play ...”, in “Five Evenings”, in the film “Several Days of the Life of Oblomov”, and wrote about thirty scripts for films. Alexander Adabashyan in the film “Five Evenings” in the film “Mado: Wosure”, which later took a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Adabashian became not only a screenwriter, but also a director.

Here, Adabashyan was useful to knowledge of the French language, especially considering that the shooting took place in France. Alexander Adabashyan on the set of MADO: Prescription "as for directing in Russia, it began for him and ended with the" Azazel "series The proposal to work on the picture, he received from the author of the script of 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.

Problems with the film began at the installation stage, when faxes began to pour from the producers with the instructions of which fragments to cut and where to rearrange them. The director’s explanations of what to do this and that will be wrong, were not taken into account. Then he refused to participate in the project and asked to remove his name from the credits, replacing it with a pseudonym.

Acting work in the frame of Adabashian appeared episodically, but certainly remembered, including thanks to the colorful appearance and the special timbre of the voice. He is familiar to the audience as an engineer Timofeev in “five evenings”, and as an intelligent alcohol-pessimist in “Moscow Vacations”, and as Berlioz in “Master and Margarita”. Alexander Adabashian in the series “Master and Margarita” by its crown role, many viewers consider the butler Barrimor in the “Baskerville Dog”.

As the actor recalled, director Igor Maslennikov invented the atmosphere of “English” in the picture. Alexander Adabashyan in the role of Barrimor Alexander Adabashyan and Vitaly Solomin Watson came up with a game for themselves, in which the butler was outraged by the presence of the metropolitan whip, who commanded him the master. Therefore, when Barrimor laid an oatmeal on plates, the guest and got the smallest “slap” of porridge.

And in the notebook of Watson, which he constantly carried with him and wrote down all the details of what was happening, on one of the pages was actually written “Barrimor - a fool”. Moreover, three times. Alexander Adabashyan in the film “Baskerville's Dog” personal life of Alexander Adabashyan for the first time Alexander Adabashyan married Marina Lebesheva, a operator’s sister, with whom they worked in the same film crew.

As the artist and actor recalled, the wedding took place in the apartment. Young spent a lot of time and effort to organize a festive table. They were exhausted so that they had to lie down. When they woke up, the holiday was already in full swing, and the guests managed to forget about the newlyweds, and when they left the bedroom, they barely found a place where to sit down. Marital life broke off the death of Marina.

The young woman passed away due to blood disease, but it turned out only after her death. After that, Adabashian went into work for three years with his head. Alexander Adabashyan and his second wife Ekaterina Shadrin in his youth, his second wife, became actress Ekaterina Shadrina. Alexander was a little acquainted with her mother, and during the holiday that took place in the woman’s house, he met Katya, who came for a short time to his parents.

And after the gatherings, going out on the porch to smoke, he asked her a direct question - did she want to become his wife? This, of course, at first it seemed a joke at first, but their relationship over time really spilled into a strong and happy marriage. Some time later, in Leningrad, they chose a place for nature for the painting “Several days from the life of I. Oblomov” and decided to fasten their marriage officially.

On that day, they got stuck in a car, and while it was pushed out, from head to toe were sprayed with mud. Registration was supposed to take place in an hour.Therefore, all that they managed to do in a deplorable situation was to erase the dried tracks of dirty drops from clothes with a brush. Fresh -set murals in the documents of the young with witnesses were noted by champagne and went further to choose nature.

Alexander Adabashyan and his wife and daughters in marriage were born two daughters - Sasha and Katya. The eldest, Alexandra, graduated from the Philfak and taught Greek, the youngest, Catherine, lived in Thailand, led her own business. Alexander Adabashian became the happy grandfather of seven grandchildren. Alexander Adabashyan now in the year Alexander Adabashyan played in the tragicomedy "Parents of the Maximum Minor." There he got one of the main roles - Valentina Alexandrovich Litvin, a retirement teacher.

His partners on the set were Alisa Freindlich and Evgeny Tkachuk.