Alexander Kaidanovsky biography Wikipedia

Latest news biography Alexander Kaidanovsky - Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. In addition to working on films, Alexander Leonidovich taught directorial skills. Childhood and youth actor and director Alexander Kaidanovsky was born on July 23 in Rostov-on-Don. His childhood was in the difficult post -war years. The craving for art was transmitted to the boy with genes - mother worked as a director of children's performances.

And although dad served as an engineer, Sasha’s grandfather for his father, Lev-Yizelel Kaydanovsky, was an artist at the People's Theater of Yekaterinoslav. Since childhood, Alexander grew a freedom -loving child, his character was complicated. The boy made decisions himself, was in a constant search, did not recognize anyone.

The boy’s mother entered the Moscow Institute of Culture and went to study in the hope of becoming an actress, leaving her family and without warning anyone. When the mother returned, not having achieved success in the capital, family life did not improve. The husband almost shot her in front of her son. Alexander lived with his mother for several months, and then decided to live with his father and his new wife.

But they had their own children, the mother also got married - the child was nobody needed. The future actor had to live with a grandmother, and then even in a boarding school. After eight years, he went to Dnepropetrovsk to study on an electric welder, but a year later he realized that this was not his profession. Alexander took the documents from the technical school and entered the Rostov School of Arts.

And again he prevented his explosive character: he quarreled with the director and ended the course with another teacher - Mikhail Bushnov, who became his mentor. Bushnov later recalled that Kaydanovsky’s uncontrollable character did not scare him, moreover, they had never quarreled. In the year, Alexander graduated from the school and moved to Moscow. There Kaidanovsky met and made friends with Leonid Filatov.

He recalled how Rostov’s virtually swore, how easily he spoke gang jargon and how enthusiastically talked about literature at night, demonstrating such knowledge that not every specialist could boast of. The theater of the theater debut of Kaidanovsky took place when he studied in the 2nd year of the Schukinsky school. The student played Hamlet-in his own way, non-standard.

Some critics did not like this approach to the classics, but they recognized the intellectual game and talent of the student unconditionally. It was no coincidence that he was invited to the troupe and prophesied the image of Prince Myshkin in the play “Idiot”, but did not happen. Instead, the actor played the supporting role. He endured 3 years, but in the year they passed his nerves.

Kaidanovsky quit the theater, saying that "the Vakhtangov corporation poisoned in it love for the theater." Severe days of lack of money began, life in a basement. Neither the actors nor the directors believe in Alexander, the explosive character often caused conflicts and once almost brought the young man to prison. Mikhail Ulyanov even advised him to return to Rostov and arrange his life there.

Kaidanovsky entered his own way-he went to serve in the army. This decision became a turning point in his fate. The films Alexander served in the cavalry regiment at Mosfilm. It was then that he was invited to the drama "his own among strangers, a stranger among his own." In the picture, he played Lieutenant Lemke and woke up famous. The image of Lemca turned out to be so successful that many directors wanted to repeat it in their paintings.

In X Kaydanovsky starred in the films "Beethoven's Life", "Golden River" and others. The actor himself from the stamp of the White Officer was not enthusiastic, he wanted to play complex psychological roles. His hero turned out to be so multifaceted and ambiguous that the audience, holding his breath, watched him at the television screens. According to the artist, he did not like the tape.

After this role, Kaydanovsky decided to make films himself. His first work was the painting “Simple Death”, awarded the prize at the Film Festival in Spain. Then Alexander removed the guest and the wife of a kerosene, played in the Devil's Breath and Ten Negro. In the year, the director received the title "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation." The last acting work of Kaidanovsky was the painting “Wedding March” released in the year.

She came out as part of the cinema almanac entitled "Arrival of the train." In the same year, the last work of Alexander as a director appeared. In X, the actor stopped shooting and acting - he said that the era of bad cinema came. The artist earned a living by writing scripts and lectures in dramatic courses. In the last years of his life, Alexander Leonidovich began working on the film “Climbing to Erhard”, but never finished it.

Kaydanovsky’s personal life was married 4 times, but three children were born for all 4 marriages, one child from different wives in the first 3 marriages. The actor met in Rostov with the first wife Irina, they signed in the same place, moved together to Moscow. Their marriage lasted 9 years - it was a difficult time, and in the end the couple broke up. In this marriage, Alexander had a daughter.

The artist’s wife, learning about treason, left with her daughter in Rostov.Roman Valentina and Alexander lasted 6 years, but the wedding never ended. These relations were poisoned by scandals, jealousy and painful passion, Kaydanovsky repeatedly raised his hand to his mistress, and Malyavina even cut her veins. However, betrayal, assault and the difficult nature of the actor were the cause of destruction and subsequent marriages.

The second wife of the director was actress Yevgeny Simonova, who was acquainted with the film “The Lossed Expedition”. The marriage lasted 5 years. Kaydanovsky and Simonova have a daughter Zoya. She followed in her parental footsteps and became an actress. The third wife of Alexander is the ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater Natalia Sudakova. The couple had a son Andrei, he, like his mother, became an artist of ballet.

The young man studied at the Moscow Choreographic School, and then continued to engage in choreography abroad. The son of Kaidanovsky was improved in ballet schools in the Austrian St. Pelten and Vienna, as well as in German Stuttgart. In Austria, Andrei remained after his studies - the young artist hired civilians in Vienna. The actor divorced his third wife shortly before his death, and 3 weeks before the tragic day signed with Inna Pivars.

There were practically no guests at the wedding - the artist’s friends did not accept this wedding seriously. The fourth wife was 26 years younger than Kaydanovsky, she was just starting an acting career. They met before the wedding for 2 years. In the middle of the year, Kaidanovsky finally received the long -awaited warrant for his own housing and an invitation to the jury of the Cannes festival.

Unfortunately, the health of the master has already been undermined. Death Alexander suffered 2 heart attacks in a row. On the morning of December 3, the actor had a 3rd heart attack, which caused Kaydanovsky’s death. According to his wife Inna, the summer director was very afraid of this line - his father and mother died of a heart attack at this age. The grave of the artist is located on a m site of the Kuntsevsky cemetery in the city of Moscow, a stone Orthodox cross without a photo is installed on the burial.

The first book was published in the year, which described the biography of the actor “Star Tragedies: Riddles, Fate and Death” by Razzakov. And after 2 years, the publishing house "Art" has published another biographical book about the artist Alexander Kaidanovsky. In memories and photographs. " The documentary films “Stalker’s Tragedy”, “Thirst for Blood” and “On the Blade of the Razor” are devoted to the director, which reveals the secrets of the personal life and career of Kaidanovsky on the basis of the archives and memoirs of former wives and mistresses, children, friends and colleagues.

Filmography - “Calm Day at the end of the war” - “Fourth”.