Sergey Lyalin: from the stars of the Chamber Theater to the directors

The former star of the Chamber Theater, and now the perspective director Lyalin Sergei Gennadievich was born in late April 1962 in Perm. In 1982 he graduated from the Voronezh Art College and was drafted into the army, served in the Airborne Forces. After graduation, he entered the Voronezh Institute of Arts in the acting department. For a while after his graduation, Sergei was one of the most recognizable and popular personalities in the theatrical milieu of Voronezh.

Initially, the artist worked in the Theater for Young Spectators, then moved to the Mikhail Bychkov Chamber Theater. The newly-minted theater quickly gained popularity, until now bohemia remembers Lyalin as the performer of the leading roles in the plays "Watchman" and "Jamais".

Conquest of the White Stone

In 1997, a 35-year-old successful theater actor throws everything and leaves for the capital. There in 1999 he graduated from the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors, his artistic director was A. Mitt.

For about seven years nothing was heard about Sergei. He wrote scripts for films, constantly offering himself to different studios as a director. He was often denied, occasionally offered to take the post of second director. Sergei resolutely refused, fearing to remain in the shadows. And then a single directed film was released, the second, the third. Every year the talented director became more and more popular.

As it turned out, the spirit of directing lived in him always. Sergei Lyalin his first movie camera called "Aurora" acquired in the art school. And immediately began to shoot some episodes like action scenes. Commitment fights with fellow students, the future director arranged in local careers. His play in the theater itself Lyalin regarded as a step to directing. According to the director, now his acting does not attract him at all.

The first detective series

The failure of the Alexey Serebryakov helped the director-debutant to break the captain's bridge of the TV project "Blind". Sergei Lyalin already almost signed a contract to work on one film project, but the production of the film broke down. During the preparation for the shooting, he meets Serebryakov, who by that time was already a famous actor. Alexei was offered to try on the hypostasis of the director in "The Blind Man," but he refused, recommending the producers of Lyalin. That was Sergei Gennadievich's directorial debut.

The Blind tells the story of the protagonist Gleb, who was in a coma almost 10 years after a serious injury, received in Afghanistan. The main character in the state woke up, with a different morality, vital values and social values. He could only become an agent of the FSB and fight corrupt officials.

Filmography of the director

Currently, Sergei Lyalin - the director, whose filmography totals 13 movies and television work, is engaged in the production of an action-dramatic series commissioned by the NTV television channel called Delta.

The main hero of the picture is a brave inspector of fish surveillance, who together with a spectacular assistant is engaged in the search and capture of criminals who killed his friend. Most of the early projects that make up the filmography of Lyalin are created in a criminal genre and are full of action scenes. The latest works are presented in the genre of melodrama:

• The series "Blind", the description of which is presented above.
• Telemelodrama "Games of Adult Girls", in which the main characters Zhenya and Alya, friends from childhood, will face problems of motherhood.
• Historical mini-series "The Last Confession" about the immortal feat of young members of the organization "Young Guard".
• Melodramatic comedy "The Story of Love, or New Year's Rally" is a kind New Year's fairy tale, the story of Cinderella in Russian.
• The events of the adventure series "Gold of the Scythians" unfolds in the 90s in Moscow. The main character (eminent archaeologist AI Berestov) is going to implement the most significant project in his activity - to organize a scientific expedition, whose task is to search for the burial of the Scythian king Kolaksay.
• The dramatic television movie One Family, singing about family values, does not idealize the characters, faithfully depicts the history of modern Russia.
• The criminal insurgent "Bratany-2" demonstrates the pressing real problems of modern society, shows how difficult is the service of defenders of the Fatherland. Indeed, on their shoulders at the same time with the stars is a huge responsibility.
• Detective serial film "Semin. Retribution "is dedicated to the personality of the legend of the Moscow criminal investigation - Colonel Boris Semin, who managed to unravel the most complex, deadlock crimes.

The most recent works that Sergey Lyalin has shot in the last five years are the melodramas "The Sun as a Gift", "The Flower of the Fern", "The Strip of Alienation", "The Pope for Sophia", "The Syndrome of Inexcitedness".

SMERSH

One of the best works, according to domestic film critics, is the detective military thriller "Death to Spies!". The plot narration tells about the events taking place in 1944, about countless exploits and operations of the special department of the counterintelligence of the USSR SMERSh. The film has a truly stellar cast, the process involved very talented and well-known actors: N. Tyunin, A. Pashutin, A. Serebryakov, V. Zolotukhin, A. Yatsenko, A. Peskov and many others. In recognition of the audience and leading experts of the film industry, "Death to Spies!" Is a good detective, which deserves approval from all sides.

In the future

Sergey Lyalin is married to the actress of theater and cinema Eva Aveeva, who quite willingly withdraws in the projects of the spouse, but she played the main role only once. According to the director, the wife does not want to give reason for rumors about her talent, she is afraid that the public will think that her eminent husband is pushing her. In Voronezh, lives Lyalina's mother and his sister-artist Lilia.

Sergei in his youth, too, was fond of painting, but now he is busy with the camera and intends to follow the example of the legendary Roman Polanski, who wanted to "sleep with all genres."