The greatest directors of our time - who are they?

A talented director or actor can not become, they can only be born. What is the difference between the greatest directors of theater and cinema from ordinary people? Probably, the fact that they see and perceive the world around them in their own individual format, and their pictures, first of all, bear the imprint of this perception.

The Path to the Kinematoraf

In what families are talents born, and how do they come to the cinema? Each creative person has his own individual path to the world of art - someone is born in a family where for many years a creative dynasty has already been formed, and someone comes to the cinema from the street. But success and recognition are achieved only by those who have something to say to the viewer and who do not think their life without a movie.

The greatest directors of our time have gone their own unique way in this art, before they reached the summit of Olympus. For some, it was simple and understandable, and someone had to fight the system for the right to freely express their thoughts. But no system in the world is capable of destroying true talent, which is given from above.

Creative dynasty

Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov was born in a creative family, which begins its history in the 15th century. His father - Sergei Mikhalkov - was a famous Soviet children's poet and author of the Anthem of the USSR, mother - Natalia Konchalovskaya - an excellent talented writer. Nikita's childhood passed among the creative personalities, with whom the house of this family was full.

But for some reason, the parents of Nikita Sergeyevich decided to attach him to the exact sciences and sent him to school with a mathematical bias. True, nothing good came out of this - the child simply did not have the capacity for mathematical disciplines, the parents were forced to transfer Nikita to a regular high school.

A music school and a theater studio - that's where the soul of the future director and actor sought. There he felt himself in his element and made great strides. After graduating from high school Mikhalkov enters the famous Shchukin school, although it is impossible to finish it. In the theatrical high schools of that time, an unwritten law was written - a student should not act in films until after graduation. And it was precisely this that Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov was actively engaged in.

This fact did not particularly upset the future director, he enters the 2nd year of VGIK, which by that time his older brother Andrei Konchalovsky is finishing. And then there was service in the army and active participation in amateur art of the Kamchatka fleet.

Director and actor

The first film, which brought fame to the young director, was the film "My own among strangers, a stranger among my own." The next ten years were particularly successful in the career of Nikita Sergeevich. Almost every film created by him received prestigious domestic and foreign awards, and the roles that were played by the director became very popular with the audience.

Almost every talented director has his own special, beloved actor, who becomes his talisman. Such a man for Mikhalkov was Oleg Menshikov. All the films with his participation became masterpieces of the national cinema, the viewer eagerly awaited the release of new paintings.

American "Oscar", Cannes "Palm Branch" - the greatest directors of the whole world dream of such prestigious awards. People's Artist of Russia Nikita Mikhalkov has in his piggy bank the most coveted awards from prestigious film academies.

Quentin Tarantino - movies about life

Such an extraordinary personality, like this American director, has both his fans and opponents. But who said that a real artist should like everyone?

Not okochivshy and high school, not having a father and special attention from the mother - that's the life of a young man, named Quentin Tarantino. The films, which would later bring him world fame, were filmed in many respects under the impression of a stormy youth. Since his youthful years, Quentin began writing scripts that he offered for sale, but it was not very successful.

To write the script for his first film "Mad Dogs," it took him only three weeks. But the real stylish and independent American film was the movie "Pulp Fiction", after which Tarantino was spoken seriously.

Quentin Tarantino has repeatedly been a member of the jury of the Cannes festival, it seems that the world will see more than one creation of this original director.

Steven Spielberg

Films of this director became, perhaps, the most profitable and collected more than 8.5 billion dollars at the box office. Steven Spielberg is not only a talented director, but also a screenwriter and producer. "Schindler's List," "Indiana Jones," "Salvation Private Ryan" - these films have become classics of world cinema and brought the director many awards from the most prestigious film academies.

Well, it all began with a small camera, donated by the father, to which Spielberg and took his first short film about the war. It was with this children's picture that the young Stephen's journey began in the cinema.

Domestic talents

It rarely happens that the first film, shot by the director, immediately won the hearts of a multi-million audience. But that's exactly what happened with the first tape of Eldar Ryazanov's "Carnival Night". This film instantly became popular in the Soviet Union and did not lose its attractiveness in our time.

Now it is simply impossible to imagine the domestic cinema without the work of this talented director. Films of Eldar Ryazanov are not just comedies, they are also reflections on life, about its dark and bright sides, about love and devotion, about true friendship and betrayal. In the Soviet Union, only in the form of irony, it was possible to express all the boils, and Ryazanov used it to convey to the viewer his thoughts and feelings.

The greatest directors of the past and our century - each of these talented people has forever left its mark on the development of the art of cinema.