Vladimir Bortko - director, screenwriter and producer in one person

Among all the variety of films produced domestically, it is possible to highlight films by Vladimir Bortko, a talented director, producer and screenwriter. All of them capture from the first minute of viewing and leave a lot of different emotions and impressions. Who is Vladimir Bortko? How did you come to the cinema? What works from his director's arsenal are worth seeing? About this and many other things - in the article.

Facts from an early biography

It is possible with some confidence to say that the fate of this man was predetermined, because Vladimir Bortko was born in a creative family. His father - Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko - a successful theater director, and his mother - Marina Fedotovna Zakharenko - an actress. The stepfather of the future artist was the famous Soviet playwright Alexander Korneychuk. Despite the fact that he was surrounded by creative relatives, Vladimir Bortko at first did not want to follow in their footsteps and after school went to study at the Kiev Geological Prospecting Technical School.

In 1965, the future director went on to serve in the army, and after demobilization for some time worked as an electrician-technician in the "Voenproekt" in Kiev.

The beginning of the creative path

Having tried himself in the role of a man far from the world of art, Vladimir Bortko began to understand that he was moving in life in the wrong direction. Therefore, in 1969, he decided to become a student of the Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Art named after Ivan Karpovich Karpenko-Kary. He studied under VL Chubasov and RR Efimenko.

In 1974 he received a diploma and got a job at the Alexander Dovzhenko studios as an assistant to the director. The following year, as director Vladimir Bortko, whose filmography today already has more than fifteen works, put his first film called "The Channel".

First works

In 1980, the beginning screenwriter and director already worked on Lenfilm. The first picture he put here was called the "Commission of Inquiry." The picture is rich in the play of such great actors as Irina Miroshnichenko, Oleg Yefremov and Evgeny Lebedev.

The first film work, which brought Vladimir Vladimirovich fame, was "The Blonde is around the corner" with Andrei Mironov and Tatiana Dogileva in the lead roles. The script for the painting was written by Alexander Chervinsky. Also roles in it were played by Evgenia Khanaeva, Elena Solovey, Mark Prudkin.

In 1984, the director created a lyric tape about the little boy Remi, who wandered to different cities with the owner-trainer, until he found his family. The plot of the film is filled with situations in which the character of the boy is tempered. The picture will undoubtedly be useful for viewing both for children and adults, because it helps to understand that there is no hopeless situation, that friendship helps to cope with any life difficulties, and that each person needs support and understanding.

Famous for the whole world Bortko Vladimir, director, screenwriter and producer, was in 1988, after the film adaptation of the story "Dog Heart" by Mikhail Bulgakov. The film received the Grand Prix at the Perugia Film Festival, the Golden Screen in Warsaw, the Grand Prix in Dushanbe, the A. Moskvin Prize, the Prize for Directing and the RSFSR State Prize. Brothers Vasilyev. Yevgeny Evstigneev brilliantly played in the picture of Filipp Filippovich Preobrazhensky, and Vladimir Tolokonnikov, thanks to Sharikov's role, loudly and immediately the whole world did not express his acting talent. Yuri Shaigardanov performed the role of an operator, Vladimir Dashkevich wrote music, Julius Kim - lyrics to songs, Vladimir Svetozarov was the artist-director of the picture. The script was written by Natalia Bortko, and of course, a lot was done for the success of director Vladimir Bortko.

Filmography: the best works

In 1991, the audience could see the result of months of shooting under the direction of Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko - on the screens there was a military drama called "Afghan break". To participate in the film was invited to the popular Italian actor Michele Placido, known for the main role of Commissioner Cathanò in the film "Sprut". This undoubtedly made the film work even more interesting and exciting.

In the period from 1992 to 1998, Vladimir Bortko worked under the pseudonym "Jan Khudokormov" and shot several episodes of "The Street of Broken Lights".

2000 presented the audience with several masterpiece television series, such as: "Idiot", "Bandit Petersburg", "Master and Margarita". The series not only won millions of fans, but were awarded numerous awards and prizes.

Another masterpiece

In early April 2009, the audience was presented a new film by Vladimir Bortko - "Taras Bulba". In the title role, the most talented actor of the Ukrainian theater and cinema - Bogdan Stupka, who, unfortunately, is no longer alive, appeared. The film aroused interest on the part of the audience and sharp controversy in the media. For seven days of the presentation of the film in the cinemas of the CIS countries it was watched by more than 3.5 million people (not taking into account the cinemas of Ukraine).