Biography of the Kaidan artist

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Freedom -loving and non -standard, he changed his studies at theater universities several times. He was the director and author of the scripts of several fantasmagoria films, including the “Guest” and “The Wife of the Kerosynchik”. In the year he was an invited jury member at the Cannes Festival, with his participation, the Golden Palm Branch received the film Quentin Tarantino “Crime Crime”.

In the year, Kaidanovsky passed away at the age of 49. Leonid Lvovich was a pilot during the war, after he was injured, he was commanded. He got a job to serve in the Rostov MGB, where he took the position of head of the radar station. In the year, he married Vera Alexandrovna Onishchuk. Alexander Kaidanovsky with his parents, marriage promised to be happy, however, there was one “but”.

Sasha’s mother sang well, versed in music and literature and really wanted to become an artist, and her son became an annoying obstacle on the way to success. Lyudmila Bulgakova, Kaydanovsky’s cousin, recalled later: she left her child and an old mother and waved to Moscow, entered the Institute of Culture. I didn’t come home for five years - I studied ... When it was time for Sasha to go to school, he was handed over to a boarding school, and a satchel with books, notebooks, penalties and everything necessary came from a parcel from Dnepropetrovsk.

During the vacation, his father brought him to us. Our boy was fed, looked at. It sometimes seemed to me and my brother that his mother loved us more, and Sasha knew well that if necessary - Aunt Zina would do everything that was possible and what could not be for him too. Subsequently, Kaidanovsky named his endlessly devoted dog in honor of thethe - Zina. Kaidanovsky and his dog Zina, the boy read a lot, listened to the radio for hours, learned to speak correctly.

I always went with a volume of poems under his arm, I learned all Pushkin by heart. When my mother returned from Moscow, she began to lead the theater circle at the Rostselmash club, but she did not give her son serious roles, which Sasha could not forgive her. As a child, Alexander Kaidanovsky was 14 years old when her parents divorced, and Vera Alexandrovna married a football player of the Rostov team.

Sasha remained to live with dad. When my mother had a son Misha, she bought a piano for him, wrote it to a school with an in -depth French. Alexander, knowing about this, exclaimed ironically: “Mom, you confused everything! It was necessary to learn me and the French language! And Misha was driving in football from morning to evening and could not even play a gamut. Sasha is used to living without a mother.

Father did everything possible so that her absence did not affect his son, whose character became more complicated. After the father married Kiev, Irma Pukhalsky, hoping that she would replace Alexander Mother, the boy completely switched to live with her grandmother. Irma gave birth to two daughters one after another, and she absolutely did not care about the Sashin teenage difficulties.

At the end of the seventh grade, Sasha was taken to Dnepropetrovsk, where he entered the welding technical school and at the same time began to engage in a dramatic circle under the leadership of the teacher Vitaly Kovalevsky. It was Vitaly Innokentyevich who opened an acting gift in the guy and explained that he needed to develop in this direction. Alexander Kaidanovsky in his youth Kaydanovsky left the technical school after the first year and returned to Rostov to enter the local theater school.

The complicated character of the student did not like the teachers, and Sasha finished his studies at another mentor, Mikhail Bushnov, who later recalled that he and Kaidanovsky found a common language and never even quarreled. The sister said: when my mother and I arrived in Rostov in the early summer, the whole relative was impressed. Everyone watched Sashin with the graduation performance “House on the outskirts”, where he played a major role.

Aunt Lina - our common aunt and Sasha, the older sister of my mother and his father, said: “Sasha played amazingly. It was his life - life without a mother with a living mother ... ". In the morning, the phone in the house did not stop calling: the main directors of the Rostov theaters offered Sasha a job. But Kaydanovsky decided to continue their studies in the capital.

But “there were so many stupid ceremonies”, annoying Alexander, that a few months later he transferred to the Schukin school. His friend, struck by the deep knowledge of Rostov, in literature, was Leonid Filatov. Kaydanovsky played the first roles in the second year of the “pikes” Hamlet, so much so that he gave food not only to critics: his interpretation of the classic image was discussed with admiration, rumors leaked to other theaters.

Hamlet-intellectual, performed by Sasha, excited the minds. Alexander Kaydanovsky, in the role of Hamlet in the year, took place the actor's debut in a big movie. He appeared in the image of the Foreign Medium Jules Lando in the drama of Alexander Zarhi “Anna Karenina”, and then starred in the picture according to Ivan Turgenev of the same name “First Love”, playing the poet Maidanov.The first role of Kaidanovsky in the movie “Anna Karenina” was still the scientific and fantastic picture “The mysterious wall”, where Kaidanovsky appeared in the image of an employee of the computing center, but censorship shredded the film so much that almost everything was deleted with the actor, and he himself was not even mentioned in the credits.

The frame from the film “The Mysterious Wall” in the year, immediately upon graduation from the school, Kaidanovsky came to the troupe of the Evgeny Vakhtangov Theater with the hope of the role of Prince Myshkin in the production of “Idiot”. The backstage intrigues were unknown to him, but it was they who became the reason that Sasha did not allow Sasha to play the promised character.

But he admitted - in many ways his dismissal was due to excessive freedom and alcohol excesses: what does the actor do when he is not allowed to play? He drinks. And a couple of times I drank so thoroughly that they hastened to get rid of me. But he remembered the fans of films-scenes as Count Alexei Karneev in the “Drama on the Hunt”, Vissarion Belinsky in the production of the former and the Duma ”The heyday of his career.

He was serving in the Cavalry Regiment of Mosfilm, where Nikita Mikhalkov noticed his refueling and to become and invited the actor to his new film about the Civil War “His own among strangers, a stranger among his own,” which became a turning point in the acting fate of Alexander. Alexander Kaidanovsky in the film “His among strangers, a stranger among his own” Kaydanovsky expressively played a white raid by Lemke, a negative character, but captivating the “cold” charm and image of a single loner.

Yuri Bogatyrev, an extremely friendly man who had to hit Kaydanovsky, had more difficult to hit Mikhalkov, convinced the actor that he was a Chekist and the hero of Kaidanovsky, and they were enemies at a subconscious level. An excerpt after the triumph with Mikhalkov, the directors vied with the vocepage of Alexander to invite Alexander to their paintings. In the year, several films with Kaydanovsky in the lead roles were released at once.

He played the Count of Viktor Vorontsov in the “Dictates for the dictatorship of the proletariat”, the playwright of Alexander Ostrovsky - in the biographical drama “My House - Theater”, the former tsarist officer Kirill Zimin - in the dilogy “The missing expedition” and “Golden River”. A frame from the film "Golden River" in the year took place the premiere of the fantastic drama of Andrei Tarkovsky "Stalker", about the filming of which legends still go.

The Strugatsky brothers rewrote the script about ten times, leaving little in it from their novel “Picnic on the sidelines”. The locations changed several times, a part of the shot material disappeared in an incomprehensible way, which is why a break occurred in the work. Alexander Kaidanovsky as a stalker, despite the frequent conflicts with the director, inevitable in the clash of two creative personalities, Kaydanovsky was impressed by working with Tarkovsky: so far I starred with directors, for whom the main thing is an actor, and not a visual decision in itself ...

Kaydanovsky, who played the main character, was so immersed in the image that he lived even outside the filming of his life. Kaidanovsky and Tarkovsky, on the set of Stalker, Kaydanovsky, who established such a high bar for himself, well understood that in the future there would be nothing like this in his filmography: I could not be after a stalker: after playing Christ, to take on the role of the chief accountant.

Director's work, the actor plunged into depression, decided to make a movie himself and entered the highest courses of screenwriters and directors to Andrei Tarkovsky. When the director emigrated to Italy, Kaidanovsky continued his studies with Sergey Solovyov. Over two years of study, he managed to write several scripts and lard two short films - “Garden” and “Iona, or the artist at work”.

Clutching the blade in the palm of your hand. ” The documentary was the first full meter was the drama “Simple Death ...” with Alice Freindlich and Valery Potrykhov in the main roles. The frame from the film “Simple Death ...” Kaydanovsky also shot the mystical drama “Guest” and the grotesque painting “The Wife of a Kerosynchik”, marked by the Grand Prix in the “Strange Films” nomination at the International Fantastic Film Film and Horror Films in Avoriasis for the year.

Frame from the film “The Wife of the Kerosynchik” the last roles of the acting roles of the last years of Kaidanovsky’s life in the memory of the audience were his composer and singer Pranas in the film by Vitautas Zhalakyavichyus “Excuse me,” Philip Lombard in the detective of Stanislav Govorukhin “Ten Negro” and Lanselot in the fantastic picture "New adventures of the Yankee at the court of King Arthur." Alexander Kaidanovsky in the film “Ten Negro” The last role of the actor in the cinema is Denis’s father in the drama “Arrival of the train” of the novel “Wedding march”, year.

The personal life of Alexander Kaidanovsky in the year was the first wife of Kaidanovsky, a friend of youth Irina Bychkova, subsequently associate professor of the Department of Psychophysiology and Clinical Psychology at the University of Rostov-on-Don. The wedding of Alexander Kaidanovsky and Irina Bychkova according to Irina’s memoirs, when Sasha made her an offer, she was not ready for this.Kaidanovsky’s father, when his son introduced him the bride, only sighed and asked if she could cook borsch.

Parents arranged a wonderful wedding to them. Alexander, who had previously walked in stretched sweaters, first appeared in a suit for the sake of, by definition, “show-reporting” in the registry office. With the first wife, after the wedding, the couple moved to Moscow, lived in a basement without many household amenities, but were absolutely happy. Actors and artists, musicians and sculptors came to visit them.

Alexander was very far from the image of a family man-domed, but Dasha’s daughter was delighted in the year, although before that he almost went to prison because of the next brawl. The court in the criminal case of Kaydanovsky took place two months before the birth of a daughter. From the real term of the actor, Mikhail Ulyanov, who spoke at the hearing of the case with such a fiery speech that Alexander was given only two years conditionally.

By the middle of the seventies, Kaidanovsky became a recognizable actor with his daughter Dasha, he had his own group of fans. Not with all the girls besieging him, relations remained platonic. Sasha told his wife, who loved, suffered and forgave his betrayal. But when her husband began to burn with Valentina Malyavina burning everything on his way, she could not stand it. Valentina Malyavina in his youth Valentina initially entered their house as a family friend.

She was married to director Pavel Arsenov, was already at the peak of success after roles in “Ivanovo childhood” and “king-olive”. She was strange, mysterious and fatal. After joint filming in the film “Red Square”, they became close, and after a tour with the Vakhtangov Theater, they decided to admit all their spouses. Malyavina and Kaydanovsky in the film “My House - Theater” Paul did not give a divorce, believing that everything would be fired sooner or later, and Valentina would return.

Irina took her daughter and went to her parents in Rostov. Later, in the year, she filed for divorce. In the future, Alexander rarely talked with her, unlike his daughter, who often called on the phone. Kaidanovsky and Malyavina settled in a workshop with a good friend. Their relationship was painful - as they would say now, toxic. Kaidanovsky was terribly jealous, demanded to achieve a divorce from Arsenov.

While he starred in Mikhalkov’s film, someone from the film crew of the film, on which Arsenov worked, called Valentine. The actress was asked to urgently fly to Yalta and reassure Paul, who fell into a depressive state - otherwise the shooting could be broken.