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Video: Why Pankratov became Cherny, and how nofelet changed his fate: Little-known facts about the famous actor
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On June 28, the famous actor and director, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Pankratov-Cherny will be 72 years old. He began acting in films only at the age of 30, and fame came to him around 35, when the films "We are from Jazz" and "Cruel Romance" were released. Since then, the actor has played more than 110 roles in films and continues to act actively after 70 years, performing vivid roles in several seasons of the series "PI Pirogov" and "According to the laws of wartime." Why the actor was forced to take a double surname, and how filming in the film "Where is Nofelet?", Where he actually played himself, almost ruined his life - further in the review.
The future actor grew up in the outback, in a remote village of the Altai Territory. Of the four children in their family, only two survived - Alexander and his sister Zina. When the boy was 3 years old, his father passed away, and from the age of 6 he worked helping his mother. She wanted him to become a military man, and when her son said that he dreamed of a stage, she was surprised: "You are ugly, what kind of artist are you?" Once a month, a mobile cinema came to their village, Alexander did not miss a single show and even then decided that he did not want any other profession for himself.
After grade 8, Alexander entered the Gorky Theater School, after which he performed for several years on the stage of the Penza Drama Theater. And soon he realized that the acting profession did not satisfy all his creative ambitions, and went to Moscow to enter the directing department of VGIK. In the entrance exams, he announced that he wanted to become a director in order to create the world that he was deprived of as a child. This answer did not leave the examiners indifferent, and it was accepted.
How Pankratov-Cherny's star lit up
The real name of Alexander is Pankratov. But another student with the same name and surname studied at the institute with him. Because of this, confusion has arisen. "", - said the artist. Once one of his teachers, explaining which of the Pankratovs he was talking about, said: "About black." Alexander had resin hair, and his namesake was red, and this gave him the idea for a pseudonym: Pankratov-Cherny.
Only on the eve of his 30th birthday, Pankratov-Cherny made his film debut. Once Andrei Konchalovsky saw his term paper, became interested in him as a filmmaker and invited him as an assistant to his film "Sibiriada". And at the same time Pankratov starred in a small role, which became his acting film debut. After that, the directors drew attention to the talented debutant and began to invite him to shoot.
The director Karen Shakhnazarov became the godfather of Pankratov the actor, because he was the first to reveal the creative potential of Alexander, entrusting him with the main role in the film "We are from jazz". This work brought the actor his first resounding popularity and became his trademark, after which in the 1980s. Pankratov has become one of the most sought-after, recognizable and successful actors. His most striking film works of this period were his roles in the films Cruel Romance, Winter Evening in Gagra, Courier, Forgotten Melody for the Flute, The Artist from Gribov and Where is the Nofelet?
Fateful "nofelet"
Already at the very beginning of work on the comedy "Where is the nofelet?" screenwriter Anatoly Eyramdzhan and director Gerald Bezhanov knew that Pankratov must play one of the main roles in the film. Eyramjan recalled: "".
The way to meet girls on the streets, which was used by Pankratov's hero, womanizer Gena, was spied on by Eiramdjan in real life: one of his friends stopped the girls and asked where the "kyurasu" was. While they were figuring out what the incomprehensible word meant, an acquaintance was struck. As a result, the inexplicable "kyurasu" was replaced in the script by the completely explainable "nofelet" ("telephone" is the opposite) - and the main storyline was ready.
This movie hero turned out to be one of the brightest in the galaxy of images created by Pankratov on the screens. Perhaps this really happened because the actor himself was very similar to his hero, a ladies' man - Pankratov never hid the fact that his "Don Juan list" was very impressive. At the same time, he lived with a woman for more than 40 years, whom he officially married only when their son was already 32 years old.
The actor met the daughter of the famous cameraman Yulia Monakhova while still studying at VGIK. His first marriage with classmate Irina was not long, Alexander was ready to marry Julia, but from this step he was stopped by the distrust of his future father-in-law: the venerable cameraman was sure that the young provincial wanted to marry his daughter out of mercantile motives. Alexander and Julia began to live in a civil marriage, in 1980 their son Vladimir was born, but they went to the registry office only in 2012. At the same time, during this period in the life of the actor there were many hobbies and even one official marriage!
On the set of the comedy "Where is the nofelet?" Pankratov was not laughing: he completely lost his head from the actress Veronica Izotova, who performed a cameo role in the film. 5 years ago they had an affair, but Pankratov was in no hurry to leave his common-law wife, and then they parted. On the set, feelings flared up between them again. The actor proposed to her, they signed, but this marriage lasted only a few months. Both were too hot-tempered, temperamental, besides Izotova did not stop Pankratov from frequent gatherings with a lot of alcohol and from courting other women. The actor realized that such a relationship would ruin both, and returned to Julia, with whom he remains to this day.
Since then, Pankratov has played dozens of roles. He drew a flurry of criticism on himself more than once when he agreed to dubious roles in the low-standard comedies of the 1990s. or passing series of "zero", but at the same time always remained a truly national actor - the audience loved him and often recognized themselves and their acquaintances in his characters. Perhaps that is why the actor still has the strength, desire and inspiration not to slow down the pace of work even after 70 years, because he is still in demand and energetic, as in his youth!
He had many novels, but his only actor all his life considered only one of her: The main woman in the life of Alexander Pankratov-Cherny.
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