Video: "Bourgeois's Birthday" 20 years later: Where did the movie stars of the 1990s disappear?
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Twenty years ago, in 1998, the series “Birthday of the Bourgeois” was filmed, which became a cult film of the late 1990s. - early 2000s. For the actors who played the main roles, it was the finest hour. Over the years, many of them disappeared from the screens. Which of them became the director of the theater, who tried to conquer Hollywood, who passed away prematurely, and why the family of Valery Nikolaev and Irina Apeksimova broke up after filming - further in the review.
The theme of the series turned out to be so relevant in the late 1990s that the hero of Valery Nikolayev, nicknamed Bourgeois, was immediately dubbed in the press as a new “hero of our time”. The society was undergoing radical changes that were reflected in the film. Director Anatoly Mateshko said: "". Filming was completed at the end of 1999, and the series was released in 2000. On the wave of phenomenal popularity a year later, the second part of "Bourgeois" was shot.
The series "Birthday of the Bourgeois" and its continuation became the finest hour for the actor Valery Nikolaev. His film debut took place in 1991, he starred in the films "Little Things in Life", "Nastya", "The Lonely Gambler" at home and in the films "Turn", "Saint" and "Nightman" in the USA, but real popularity came to him in the late 1990s. The director did not expect that after his proposal Nikolaev would return from Hollywood: "".
After "Bourgeois" the actor continued to act, including abroad, and then tried his hand as a director, releasing the films "Bear Hunt" and "Duels: Recruiter". Nikolaev also participated in the TV projects "Circus with the Stars" and "Ice Age", but he failed to achieve the popularity that he had in the late 1990s. In the last 3 years, new films with his participation did not appear, and the actor's name was mentioned in the press only in connection with his next marriage or divorce and with scandals around several road accidents with his participation, as a result of which he was even arrested for 15 days and deprived of his driver's license. right.
The main female role in the series was played by Valery Nikolaev's wife, actress Irina Apeksimova. They met while studying at the Moscow Art Theater School and got married in 1988. In 1994, their daughter Daria was born. And during the filming of Bourgeois's Birthday, the couple broke up. Then they said that the reason was Nikolaev's romance with his partner on the set Daria Poverennova. Then they did not comment on this in any way, and later Poverennova confirmed that for 2 years she was really in a relationship with Nikolaev, but claimed that this happened after their breakup with Apeksimova. Be that as it may, the couple could no longer be together on the set, and in the second part of "Bourgeois" the scriptwriters had to "kill" the heroine Apeksimova.
Apeksimova's career began in 1987, before "Bourgeois" she starred in several films and TV series and won the prize for Best Actress at the Paris Film Festival (film "October"). But her finest hour, as well as for her husband, was also the period of the late 1990s - early 2000s, when she starred in the TV series "Birthday of the Bourgeois" and "Cage". After that, she continued to act in films, but achieved significant success in another industry. In 2012-2015. the actress served as director of the Roman Viktyuk Theater, and then became the director of the Taganka Theater. In 2003-2009. she was a TV presenter. Recently, Apeksimova became interested in vocals and thought about how to end her acting career and become a singer.
For Daria Poverennova, the series became a ticket to a big movie - although she acted in films before that, it was with this role that the start of her successful film career began. After the end of the affair with Valery Nikolaev, who left her for another woman, she was depressed for a long time, could not work and appear in public. As the actress said, "". But today she is again happy in her personal life and in demand in the profession - at the moment there are more than 60 roles in her filmography.
The director of the series called his discoveries the Ukrainian actors Vitaly Linetsky and Volodymyr Goryansky. After the filming was over, Vitaly Linetsky, who played the programmer, stayed in Kiev, performed on the theater stage and actively acted in films, but in 2014 a tragedy struck: the 42-year-old actor was found dead in an underground passage. No traces of violent death were found, one of the versions was an accident - Linetsky fell off the steps and broke his head. Many do not believe in this, but the exact circumstances of his death have not been clarified.
Vladimir Goryansky, who for many years worked with Vitaly Linetsky on the same stage, began acting in films in 1980, but widespread fame came to him only after Bourgeois's Birthday, where he brilliantly played the role of the psychiatrist Kostya. Today Goryansky is one of the most sought-after and popular Ukrainian actors and TV presenters. His filmography includes more than 100 projects.
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