The tragic fate of Alexander Solovyov: What caused the premature death of Handsome from the movie "Green Van"

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

While studying at GITIS, he was called one of the most promising students, in the 1980s. after his triumph in The Green Van, he became one of the most sought-after actors. However, at the peak of popularity Alexander Soloviev disappeared from the screens. In 1993 he played his last role, and in 2000 the audience learned about his ridiculous and mysterious death …

Those close to him often had to fight for his life, unlike himself. It seemed that Alexander Soloviev valued his own life least of all, constantly playing giveaway with death. He had many chances to change his fate, but he neglected them.

The first happy accident happened to him immediately after birth. Doctors doubted that a seven-month-old one and a half kilogram newborn would be able to survive, but the mother managed to get out. As a child, Sasha dreamed of becoming Oleg Popov, "h". After school, he came to Moscow and the first time he entered GITIS. The members of the selection committee were struck on the spot by his texture, talent, and spontaneity: he showed up for the exam in boots on his bare feet, and when he saw that the teachers paid attention to this, he explained: "".

Soloviev was one of the favorite students of the director Andrei Goncharov. He took only three people to his acting course: Alexander Solovyov, Igor Kostolevsky and Alexander Fatyushin. All three later became stars of Soviet cinema, but not all of them had a successful fate. After the institute, the director invited the students to his theater, but Solovyov did not get the main roles, and a year later the actor moved to the Central Children's Theater.

Alexander Fatyushin said about a friend: "".

His film debut took place in 1970, and since 1975 he began to actively act in films. Very often he got the role of heroes similar to himself - sincere, straightforward, uncompromising, passionate and difficult. The greatest success with the audience enjoyed the film "Green Van", where Solovyov played the role of a horse thief nicknamed Handsome. Director Vladimir Motyl said that of all the actors in Soviet cinema, only Vladimir Vysotsky, Oleg Dal and Alexander Solovyov managed to be absolutely independent in the acting profession. Unfortunately, they were united not only by this, but also by a common addiction.

Alexander Soloviev began to drink in his youth, and later it grew into a strong alcohol dependence. During filming in "Green Van" they became friends with Dmitry Kharatyan and promised each other not to drink during filming. And when such a desire arose, they bought juice. Soloviev ran for tomato juice every day. Unfortunately, later he could no longer restrain himself.

Many colleagues and acquaintances said that the actor had a very difficult character. Conflicts often arose due to the fact that Soloviev was too straightforward, quarrelsome and uncompromising. He could tell the director in person that he was mediocre, and the play was nonsense. Everyone who knew the actor said that two completely different people live in him - one is bright, kind, sympathetic, generous, and the second is hot-tempered, cocky, not controlling outbursts of rage. Because of this, he had to leave the tetra. Emmanuel Vitorgan said about him: "".

Over time, he was no longer invited to the cinema. Left without work, he was burdened by the fact that he was supported by his wife, actress Lyudmila Gnilova, and began to fill the insult with alcohol. The actor often disappeared from home for several weeks, fought, started new affairs, and then returned to his wife and asked for forgiveness. At the insistence of his wife, he tried to be treated for alcohol addiction, visited different clinics in the country. In one of them in Feodosia, he met the actress Irina Pechernikova, known for the film "Two Captains". As it turned out, she was suffering from the same problem. Common troubles brought them closer together, and the actors began an affair.

On the night of December 26, 1999, an undocumented man was brought to Sklif, who was found unconscious by police officers lying on a flower bed. He was very drunk and could not give a name or address. He was issued as an unknown. After a week in intensive care in a coma, he died on January 1, 2000. Another month the unidentified body lay in the morgue. They were about to bury him along with other homeless people, but then the detective remembered that he had seen an unknown person in the movie "Green Van". They called Dmitry Kharatyan, and he told Irina Pechernikova the sad news.

Later Pechernikova said: "".

What happened to the actor that evening is still a mystery. It is known that on the evening of December 25, he appeared at the theater for a banquet after the performance, very drunk, made a scandal there, and was asked to leave. He went home, but never made it to his apartment. When he was taken to the hospital, his entire back was covered in blood, and there was a hematoma on his head. In the conclusion it was written that death came from a cerebral hemorrhage. At that time, Alexander Solovyov was only 47 years old.

Three years after Alexander Solovyov, his institute friend also passed away: The irony of fate of Alexander Fatyushin.