Fyodor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Bondarchuk | |
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 Fyodor Bondarchuk | |
| Born | Fedor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (1967-05-09) May 9, 1967 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Film director, actor, producer, clipmaker, TV host, creator. |
| Years active | 1986–present |
Notable work | The 9th Company, Down House, The Inhabited Island |
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (Russian: Фёдор Серге́евич Бондарчу́к [fʲɵdər sʲɪrgʲeɪvʲɪtɕ bəndɐˈrtɕuk]; born May 9, 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, TV and film producer, clipmaker, TV host, founder of production company Art Pictures Studio.[1][2]
Bondarchuk specializes in action, war, and science fiction films. Some of the most notable films Fyodor has directed include The 9th Company (2005), The Inhabited Island (2008-2009), Stalingrad (2013) and Attraction (2017).
As an actor, Bondarchuk is best known for starring in 8 ½ $ (1999), Down House (2001), Two Days (2011), The PyraMMMid (2011) and Ghost (2015)
Bondarchuk is a winner of TEFI award in 2003 in nomination “The best host of the entertainment TV-show”.[1] In 2011 he received the Golden Eagle Award as the Best Actor.[3]
On October 15, 2012 he was appointed as Chairman of Lenfilm's Board of directors.[4][5]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Business
3.1 Art Pictures Studio
3.2 Glavkino
3.3 Kinositi
3.4 Restaurant Business
4 Television
5 Political activism
6 Filmography
6.1 Actor
6.2 Director
6.3 Producer
7 Awards and nominations
7.1 Awards
7.2 Nominations
8 Personal life
9 References
10 External links
Early life
Fedor Bondarchuk in his childhood
Filming of Stalingrad by Yuri Ozerov, 1987
Fedor was born in Moscow in a family of actress Irina Skobtseva and internationally acclaimed film actor and an Academy Award-winning director Sergei Bondarchuk. In 1985 after finishing school, Fyodor became a student of VGIK. In 1991 he graduated from the class of Yuri Ozerov as a film director.
Career
Fedor Bondarchuk during the filming of Heat
His actor debut was in 1986 in the film Boris Godunov (1986) where he performed with his father.
In 1990 Fyodor Bondarchuk started his career as the first Russian producer of music videos. In 1993 he won the Ovation award as the best producer of musical video.
Bondarchuk's breakthrough as an actor came with his dual role in the 1999 cult film 8 ½ $ by Grigori Konstantinopolsky, where he played both Fyodor and Stepan.[6] In 2001 Fyodor played the role of Count Myshkin in Down House, loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot.
Fedor Bondarchuk started his career as a film producer in 2002, beginning with the film In Motion (2002). Since that he has produced over twenty film projects that were great box-office successes. Bondarchuk won the 2003 TEFI Award for "the Best Host of the Entertainment TV-Show".[1] In 2005 he directed his debut film The 9th Company, which was based on real events which happened during the Afghan war (1979–1989).[7] The filming process took place in the Crimea, and lasted 5 months. The 9th Company eventually won 7 awards and was nominated eight times. It also broke the former box office record. The 9th Company became the first Russian film earning $25 million.[8] In 2006 The 9th Company was submitted for Best Foreign Film on Academy Award, but it was ultimately not nominated.
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"This film is about my generation, about the war and friendship. About men's love, feat, treason and loyalty" – Bondarchuk said, – "Probably the truth I was trying to show there will not be pleasant to our generals. But Afghan soldiers who were excited after viewing our film is the best proof for me. That is really important".[9]
Also Fyodor created a duology The Inhabited Island (2008). In 2006 Boris Strugatskiy gave rights to screen the film adaptation of the fantasy novel Prisoners of Power. The overall time of the shooting took 222 days. Production and distribution of Inhabited Island was realized by Fyodor Bondarchuk's film company Art Pictures Studio. The film earned $30 million and took the third place of the box office of CIS area in 2009. In 2012 Bondarchuk received the Golden Eagle Award for the Best Actor in the film Two Days (2011) by Dunya Smirnova.[10] At the same year, Fyodor and film producer Alexander Rodnyansky officially announced the beginning of the cooperation with IMAX Filmed Entertainment (also known as IMAX Corporation).
Greg Foster, the president of the company, said: "Fedor and Alexander showed me a 15 minute fragment of Stalingrad. And I'm very glad that we did a right choice in choosing a partners".[11]
As a result, their project Stalingrad was the first non-American film[12] filmed in IMAX format. It was released in October 2013.[13]
In 2012 Fyodor Bondarchuk produced the screen adaption of Sergey Minaev's book of the same name, Dukhless. Released in October 2012, it became the most successful Russian fiction film that year.[14] The sequel, Dukhless 2, was released in 2015.
Bondarchuk directed the science fiction film Attraction in 2017. The film was a box office success and earned $18 million.
In 2018 he produced another Minaev adaptation, Selfie, and the box-office hit musical film Ice which grossed $22 million against the budget of $2 million.
Business
Art Pictures Studio
Fedor is a founder of Art Pictures Studio production company, which he founded in 1991 together with his friends Juhan Saul Gross and Stepan Mikhalkov and reorganized it in Art Pictures Studio in 2006 with his partner Dmitry Rudovskiy. The main area of the company is film and video production and distribution. Company is working with a variety of projects, ranging from music and advertising videos to feature films.
Musical and advertising videos made by Art Pictures received a lot of Russian and international awards. The company worked with Heinz, Philips, Sony, Zikr (Colgate total), Pepsi etc. In 2002 Art Pictures moved into film production.[1]
Glavkino
In 2008 Fyodor Bondarchuk together with Konstantin Ernst (Director General of the Russian Channel One) and Ilya Bachurin founded the large-scale project Glavkino.[15] The project consists of a television and television complex, a hardware complex, a production center, a script laboratory.
In 2011 Glavkino and New York Art Academy founded a grant named after Sergei Bondarchuk.[16]
In 2017 Glavkino ownership was transferred from its founders, including Fyodor Bondarchuk, Konstantin Ernst, Ilya Bachurin, Vitaly Golovachev and Nikolai Tsvetkov, to the creditor VTB Bank. Each of the five founders of Glavkino received $1800 each, while VTB repaid the studio's debts, estimated at about $52 million.[17]
Kinositi
In 2009 Fyodor Bondarchuk with producer Sergey Selianov initiated the project Kinositi. The main mission of this company is to create network of multimedia educational cinema complexes throughout Russia. In 2012, Kinositi became the official partner of cinema chain Premier Zal.[18]
Restaurant Business
Fyodor Bondarchuk is an owner of three restaurants in Moscow (together with his friends and partners Stepan Mikhalkov, Arkadiy Novikov and Kirill Gusev). Also he opened two restaurants and confectionery in Ekaterinburg.[19]
Television
Fyodor Bondarchuk is a popular television host in Russia. His show about the world of cinema aired weekly on the STS TV channel in Russia. His guests in the studio included Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Bay, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Craig, Til Schweiger etc.[20]
In 2003 he received TEFI as the best TV host of entertainment program, in March 2004 Bondarchuk became a member of Russian Television Academy's fund.[2] At the same year Fyodor started to host the reality show You - a Supermodel.
In 2013 Fyodor have started his career of TV producer with two projects on the STS channel in Russia.
Political activism
In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.[21]
Filmography
Fyodor Bondarchuk on the set of the film "Inhabited Island"
Fyodor Bondarchuk and Sergei Garmash, the shooting of the film "Inhabited Island"
Fyodor Bondarchuk and Konstantin Kryukov, the shooting of the film "Company 9"
Actor
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Boris Godunov | Feodor II of Russia |
| 1988 | Solnechnyi bereg (original title) | young soldier |
| 1989 | Stalingrad | Ivan |
| 1989 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Fedor |
| 1992 | Arbitrator | Roman |
| 1992 | Demons | Fedka Katorzhnyi |
| 1993 | Angels of the Death | sniper Ivan |
| 1994 | Shooting Angels | Ivan |
| 1997 | Midlife Crisis | Vlad |
| 1998 | Stop (original title "Ostanovka") | |
| 1999 | 8 ½ $ | Fedor/Stepan |
| 2000 | Showcase | Store manager |
| 2000 | Formula of Happiness | |
| 2001 | Down House | count Myshkin |
| 2001 | Men's Work (TV) | Rebrov |
| 2002 | In Motion | Gazizov |
| 2002 | Cinema about Cimena | Nikolay Zhiltsov, film producer |
| 2002 | Men's Work 2 (TV) | Rebrov |
| 2004 | Our Own | the chief of Police |
| 2004 | My Fair Nanny (TV) | cameo |
| 2004 | B-day of the Best Friend | |
| 2005 | The 9th Company | Khokhol |
| 2005 | From 180 and Higher | Savik Galkin |
| 2005 | The State Counsellor | Burchinskiy |
| 2005 | Dacha for sale | Vladimir |
| 2005 | Mama, ne goryui 2 (original title) | Leva |
| 2005 | The Fall of the Empire (TV) | General Anton Denikin |
| 2005 | Happypeople | |
| 2006 | 9 Months (TV) | Kostya |
| 2006 | Tri polugratsii (original title, TV) | Kurbatov |
| 2006 | Open Season (animated film) | Boog (Russian dubbing) |
| 2006 | Heat | film director |
| 2007 | Gloss | |
| 2007 | Sem kabinok (original title) | drug diller |
| 2007 | I’m Staying | instructor |
| 2007 | Kilometer Zero | cameo |
| 2007 | Artistka (original title) | film director |
| 2007 | Tiski (original title) | Igor Verner |
| 2007 | 18-14 | graf Tolstoi |
| 2008 | Admiral | Sergei Bondarchuk (pseudo cameo) |
| 2008 | The Inhabited Island | Umnik |
| 2008 | Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (animated film) | Tonny Dennis (Russian dubbing) |
| 2008 | Open Season 2 (animated film) | Boog (Russian dubbing) |
| 2009 | The Best Movie 2 | Fedor Bondarchuk (cameo) |
| 2009 | The Inhabited Island: Skirmish | Umnik |
| 2010 | Moscow, I Love You! | suicide |
| 2010 | Pro lyubоff (original title) | Vladimir Victorovich |
| 2010 | Pseudonym for Hero | Director |
| 2011 | The PyraMMMid | Belyavskyi |
| 2011 | Lecturer (TV) | Vladimir |
| 2011 | Svadba po obmenu (original title) | Ruslan |
| 2011 | Two Days | Petr Drozdov |
| 2011 | Bezrazlichie (original title) | Petya Selyutin |
| 2011 | The White Guard (TV) | Shpolyanskiy |
| 2012 | Spy | Alexey Oktyabrskii |
| 2012 | Gold | |
| 2012 | 7 dní hříchů | Major Uvarov |
| 2012 | Tri bogatyrya na dalnikh beregakh (original title, animated film) | Kolyvan (dubbing) |
| 2012 | After School (TV) | cameo |
| 2013 | Molodezhka (original title, TV) | Oleg Ivanovich Kalinin |
| 2013 | Odnoklassniki.ru: NaCLICKai udachu (original title) | Fedor |
| 2014 | Chudotvorets (original, TV) | Viktor Stavitsky |
| 2014 | Gena Beton (original title) | |
| 2015 | Ghost (Призрак) | Yury Gordeyev |
| 2015 | Warrior | Andrey Rodin |
| 2015 | A Warrior's Tail | Elza (voice) |
| 2016 | Santa Claus. Battle of the Magi | Miran Morozov, the Father Frost (Santa Claus) |
| 2018 | Selfie |
Director
| Year | Title | More |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Dream in a Summer Morning | short film |
| 1993 | Lyublyu (original title) | special project |
| 2005 | The 9th Company | |
| 2006 | And Quiet Flows the Don (TV) | final editing of a film directed in 1992 by his father |
| 2008 | The Inhabited Island | |
| 2009 | The Inhabited island: Skirmish | |
| 2012 | Nowhere to Hurry | |
| 2013 | Stalingrad | |
| 2017 | Attraction | |
| 2019 | Attraction 2 |
Producer
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2002 | In Motion |
| 2003 | Gololyod (original title) |
| 2003 | Kamikadze's Diary |
| 2005 | The 9th Company |
| 2006 | Heat |
| 2008 | The Inhabited Island |
| 2009 | The Inhabited island: Skirmish |
| 2010 | The Phobos |
| 2011 | Two Days |
| 2011 | New Year SMS (TV) |
| 2012 | August Eighth |
| 2012 | Soulless |
| 2013 | Odnoklassniki.ru (original title) |
| 2013 | The Best Girl of Caucasus |
| 2013 | Yes and Yes |
| 2013 | White Lily |
| 2013 | Evgeny Onegin |
| 2014 | Baba Yaga |
| 2015 | Soulless 2 |
| 2015 | Warrior |
| 2016 | The Queen of Spades |
| 2016 | The Good Boy |
| 2018 | Selfie |
| 2018 | Ice |
Awards and nominations
Awards
- Sozvezdie 2002 – Best Supporting Actor (Kino pro kino)
TEFI, 2003 – Best TV host of entertainment TV show (Kreslo, STS)
Nika Award, 2006 – Best Feature Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
Golden Eagle Award, 2006 – Best Feature Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best directing debut (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – People's choice Award (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best feature film according to Internet voting (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- VIVAT (Russia), 2006 – Grand Prix of the festival (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Blockbaster 2009 (Box office record on CIS area) (The Inhabited Island, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Turkey), 2010 – special prize for the contribution to the world cinema
Golden Eagle Award, 2012 – Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Two Days, director Dunya Smirnova)
Nominations
Nika Award, 2003 – Best Supporting Actor (Kino pro kino)
Nika Award, 2006 – Breakthrough of the Year (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
Nika Award, 2006 – Best Director (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
Golden Eagle Award, 2006 – Best Feature Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
Golden Eagle Award, 2008 – Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Tiski)
Golden Eagle Award, 2012 – Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Spy)
MTV Russia Movie Awards, 2008 – Best Actor (Ya ostayus)
MTV Russia Movie Awards, 2008 – Best Movie villain (Tiski)
Personal life
Fedor was married for more than 20 years to Svetlana Bondarchuk (née Rudskaya), main editor of HELLO! magazine (Russia). They have 2 children: son Sergey and daughter Varvara.[22] After divorcing from Svetlana, Fedor became romantically involved with actress Paulina Andreeva.[23]
References
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^ Nastya Yudaeva. "Федор Бондарчук и Паулина Андреева рассказали о своих отношениях в интервью". Cosmopolitan.
External links
Fyodor Bondarchuk on IMDb- Fedor Bondarchuk full Bio
- The official channel youtube
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