Sergei Sergeevich Bodrov

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Sergei Sergejewitsch Bodrov ( Russian Сергей Сергеевич Бодров ; born December 27, 1971 in Moscow ; † September 20, 2002 in the Karmadon Gorge , North Ossetia , Russia ) was a Russian film actor and director. The art historian became a Russian youth idol with two films in the late 1990s and was considered to be the most promising talent in the new Russian cinema.

Life

He was born the son of film director Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov . From 1989 to 1994 he studied architecture and philology at Moscow's Lomonosov University , where he was a research assistant until 1996. In 1998 he received his doctorate on architecture in Venetian painting in the Renaissance .

He made his acting debut in 1996 under the direction of his father in the film Kawkasski plennik (Eng. Captured in the Caucasus ). For the role of a young soldier between the fronts, he won the Russian Nika Prize for Best Actor.

He achieved his national breakthrough with the film Brat (Eng. The Brother , 1997). In it he plays Danila Bagrow , a boy from the provinces who fights for his brother with the mafia in Saint Petersburg and beats them with his own weapons. The film was criticized as anti-intellectual and immoral for its careless use of force. He broke all records at the Russian box office. Bodrow was named best actor at the Chicago and Sochi film festivals that same year . Brat 2 followed in 2000 , in which Bagrow flies to America and outsmarts the Chicago mafia.

The "Brother" films captured the attitude towards life of the young generation in Russia. Bodrow became a leading figure in the disoriented post-Soviet society. He himself described his films as heroic deeds that you accomplish . Girls admired his good looks, boys his patriotic sayings in the Brother films. Sentences like strength is not in the money, but in the truth , Russians do not leave theirs behind in battle or We must love our homeland , if only because it is ours , have become popular idioms.

In the Franco-Russian film Est-Ouest - A Love in Russia ( Est-Ouest , 1999) he played a Russian swimmer who fled his homeland during the Stalin era. The film received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film . In Sjostry (dt. Unequal Sisters , 2001) Bodrov conducted its first director, was awarded the first prize of the film festival in Sochi.

For television, he hosted from 1997 to 1999 Russia's most popular TV show Vzglyad (dt. View ). In 2002 he produced the multi-part reality show Posledni geroi ( Eng . The Last Hero ), which was about survival on a desert island. It achieved the highest ratings in the history of Russian TV.

In September 2002 Bodrow was shooting the film Swjasnoi ( Contact man ) in an avalanche accident in the Caucasus . Together with his 24-strong production team, he was buried in a glacier area in the North Ossetian Karmadon Gorge . It was not possible to retrieve it.

The Berlin International Film Festival honored Bodrow in February 2003 with a commemorative event in the House of World Cultures . In 2003, the German director Achim Forst shot a documentary , Der tote Star and the young Russian cinema, about Bodrow's life.

Bodrow was married and had a daughter and a son.

Filmography

Unless otherwise stated as performer:

literature

  • Mikhail Trofimenkov: Sergei Bodrov: Poslednij geroj . Eksmo, Moskva 2003, ISBN 5-94700-019-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Wines: Rising Star Lost in Russia's Latest Disaster . In: The New York Times , September 24, 2002. 
personal data
SURNAME Bodrov, Sergei Sergeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodrow, Sergei Sergejewitsch Jr.; Бодров, Сергей Сергеевич (Russian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian film actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 2002
Place of death Karmadon Gorge , North Ossetia , Russia