Director, playwright, actor, born March 12, 1941 in Moscow. In 1962 he graduated from the director's workshop of Mikhail Romm VGIK. In collaboration with Boris Yashin took debut film "inch of land" (1964) on military prose Grigory Baklanov. The short story "Angel" from kinoalmanaha "The Beginning of the unknown century" (1967) lay on the shelf "twenty years. In this black and white anthology Yuri
Smirnov filmed Olesha, Larissa Shepitko - Andrei Platonov. In "Angel"
Smirnov gave a revolution in the work with light that did not like the other advocates of the revolution, on the fiftieth anniversary of which was timed Almanac. Immediately
Smirnov discovered Leonid Kulagin, which later would invite the lead role in "Autumn", and Alfred Schnittke, who wrote the music for most of his films. Belarusian Railway Station ", filmed in 1970 brought
Smirnov in the vanguard of young names. It was angrier reaction to the next picture, made by
Smirnov's own scenario "Rowan - berry sweet '. Partner Kulagina became the director's wife Natalya Ore. Outraged colleagues accused the "Autumn" in pornography and melkoteme, condemned, or wondered about the "dubious" heel talented director in the deep privacy of ordinary men and women, who for thirty. This happened in 1974. Five years later, Andrei
Smirnov put his latest film "faithfully". In the cinema, he returned much later - as an actor. "Chernov / Chernov" became a double debut - Sergei Jurassic in filmmaking and Andrei
Smirnov as Executive. Next - underground millionaire Koreiko in freestyle "naive" adaptation of "The Golden Calf" "Dreams idiot," Basil Picula. And the two works in film by Alexei Uchitel scenarios daughter Andrei
Smirnov - Dunya
Smirnova - "Giselle's Mania" (1995) and "His Wife's Diary" (2000).
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"Every filmmaker has a murderer in" Interview with the director and actor Andrei Smirnov.
