As a child, he wanted to become a clown. Later I decided: as a director. But I read that for this you first need to learn to be an actor. And he went to his goal consistently and persistently. However, they didn’t give him a movie – it was painfully “non-Soviet”. The acting helped out – on the verge of clowning. June 28 is the birthday of a wonderful and popularly beloved artist Alexandra Pankratova-Cherny. How much he looks like his heroes, they will tell a video interview of the TV channel “Russia”. Watch it now!
In the documentary “Altai Nugget. Pankratov-Black” fragments of the artist’s own memories are interspersed with stories of his friends and colleagues about him: Nikita Mikhalkov, Karen Shakhnazarov, Olga Kormukhina, Elena Tsyplakova, Savely Yamshchikova, Vladimir Grammatikov, Larisa Guzeeva, Andrei Konchalovsky, Mikhail Porechenkov and Vladimir Ilyin. “Naughty, sonorous. A geyser man. A real man. Temperamental,” they say about him. And then: “Touching. Sad.” And also: “It didn’t even occur to him that one could choose between” profitable “and” in good conscience. “
Not everyone remembers that his acting debut took place in “Siberiade”. And the famous he woke up five years after the film “We are from jazz”. His hero – easy, funny, charming – captivated the audience. Such inspiring characters were in demand in the late 80s – early 90s. When domestic cinema was in crisis, Pankratov-Cherny was filmed more often than our other actors, and was at the top of popularity. He played dozens of reckless roles, his guys on the board. It seems to the audience that he plays himself – a carefree, cheerful person. But few people know what kind of tests from childhood fell on this joker and joker, who suffered two heart attacks by the age of 35 …
How did he fall into the caste without hearing, voice and dancing skills and starred in musical comedy? Why did fellow countrymen in a remote Altai village obmaterit artist when he brought to show them “We are from jazz”? What caused his party father to die? How did Pankratov-Cherny fight movie officials and who made him take his second name? What brilliant continuation did his “poetry” receive, as his grandfather called his childhood passion, who had broken his grandson for every new rhyme? About this and much more – in the film “Altai Nugget. Pankratov-Black”.
In 1927, the actor’s grandfather was exiled to St. Petersburg from Altai. The five of them lived in a small hut: little Sasha, his sister, mother, grandmother and grandfather. My father died when the boy was three years old. Bread was not on the table every day. Already at six years old, Sasha began to work for workdays – he drove the hocks – and for the first time he saw a light bulb at ten (they lived with kerosene). He got into the circus when his mother went into the city in fierce hunger to sell a cow. Returning, he tried to juggle with torches, but burned the barn, and with it his dream to work in the circus, said the actor Boris Korchevnikov.
Mom wanted Sasha to follow in the footsteps of relatives and become a military man. “It’s very beneficial to be an officer: government food, clothes. Besides, you’re ugly, and the officers always look after pretty girls. You look, you will have a beautiful wife,” the actor recalls his mother’s words. And she proudly declares: “And my wife is already beautiful.” His Julia he worships: for her kindness and unlimited patience. They lived together for 40 years, of which the first 16 wandered around Moscow without their own housing. He left her many times — he felt that his disorder spoiled her life — but he always returned. Only in 2012, Julia Monakhova and Alexander Pankratov-Cherny finally legalized their relationship.
How was a student of the Gorky Theater School once nearly killed for mother’s parcel with potatoes, lard and three rubles, and with whose money the student of VGIKA beautifully looked after Julia? How (long before working together in the film “Winter evening in Gagra”) he made friends with Evgeny Evstignevhow I met Vladimir Vysotsky, in whose honor he later named his son, and what did “Height” prophesy to a novice colleague? How did Alexander almost die during the filming of Sibiriada? Why didn’t I sign with Yulia for so long and why did I sign it? The answers are in dedicated to the artist issue of the program “The fate of man”.
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