Alexander Bukharov, biography, news, photos

BIOGRAPHY

Alexander Bukharov was born in the city of Labinsk, Krasnodar Territory, and spent his childhood in Irkutsk. “Everything that is in me now comes from my parents. From mom - the soul, from dad - the masculine character, the core. My parents are simple people. Mom works in a hospital, she is a nurse. Dad is a builder,” says the actor.

Alexander did poorly at school, and after the 8th grade he thought about entering a vocational school to become a tiler - installer. But at the last moment I decided to submit documents to the Irkutsk Theater School. The young man successfully passed the entrance exams and entered the course of V. Kokorin and V. Dulova.

In 1994, Alexander graduated from the institute with honors and moved to Moscow. The actor decided to continue his studies and entered VGIK.

Random arrival

And then I decided to try my hand. When there was an introductory audition, Alexander Bukharov for some reason became very shy and began to lisp as a result, turning a passage from a classical work into something absolutely humorous. The examiners were having fun like children.

And yet they came to the conclusion that the guy was losing his talent as a real comedian. They were accepted into the school with a friend. Very soon Sasha realized that he liked studying. He was especially delighted with classes in acting and stage combat. He graduated from Bukharov College with honors and a desire to study further.

Yesterday's student moved to Moscow and entered VGIK, after which he was invited to work at the Moscow Drama Theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.

MOVIE

After graduating from VGIK, Alexander did little filming. He appeared in episodic roles in the TV series “Truckers”, “Maroseyka, 12”, “Ice Age” and “On the Corner of the Patriarchs-4”. The actor recalls: “These works were of no creative interest to me. They invited me to audition, but I didn’t pass. High-quality samples are extremely rare in general. For example, I start to feel shy, tense, I always don’t know how and what to play, because I don’t know the material. It’s great if you find a director who can help and guide you.”

"Wolfhound from the Gray Dogs"

Alexander Bukharov’s first big film work was the role of Wolfhound in Nikolai Lebedev’s film “Wolfhound from the Family of Gray Dogs” (2006). The actor says: “I once starred in “Star” (a film by Nikolai Lebedev - editor’s note), from where the director safely cut me out. Not because I played poorly, as I thought then, but simply this episode in the film turned out to be unnecessary. He cut out the episode, but he remembered me. And when he was offered to film “Wolfhound,” Nikolai insisted on my participation in this project.”

The role of the Wolfhound made Bukharov famous; directors began inviting the actor to play the main roles in their films. In 2007, director Oleg Fomin filmed the series “Young Wolfhound”, in which Alexander Bukharov also played the main role. The series is dedicated to the events that took place after the extermination of the Gray Dogs family. Bukharov is an omastodon,” a brutal man, and in “Young Wolfhound” he is still quite a young man. It was interesting to me, because first I played an older man, and then the same person, but young. And Oleg Fomin and I worked well together. Just like working with Nikolai, I had great pleasure. But these are two completely different works, and I’m not even going to compare them.”

"Servant of the Sovereigns"

In 2007, director Oleg Ryaskov shot the historical film “The Servant of the Sovereign.” In it, Bukharov played the role of the Russian officer Grigory Voronov, who saved the French Chevalier de Breze from death and shielded Tsar Peter I from a bullet. “This is a movie about us and about our history, which many simply do not know. I think that more films like this should be made about Russia. “The Servant” has it all: love, true male friendship, and strong personalities that are beautifully played. People miss what they can love about our country. Of course, there are overly patriotic moments, but so be it. They don’t look stupid and funny, because we did it sincerely,” says the actor.

Bukharov starred in the films “Gentlemen Officers. Save the Emperor”, “District Officer”, “Women on the Edge”, “Department”, “Village Teacher”, “Alien Darling”. One of the actor’s last premieres was the film “Substitution,” in which Bukharov played the role of the main character’s husband, businessman Dmitry. The film also stars actors Ekterina Olkina, Artem Osipov, Anna Kotova, and others.

Awards[ | ]

• 2007 - “MTV Russia Film Award” in the category “For the best fight or battle” - for the final battle of Volav and Vinitar against Zhadoba in the feature film “Volav from the Family of Gray Dogs”
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• 2010 - winner of the International competition “National Literary Award “Golden Pen of Russia”” for 2010 in the “Television” category with the presentation of the special distinction “Golden Pen of Russia”, made of pure gold, and the title “Golden Pen of Russia” (personal certificate No. 110 dated October 10, 2010 [8]) - for competent stage speech in the feature film “Wolf from the Family of Gray Dogs”
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INTERVIEW

About Me

“I am a lively, impulsive and passionate person. As a child I was a brawler. In cinema, I get incredible pleasure from swords, guns and romance. Childhood and childishness remain forever in a man. One of the greats correctly said that only the cost of toys changes over the years. For example, I play computer games. I love boxing fiercely. I studied it seriously and even received a master's degree. In my youth I wanted to be an officer, a traveler or a geologist. I would climb somewhere in the mountains, in the taiga... For me, this is what warms the soul.”

About the theater

“Everyone comes to the theater for something different, the main thing is that the theater is “live.” If it is “live” and gives emotions, people come to this theater, sympathize with the characters, and emotionally connect to what is happening on stage. Each person is looking for something different in the theater: some need to cry, while others need to laugh and have a little fun.”

About cinema

“I love our cinema. I grew up watching Soviet films about the Great Patriotic War and still watch them. My favorite paintings are “A Friend Among Strangers, a Stranger Among Our Own” and “They Fought for the Motherland.” I can watch these films endlessly. There are also wonderful Hollywood films, but I still give preference to our cinema.”

Based on materials from the sites kino-teatr.ru, vokrug.tv, rusactors.ru, ruskino.ru, kinopoisk.ru

Actor Alexander Bukharov

A SHOT FROM THE FILM “THE WOLFHODW” – Was the path from participating in episodes to playing the main roles a thorny one?

– I once complained to a famous theater teacher that I wanted to act in films, but they wouldn’t film me.
He very accurately noted that every actor has his own time: some need to grow up and gain experience, some need to mature, girls need to blossom and become prettier. I had a discrepancy between external and internal data. The texture is heroic, but internally he is a boy without a core, and his eyes gave it away. When harmony came, I was noticed. I can’t even describe the role of Wolfhound as anything other than a miracle. – What other wonderful things happened in your life?
“It’s a miracle that a few minutes before the end of the first round at VGIK I managed to run from the plane and show up to the admissions committee.
It’s a miracle that I was accepted into college. It’s a miracle that my far from rich parents, when I was just getting ready to leave Irkutsk for Moscow, found the money for my air ticket. – You give the impression of some kind of correct person with a measured life.
This does not really correspond to the restless fate of an actor... - I am a lively, impulsive and passionate person.
As a child, I was a brawler and didn’t get anywhere only thanks to my parents. In the movies I get incredible pleasure from swords, pistols and romance. Childhood and childishness remain in all men. One of the greats correctly said that only the cost of toys changes over the years. For example, I play computer games. I love boxing fiercely. He studied it seriously and even became a candidate for master of sports. In my youth I wanted to be an officer, a traveler or a geologist. I would climb somewhere in the mountains, in the taiga... Without comfort: a tent, sleeping bags, a fire. For me, this is what warms the soul. Lately, however, I haven’t even been able to visit my mom and dad, let alone go on vacation. I haven't been on vacation for four years. – You star, let’s say, in pro-state films that correspond to the “general political line.”
Wouldn't you like to get involved in politics? – If I wanted to get involved in politics, I would have already been involved in it.
Of course, I’m interested in knowing what’s going on, so I have information at the level of news broadcasts on television and radio, but I’m not going to delve deeper. I'll either get even more confused or just get angry. What touches and worries me is what is happening in the world. The wars that flare up cannot leave any normal person indifferent. And history helps to establish cause-and-effect relationships with today. Moreover, in cinema I moved from one era to another: after “Wolfhound,” which takes place in the 9th century, I ended up in “The Sovereign’s Servant,” in the 18th century. – What is the significance of the film “Servant of the Sovereigns” for you and is there any social meaning in it?
– This is a movie about us, about our history, which many simply do not know.
I think that more films like this should be made about Russia. Now there is an opportunity to make good films, it’s a pity that they are making less than we would like, and not about that at all. “The Servant” has it all: love, true male friendship, and strong personalities that are beautifully played. They scolded him, took him apart, called him educational, so be it! Nevertheless, with this film we traveled around cities and villages, we were in Tyumen, in Sverdlovsk. There he is simply received with a bang. People miss what they can love about our country. Of course, there are overly patriotic moments, but so be it. They don't look stupid and funny, because we did it sincerely. A professional team of real men has gathered who have everything in order with their moral principles, which is, frankly speaking, a rare phenomenon in our time. There are a lot of films about either “bully” and cool, or about exalted ones, but I’m glad that we made films about normal men. - It turns out that the man is getting smaller these days?
– If we talk about the era of Peter the Great... I, of course, was not there, but it seems to me that honor, courage and courage were the norm of life.
And if you are a scoundrel and a traitor, then you have no one to hide behind. Now men can hide behind a lot and feel confident and comfortable: a sense of humor, which everyone has in abundance, money, cars. External paraphernalia with which we have overwhelmed ourselves and behind which it is impossible to reach the real human. And there are only a few flint men at all times, but they have always existed and still exist today. And there shouldn’t be many of them. – What is the strong and brave man Alexander Bukharov afraid of deep down in his soul?
- Of death.
And lately for some reason more and more often. It’s very scary to ever betray someone, to become a scoundrel for reasons beyond my control. I understand that this seems to depend only on me, but a person is never immune from anything. I'm afraid of disappointing people close to me. I’m a living person and I’m afraid of a lot of things... I can’t say that I’m such a principled macho, but I can play it! – Your hero Grishka gives his life for Tsar Peter, but how do you feel about this historical figure?
After all, we have a movement that considers Peter I the enemy of the country: they say, Russia has taken the wrong European path of development... - Peter did so much for Russia that it’s hard to even imagine.
He did everything right, and he achieved something that many rulers of our country before him could not achieve. He was a man of action, which earned him universal respect. I don’t know about any popular movements, but I wouldn’t like to walk around in bast shoes, with a waist-length beard and raise bears. Of course, we needed culture and science. Well, would the country sit behind the Iron Curtain? Look what this curtain has done and what consequences it has left in just 70 years! What if this went on for centuries? We'd all go to hell here. – What irritates you in the modern world, in the people around you?
– Something serious plunges me into apathy or enrages me, and, as always, little things can enrage me. Each of us has our own pain points. Mine, for example, turns on when someone steps on my foot on the subway and does not apologize. After that, my mood goes downhill like a snowball: I begin to notice that the weather is bad, that everything around is dirty, that someone is looking at me askance. In this mood, I retire and ventilate, because I don’t want to upset my loved ones. But still, I am a person with a sense of humor and an optimist. And as soon as I see my wife jokingly stomping her foot in a very funny way or a squirrel running to my windows from Bitsevsky Park, my mood immediately improves.

FILMOGRAPHY: ACTOR

• Changeling (2016)
• Alien Darling (2015), TV series
• Country Teacher (2015), TV series
• Department (2015), TV series
• Women on the Edge (2013), TV series
• Mistress of the Taiga-2 (2012), TV series
• District (2011), TV series
• Number forty-three (2010)
• Doctor Tyrsa (2010)
• Scarlet Sails (2010)
• Mistress of the Taiga (2009)
• Crazy Angel (2008)
• Gentlemen officers. Save the Emperor (2008)
• Cossacks-robbers (2008), TV series
• Ice Kiss (2008)
• Afghan Ghost (2008), TV series
• Wolfhound: Right to Duel (2009)
• Vaccine (2007)
• Young Wolfhound (2007), TV series
• Servant of Sovereigns (2007)
• Wolfhound (2006)
• Boomer (2003)
• Road (2002)
• Ice Age (2002), TV series
• The Lion's Share (2001)
• Maroseyka, 12 (2001), TV series
• Truckers (2001), TV series

Creativity[ | ]

Theater roles[ | ]

Moscow Drama Theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan[ | ]

• 1998 - “The Inspector General” based on the comedy of the same name by N. V. Gogol (director - Sergei Gazarov) - Derzhimorda, policeman
• 2000 - “The Heart is Not a Stone” based on the play of the same name by A. N. Ostrovsky (director - Andrei Zyablikov) - Erast, Karkunov’s clerk, about 30 years old
• 2001 - “Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro” based on the play of the same name by Beaumarchais (director - Yuri Klepikov) - Almaviva, Count
• 2001 - “Close your eyes - I’ll tell you fairy tales” based on the play “Home” by Lyudmila Razumovskaya (director - Yuri Klepikov) - Mike
• 2002 - “Three Sisters” based on the play of the same name by A. P. Chekhov (director - Yuri Klepikov) - Fyodor Ilyich Kulygin, gymnasium teacher, Masha’s husband
• 2003 - “Powder Keg” based on the play of the same name by Dejan Dukovski from Macedonia (director - Krikor Azaryan from Bulgaria) - Angel

Filmography[ | ]

• 2000 - Truckers 1 (episode No. 1 “Russian Convoy”) - episode
• 2000 - Maroseyka, 12 (episode No. 4 "Son") - security guard
• 2001 - The Lion's Share - security guard "Filin"
• 2002 - Ice Age - Lyonchik, bandit
• 2003 - Boomer - episode
• 2003 - Fireworks - Sharov
• 2004 - On the corner, at the Patriarchal 4 - Zolotarev
• 2006 - Vaccine - Oleg
• 2006 - Volav from the family of Gray Dogs - Volav
• 2007 - Young Volav - Volav
• 2007 - Servant of the Sovereigns - Grigory Voronov, Russian guardsman, sergeant
• 2008 - Afghan Ghost - Ivan Dymov, captain
• 2008 - Gentlemen officers. Save the Emperor - Yuri Andreevich Vasnetsov, captain
• 2008 - Cossacks-robbers - Anton / Sergey
• 2008 - Ice kiss / Iced kiss (Lithuania, Norway) - Vladimir
• 2009-2012 - Mistress of the taiga - Konstantin Voevodin, senior police lieutenant
• 2009 - Crazy Angel - Alexander Khabarov, investigator
• 2010 - The True Story of Scarlet Sails (Purpurov Vitrila, Ukraine) - Arthur Gray, captain
• 2010 - Doctor Tyrsa (episode No. 6) - Yuri, boxer
• 2010 - Everyone has their own war - Veniamin Pavlovich Kolesov, history teacher
• 2010 - Number forty-third - Viktor Koshkin, detective
• 2011 - District - Sergei Aleksandrovich Gromov, captain, district police commissioner
• 2013-2014 - Women on the brink - Igor Vitalievich Zvantsov, psychologist, employee of the prosecutor’s office
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• 2015 - Department - Roman Rusakov, police major, operational officer
• 2015 - Rural teacher (Ukraine) - Father Gregory
• 2015 - Someone else's sweetheart - Nikolai Petrovich Morozov, Natalia Kapustina's lodger, former prisoner
• 2016 - Substitution - Dmitry Kozyrev, businessman, Olga’s husband
• 2017 - Wings of the Empire - Boris Lyadov, agent of the gendarmerie department
• 2018 - Gurzuf - “Chapai”, criminal “authority”
• 2018 - Battalion - Sobolev, GRU lieutenant colonel
• 2019 - One - Roman Sergeevich Odintsov, former policeman
• 2019 - Factory - Viktor Terekhov, factory worker in the province
• 2019 - Stepfather - Ivan, front-line soldier, husband of Nastya Spiridonova, father of Mishka
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• 2019 - Rzhev - Sergeant Sysoev, participant in the Battle of Rzhev
• 2019 - Lev Yashin. The goalkeeper of my dreams is Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov, Soviet football player and football coach
• 2020 - Ferrari Legend - Baron Wrangel
• 2020 - Saboteur. Crimea - Konstantin Palych Lazhechnikov
• 2020 — Silence
• 2020 – Cathedral – Disgraced

Notes[ | ]

1. Internet Movie Database (English) - 1990.
2. ↑ 1 2 Andrey Tumarkin
   . Alexander Bukharov: “All my scars are real.” Article from the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” dated March 17, 2007. // gazetaby.com
3. ↑ 12
   Alexander Bukharov. Biography, filmography. Network publication “State Internet Channel “Russia” // russia.tv
4. Mikhail Sadchikov
   . Alexander Bukharov: “No, I’m not Volav.” Article from the newspaper “Trud”, No. 059, April 7, 2007. // rusactors.ru
5. Actor Alexander Bukharov: “People on the streets don’t recognize me.” Newspaper “New Izvestia” // newizv.ru (February 16, 2007)
6. VIDEO. TV series “Women on the Edge” (Russia, 2014). All episodes (No. 1-26). Network publication “State Internet channel “Russia”” // russia.tv
7. “The plot centers on amazing human destinies.” Who's who in the series "Stepfather". The 16-episode historical saga directed by Sergei Ginzburg will premiere on November 4, 2020. Official website of Channel One (Russia) // 1tv.ru (October 30, 2020)
8. List of winners of the national literary award “Golden Pen of Rus'” (for 2000-2015). Official website of the national literary award “Golden Pen of Rus'” // perorusi.ru
9. Results of the International Competition “National Literary Award “Golden Pen of Rus' – 2010””. // zperorusi.ru

Personal life of Alexander Bukharov

Bukharov met his future wife Elena Medvedeva in... a vegetable store. It was 1998. The actor liked the girl in line and decided to get to know her better. It turned out that the charming stranger, also an actress, a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, came to conquer the capital from Nizhny Novgorod. Sympathy arose between the young people, which soon grew into strong family relationships.

Alexander Bukharov with his wife and son

After the resounding success of “Wolfhound,” Bukharov had the opportunity to buy housing in the capital, where he moved his young wife and son Dmitry (born 1999).

The couple work in the same theater and thanks to this they have the opportunity to see each other more often, since due to Alexander’s busy work schedule he has practically no time left for his family.

Alexander does not like social events, preferring to spend rare days of rest either at home with his family or in nature.