Sergey Ursulyak, biography, news, photos

Childhood and family

Born in 1958 (June 10) in Khabarovsk. He has Ukrainian and Jewish roots. What kind of family was he brought up in? Sergei's father, Vladimir Konstantinovich, was a military man. He often had to move from one garrison to another. The man always took his wife with him. He rose to the rank of captain of the 2nd rank. Died in 1996. Our hero’s mother received a higher pedagogical education. She worked as a teacher at school.

With the birth of Sergei, the family finally settled in Magadan. The future director spent his childhood in this city. He grew up as an active and inquisitive child. Seryozha went in for sports and was fond of adventure and historical literature. The boy spent his summer holidays with his grandmother in the Moscow region. He remembered this time forever. After all, it was his grandmother who introduced him to art. She took her grandson to the Philharmonic and to the capital's theaters.

Biography

Born into the family of a serviceman, captain of the second rank Vladimir Konstantinovich Ursulyak (1931-1996), a graduate of the Sevastopol Higher Naval School. The family comes from Ukraine; the grandmother was imprisoned in a Jewish ghetto during the German occupation[1]. I spent my childhood in the city of Magadan.

In 1979, Sergei Ursulyak graduated from the acting department of the B.V. Shchukin Theater School (workshop of Evgeniy Rubenovich Simonov). Until 1991 he played at the Satyricon Theater. In 1993 he graduated from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors (workshop of Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl).

A television

In 1995-2001, he was the director of the television program Dog Show “Me and My Dog” (NTV)[2]. In 1999-2000, he worked on the documentary series of television programs “Recent History” with Evgeny Kiselyov (NTV)[3].

From June 2002[4] to August 2005 he was the author[5] and presenter of the series of documentary programs “The Motley Tape” (TVS[6], since 2003 - “Channel One”[7]).

Students

After receiving his matriculation certificate, Sergei Ursulyak went to Moscow. He submitted documents to VTU named after. Shchukin, to the acting department. A native of Khabarovsk managed to enter the university on the first try. The guy took a course with E. Simonov. In 1979 he was awarded a diploma. The Pike graduate was accepted into the main group of the Satyricon Theater. The young actor worked there until 1991. Then Seryozha enrolled in the Higher Courses for Directors and Screenwriters. His teacher and mentor was Vladimir Motyl.

Sergei Ursulyak: first roles in the theater

After graduating from high school, Sergei Ursulyak went to Moscow, where he entered the Shchukin Higher Theater School.
There he successfully completed his studies, graduating from the acting department (E. Simonov’s workshop) in 1979. After this, the young man was accepted into the troupe of the Satyricon Theater, where he worked for eleven long years. In this institution, he played quite extraordinary and noticeable roles, the largest of which was the role of Chatsky in the play “Woe from Wit.” Despite a fairly successful acting career, Ursulyak dreamed of realizing himself in a slightly different direction - he wanted to become a director and make films himself. Twice Sergei entered VGIK to study at the directing department, and both times he failed the exams. Then he decided to take a different path and in 1990 he was enrolled in higher directing courses in the workshop of Vladimir Motyl. There Ursulyak received basic knowledge of the profession that interested him so much. The graduate’s graduation work was his first film, “Russian Ragtime,” created in 1993.

Sergey Ursulyak: filmography

Our hero's directorial debut took place in 1993. His first picture was called “Russian Ragtime”. The plot centered on Soviet people who dream of a rich and well-fed life in America. The script for this film was written by G. Ostrovsky.

In 1995, his second film, “Summer People,” was released. This time he created the script himself, based on the work of M. Gorky. The film tells about the dying Russian nobility. Director Ursulyak approved Sergei Makovetsky for the main role. And this choice turned out to be correct. After all, the actor coped with the assigned tasks 100%. The film was awarded several Russian film awards.

Sergei Ursulyak presented his new creation to the audience in 1998. “Essay for Victory Day” is a drama telling about the meeting of three front-line comrades.

In 2002, the detective series “Poirot’s Misfortune” was released. He worked on the script himself, adapting the world-famous work of Agatha Christie.

This was followed by the melodrama “The Long Goodbye” (2004). Ursulyak’s filmography does not end there. In 2007, he was invited to participate in the creation of the series “Liquidation”. And he agreed. The television project involved such actors as Sergei Makovetsky, Mikhail Porechenkov and Vladimir Mashkov.

During the period from 2009 to 2020. director Ursulyak released three more films - the spy series “Isaev” (2009), the military drama “Life and Fate” (2012) and the modern version of “Quiet Don” (2015).

Filmography

Achievements

Sergei Ursulyak managed to try himself as a screenwriter. His debut in this area was the film “Summer People” (1995). He also wrote scripts for the detective story The Misfortune of Poirot (2002) and the drama The Long Goodbye (2004).

Our hero’s creative collection includes several prestigious awards, including Nika, Kinotavr and TEFI.

Biography[ | ]

Born into the family of a serviceman, captain of the second rank Vladimir Konstantinovich Ursulyak (1931-1996), a graduate of the Sevastopol Higher Naval School. The family comes from Ukraine; the grandmother was imprisoned in a Jewish ghetto during the German occupation[1]. I spent my childhood in the city of Magadan.

In 1979, Sergei Ursulyak graduated from the acting department of the B.V. Shchukin Theater School (workshop of Evgeniy Rubenovich Simonov). Until 1991 he played at the Satyricon Theater. In 1993 he graduated from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors (workshop of Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl).

Television[ | ]

In 1995-2001, he was the director of the television program Dog Show “Me and My Dog” (NTV)[2]. In 1999-2000, he worked on the documentary series of television programs “Recent History” with Evgeny Kiselyov (NTV)[3].

From June 2002[4] to August 2005 he was the author[5] and presenter of the series of documentary programs “The Motley Tape” (TVS[6], since 2003 - “Channel One”[7]).

Sergey Ursulyak: biography, personal life

Our hero’s first wife was his classmate Galina Nadirli. In February 1983, the couple had a tiny daughter. The baby was named Alexandra. The new father himself swaddled, bathed and put his daughter to bed. But the happy family life did not last long.

Sergei Ursulyak, a biography whose personal life interests many, left the family in 1986. He has a new girlfriend - actress Lika (Liana) Nifontova. In April 1989, she gave birth to the director’s daughter, Dasha.

Sergei Vladimirovich’s children from his first and second marriages are on good terms. Sasha and Dasha see each other often and support each other morally. They are both actresses.

The eldest daughter, Alexandra, has already given him two charming granddaughters - Anechka (born in 2006) and Nastenka (born in 2008). As for Dasha, she recently married actor Konstantin Beloshapka.

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What are you ready for?

Yulia Shigareva, AiF: Sergei Vladimirovich, ideas still don’t just arise. Many books, thank God, have been written. But there must still be a consonance with the times - otherwise they simply won’t want to watch the film.

Sergey Ursulyak: Well, naturally, what Sholokhov wrote is in tune with the present day. Because at any time people fall in love and meetings happen that become fate. This is the first one.

And the second is the readiness for civil war, which lived in us before and which is still present every second. As soon as some small abscess arises, we are immediately ready to split up instantly and mercilessly. Separate friends from foes, friends from foes. We are ready to find enemies within the same family, village, city, country...

— Is this a purely our, Russian quality, or is it inherent in any human community?

— Each country arranges itself differently. Probably, due to the smallness of the territory, the limited number of people, and other traditions, in the West they are more inclined to treat every person with care. We do not have such a tradition and never have had one - Russia is probably too big. And we deal with dissent much more easily.

— You are talking about the caring attitude towards people there. And I look at what is happening in Europe now and think: everything is rising in price - oil, gold, stocks, dollars, euros. And only human life becomes more and more devalued.

— Because human life has become an element in the stream of entertainment. The number of deaths that we see every day on television screens teaches us that death is, in general, a game, a show. And it seems to me that the task, speaking in high style, of art is to return the sensual, emotional perception of someone else’s life.

-...And then guys come with suicide belts and show that for them human life is nothing at all - neither their own nor someone else’s.

- Well, yes, they come... With suicide belts, with red flags... At different times they come with different slogans and ideas. That is why I am not a supporter of revolutions and instant changes. Although nothing happens just like that. They don’t come with red banners just like that, nor with suicide belts. You need to understand this, but I am not so educated and free to analyze it deeply.

- Well, why at the beginning of the twentieth century? They came with red banners, which is somehow understandable. But why at the beginning of the 21st century? came to Europe with suicide belts?! To Europe, where the word “tolerance” is spoken more often than “yes” or “no”. Where they are already ready not to celebrate Easter, and not to publish the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs”, just so as not to hurt someone’s feelings.

— Tolerance is good when it is addressed to a person who is able to perceive it. We wrote “Heart of a Dog” on this topic. What is happening in Europe is an absolutely mirror situation. And to say that this is our Sharikov, but they have Mukhtar and everything is different is absurd. A person who is not grateful. A person of a different worldview or complete absence of this worldview. West is West, East is East.

Then, perhaps, everything will settle down, but now we need to get through this moment. We were just unlucky - we found ourselves at such a time. However, we are never lucky.

"Quiet Don" in a new way. Report from the set of the series

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Life path

The hometown of Sergei Ursulyak is Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The hero of this article graduated from the Theater School named after. Shchukin in 1979. TV viewers learned about who director Ursulyak was many years later. For more than ten years he was involved in performances of the Satyricon Theater as an actor. Sergei Ursulyak was able to make his first film only in 1993.

The director, whose filmography includes six feature films and four TV series, is extremely popular in Russia today. Before we begin to describe the most striking works, we should list the main events in the creative life of the Russian director.

Sergei Ursulyak is a director whose filmography begins with the film “Russian Ragtime”. He has four film awards to his name, one of which he was awarded for his debut. In addition to feature films and television series, director Ursulyak shot the documentary film “Konstantin Raikin”. Other works by Ursulyak:

• "Summer People";
• “Essay for Victory Day”;
• "Poirot's Failure"
• "Liquidation";
• "Isaev";
• "The Long Goodbye";
• "Life and Fate";
• "Notes from a Dead House."

Director Ursulyak and his family are one of the topics that is often covered in the press. The wife and daughters of the creator of “Liquidation” are popular Russian actresses. Fans of Ursulyak’s work are especially interested in the biography of his wife, Lika Nifontova. Because the director gives the brightest roles in his films to this actress.