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Biography: childhood and youth

Primykhov Valery Mikhailovich was born in 1943 (December 26). He is a native of Kuibyshevka-Vostochnaya (now Belogorsk). In what family did the future actor grow up? Let's start with the fact that his parents have nothing to do with cinema. Valery's father Mikhail Ivanovich graduated from the factory school. As part of a large youth team, he went to explore the Far East. There he met a sweet and modest girl (our hero’s mother) and married her.

Valera grew up as an active and inquisitive child. He had many friends in the yard. The boys were busy building huts and rafts. Our hero learned to read early. Over time, he studied the contents of all the books that were in the house.

Valery did well at school. It is not difficult to guess that his favorite subject was literature. The boy also devoted time to sports. In the summer he rode a bicycle, and in the winter he skied and skated.

Love for cinema

During his school years, an unpleasant story happened to Valery. And all because of his love for cinematic art. He lived in a small town. The only place to watch films was the local cinema. To get there, the boy began to forge tickets. He did this very cleverly. One day everything was revealed. Priemykhov Jr. was ashamed of his action. It was this story that prompted our hero to write his first story. Valery sent his work to the local newspaper. A few days later the story was published. The boy could continue his writing career. But even then he decided to become an actor.

Student

After graduating from high school, the guy entered the Pedagogical Institute in Vladivostok. In 1966, Valery received his diploma. Almost immediately he got a job at the Russian Drama Theater. N. Krupskaya. Our hero devoted 3 years to work in this institution. At that time, he already had other plans for the future.

In 1969, Valery Mikhailovich Priemykhov went to Moscow. The guy managed to enter VGIK on his first try. His teacher and mentor was the famous art critic and screenwriter Joseph Manevich.

In his free time from studying, Valery worked part-time. He mastered several professions, including fireman and janitor. He was not afraid of hard physical labor.

In 1973, Valery Priemykhov was awarded a diploma of graduation from VGIK. From now on he could consider himself a professional screenwriter.

Film career

When did actor Valery Priemykhov first appear on screens? This happened in 1979. Our hero played the main role in the film “The Wife Gone.” He successfully got used to the image of Alexander Klyuev. After this, the actor was literally inundated with offers of cooperation.

In 1980, the second film in which Valery starred was presented to the audience. It was called "Useless". This time Priemykhov had the chance to play an ensign-border guard. He coped 100% with the tasks set by the director. The film turned out to be a success. Many spectators wanted to connect their lives with such a handsome and talented man as Valery Priemykhov. Films with his participation began to be released one after another.

Our hero learned about what real fame is after filming the film “The Boys.” The image he created (of the head of the summer camp) turned out to be bright and realistic. For his work in this film, Priemykhov was even awarded the USSR State Prize. Such a high award became an incentive for the further development of his film career.

In 1987, the film “Cold Summer of '53” was released. Valery Mikhailovich played a complex and contradictory role (a man accused of treason). It was she who brought him his second State award.

During his career, the actor starred in 30 films belonging to different genres. Few of us know who Valery Priemykhov is. Films with his participation are rarely shown on Russian channels. And this is a sad fact.

Filmography

Actor

1. 1979 - The wife left - Alexander Mikhailovich Klyuev, aka “Chanita”
2. 1980 - Useless - warrant officer-border guard
3. 1981 - Personal life of the director - Igor Sergeevich Novikov
4. 1981 - Which would you choose? - groom
5. 1983 - Boys - Pavel Vasilievich Antonov, head of the summer sports and labor camp
6. 1984 - Children of Discord - artist
7. 1984 - Darling, dear, beloved, only... - Vadim Sarokhtin
8. 1985 - Simple Death (based on the work of L. N. Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”) - Ivan Ilyich
9. 1986 - Into the mud
10. 1986 - Quiet investigation
11. 1986 - Fellow Traveler - Nikolai Kostylin
12. 1987 - At the end of the night - Soviet captain
13. 1987 - My combat team
14. 1987 - Cold summer of '53... - Sergei Basargin / Luzga
15. 1988 - Our armored train - Yevgeny Markovich Rudich, political prisoner
16. 1988 - One Sunday - Valera
17. 1988 - Family prolongation
18. 1988 - Pants - investigator Valentin Sergeevich Mishin
19. 1991 - Migrants[5]
20. 1992 - Thank God, not in America [6] - Yudin
21. 1992 - Sunny day at the end of summer - grandfather
    (short film)
22. 1994 - Game
23. 1995 - The time of sadness has not yet come - Ivanov
24. 1995 - Crusader - Glory "Dead"
25. 1997 - Mom, don’t worry - uncle
26. 1998 - Full Moon Day - screenwriter
27. 1998 - Who, if not us - Gennady Samokhin
28. 2000 - Kamenskaya: Do not interfere with the executioner - Saulyak

Director

1. 1988 - Pants
2. 1991 - Migrants
3. 1998 - Who, if not us

Screenwriter

1. 1975 - Ivan and Columbine
2. 1977 - A moment of luck (Sverdlovsk film studio)
3. 1977 - Wild Gavrila
4. 1978 — Junior researcher
5. 1980 - Useless
6. 1983 - Magic black and white (in 1989 - publication of the same name in the magazine "Koster" in the format of a children's story)
7. 1984 - Darling, dear, beloved, only
8. 1987 - Burglar
9. 1988 - Pants
10. 1989 - Prince Luck Andreevich
11. 1991 - Migrants
12. 1995 - Crusader
13. 1998 - Who, if not us
14. 1999 - Vladimir the Holy

Personal life of Valery Priemykhov

Our hero has always been popular with the opposite sex. Valery met his first love while a student at a theater university. His chosen one was the beautiful and activist Ella. From the second year, the lovers began to live under the same roof. Soon their daughter Ninochka was born. It would seem that a common child should only strengthen the relationship between Valery and Ella. But everything turned out completely differently. After being assigned to theaters, the couple broke up.

A talented and handsome man was a bachelor for several years. Valery Priemykhov’s personal life improved after meeting actress Olga Mashna. The guys met on the set of the film “Useless.” Olga at that time was 16 years old, and Valery was 40. Despite the significant age difference, Priemykhov managed to win the heart of the young beauty. In 1983, the acting couple formalized their relationship at the registry office.

In 1987, Priemykhov and Mashnaya divorced. They managed to maintain friendly relations. Soon the actor began an affair with a journalist. In 1989, she gave birth to his son. However, he did not start a family with her.

Valery Priemykhov was ruined by guilt

In the summer of 2000, a shrine was brought to the Holy Dormition Pukhtitsa Monastery from the Greek Mount Athos - the head of the great martyr and healer Panteleimon. Thousands of believers stood in line to venerate her. Actor Valery Priemykhov also came here with his spiritual mentor, Archpriest Vladimir Volgin. The crowd parted for them, allowing them to see the relics without a queue. People recognized the famous actor in the sickly man. Priemykhov hoped for a miracle and tried to overcome a terrible disease - brain cancer.

“It was already hard for Valery to stand,” says Father Vladimir. “He kissed the shrine and said with joy that the pain had subsided.

But this was only temporary relief. A few days later Priemykhov found himself in intensive care. And then he wanted to confess. Father Vladimir gave him communion. And a day later, in the early morning of August 25, Valery Priemykhov died.

It seemed that everything was just beginning to get better in his life. After a long silence in the 90s, when the screens were filled with Western action films and domestic directors were idle, he finally made a film based on his own script - “Who If Not Us” about the fate of juvenile delinquents. While working, he gave all his best as if he felt that this was his last film. I didn’t leave the set for 12 hours, I worried about every little thing.

“That’s when he blew himself up.” Excruciating headaches began. I begged him to go to the doctor, but Valera kept brushing it off,” says Lyubov Shutova, the actor’s widow.

The film “Who If Not Us” became his triumph. He received “Nika” and numerous awards for it. And Priemykhov turned to Dr. too late.

Actress Ekaterina Vasilyeva persuaded him to make a drastic change in his life - to go to a monastery to save himself from the worst. But he didn't dare. As soon as the pain went away, he sat down to work - he wrote the script “Vladimir the Holy” about Prince Vladimir the Red Sun, about the baptism of Rus'. He turned to the topic of baptism and religion for a reason. For several years he was tormented by the thought that he had sinned greatly by filming the film “A Simple Death” based on Tolstoy’s story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” He was persuaded by a friend, Alexander Kaidanovsky, who was the director of the film.

– I turned gray during this filming. Such an anti-Christian picture, not good,” Priemykhov recalled.

Critics accused this film of unheard-of physiology and neglect of the spiritual principle. Shortly after its release on the screen, Kaidanovsky himself died; Priemykhov was hospitalized with an acute attack of a stomach ulcer; he was saved only by emergency surgery. He even worked on the script about Prince Vladimir in the hospital.

“I believed in salvation and tried to instill this hope in him,” says Lyubov Shutova.

She was his last love. In 1987, Priemykhov filmed the film “Pants”. He invited Lyuba to join the group as deputy director. A romance broke out between them. It seemed to them that these were fleeting feelings. But upon returning to Moscow, Valery began to have health problems - he was bothered by a stomach ulcer. Lyuba prepared dietary meals for him and gave him injections. Realizing that there was no one more dear to her, she decided to divorce her husband.

“When Valera passed away, I... felt it,” says actress Olga Mashnaya.

That August night she was at the dacha. I woke up sobbing and felt that I was mourning Valera.

Priemykhov was her first husband. These were the years of Valery's creative rise. In 1978, director Dinara Asanova invited him to the film “The Wife Left.” It was with her light hand that his acting talent was discovered. Then there was the film “Useless”, then the famous “Boys”, after which the whole country started talking about Priemykhov.

...They were returning to the hotel after a tiring filming of The Boys. Olya sat with Priemykhov on the same seat on the bus. She lay down on his shoulder and felt as if she had been electrocuted. Valery invited her to his room for tea. But he poured port into the glasses... She was barely 18, he was 38.

They lived together for four years. Priemykhov constantly had affairs on the side. He was drunk, and he drank a lot and often, even beating his young wife. Olga dreamed of having a child, but Valery did not want to hear about children.

His daughter Nina was already growing up from a civil marriage. Priemykhov met her mother, Larisa Marchenko, an aspiring film critic, after graduating from VGIK, while working at Lenfilm. She supported him during a difficult period when films based on his scripts failed at the box office. At that time, Priemykhov even doubted whether he had done the right thing by connecting his life with cinema. He grew up in the Far East. His father supervised construction projects, and Valera, like many boys, dreamed of conquering the sky. After graduating from school, he entered the aviation institute, but failed the exams. Having got a job, one day I went to a club where amateur theater actors were putting on a play. Since then, I went to rehearsals every evening and the next year I applied to the Vladivostok Theater Institute. And then he decided to master the profession of a screenwriter and went to Moscow.

Women who loved him say that Priemykhov captivated them with his undisguised masculine strength, simplicity, kindness and at the same time mystery. His light gray eyes looked as if they were piercing right through you. Such were his on-screen heroes, without whom it is now impossible to imagine Russian cinema.

New love

Valery Priemykhov, whose biography we are considering, threw himself into his work. He pushed his personal life into the background. But fate gave him a pleasant surprise. On the set of the film “Pants,” our hero met Lyubov Shutova. They met 5 years ago, while working at the Lenfilm studio. And now Valery saw his soul mate in her. The moment was overshadowed only by the fact that Lyubov was married. Priemykhov managed to do everything possible to make her fall in love with him and divorce her husband. Lyubov and Valery got married. This woman was with the actor until the end of his days.

Movies

Valery Priemykhov made his debut in cinema primarily as a talented screenwriter. He spent some time improving other people's scripts, but finally in 1975 he became the co-author of his first full-fledged work, Ivan and Columbine. After the premiere of the film, directors noticed the talented screenwriter and began inviting him to their projects.

Valery Priemykhov in the film “The Wife Gone”

In 1978, the actor met director Dinara Asanova, who saw in Priemykhov not only a talented screenwriter, but also a promising actor. She invited Valery to her drama “The Wife Left,” where the artist immediately received the main role of Alexander Mikhailovich Klyuev, around whom the entire plot of the film develops. This film brought success to the actor, opening the way to other projects. The creative tandem of Priemykhov and Asanova turned out to be so successful that the director involved the artist in almost all of her works.

Valery Priemykhov in the film "The Boys"

Real fame and love from the viewer was brought by the role of Priemykhov in Dinara Asanova’s next film “The Boys,” which tells about the life of the so-called “difficult teenagers.” The actor played the role of a mentor to the guys and also the head of the camp, where the action of the film takes place. For his work in this film, Priemykhov became a laureate of the USSR State Prize.

Valery Priemykhov in the film “Cold Summer of '53...”

In 1987, the film “Cold Summer of '53...” was released, where the actor played the role of “Luzga”. According to film critics, this role became Priemykhov’s best film role; he was recognized as the best actor of the year according to the magazine “Soviet Screen” and received the second USSR State Prize.

In 1988, Valery made his debut as a director of the film “Pants”. He also wrote the script and played the role of an investigator. The artist returned to the director's chair again in 1991 in the film “Migrants”.

Valery Priemykhov in the film "Kamenskaya"

Work in the film “Who If Not Us” in 1998 became one of the artist’s last major works. He not only played the role of Gennady Samokhin, but also acted as the director and screenwriter of the film. In the same year, the film “Hamilton” by Swedish director Harald Schwartz was released, where Valery played the cameo role of a Moldovan. He also took part in the filming of the Russian TV series “Kamenskaya”.

Valery Priemykhov: cause of death

By the end of the 1990s, the artist’s health condition had noticeably deteriorated. Valery Mikhailovich was tormented by frequent and severe headaches. His wife tried to persuade him to see a doctor.

On August 25, 2000, Valery Priemykhov left this world. The cause of death was complications due to a brain tumor. The famous actor found his last refuge at the Kuntsevo cemetery in Moscow. Currently, a neat black marble monument is erected on his grave.

Death

By the end of the nineties, the artist began to suffer from constant headaches, and his wife persuaded him to undergo examination at the clinic. Doctors made a terrible diagnosis - brain cancer, for which there was practically no hope of curing.

Grave of Valery Priemykhov

Priemykhov fought for his life to the last: he was treated in several hospitals and even became a parishioner of the church. But the treatment was unsuccessful; on August 25, 2000, the great Soviet actor Valery Priemykhov died.