The future actor in his early youth was not going to the stage, but the genes took their toll, changing plans for a creative life. Today Pyotr Fedorov is a rising star of Russian cinema. The name of the artist is known to everyone who closely follows the changes in the world of cinema. Fans call the man the new sex symbol of show business in Russia.
Petr Fedorov was born in the Soviet capital in the spring of 1982. The future actor was lucky enough to be born into a family that became famous for two generations of artists. Grandfather Evgeny Fedorov - Honored Artist of Russia. His uterine younger brother, Alexander Zbruev, is also a star of Russian cinema. The boy's father, Pyotr Evgenievich Fedorov, was also an actor. The audience remembered the artist from the film directed by Igor Talankin "Starfall". Later, Peter Evgenievich hosted popular children's programs and became the organizer of the first Roerich Society in the capital.
After the divorce of his parents, the future star of "Stalingrad" went with his mother to Altai, where he grew up until the age of 14 in one of the villages of the picturesque Uimon steppe. Petya was a hooligan boy and with pleasure, together with his peers, went to the neighboring orchards for apples. But when the teenager turned 14, my mother decided to return to the capital. Soon Peter went to the 8th grade in a Moscow school. The boy drew well and even thought about entering the Stroganov Academy.
Plans were changed by the death of his father in March 1999. Petr Evgenievich died of cancer at the age of 40. This sad event prompted the son to follow in the footsteps of his father. In the summer of the same year, Pyotr Fedorov entered the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute. It cannot be said that Peter passed the exams brilliantly, because the guy never prepared to become an artist. Fortunately, at that time Pavel Lyubimtsev was in the selection committee, who saw potential and glimpses of talent in a modest applicant. Young Pyotr Fedorov was enrolled in the course of Rodion Ovchinnikov. In 2003, the aspiring artist was awarded a diploma of higher theatrical education.
Films
A cinematic biography of Pyotr Fedorov started in his student years. Even in the first years of "Pike" the young artist was approved for a role in the film "101st kilometer". This is Fedorov's first feature film, and quite successful as well. With the debut role of the boy Lenka, who lives in the "reservation" of outcasts and criminals, the actor successfully coped.
The theatrical scene also "received" the guy with open arms. The graduation performance "Beautiful People" with the participation of Pyotr Fedorov, according to "Moskovsky Komsomolets", turned out to be the best in the "Beginners" nomination.
As a result, a promising graduate of "Pike" was accepted into the troupe of the Stanislavsky Theater, on the stage of which the young actor more than once broke applause for an excellent game.
A brilliant debut in the "101st kilometer" opened Pyotr Fedorov to directors and viewers. Soon the actor starred in the films “Count Krestovsky”, “Reel the Fishing Rods” and “Male Season. Velvet Revolution. The first major role came to the artist in 2006, when the youth series "Club" was released, recognized as the most popular MTV Russia project in the entire history of the channel.
Pyotr Fedorov felt the taste of the first glory. There were 8 seasons of the series, which starred many rising stars of Russian cinema. Dima Bilan, Anna Semenovich, Sergey Lazarev, Natalya Podolskaya and many other famous performers appeared in cameo roles. Fedorov got the image of the capital's playboy, the "golden boy" Danila, the son of the director of a popular Moscow nightclub.
Pyotr Fedorov starred in three seasons of The Club. In season 4, the actor appeared only in a few episodes, because he was busy in another project - Fyodor Bondarchuk's project "Inhabited Island". The director offered the young artist one of the main roles - Corporal Guy Gaal.
The film was released in 2008 and became one of the highest rated. AT next year Bondarchuk filmed a sequel, calling it "Inhabited Island: Fight", where Pyotr Fedorov reappeared.
2009 brought the actor a new wave of success, somewhat overshadowed by scandal. The artist first tried his hand as a screenwriter and composer, which greatly surprised the fans. The film "Russia 88", in which Pyotr Fedorov told the audience the story of a gang of skinheads, was not liked by everyone. The film received mixed reviews. The artist assigned himself one of the key roles - the leader of the gang named Bayonet. According to the actor, the heroes of the films "Inhabited Island" and "Russia 88" have similarities, because both firmly believe in their ideology.
The premiere of the film "Russia 88" took place at the end of 2009, and in 2010 the Samara prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit against the creators of the picture, considering the tape extremist. Later, Pyotr Fedorov admitted that he was amazed by this development. The actor did not expect that part of the audience would react in this way to what they saw. For three years, litigation and proceedings dragged on, exhausting a lot of nerves for the filmmakers.
But not everyone reacted so negatively to the picture. For example, at the Berlinale, the film received a large number of positive reviews. At the National Film Critics Award "White Elephant", the project "Russia 88" received a special prize "Event of the Year". The Guild of Film Critics and Critics also presented the filmmakers with an honorable mention. The film was named the discovery of the year, but Russian companies did not rent the film.
Saturated for the actor were the next two years. In 2010, films were released with the participation of Pyotr Fedorov “Gop-stop”, “Without the right to make a mistake” and “Phobos. Fear Club. The last tape was filmed in Estonia, where the artist unexpectedly found several relatives.
And in 2011, the film "PiraMMMida" was released, where Pyotr Fedorov played the main character - the child prodigy Anton. The plot was based on the work of Sergei Mavrodi. The picture was liked by critics and viewers, received a high rating.
The Muscovite also starred in a foreign project. American director Chris Gorak invited the Russian actor to play in the Phantom project. At the same time, the adventure film "The Runaways" was released, based on the story of the Siberian writer Gleb Pakulov "The Witch's Key". Here Pyotr Fedorov became a member of the tandem with Elizaveta Boyarskaya. Filming took place in the taiga and Altai mountains, where there was no mobile communication and the benefits of civilization.
The fans of Pyotr Fedorov also remembered the work in the New Year's comedy "Yolki-2", the film-almanac "Moms", the film "A Man with a Guarantee" and the TV series "Odessa-Mama".
A new wave of fame "covered" the Muscovite after the release of the military drama "Stalingrad". Fyodor Bondarchuk invited a young colleague to play the role of Captain Gromov. This is the first Russian project filmed using IMAX 3D technology. Drama for 11 days of rental earned more than a million rubles and was the highest grossing project of 2013. The film was nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture for foreign language". In the future, roles in historical dramas and military serials will become the main ones in the career of a Russian actor.
2013 turned out to be successful and generous for the actor. Pyotr Fedorov starred in Yegor Baranov's action drama Priest-San, written by Ivan Okhlobystin. The genre of the film was defined by its creators as "Japanese Orthodox Western".
But two other projects that hit the big screens in 2013 became successful and resonant. This is the film by Renat Davletyarov "Pure Art", in which the artist got the key image of the artist Andrei Stolsky, and the thriller "Locust", where Pyotr Fedorov and Paulina Andreeva have a lot of frank scenes. The actor admitted that he was "hooked" by the script of the film. Reading it, the artist realized that there are many things here that he had never played before. Critics called the project "the first Russian erotic thriller".
In 2015, the name of Pyotr Fedorov sounded loud several times. The actor played the foreman Vaskov in the new adaptation of the military drama. He also starred in the drama of the famous director Pyotr Buslov "Motherland". The shooting of the project took place in Goa.
But the peak of the popularity of the new star of Russian cinema came in 2016, when the artist's fans saw the idol in the blockbuster "Duelist" and the disaster film "Icebreaker". In these two projects, Petr Fedorov got the main roles, which secured the actor in star status.
Pyotr Fedorov pleases the army of fans not only with vivid images in the cinema, but also with musical creativity. Since 2010, Fedorov has been performing with the Race to Space band as a keyboardist. The soloist of the group is actress Miriam Sekhon, whom many music lovers know from the performances of the retro group VIA Tatyana.
Personal life
The actor seems to be in no hurry to start a family. But this does not mean that Peter Fedorov has no personal life. The favorite of the girls has a lover for a long time. This is the beauty and model Anastasia Ivanova. Peter and Anastasia started dating in 2003 and are still together.
Some argue that Nastya - civil wife Peter Fedorova, because the couple have been together for several years. If you believe the rumors from social networks and tabloids, then Ivanova's parents - respectable and wealthy people - are not happy with the choice of their daughter. In any case, this was the case in 2003, when the name of Pyotr Fedorov was little known to the viewer.
For the first time, Fedorov’s relationship with Ivanova was discussed after the scandalous appearance of a photo of a naked couple on the cover of the Sobaka.Ru tabloid. Since then, lovers are often seen together. Peter and Anastasia appear in public at the premieres of films with the participation of the actor. They have no children yet, although Peter's mother has long dreamed of grandchildren.
It is known that Pyotr Fedorov loves his family. He has a reverent relationship with his mother, grandfather and grandmother. The artist always finds time for his relatives, although recently Fedorov's schedule has been scheduled by the minute. Not so long ago, when the actor's grandmother broke her hip, the grandson equipped her bed with his own hands so that the woman could feel comfortable.
The actor himself says about himself that he is constant and responsible, and relatives and friends for him are the main thing in life.
Petr Fedorov now
Today, the actor continues to participate in the filming. In February 2017, with the participation of the actor, the film “You all piss me off!” Was released, and in September the premiere of the comedy film “The Adventures of the Crazy Professor” is planned.
The artist constantly receives invitations to take part in the filming of films, but believes that it is difficult for novice actors to gain a foothold in Russian cinema. According to Fedorov, today in the cinema there is a tendency to extract funds, to earn money, which a particular film can bring. Such a pattern, according to the actor, is the result of the choice of producers, because such a compromise leads to the fact that there are more commercial films, and tapes are created with the wording "this is the time."
“It is believed that the acting profession is dangerous because all the time someone slips or explodes. But the profession must be dangerous, because psychologically with each new role you get a one-way ticket... The only way out is to do your job honestly, to be useful to society. Roughly speaking, fight for the spark that the Lord has awarded you. I am very grateful to my profession, ”said Pyotr Fedorov in an interview, reflecting on the acting profession.
The principle of the artist manifested itself during the filming of the next film. According to Russian media reports, Pyotr Fedorov did not star in explicit episodes with Paulina Andreeva, the bride of director Fyodor Bondarchuk, because of the family's negative attitude towards such scenes.
Network users Instagram and other social networks continue to follow personal life an artist who in the near future may reassert himself by appearing in successful projects.
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The topic of anti-Russian sanctions is still relevant and exciting. Politicians of different states, journalists, business representatives, and ordinary people. There is an opinion among Europeans that Russia, with its “wrong” actions, itself provokes the introduction of new restrictions, forces everyone to unite against it global community. However, if you look at it, it becomes clear that it is not the whole world that imposes sanctions against the Russian Federation, but only individual states that have previously united against Russia for their own personal purposes.
On the popular program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov", which aired the day before, Russian journalist Pyotr Fedorov spoke about the sanctions. During a discussion with representatives of European states, Fedorov made a sharp statement with which it is difficult to disagree.
The Russian journalist competently put the Europeans in their place! The man cut the truth - the uterus, I respect it!
And you scare me with sanctions? pic.twitter.com/Y0ISYZ3otb
Maria Rostova (@RostovaRus) March 1, 2017
Thus, the journalist dispelled the myth that the whole world is against Russia today. According to Fedorov, only NATO countries, Australia and Japan imposed sanctions against Russia. According to him, this state of affairs is not the first time for Moscow, since the above states united against Russia in the Crimean War, and even in World War II.
Fedorov declares that during the Second World War the USSR fought not against Germany, but against all the resources of Europe. He gives the following examples: the Czech Republic supplied the Wehrmacht with a third of all weapons, Belgium - weapon, Sweden secretly supplied designs for German tanks with the help of submarines, and France threw 200,000 cars to Nazi Germany, repaired their tanks and produced giant naval bombers for them in Toulouse. Fedorov also recalls that there were a lot of French soldiers in the SS divisions. Their number exceeded even the French resistance. According to the journalist, French soldiers were the last units defending the Reichstag in 1945, and even Luxembourg organized two battalions and sent them to fight against Soviet Union.
Having cited all these facts, Pyotr Fedorov turned to another European guest of the program with a reasonable question: “And you scare me with sanctions?”
The Russian journalist really put the Europeans in their place. He cited indisputable facts and evidence that Russia at all times was attacked by many European states, and each time emerged victorious from these duels. This is what is happening now. Many EU countries, such as Italy and France, are already in favor of lifting anti-Russian sanctions, as their economies are suffering serious losses.
There is every reason for the imminent positive changes that will mark another victory for Russia.
By the age of 34, Pyotr Fedorov managed to be the main major of domestic television screens, the most terrible Nazi of auteur cinema and the first hero of the Great Patriotic War in 3D - not counting three dozen other roles. To more accurately outline the actor's creative trajectory, Grigor Atanesyan spent a week with him.
From the darkness of the July evening, which you meet with barely perceptible anxiety on the outskirts of Yuzhny Butovo, Pyotr Fedorov steps out, followed by a husky dog. Wearing a blue shirt and denim shorts, in these circumstances, he resembles his character Vasyanya from the movie "Gop-stop", and only plastic croc sandals violate the integrity of the image. Behind the high gate is a three-story stone house. “Put on summer slippers. You are hungry?" Fedorov asks, inviting inside. Steps lead up to the clapboard kitchen, which is lined with posters of Scarface, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Natural Born Killers.
Shirt, DRIES VAN NOTEN
trousers, LOUIS VUITTON
boots, BRUNELLO CUCINELLI
“The guitarists will be arriving soon. Here kutabs remained igilovskie. Eat kutab, ”Fyodorov speaks abruptly, but without a break, and soon discovers the reason for his excitement. “Grandfather called last night - he says people are sitting in the kitchen. And the poor grandfather has been robbed several times over the past three years. I arrived - and indeed: the smell of cheap perfume and alcohol, also cheap. A nurse we hired through an agency has set up a hangout in the apartment. Half the night I kicked them out, and she also cursed me goodbye. About a minute later, this criminal story, through unknown paths, brings Peter Fedorov's thought to the cinema: “Why do criminals fascinate? There is no hero in cinema who is completely bad, there must be some kind of motivation.
While I'm finishing my kutabs, a tired-looking man comes down the stairs and introduces himself: "Vadik." Composer Vadim Mayevsky is the owner of the Butovo house, where the actor Pyotr Fedorov has been spending a significant part of his free time for the last fifteen years. There is a recording studio on the second floor, and a rehearsal room on the third floor. Next to the stone house on the site is a small, country house - Mayevsky is going to demolish it, but for now Tajiks live in it, the same ones that Pavel Bardin and Pyotr Fedorov filmed in the film "Russia 88" (in one of the rooms the entire Nazi props collected for filming).
Fedorov met Mayevsky in 2003 at the Shchukin School - he selected music for the graduation performance of Rodion Ovchinnikov's course. Together they founded the group device, in which Fedorov played keyboards and a sampler, then the vocals of Miriam Sekhon were added to the electronic guitar compositions - to someone better known as the vocalist of the VIA Tatyana and the actress of the Praktika theater, and to the majority - as the commissioner Rozalia Zemlyachka in Sunstroke Nikita Mikhalkov. The new group, which has already recorded two albums in Berlin, has been named Race to Space. Records were printed in Berlin, the covers for which were drawn by the artist Pavel Pepperstein, and the layout was made up by Fedorov himself.
The house in Butovo is crowded musical instruments: samplers and synthesizers of the early nineties, Soviet electromusical installations, accordions, accordions and even a balalaika. Fedorov lovingly examines the microcircuits laid out on the floor: “These are new modules from which we assemble pure analogues, iron. A digital synthesizer offers you a lot of worlds, but they are already invented for you, and it's interesting to return to the original sources of sound. The drum machine of the eighties, for which he is responsible, has just arrived from Berlin - "after it we went out to the porch, because it costs about the same as a car." As if to prove the value of the acquisition, Fedorov takes a seat behind the car: it takes a long time to adjust the handles, keys, tighten the levers.
In the far corner of the rehearsal room is a leather sofa, in front of it is a coffee table with a bottle of whiskey, glasses and an ashtray, and a hammock is hung against the wall. Having finished with the drum machine, Fedorov pours whiskey into glasses, lit a cigarette, shows a note from the group the xx, at the warm-up Race to Space performed at Crocus a couple of years ago, and talks about a recent expedition to the Russian North - a new video was filmed there. Shrugs: "I'm just a musician pretending to be an actor."
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trousers, BRUNELLO CUCINELLI
watch, PANERAI LUMINOR DUE
The group gathered for the last rehearsal before Afisha Picnic - “we perform on the local stage, we will be something like headliners there” - and in the absence of the vocalist, who was expected after the concert, the guys play instrumental versions of all compositions: with dirty basses, guitar riffs and the sound of synthesizers, reaching the minimal techno. Once every half an hour they break away from the instruments, smoke and drink whiskey. When the alcohol runs out by one in the morning, Fedorov finds the Alkobutovo number on the phone and, instead of greeting, says into the phone in Italian: "Buongiorno!" This is a code word, and it is enough for Alkobutovo to go to the address. The collection of money begins - as in any company, no one has cash. When the necessary fifteen hundred for a bottle of the simplest whiskey are finally found, Fedorov leaves to meet the courier.
“You get a profession, but there is nothing to choose from”
The film set in an abandoned collective farm near Serpukhov is surrounded by cow parsnip. It smells from the dunghill. The stunted trees on the roof of the barn are bent down by the wind. A cherry Volga is in the frame: Pyotr Fedorov puts the ax into the trunk again and again, jerks open the door and sits in the front seat. In the back, a gray-haired man with sloppy bristles is waiting for him - Kirill Pirogov, artist of the workshop of Pyotr Fomenko, beloved by the people for the role of Ilya Setevoy in "Brother 2". In the mini-series "Savva" he plays the main role, the investigator Savchenko. Fedorov executes commands hissing from the radio: "Petya, walk a little past the car in an arc with a banana, as you like."
After the ninth take, the lunch break begins, and Fedorov comes up to me with a cigarette in his mouth. He wears a faded blue polo tucked into jeans, a pistol holster at his belt, and a gold watch on his wrist. Pilot(Grandfather Fyodorov asked to take them for repair, but the old Soviet watch seemed to him the only suitable one for the hero, and he “brought them in”). Kirill Pirogov sits on a wooden box and reprises his role. Gray-haired, in a rumpled jacket and worn-out sneakers, he seems to live every free minute in the world of the theater - when Fedorov sits down next to him, the story that began, apparently in the morning, continues, about how Pirogov is staging "Richard III" with students of the Shchukin school. They recall the best times of their native university and agree that Pike was corrupted by the attention paid to students by TV channels.
The actor's grandfather Yevgeny Fedorov and his half-brother Alexander Zbruev, as well as father Pyotr Fedorov Sr., graduated from the Shchukin School. The son was going to enter Stroganov as an artist, but after the death of his father in 1999, he decided to follow in his footsteps. Already in his first year, he received his first major role - with Leonid Maryagin in the film "101st Kilometer". The director drew attention to him during an exam in stage speech. “I fell into good hands - at the age of 17 I myself could not understand whether the film was good or not. Seven years have passed, I reviewed it and thought: "Petrovich, how lucky you are." After graduating from the institute, Fedorov was enrolled in the troupe of the Stanislavsky Theater, but the Club brought him fame. The main youth series of the 2000s, subtitled "A Cinderella Story in Style R&B”, showed millions of teenagers a grotesque picture of nightlife in the era of Putin’s stability: the hero Fedorov, the son of a co-owner of a nightclub, leaves home every evening with a new queen of the dance floor, wins friends with witticisms like “Why are you metrosexual? Do you take the subway all the time, or what?”, And the girls - with a wide smile and thick eyebrows. A year after the premiere of the first season of The Club, Fedorov was already filming with Fyodor Bondarchuk - in the blockbuster "Inhabited Island" - with a record budget for domestic cinema of $ 36 million.
Now Fedorov hurries to the trailer, where we are waiting for the same empty soup and mashed chicken, to explain how, after a successful start and a string of serious roles, he ended up on the set of the series, albeit for Channel One: “I used to think: I will be famous , there will be interesting proposals. No shit. You get a profession, you start serving it, but it turns out there is nothing to choose from. Here the producer offered me to play Savchenko, but I decided that it was not in that texture. This is my first conscious rejection of a leading role. Nobody understood me, but I am a fan of the project, and the last thing I want to do is grab a bigger piece. I would spoil this role, gender dominance would come out: a strong guy arrives, starts to crush everyone, and I’m tired of it. ” "Gender dominance" is generally Fedorov's favorite expression, as he seems to define the role that everyone last years seeks to stick to him, and therefore pronounces this expression as a curse. “As soon as the series had a director, I asked:“ Can I move? And he immediately said that the only suitable artist is Kirill Pirogov. He is so thin, theatrical and has matured so much, turned gray.
After the castling, Fedorov plays a local investigator, who is sent as an assistant to the auditor who came from Moscow in the person of Savva. “I’m sick of playing cops, I basically don’t do it. Shoulder straps and other state insignia are not advertised. And our police have such a uniform that, excuse me, when a policeman enters the frame, it is necessary that it be disturbing and scary, and not funny. But trackers are a kind of canon. There is first love, there is betrayal, there is betrayal, and there is a follower - this is also a dusty cinematic archetype, ”the actor seems to justify himself. Taking on a smaller role, Fedorov set out to maintain a psychological authenticity rare in Russian serials. His favorite example is not even "True Detective", with an eye to which they wrote "Sava", but the British "Luther". “The main thing there is not a criminal plot at all - you just sit in the kitchen, and they explain your whole life to you.” To achieve this authenticity, I had to disassemble my own acting technique piece by piece. “At the institute, they always said that the character is not you, it’s a different person. Well, what the hell is a person, it's me? - No, not you. - Well, it's not me, but my tears? My. My pain? My. This schizophrenic moment was never clear to me. When we were learning to cry in our third year, Vladimir Petrovich Poglazov asked me who I felt sorry for the most. Of course, we always feel sorry for ourselves, not our mother, not our grandmother, but ourselves. On his advice, I took pity on myself, and it worked out right away,” Fedorov’s monologue is interrupted by the crackle of the loudspeaker announcing that the lunch break is over.
"Every rabble goes to the cinema"
The third time we meet with Fedorov on Gogolevsky Boulevard after shooting the cover of this issue and, to end the conversation, we go to the nearest bar. For the artist, who disappears for six months on the set, the variety of wine bars is new, but he does not linger on this thought for a long time, obsessively returning to the same questions. Where do actors have “that f**king line” between profession and life? How to talk about people if there is no time for them? And when time appears - how to communicate with people without turning this communication into a benefit? And how, most importantly, to film and film in a country where there is no film industry?
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T-shirt, BOSS
The next after the dystopia of Fyodor Bondarchuk was the low-budget pseudo-documentary drama Russia 88 by Pavel Bardin, whom Fedorov met on the TV series Club. The script, written jointly, was based on a common interest - research, the actor emphasizes - to subcultures in general and the subculture of Nazi skinheads in particular. The picture surprisingly reliably showed the life and customs of neo-Nazi teenagers, busy implementing their complex ideas, in which Mein Kampf became related to the Veles Book, and British rock - with domestic shit-punk. To finish the film, Pavel Bardin had to sell the apartment. Many of the actors who passed the test refused to shoot, having learned that the immediately announced fee of $ 50 per shift is not a joke. As a result, they were recruited by acquaintances: the relatives of the Caucasian Robert were played by the artists Georgy and Konstantin Totibadze, and the role of one of the skinheads was played by Race to Space participant Alexander Turkunov. The editing was directed by Pyotr Fedorov himself.
Having gained 20 kilograms of muscle mass for filming in Inhabited Island, Fedorov appeared in Russia 88 as an adrenaline-filled young man with a square chin and a look in which any lack of fear and reflection was read - “ Blue eyes and hot frontal bone", according to Mandelstam. Living with his mother and sister in Tushino, 21-year-old Shtyk is the leader of a neo-Nazi gang. He leaves behind a small mountain of corpses: sister Yulia, who meets with a Caucasian named Robert, Robert himself and his comrades-in-arms who died in a shootout with his relatives - a mentor in the "White Revolution" Kliment Klimentovich, part-time school teacher of life safety, and a beloved pit bull.
In 2009, the film received the Nika award as the opening of the year and was well received at the Berlin Film Festival, but it was not rented by any of the major Russian companies. And in December of the same year, the prosecutor's office of the Samara region filed a lawsuit for the confiscation and withdrawal from civil circulation of the film "Russia 88" as extremist. The formal reason was the operational-search activities of the local FSB: they revealed that citizens Valeev O.R. and Rustamkhanov R.A. independently watched Rossiya 88 and saw signs of extremism in it. Bardin and Fedorov went to trial in Samara and even found a candidate of pedagogical sciences Shamil Makhmudov, previously sentenced to seven years on probation for a bribe, who, by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, became the author of an expert opinion and found in the film “inciting hatred and enmity”: “Morally and aesthetically An unformed reader may take this material as a signal to fight for the assertion of the Russian nation in competition with representatives of other nationalities on the principle of "I and the world." A year later, the prosecutor's office withdrew the lawsuit, but in February 2016, by decision of the Naryan-Mar court, the film "Russia 88" was again recognized as extremist. Pavel Bardin then argued that the reason for the persecution should be considered not the very image of neo-Nazis, but rather their cooperation with the state: in Russia 88, the Shtyk gang is protected by a district police officer, and a conditional deputy played by Andrei Merzlikin offers to participate in serious business - protecting rallies and marches, propaganda work among young people. In the same 2009, human rights activist Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by neo-Nazis - this murder formed the basis of the case of BORN, "a militant organization of Russian nationalists." At the trial, the militants talked about their connections with members of the presidential administration and pro-Kremlin youth movements.
It did not work out with a wide release, and the filmmakers did not prevent its distribution on the Internet. Downloaded on torrents by the majority of its viewers, the drama has become almost the main event of Russian cinema for several years and ideologically completed the zero years that began with Brother 2. Bardin managed to go beyond admiring shaved heads and panel high-rise buildings - "Russia 88" tells about teenagers who grew up without fathers from a sleeping area, past which the financial flows of the "fat" zero passed, but corruption, drugs, cheap vodka and ideological vacuum did not go anywhere. Fedorov smiles, remembering all the cases when on the street he was recognized precisely as the Bayonet - much more often than Guy Gaal from the Inhabited Island.
After "Russia 88" Fedorov said that he would continue to act only in copyright films. Did not work out. By the age of 34, the actor’s biography was adorned with a free adaptation of Sergei Mavrodi’s autobiography “PiraMMMida”, and the role of Captain Gromov in Stalingrad by the same Bondarchuk, and participation in a remake of the Soviet classic “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”, and comedies with characteristic names “A Man with guarantee” and “Odnoklassniki: invite luck”. However, now the actor takes this calmly: “I can’t help participating in craft work at all. But there should be absolutely free works that you do yourself with like-minded people. Since I have my own personal audience, then I must comply. You can't just make money from these people. Which is worse: ads or a f**king show? I think it's a fucking series."
Recently, Fedorov was persuaded to star in the TV series "Bitch" for STS, directed by Oksana Bychkova. The producers assured that the channel had been reformatted and was ready to create truly high-quality projects. But somewhere in the middle of filming on STS, the leadership changed, and after him the team of the series - Fedorov calls it a raider takeover. Even the operator has changed: “ Last time where did i see him? That's right, on the set of "Club". The production drama about the employees of the city newspaper, hipsters from the outback, turned into a grotesque farce with stilted characters. But when Fedorov wanted to leave the project, it turned out that somewhere in the contract the payment of a huge penalty was written in small print - such that it would not help to sell the car.
The need to finish filming brought the actor to the brink of despair, and he continued his experiments with alcohol, which had begun in the previous professional crisis. He came out of them rumpled and haggard, but with a sober understanding of the main problems of the domestic industry: “I always liked cinema more than theater, because all the rabble comes here: someone has three educations, someone has none at all. But there was a time when a lot of people brought their relatives, friends, countrymen. It turns out that cinema is not a profession, but a resource from which you can extract money. Half stage, half bullshit. Producers choose money projects, although this is still mathematics, but because of it, there are more compromises and more commercial films. And everything complicated is closed with the wording “such is the time”.
"Materialization of human fantasy"
Faith in the big cinema Fedorov returned shooting "Duelist". His hero is a retired officer Yakovlev, fighting for money in duels for other people in St. Petersburg in the middle of the 19th century, in order to one day take revenge on his offenders. Initially, Russian Monte Cristo was supposed to be played by Vladimir Mashkov, who eventually played the role of the antagonist of the protagonist. The meeting with director Alexei Mizgirev turned Fedorov's ideas about many things upside down. First of all, he asked the actor to forget everything he had been taught up to this point, the argument was convincing: "We are adult guys, we have the right to tell about ourselves." Fedorov recalls that he asked again - shouldn't he tell about Yakovlev? The answer was the same: "No, tell me about yourself."
Shirt, DRIES VAN NOTEN
trousers, LOUIS VUITTON
bow tie, boots, BRUNELLO CUCINELLI
“I understood, here it is the key, what a fool I am, how I did not understand. You just need to act less in shit, and then you can feel it. There is a poignant thought in this "talk about yourself" that has nothing to do with acting schizophrenic image change. Mizgirev explains the problem and cries. He comes very close, goes into your personal space, explains the motivation of the hero. And I see that he has a tear - from such a cold sweat goes down his back.
“Alexey Yuryevich returned respect for the profession,” sums up Fedorov. According to the rules established on the set, the actors did not see the scenery before recording the double and did not communicate with each other - even with Mashkov they never crossed paths outside the frame. Contrary to the usual practice, it was not the actors themselves who helped to set the frame and the light, but the understudies, who were selected according to their height and figure and made up for the artists. The main characters were taken to the court by assistants, like boxers into the ring, instead of the usual negotiations on the radio - complete silence. “For the first time I experienced this moment of concentration around the frame, when the materialization of human fantasy occurs through the mobilization of a large number of people,” Fedorov formulates his experiences in a difficult way. Not everyone withstood psychological discipline - the actors fainted and experienced nervous breakdowns. Peter laughs: “It is believed that the acting profession is dangerous because all the time someone slips or explodes. But the profession must be dangerous, because psychologically with each new role you get a one-way ticket.
“Peter remembered us,” Fedorov sums up. He is pleased with the work of not only the director, but also the producer - for the sake of filming in St. Petersburg, something was blocked every day, including Nevsky Prospekt and the embankments, they even got permission to arrange a market in front of the Kazan Cathedral. Despite the historical setting, Mizgirev wanted the actors to forget the stereotypes of costume dramas and play about the 1860s as if it were the 2010s. One of the most important technical means was peat, which covered the pavements during filming - even on Palace Square. Peat was poured with water, horses passed through it, and real mud turned out - only after that they launched gentlemen in uniforms and ladies in dresses. The costume designers, Fedorov recalls, were given the task by Mizgirev to sew "as if McQueen lived in the 19th century."
On October 20, a month after the premiere of The Duelist, Nikolai Khomeriki's disaster film Icebreaker is released based on the story of the 133-day drift of the Mikhail Somov icebreaker in Antarctic ice. Agreeing to the main role, Fedorov began to read all the available materials about the feat of "Mikhail Somov" and discovered that Captain Valentin Rodchenko, who received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for saving the ship, was alive. Secretly from everyone, Fedorov found his contacts - it turned out that Rodchenko lives near St. Petersburg. The actor built his way to shooting in Murmansk through St. Petersburg and decided to get to the captain at all costs.
After four hours that the taxi driver had spent wandering around the Scandinavia highway, Fedorov came to visit Rodchenko. He apologized for being late with the wording: "It's a pity for your nerves," to which Valentin Filippovich replied: "They don't exist." Fedorov shyly brought a jar of jam with him, but in the end they drank all evening, and Fedorov asked Rodchenko about 1985. “I was interested, of course, in psychosis. Psychosis of loneliness, its peak. When a person sits and looks at one point for a day, two, three. When the table was laid every day for 50 people, and no one ate. When they fought for sleeping pills. Fedorov had not yet seen the final cut of Icebreaker and was visibly worried: “I would very much like the film to have a piercing note of the eighties. The cameraman Fedya Lyass shot with old Soviet and French optics and, it seems to me, he caught some shrillness of Soviet cinema.”
The conversation, which has been going on for the third hour, is interrupted by a call from Vadim Mayevsky: Race to Space invited to the festival in Kaliningrad, and everything needs to be prepared for the tour. Peter went to Butovo by subway. Tonight he was a musician who only pretends famous actor. And the next day at seven in the morning, Pyotr Fedorov was already filming in the first take near Serpukhov - and again he was an actor, painfully looking for a way to create good films in a country where good films are only steps, the fruits of personal achievement.
