Igor Maslennikov

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Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Масленников) (b. 26 October 1931) is a Russian film director.

He was born in Gorky. In 1954 completed education in the department of journalism of the Leningrad University and worked as editor, scenario, author-operator on Leningrad television. In 1965 he entered the highest producer courses of Lenfilm (Grigori Kozintsev's workshop), at end of which he became the director of this motion picture studio.

In the cinema he made a debut at the end of the 1960s by film about a senior pupils the Personal life of Kuzyaev Valentin. He staged films for children (Tomorrow" and "3rd April), movies about sports (Racers), costume- historical dramas (Yaroslavna, the queen of France). He worked at the joint Soviet-Norwegian picture Under the rock sky, which narrates about the sad events, which occurred in one of the Norwegian towns during the Nazi occupation. Filmed the Sentimental novel of Vera Panova.

Enormous success to Maslennikov brought the cycle of films about Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. The successful selection of the actors, among whom there were Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Borislav Brondukov, Rina Zelyonaya, Nikita Mikhalkov and the outstanding talent of director they ensured to film audience love.

In 1985 Maslennikov presented a melodrama Winter cherries. Movie became one of loudest blockbusters of decade and brought to Elena Safonova a wide reputation. The special feature of this everyday melodrama became the fact that for the first time the spectator saw on the screen strong, but "misunderstood" woman played by Safonova. The popularity of this film inspired director to the creation in 1997 of sequels.

In 1989 Maslennikov filmed for the television adventure picture Philipp Traum on the motives of the Mark Twain's novell "The Mysterious Stranger". The cinema version of film named Chronicle of Satan Jr.). In the co-production with the French partners filmed the story of Leonid Andreev The dark, where the main roles played Oleg Yankovsky and Ksenia Kachalina.

He became People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. In 2001 he received the State Prize of Russia.

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Тимур и его коммандос, 2004
Письма к Эльзе, 2002 - the Golden Peacock of the India International Film Festival
Воспоминания о Шерлоке Холмсе (TV series), 2000
Что сказал покойник (TV series), 1999
Театр Чехонте, 1996
Зимняя вишня (TV series), 1995
Зимняя вишня-3, 1995
Тьма, 1991
Зимняя вишня-2, 1990
Филипп Траум (TV movie), 1989
Продление рода, 1988
Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона. Двадцатый век начинается, 1986
Зимняя вишня, 1985
Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона. Сокровища Агры, 1983
The Queen of Spades (Пиковая дама, 1982)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона. Собака Баскервилей, 1981
Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона, 1980
Шерлок Холмс и доктор Ватсон, 1979
Ярославна, королева Франции, 1978
Сентиментальный роман, 1976
Под каменным небом, 1974
Гонщики, 1972
Лето в Бережках, 1970
Завтра, третьего апреля, 1969
Личная жизнь Кузяева Валентина, 1967