Fedor Bondarchuk
| Fedor Bondarchuk | |
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 Fedor Bondarchuk during the filming of Stalingrad | |
| Born |
Fedor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk May 9, 1967 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Film director, actor, producer, clipmaker, TV host, creator. |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Notable work(s) | The 9th Company, Down House, The Inhabited Island |
Fedor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (Russian: Фёдор Серге́евич Бондарчу́к [bəndʌrˈtʂuk]; born May 9, 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, TV and film producer, clipmaker, TV host. He is a founder of a production company Art Pictures Studio, creator of acclaimed movie The 9th Company (original title Russian: "9 рота") which became the most profitable Russian movie at the box office of 2005, the film won 7 movie awards and was 8-time nominated. Also Fedor Bondarchuk is producer of the 2006 film Heat, where he starred as himself with his mother Irina Skobtseva. Fedor directed a two-part science fiction film The Inhabited Island based on a novel by Strugatskies. Bondarchuk is a winner of TEFI award in 2003 (Tefi is the Russian equivalent of Emmy award) in nomination “The best host of the entertainment tv-show”. He is a winner of Golden Eagle Award in 2012 as the Best Actor.[1]
In October 15, 2012 he was appointed as Chairman of Lenfilm's Board of directors.[2][3]
Early life
Fedor was born in Moscow in a family of actress Irina Skobtseva and internationally acclaimed film actor and an Academy Award-winning director Sergei Bondarchuk. He was no stranger to the world of cinema since his early childhood. In 1985 when the school was over Fedor became a student of Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). In 1991 he was graduated from the class of Yuri Ozerov as a film director. His actor debut was in 1986 in the movie Boris Godunov (1986) where he was acting with his father.
F. Bondarchuk: “It was not easy to play this role. Father was very strict. For me he is a kind of fantastic and firmly authoritative person. And of course I felt a great responsibility to him. Everyday after filming I didn’t have any free energy to do something else.”
Breakthrough
In 1990 Fedor Bondarchuk started his career as the first Russian producer of music videos. In 1993 he won the Ovatsia ("Ovation") award as the best producer of musical video. In 2001 Fedor played the role of Count Myshkin in Down House, loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot. Fedor Bondarchuk started his career as a film producer in 2002, beginning with the film In Action (2002). Since that he has produced over a dozen of film projects that had a great success and box office history. Bondarchuk won the 2003 TEFI Award for "the Best Host of the Entertainment TV-Show". In 2005 he directed his debut film The 9th Company, which is based on a real story during the Afghan war (1979–1989).[4] The filming process took place in the Crimea 5 months long. The 9th Company eventually won 7 awards and was nominated eight times. It also broke the former box office record. The 9th Company became the first Russian movie earning $ 25 million.[citation needed] In 2006 The 9th Company was submitted for Best Foreign Film on Academy Award, but it was ultimately not nominated.
"This movie is about my generation, about the war and friendship. About men's love, feat, treason and loyalty" – Bondarchuk said, – "Probably the truth I was trying to show there will not be pleasant to our generals. But Afghan soldiers who were excited after viewing our movie is the best proof for me. That is really important".
Also Fedor created a duology The Inhabited Island (2008). In 2006 Boris Strugatskiy gave rights to screen the film adaptation of the fantasy novel Prisoners of Power. The overall time of screening was 222 days. Production and distribution of Inhabited Island were realized by Fedor Bondarchuk's film company Art Pictures Studio. The movie earned $30 million and took the third place of the box office of CIS area in 2009. In 2012 Bondarchuk received the Golden Eagle Award for the Best Actor in the movie Two Days (2011) by Dunya Smirnova. At the same year, Fedor and film producer Alexander Rodnyansky officially announced the beginning of the cooperation with IMAX Filmed Entertainment (also known as IMAX Corporation). Greg Foster, the president of the company, said: "Fedor and Alexander demonstrated me 15 minutes fragment of Stalingrad. And I'm very glad that we did a right choice in choosing a partners". As a result their project Stalingrad will be the first non-American movie filmed in IMAX format. It will be released in 2013.[5]
In 2012 Fedor Bondarchuk produced the screen adaption of S. Minaev's book of the same name, Soulless. Released in October 2012, it became the most successful Russian fiction film that year.[6]
In 2008 Feodor Bondarchuk, Konstantin Ernst and Ilya Bachurin found the company Glavkino. It's one of the largest film corporation in Russia.
Filmography
Actor
| № | Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1986 | Boris Godunov | Fedor |
| 2. | 1988 | Solnechnyi bereg (original) | young soldier |
| 3. | 1989 | Stalingrad | Ivan |
| 4. | 1989 | Dream in a summer night | Fedor |
| 5. | 1992 | Arbitrator | Roman |
| 6. | 1992 | Demons | Fedka Katorzhnyi |
| 7. | 1993 | Angels of the death | sniper Ivan |
| 8. | 1994 | Shooting angels | Ivan |
| 9. | 1997 | Midlife crisis | Vlad |
| 10. | 1998 | Stop (original title Ostanovka) | |
| 11. | 1999 | 8 ½ $ | Fedor/Stepan |
| 12. | 2000 | Showcase | Store manager |
| 13. | 2000 | Formula of happiness | |
| 14. | 2001 | Down House | count Myshkin |
| 15. | 2001 | Men's work (tv) | Rebrov |
| 16. | 2002 | In action | Gazizov |
| 17. | 2002 | Cinema about cimena | Nikolay Zhiltsov, film producer |
| 18. | 2002 | Men's work 2 (tv) | Rebrov |
| 19. | 2004 | Svoi (original title) | the chief of Police |
| 20. | 2004 | My Fair Nanny (tv) | |
| 21. | 2004 | B-day of the best friend | |
| 22. | 2005 | The 9th Company | Khokhol |
| 23. | 2005 | From 180 and higher | Savik Galkin |
| 24. | 2005 | Statskiy sovetnik (original title) | Burchinskiy |
| 25. | 2005 | Dacha for sale | Vladimir |
| 26. | 2005 | Mama, ne goryui 2 (original title) | Leva |
| 27. | 2005 | The end of the Empire (tv) | Denikin |
| 28. | 2005 | Happypeople | |
| 29. | 2006 | 9 months (tv) | Kostya |
| 30. | 2006 | Tri polugratsii (original title, tv) | Kurbatov |
| 31. | 2006 | Open season (cartoon) | Boog (dubbing) |
| 32. | 2006 | Heat | director |
| 33. | 2007 | Sem kabinok (original) | drug diller |
| 34. | 2007 | Ya ostayus (original) | guide |
| 35. | 2007 | 0 km | cameo |
| 36. | 2007 | Artistka (original) | film director |
| 37. | 2007 | Tiski (original) | Verner |
| 38. | 2007 | 18-14 | graf Tolstoi |
| 39. | 2008 | Admiral | Sergei Bondarchuk (pseudo cameo) |
| 40. | 2008 | The Inhabited Island | Umnik |
| 41. | 2008 | Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (cartoon) | Tonny Dennis (dubbing) |
| 42. | 2008 | Open Season 2 (cartoon) | Boog (dubbing) |
| 43. | 2009 | Samyi lichshyi film 2 (original title) | Fedor Bondarchuk (cameo) |
| 44. | 2009 | Inhabited island: Skirmish | Umnik |
| 45. | 2010 | Moscow, I love you | suicide |
| 46. | 2010 | PiraMMMida | Belyavskyi |
| 47. | 2010 | Pro lyubоff (original) | Vladimir Victorovich |
| 48. | 2010 | Pseudonym for hero | Director |
| 49. | 2011 | Lecturer (tv) | Vladimir |
| 50. | 2011 | Svadba po obmenu (original) | Ruslan |
| 51. | 2011 | Two days | Petr Drozdov |
| 52. | 2011 | Bezrazlichie | |
| 53. | 2011 | Belaya gvardiya (tv) | Shpolyanskiy |
| 54. | 2012 | Shpion (original) | Alexey Oktyabrskii |
| 55. | 2012 | 7 dní hříchů | Major Uvarov |
| 56. | 2012 | Gold |
Director
| № | Year | Title | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1989 | Dream in a summer morning | short film |
| 2. | 1993 | Lyublyu | special project |
| 3. | 2005 | The 9th Company | |
| 4. | 2006 | Tikhiy Don (tv) | |
| 5. | 2008 | The Inhabited Island | |
| 6. | 2009 | Inhabited island: Skirmish | |
| 7. | 2012 | Nowhere to hurry | |
| 8. | 2013 | Stalingrad |
Producer
| № | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 2002 | In action |
| 2. | 2003 | Gololed (original) |
| 3. | 2003 | Kamikadze's diary |
| 4. | 2005 | The 9th Company |
| 5. | 2006 | The heat |
| 6. | 2008 | The Inhabited Island |
| 7. | 2009 | Inhabited island: Skirmish |
| 8. | 2010 | Phobos |
| 9. | 2011 | Two Days |
| 10. | 2011 | New Year sms (tv) |
| 11. | 2012 | Avgust. Vosmogo (original title) |
| 12. | 2012 | Duhless (original title) |
| 13. | 2013 | Odnoklassniki.ru (original title) |
| 14. | 2013 | The Best Girl of Caucasus |
| 15. | 2013 | Yes and Yes |
| 16. | 2013 | White Lily |
| 17. | 2013 | Evgeny Onegin |
| 18. | 2014 | Pikovaya Dama |
| 19. | 2014 | Baba Yaga |
Awards and Nominations
Awards
- Sozvezdie 2002 – Best Supporting Actor (Kino pro kino)
- TEFI, 2003 – Best TV host of entertainment TV show (Kreslo, STS)
- Nika Award, 2006 – Best Feature Movie (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Eagle Award, 2006 – Best Feature Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best Movie ((The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best directing debut (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – People's choice Award (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Aries Award (Russia), 2006 – Best feature movie according Internet voting (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- VIVAT (Russia), 2006 – Grand Prix of the festival (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Blockbaster 2009 (Box office record on CIS area) (The Inhabited Island, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival(Turkey), 2010 – special prize for the contribution to the World cinema
- Golden Eagle Award, 2012 – Best Actor (Two Days, director Dunya Smirnova)
Nominations
- Nika Award, 2003 – Best Supporting Actor (Kino pro kino)
- Nika Award, 2006 – Breakthrough of the Year (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Nika Award, 2006 – Best Director (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Eagle Award, 2006 – Best Feature Film (The 9th Company, director Fedor Bondarchuk)
- Golden Eagle Award, 2008 – Best Actor (Tiski)
- Golden Eagle Award, 2012 – Best Actor (Spy)
- MTV Russia Movie Awards, 2008 – Best Actor (Ya ostayus)
- MTV Russia Movie Awards, 2008 – Best Movie villain (Tiski)
Private life
Fedor is more than 20 years married on Svetlana Bondarchuk, main editor of HELLO magazine (Russia). They have 2 children: son Sergey and daughter Varvara.
Business
Art Pictures Studio
Fedor is a founder of Art Pictures Group production company, which he founded in 1991 together with his friends Juhan Saul Gross and Stepan Mikhalkov and reorganized it in Art Pictures Studio in 2006 with his partner Dmitry Rudovskiy. The main area of the company is film and video production and distribution. Company is working with a variety of projects, ranging from music and advertising videos to feature films.
Musical and advertising videos made by Art Pictures received a lot of Russian and international awards. Company was working with Heinz, Philips, Sony, Zikr (Colgate total), Pepsi etc. In 2002 Art Pictures began a new business direction – film production.
Glavkino
In 2008 Fedor Bondarchuk together with Konstantin Ernst (Director General of the Channel One (Russia)) and Ilya Bachurin founded the large-scale project Glavkino. The project is to create contemporary, extensive and technically equipped cinema complex. The official opening is scheduled for year 2012. In 2011 Glavkino and New York Art Academy founded a Grant named after Sergei Bondarchuk.
Kinositi
In 2009 Fedor Bondarchuk with producer Sergey Selianov has initiated a project KINOSITI. The main mission of this company is to create network of multimedia educational cinema complexes throughout Russia.
Restaurant Business
Fedor Bondarchuk is an owner of three restaurants in Moscow (together with his friends and partners Stepan Mikhalkov, Arkadiy Novikov and Kirill Gusev). Also he opened two restaurants and confectionary in Ekaterinburg.
Television
Fedor Bondarchuk is a popular TV host in Russia. His show about cinema world has been released weekly on the STS TV channel in Russia. His guests in the studio in different times were Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Bay, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Craig, Til Schweiger etc. In 2003 he received TEFI as the best TV host of entertainment programme, in March 2004 Bondarchuk became a member of Russian Television Academy's fund. At the same year Fedor started to host a new reality show about supermodel's life. In 2013 Fedor have started his career of TV producer with two projects on the STS TV channel in Russia.
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