Vladimir Menshikov Biography Actor

The action of the tape was unfolded in the years in a communal apartment at the Pokrovsky Gate. Menshikov got the main role: he played the young graduate student of the costume of Romin. Kostya, as everyone calls him, came to Moscow from the province and settled in an apartment with a relative. His neighbors were artists, translators, doctors. The charming young man made friends with many, settled quarrels, gave advice, and at the same time he was looking for his love.

In the year, Menshikov graduated from the Theater School. In the year, the artist entered the theater. One of the performances of that time is “Sports Scenes of the Year” based on the play by Edward Radzinsky. Together with Tatyana Dogileva, they played the Lukin couple. Menshikov played the role of a husband, a soft young man from a wealthy family, and Dogilev - an energetic and strong -willed wife.

Oleg Menshikov left the Ermolova Theater in the year. A year later, he played the main role in the play “Caligula” based on the work of the French playwright Albert Camu.

It was set by director Peter Fomenko in the theater. Menshikov played Emperor Caligul, who became famous for his cruelty and tyrant. The actor said that he always wanted to play this role on stage - the play Camus shocked him so much once. The directorial work of Oleg Menshikova in the year British actress Vanessa Redgrave visited the play “Caligula”.

She arrived in Moscow with the producer to find the Russian actor to produce “when she danced” based on the play by Martin Sherman. For the future project, they needed a Russian -speaking artist: Yesenin did not know foreign languages. The production went in the Globe Theater for six months, critics responded positively about it. For this role in the year, the actor received the award of the Society of the London Theater - the prize of Lawrence Olivier.

In Moscow, in the year, Menshikov participated in the play “N Nizhinsky”. A brilliant career of the artist cut off a mental illness. The playwright Alexei Burykin created the play about the years that Nizhinsky spent in the hospital for the mentally ill. Menshikova was interested in the fate of the Russian dancer after he read the Nizhinsky Diary. The book came out after the death of the artist, it included memories, including about the years of the disease.

In the year, Oleg Menshikov became one of the organizers of the Theater Partnership. Actors from different theaters participated in his productions. Menshikov worked with young artists in the “partnership”, he was a producer and director. The effect of the tape takes place in the middle of the x at the Moscow Region Dach, where the hero of the Civil War, Sergei Kotov, lives with his wife and daughter - he was played by Mikhalkov himself.

Suddenly they are visited by a long -standing friend of the family Mitya Arsentiev. The director suffered the plot of the story at the end of the 20th century, the time of the first Chechen campaign. The heroes were captured and were constrained by one chain - to survive, they had to know each other better. For this role, Menshikov received the Award of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia "Nika".

At the end of X, the actor worked again with Nikita Mikhalkov. He played the main role of the junker Andrei Tolstoy in the film "Siberian Barber". The artist had the task of playing a summer young man, although Menshikov at that time was already 38 years old. In the year, the film was released by the film of the French director Varun "East - West." This is a story about the Russian emigrant, a doctor Alexei Golovina, who, after the Great Patriotic War, returned to his homeland with a French woman and son.

In the USSR, he suddenly ended up in the country of repression and could not go back. In the year, the actor appeared on the screen in the film “State Advisor” based on Roman Boris Akunin. He played the aristocrat Erast Fandorin. The events of the tape occur at the end of the 19th century. Fandorin is investigating the murder committed by members of the underground organization.