Vladimir Menshov

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Vladimir Menshov
Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Died5 July 2021(2021-07-05) (aged 81)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian, Azerbaijani
EducationGerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Occupation(s)Actor, director, screenwriter, producer
Notable work
SpouseVera Alentova
ChildrenYuliya Menshova
Awards

Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[4][5] Actress Vera Alentova, who starred in the film, is the mother of Vladimir Menshov's daughter Yuliya Menshova.[6]

Biography

Menshov was born in a Russian family in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.[7] His father, Valentin Mikhailovich Menshov, was a sailor and later an NKVD officer; his mother Antonina Aleksandrovna Menshova (née Dubovskaya) was a housewife. Because of his father's work, the family lived in Baku, Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan.[8]

As a teenager Menshov worked as a machinist student at a factory, at a mine in Vorkuta, as a sailor on a diving boat in Baku, and also as an understudying actor at the Astrakhan Drama Theater.[9] In 1961 he entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theatre School. During the second year he married actress Vera Alentova who was also studying at the same theatre school.[10] In 1965 he graduated from the acting department.[11] After graduating, he worked for two years as actor and assistant director at the Stavropol Regional Drama Theater.[9]

In 1970 he graduated from the VGIK postgraduate course in the department of feature film direction[11] (Mikhail Romm's workshop).[12]

From 1970 to 1976, Vladimir Menshov worked under contracts at the film studios

Odessa Film Studio.[13] He made a short thesis film On the Question of the Dialectic of the Perception of Art, or Lost Dreams,[14] wrote the stage version of the novel Mess-Mend by Marietta Shaginyan, which was staged at the Leningrad Youth Theater,[15] and wrote the script I'm Serving on the Border at the request of Lenfilm.[2]

In those years his cinematic acting career began: he starred in the title role in the thesis work of his classmate Alexander Pavlovsky Happy Kukushkin.[13] The film was shot at the Odessa Film Studio.[16] Vladimir Menshov also was a co-author of the script. The picture received the main prize at the Molodist-71 Kiev Film Festival[17][16] Menshov starred in a 1972 film by Alexei Sakharov called A Man in His Place.[15] In 1973 Menshov was awarded the first prize for the best performance at the VI All-Union Film Festival in Almaty.[18][19]

As an actor, Vladimir Menshov has 117 credits. Some of the most popular films that feature him include

Legend № 17 (2013).[21]

Menshov's directorial debut took place in 1976, it was the film Practical Joke.[22] Menshov's second picture, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears became one of Russia's box-office record holders, was awarded the State Prize of the USSR, and then the Oscar (1981) as the Best Foreign Language Film.[23] The film tells the story of lives of three women over two decades. It was also a box-office hit.[24]

In 1984, Menchov directed the film Love and Pigeons based on the play of Vladimir Gurkin.[25]

Vladimir Menshov also directed the following films:

What a Mess! (1995),[22] The Envy of Gods (2000), and The Great Waltz.[13] The Great Waltz was not finished.[26]

He wrote screenplays for the films I Serve on the Border (1973), The Night Is Short (1981), What a Mess! (1995), The Great Waltz (2008),[13] was the producer of several films, among which: Love of Evil (1998), Chinese Service (1999), Quadrille (1999), The Envy of Gods (2000), Neighbor (2004), A Time to Gather Stones (2005), Shawls (2006), and The Great Waltz.[9]

In 2004, Menshov was the host of the Channel One show Last Hero.[27]

Vladimir Menshov was the general director and art director of "Film Studio Genre", which is a subsidiary of Mosfilm.[14]

In 2011 as the chair of the Russian Academy Award committee he refused to co-sign the decision to nominate Nikita Mikhalkov's film

He expressed support for the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation[29] and was blacklisted in Ukraine in 2015 as a result.[30]

Awards

President Vladimir Putin awards the 2nd Degree Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" to Menshov on 24 May 2017

Vladimir Menshov – Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984),[14] People's Artist of Russia (1989),[22] winner of the State Prizes of the RSFSR (1978,[22] for the film Rally) and the USSR (1981,[22] for the film Moscow Does not Believe in Tears).

  • The Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (1999)[14]
  • The "For Services to Moscow" badge (30 July 2009)[2]
  • The Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (2010)[14]
  • The Golden Eagle Award as Best Supporting Actor in Legend No. 17 (2014)[31]
  • The Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2017)[14]

Personal life and death

Menshov married actress Vera Alentova in 1962. They had a daughter, Yuliya Menshova.

He died at age 81, as a consequence of COVID-19.[32]

Partial filmography

As a director

Year Title Notes Ref(s)
1976 Practical Joke [16]
1979 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears [16]
1984 Love and Pigeons [16]
1995
What a Mess!
[16]
2000 The Envy of Gods [33]

As an actor

Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
1970 Schastlivyy Kukushkin Pashka Kukushkin Short film [16]
1972 Chelovek na Svoyom Meste Semyon Bobrov [15]
1976 How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor Officer [16]
1977 Practical Joke Vladimir Valentinovich Uncredited role [34]
1982
Under One Sky
Pavlov
1983 Magistral (Russian: Магистраль) Potappov
1984 Love and Pigeons Cameo Also directed [35]
1987 Courier Oleg Nikolaevich [16][33]
1987 Where is the Nophelet? Pavel Golikov [36]
1989 Zerograd Prosecutor [15]
1991 Abdullajon Navlo Buchko [37]
1992 The General Georgy Zhukov [15]
1993 In Order to Survive Oleg Also known under the title Red Mob [38][39]
1995
What a Mess!
Russian President [21]
1997 Tsarevich Alexei Menshikov [33]
1999 8 ½ $ Spartak [40]
2004 Night Watch Geser [41]
2004 Diversant General of military intelligence Kalyazin [16][21]
2006 Day Watch Geser [41]
2007 The Apocalypse Code Kharitonov [2]
2007 Liquidation Georgy Zhukov Television miniseries [42]
2009 O Lucky Man! Oleg Genrikhovich
2011 Lucky Trouble Tryokhgolovich [41]
2011 Generation P Farseykin [42]
2012 Legend No. 17 Eduard Balashov [41][21]
2013 Möbius Cherkachin [43]
2014 Ekaterina Bestuzhev [41]
2016 After You're Gone Father [44]

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  43. ^ "Film Review: 'Mobius'"
  44. ^ «Каждая картина — культовая»: Сергей Безруков простился с Владимиром Меньшовым

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