Sergei Bodrov would have turned 40 today

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Domestic media today remember Sergei Bodrov Jr. On December 27 of the outgoing year, the famous actor and director would have turned 40 years old. Alas, in 2002, the life of a celebrity was carried away by the tragedy in the Karmadon Gorge in North Ossetia.

Sergei Bodrov is often called the movie hero of the nineties. But it is noteworthy that the guy, in fact, did not think about it. He defended his dissertation on painting of the Venetian Renaissance, received a Ph. D. degree. And in 1995, his father offered to play the main role in his film "Prisoner of the Caucasus". However, the first film experience was shooting back in 1989, in his father's "Freedom is Paradise".

In 1996, Sergei met the director Alexei Balabanov. A year later, the film "Brother" was released on the screen. Despite numerous criticisms, the picture received the Sochi Festival Grand Prix, the Special Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the International Festival in Turin and many other awards.

“He is such a sincere person and natural that you believe him. The whole country believed him, and if the film "Brother" had been with another artist, it would not have been the film "Brother", "Balabanov said.

However, during Sergei's relatively short career, not only filming as an actor turned out to be in his assets. In 2001, the film "Sisters" was released, the script for which Bodrov Jr. wrote in a couple of weeks.

In the summer of 2002, Bodrov began filming his second film after The Sisters, called The Messenger. Most of the film was to be filmed in Moscow, and the film crew in North Ossetia had to shoot only a few episodes.

On September 20, in the Karmadon Gorge in North Ossetia, the film crew, together with Sergei Bodrov, found themselves on the path of the Kolka glacier that descended from the slopes of the Caucasian ridge. Large-scale rescue and search operations were unsuccessful, and on May 7, 2004, a decision was made to stop the search.

“I've always talked about him, he didn't die. There is no grave, no cross, which means there is no death. He came out of nature, he went into it,”says Bodrov's colleague Viktor Sukhorukov.