Igor Maslennikov is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Russe born on 26 october 1931 at Nizhny Novgorod (Russie)
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Nationality RussieBirth 26 october 1931 at Nizhny Novgorod (
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Death 17 september 2022 (at 90 years)
Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (Russian: И́горь Фёдорович Ма́сленников) (born 26 October 1931) is a Russian film director.
He was born in Gorky. In 1954 Maslennikov completed his education in the department of journalism of the Leningrad University and worked as an editor, script writer, and cameraman on Leningrad television. In 1965 he entered the Higher Directors’ Courses of Lenfilm (Grigori Kozintsev's workshop), at end of which he became the director of this motion picture studio.
In the cinema, Maslennikov made his debut at the end of the 1960s with a film about a senior pupil: the Personal Life of Kuzyaev Valentin. He directed children’s films (Tomorrow" and "3 April), movies about sports (Racers), historical costume-dramas (Yaroslavna, the Queen of France). He worked on the joint Soviet-Norwegian picture Under the Rock Sky, which narrates the sad events which occurred in one of the Norwegian towns during the Nazi occupation. He filmed Vera Panova's autobiographical Sentimental novel.
Enormous success came to Maslennikov when he directed a 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 the director ensured audience’s love to the film.
In 1985 Maslennikov presented the melodrama Winter cherries. The movie became one of the greatest blockbusters of the decade and gained Elena Safonova a wide reputation. The special feature of this everyday melodrama was that for the first time the spectator saw on the screen a strong but misunderstood woman played by Safonova. The popularity of this film inspired Maslennikov to create sequels in 1990 and 1995 and the same-name TV-series in 1997.
In 1989 Maslennikov filmed the television adventure picture Philipp Traum, based on the unfinished Mark Twain novel The Mysterious Stranger. The cinema version was named Chronicle of Satan Jr.. He made a co-production with French partners, filming the story of Leonid Andreyev (The Dark), where the main roles were played by Oleg Yankovsky and Ksenia Kachalina.
Maslennikov became People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. In 2001 he received the State Prize of Russia.
The year 2000 saw the release of the 10 series of Chto skazal pokoynik (What Has the Deceased Said) (2000) after the popular Polish writer Ioanna Khmelevskaya, and start of the filming of Vospominaniya o Sherloke Kholmse (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), which united all the five famous Sherlock Holmes films with a single plotline. In 2001 he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.
By his 75th anniversary in 2006 Igor Maslennikov finished his book of memoirs under the title The Baker Street in Petrogradskaya. Biography
Maslennikov nait à Nijni Novgorod en 1931. En 1954, il intègre le département de journalisme de l'Université de Leningrad et travaille en tant que rédacteur et cameraman à la télévision de Leningrad. En 1965, il obtient une haute fonction au sein de Lenfilm, et deviendra par la suite directeur de ce studio. Il commence sa carrière dans le cinéma à la fin des années 1960.
Il rencontre un très grand succès de 1979 à 1986 en tant que réalisateur d'une série de films adaptés des aventures de Sherlock Holmes (incarné par Vassili Livanov) et du docteur Watson (incarné par Vitali Solomine) écrites par Arthur Conan Doyle.
Artiste du Peuple de RSFS de Russie en 1987, Maslennikov reçoit le prix d'État de la Fédération de Russie en 2001, l'Ordre de l'Honneur en 2004 et l'Ordre du Mérite pour la Patrie en 2012.
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