Years of Life 31. 07. 1962, Moscow - 07. 11. 2009, Moscow
July 31, 1962 in the family of a wonderful actor, director and screenwriter Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk and famous actress Irina Skobtseva, a daughter was born whose father wanted to give the name Olesya, but at the insistence of her mother and grandmother (Yulia Nikolaevna Skobtseva) she was named Elena. But, since, the girl did not like the name, somehow, she announced to everyone that she would be Alena. The history of cinema and theater knows it precisely under this name.
The status of parents in the cinema simultaneously and expanded the possibilities of their child and demanded to bear the burden of their glory. She passed this test with success.
Childhood
Biography Alena Bondarchuk since the childhood had the intensive schedule as parents tried to give to children as much as possible a quantity of knowledge. Alena was engaged in music, English, was keen on art. During the departure of her parents, Alena and her brother Fedor were brought up by her grandmother, Julia Nikolayevna. The girl's studies took place in Moscow's secondary school No. 31, which is on Tverskaya Street. Her debut at the cinema took place at the age of 16, when she starred in the military drama "Velvet Season" directed by Vladimir Pavlovich, in the role of Batty, the youngest daughter of Richard Bradveri.
1980s
In 1983, Alena Bondarchuk, receiving an acting education, graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School on the course of Evgeny Evstigneev, where among her classmates were Alexei Guskov and Igor Zolotovitsky. She already managed to star in the film "The Living Rainbow", which was shot by her older sister (the daughter of Sergei Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva) Natalia Bondarchuk. Then came the roles in the historical and revolutionary film "Come Free" (Elena), in the crime film "The Paris Drama" (Alex) and in the drama "The Time and the Family Conway" (Mage).
1986 for Alena was marked by participation in the film of his father "Boris Godunov", where the actress received the role of Tsarevna Xenia, and her brother - Fyodor Bondarchuk, played the role of Prince Fedor. This film was his debut.
Later, moving away from the cinema, Alena Bondarchuk concentrated her efforts at work in the theater. Working at the Pushkin Theater, and then at the Mossovet Theater, she played in the plays: "On Every Wise Man of Simplicity" by A. Ostrovsky, "The Bear" by A. P. Chekhov, "The Brothers Karamazov" F M. Dostoyevsky. She toured in America, working in the play "Dear Elena Sergeevna"
In the mid-90s, after leaving for several years in the late 1980s with her husband, entrepreneur and scientist and their son Constantine to Switzerland, she returned to Russia, and in 1998 she was one of the leading actresses of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky.
"Quiet Flows the Don"
Alena's father, Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk, was a master of the creation of film epics. We know this well from his great picture "War and Peace". His plans included the adaptation of Sholokhov's novel Quiet Flows the Don. In the early 90's, he began to shoot this picture in a joint Russian-Italian project, inviting the execution of the main roles of Grigory Melekhov and Aksinya foreign actors Rupert Everett and Dolphin Forest. The role of Natalia was entrusted to her daughter Alena, and Irina Skobtseva - the role of Ilinichny. Sergei Bondarchuk himself played the role of General Krasnov.
In connection with the emerging problems in financing, and after the death of Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk in October 1994, the film remained until recently incomplete when in 2007, thanks to the efforts of the First Channel and Fyodor Bondarchuk, the picture was returned to his homeland, mounted and presented to the viewer.
Since 2002, the cinematic biography of the actress has resumed. Alena Bondarchuk starred in the film "St. Petersburg - Cannes Express" American director John Daly. After, in 2003, she created the image of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, a woman very educated and talented. And another, no less interesting work of the actress - the main role in Andrei Razenkov's film "Amber wings" remained undeservedly in the shade.
As if wanting to make up for lost time, Alena Bondarchuk has been shooting a lot in recent years. In a partnership with Andrei Krasko and Fedor Bondarchuk, she played a major role in Anna Karen Oganesyan's drama "I Am Staying". She starred in several other scenes: the series "Dear Masha Berezina" - Nina Berezina, painting "Spare instinct" - Galia Grekov, the series "One Night of Love" - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
Speaking about his work with Alena, the theater director, as well as the director of the series One Night of Love, Mikhail Mokeev recalled that he had been working with Alena. And that, being long acquainted, even from the Moscow Art Theater School he put on it excerpts and then he already felt the uniqueness of the actress. According to him, it combined internal mobility and the ability to skillfully dispose of what had accumulated for a long time. In addition, it was originally genetically gifted and culturally rich. For the series, where she played a woman of royal blood, it was very important the inherent combination of simplicity and nobility. Since Mikhail Mokeyev really wanted to continue working with Alena, he was going to stage Tennessee Williams' "Tram" Desire "for her. But, unfortunately, this did not happen.
During the past few months, Bondarchuk's biography was saddened by the grave condition: she was very seriously ill and underwent a course of treatment in an Israeli clinic. When she returned to Moscow, without any hope of recovery, Elena Sergeevna reacted with courage to this, trying to support her loved ones. July 31, 2009 Alena turned 47 years old. On the day when Alena Bondarchuk died, the debut film of her brother Fyodor Bondarchuk, "9th company", was shown on television, where he made his debut as a director, and also her son, who did not even think to do acting before, did. But the cinema sooner or later became a matter of life for all members of this family.
Alena Bondarchuk died on November 7, 2009, after a long illness, at the age of 48. She was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery on November 10, 2009, near his father Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk. That's the biography of the actress.