Alexander Adolfovich Ilyin: biography and filmography

Actor's family, in which Alexander Ilyin was born in 1952, and the creative atmosphere in it predetermined the future of both sons. Father, the artist of the theater. Mayakovsky, known moviegoer for the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha," in which he played a major front-line soldier. The main work for him, as for almost all the actors of the Soviet school, was a scene in which live music is born every night. But he did not forget about the movie either.

In the cinema from the age of fourteen

Brother Vladimir - an actor known and in demand, he starred in many paintings. However, left his mark in the domestic cinema and another Ilyin - Alexander. His filmography is also impressive, it has about three dozen paintings, covering the period from 1966 to the present. It is for them that a mass spectator can judge the skill of this artist, unlike connoisseurs, theatergoers, who were fortunate enough to attend the performances of the Moscow Theater. Mayakovsky with his participation.

When did Alexander Ilyin start playing? Biography of the actor began at the age of fourteen, when he played his first role in the film "I'm a soldier, my mother." It was in 1966, the guy got an idea about the profession, which he decided to devote his life to, and became firmly established in his intention to become an artist.

The roles of the seventies and eighties

Textual appearance set a certain periodicity of demand, it corresponded to the role of detectives, policemen, criminals, hard workers. Roles were appropriate. Alexander Adolfovich Ilyin starred in the films of the seventies "The strongest" and "Residence permit." In the eighties, the filmography was replenished with adventure pictures "Alone Without a Weapon" and "The Midday Thief" (from a serial series "The Conduct of the Connoisseurs"). In 1986, the film "My Favorite Clown" was released, which became the first serious cinematic work of the artist.

The beginning of the nineties was the time of the most intensive filming. In the film adaptation of Babel's "Sunset" Ilyin managed to reveal the full extent of his talent, and there were also "Suki's children", "Music Lessons", "The Battle of Three Kings" and the film "Burn" that was shot a few years earlier.

The thundering nineties

Aesthetics of the last decade of the XX century formed certain styles of film production. It was produced in two main directions.

In the first place, preference was given to criminal films describing the lives of thieves, murderers, robbers and prostitutes. In the USSR, before the beginning of perestroika, such characters were a rare phenomenon, and now the scriptwriters with the directors tried to compensate for the viewer's hunger for the films of an adventurous adventure genre.

The second type of cinema of the nineties can be defined as a light version of the lyrical comedy with the most unpretentious elements of humor.

To a greater or lesser extent, these two main trends corresponded to the pictures in which Alexander Adolfovich Ilyin filmed in the 1990s: "Wolfhound", "Oysters from Lausanne", "Russian Symphony", "Without a Collar", "At the Corner, at the Patriarchs ".

Acting craft involves a certain freedom of choice, and the main dilemma always becomes the question of whether to be removed or not. It is not known how many roles Alexander Ilyin had to refuse, viewers can judge this by the films in which the work took place. For them, the actor is not ashamed.

Works in a big movie

The creative decay in which the Russian cinematography was at last ended at the beginning of the new century. Actor Ilyin Alexander Adolfovich needed such master-directors as Nikita Mikhalkov, Pyotr Todorovsky and Alexander Mitta, who managed to find use for his extraordinary talent. Interesting were the works in the films "Prince Yuri Dolgoruky", "The Barber of Siberia", "Russian Riot", "Down House", "Koktebel", "Mars" and many others. The image of Chlopushi is very expressive, the driver's role is characteristic and true. For "The Barber" the artist was awarded the State Prize.

All this in the frame. But there was work behind it. The voice of Alexander Ilyin from the screen says Nikolai Chindyaikin (from the movie "Mom, Do not Grieve!"), Alexei Oshurkov (from the movie "DMB"), Vladimir Gusev (from the "Garbage") and even cartoon characters " Big Uh "and" From the screw! "It is very difficult to correctly and accurately sound someone else's role or a fantastic image, but the artist has always successfully coped with it.

The main thing in life is theater

Alexander Adol'fovich Ilyin is a theatrical actor, his roles in the performances "The Life of Klim Samgin", "The Night of the Angel", "The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" and many others are highly appreciated by the viewer and critics. To creative successes can be attributed and work in Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" directed by E. Nekrosius. Since 1979, there have been many roles, and over the past decades, the demand for the actor has not diminished. Recently, the list of fates lived on the scene was replenished with the images of Signor Capuletti ("Plague on both your houses"), Petit Trofimov ("The Night of the Angel"), Apollo ("Dreamer's Notes"), Onufrya ("The Student's Love"), Leporello (" Fun of Don Juan ") and Uncle Vasya (" Mistress of the Minister ").

The dynasty continues, or the father had three sons

It's amazing, but in the mass media there is never mentioned scandals in which the honored artist of the Russian Federation Alexander Ilyin took part. His biography is typical for the actor of the old theater school. The birth of a famous artist in the family did not give him any privileges, Ilyin himself enrolled in a theatrical school in the city of Novosibirsk, successfully graduated from it, then worked in various cities of the USSR, and far from the capital, in Voronezh, Minsk and Ural Ozersk.

Alexander Adolfovich Ilyin is married (and only once), and the marriage is quite prosperous. Tatiana Nikitichna became the mother of three of his children, sons who were named Ilya (elder), Alexei (middle) and Alexander (junior). All of them continued the family tradition and became actors.

Alex has already managed to appear in several films, including two series ("Little Trivia" and "Simple Truths"). Junior, Alexander, graduated from the school. Shchepkin and played in the films "The Tsar", "Cadets", "Interns" and "House on the Embankment." In addition, he sings in the group "Lomonosov's Plan," which he himself founded with his brother Ilya. Ilya Ilyin also did a lot, the list of his roles is not less than his father's, and, apparently, he has a great future.

Such a friendly family, engaged in a favorite affair, with Alexander Adolfovich. The creative dynasty continues.