Directed by Anatoly Mateshko: biography, best films

Anatoly Mateshko is a talented person, who was going to become an actor, but unexpectedly for himself gained fame as a director. Declaring its existence with the help of the TV series "The Birthday of the Burzhuy", the master from those fields made many successful television projects and films. What is known about the offscreen celebrity life, what pictures of the director should definitely see?

Anatoly Mateshko: biography of the star

The actor is a native of the small Ukrainian town of Gostomel, he appeared in September 1953. Anatoly Mateshko is not the only son of his parents, he has an older sister Olga, who became an actress. At the age of twelve, the boy first visited a relative in Moscow, where she lived while studying at VGIK. The trip was fateful for Tolya, he was captivated by the atmosphere that reigned in the walls of the creative university, the profession of the actor was associated with the child with freedom.

After graduating from school, Anatoly Mateshko tried to become a student of one of the theatrical institutions in Kiev. Achieve this young man was possible only with the second attempt, by that time he already began to doubt the correctness of his choice, but he still got the diploma of the university. After graduating, the beginning actor was attached to the Dovzhenko film studio.

First successes

The debut for a young artist could be the tape "Some Old Men Are Going to Battle", shot by Bykov, in which he was offered the role of Smuglyanka. However, Anatoly Mateshko did not find time to shoot, so Smuglyanka became Podgorny. Actor's career of the young man did not develop, he was assigned mostly secondary roles. Most often Anatolia had to play positive characters, he embodied the images of ideological fighters, savior of the motherland, talented athletes. In the role of a villain he was not seen, which caused him regret. Mateshko himself as his main achievement as an actor assumes participation in the drama "A strict male life", the creator of which is Grannik.

If Anatoly did not achieve significant success as an actor, then his first directorial experiments were met positively by the public. His first short film was released in 1983, and was called "Then the War Will End." Behind it, almost immediately followed by a second work - "Black Pit," unexpectedly earned the main award at the All-Union Film Festival.

Anatoly Mateshko is a director, his fame in many respects due to the tandem with screenwriter Arkady Vysotsky. Together, the young people created the melodrama "Green Goat Fire", thanks to which they talked for the first time about the master. The fairy tale of "Ha-bi-assi", oriented to the adult audience turned out to be successful. It is Mateshko who owns the honor of the discovery of such remarkable actors as Mashkov and Korikova, whom he shot in his paintings.

Star projects

It's no secret that it was thanks to the series that Anatoly Mateshko became famous, the films created by him do not enjoy such popularity. A real fame came to the maestro after the release of his television project "The Birthday of Burzhuy". The audience, tired of Latin American soap operas, the story of a businessman who achieved everything on his own, fell in love. The series won crazy ratings, which prompted the director to withdraw his sequel.

Of course, this is far from the only known television project, created by Anatoly Mateshko. Biography of the star of the national cinema confirms that his next great idea was the screen version of a series of detectives, which came from the pen of the prolific writer Dontsova. The series "Dasha Vasilyeva. Lover of private investigation "also won the audience.

The director and detectives, written by another writer Tatyana Ustinova, were brought in. Anatoly Mateshko presented to the public the "Myth of the Ideal Man", "The Genius of the Empty Space", "The Girlfriend of the Special Purpose."

Personal life

With the first spouse, the master parted quickly enough, it happened soon after the birth of Artyom's son. The second chosen one was a girl named Anastasia, an actress by profession. By the way, his wife was shot in one of the director's projects - "Bourgeois's Birthday", in this series she got the role of Oksana's secretary. From Anastasia to Mateshko also has a son, named Nikolay.

He does not forget the child from the first marriage, trying to spend with Artem as much time as possible.