Igor Shternberg: actor, director and just a good man

Igor Shternberg is not only a very good actor, but also a talented director, whose films do not leave the viewer indifferent. The heroes of his paintings always find empathy with the audience, the vicissitudes of their destinies cause then laughter, then loud sobbing. Despite the fact that Sternberg became famous for his film work, he loves the theater more.

Childhood

Igor Shternberg was born in August 1961. His parents were singer Clara Korkan and Viktor Shternberg, one of the leading actors of Taganka.

You can say that he was born in the theater, and he lived in the dressing room of the theater theater until two and a half years. When the boy grew up a little, he walked completely freely around the theater. Igor felt so much at home there that sometimes he calmly left the stage during the performance and approached his father asking if they would soon go home.

He could well have been a Muscovite if he had not been the father who was very honest and principled. He always put art first. To be able to enter the theater scene, he was ready to lose even the Moscow residence permit. Therefore, when he was offered to go on distribution to Bryansk, he agreed, without hesitation.

student life

Igor Shternberg still graduated from the Shchukin School. He acted easily. But from the second year he was expelled. The boy had to get a job as an assembly engineer in Taganka. He even released a couple of performances. For a former student these months of work were a wonderful time. But he later in an interview confessed that it was then that he felt like an adult and that's when he learned to drink a lot.

He worked a whole year, and then Yu. V. Katin-Yartsev took him to his course. Then there were already forty-two people studying instead of the prescribed thirty.

He still remembers his first performance, in which he took part not as an assembler, but as an actor. This was a production about Mayakovsky. Five actors who embodied Vladimir Vladimirovich on the stage - Smekhov, Khmelnitsky, Zolotukhin, Shapovalov and Shternberg, who literally yesterday was a student, were introduced into the play.

For nine years - from the 83rd to the 92nd - went on the stage of the Taganka Theater. Then he moved to the Jerusalem Theater "Noah's Ark", was the author and director of documentary historical television movies.

Life before and behind the camera

His first film was "Melody for Two Voices", where he played Vovchik. Then Bob was from "All the way around", panich from Sorochinskaya Yarmarka, Katya's husband in Defender of Sedov, Kochkin in Adelaide, lawyer in My Fair Nanny, priest in Love Talisman, Kaminsky in The Charm of Evil ", Father Igor in" The House at the Big River ".

In the sensational series "Wolf Messing: seen through time", played a few years ago, and the hero of this article. True, it was a very small role, but Sternberg did an excellent job with it. About Wolff Messing, who was one of the most mysterious personalities of the twentieth century, they talked a lot. This series seemed to slightly open the veil of the mystery of this amazing man, whose ability to recognize even Einstein and Freud.

Each actor who played in the film "Wolf Messing: seen through time", tried to make it very interesting, quite clearly showing the life of a man who could easily read people's minds, manage them. After all, he even saved Vasily, Stalin's son, predicting the crash of the plane on which he was going to fly.

From the theatrical actor to the film director - one step

His mother-in-law was in the Nizhny Novgorod region one of the best ophthalmologists. And one day she uttered a word for her son-in-law before the director of local television, who was her patient. The director suggested that Sternberg shoot television performances. For two years, his work simply swallowed it up. He could do whatever he wanted. Money at that time was not very much, but Igor Sternberg - an actor and a novice director - tried and on kopek to shoot a good movie. He was lucky and with the actors: each of them was not spoiled and longed to work practically for free.

After a while, Sternberg was offered to make a movie at one of the new film companies in which his friend worked. So the work on the melodrama "Women's Friendship" began. In it Igor Shternberg, films Who occupy a certain niche in Russian cinema, shot in the lead roles of his friends - Julia Rutberg and Igor Vernik. And then everything went like clockwork.

Now the actor and director remembers one more predilection in his life - alcohol. He drank not just a lot, but a lot. Thanks to alcohol, he had many friends, he came up with many interesting ideas. But one day he realized that it was impossible to live like this. Sternberg tried many different ways - sewed, coded, tried to heal by will, drank special pills. He could hold out for about a month. But then he broke again. One simple and effective remedy helped: one day, Igor decided that now really enough. Now his wife helps in this. And she never forbids him to drink. Igor just knows: if he drinks again, his Lena will be upset. And he would not like it.

A little bit about personal ...

The first time he went under the aisle with Alexandra Nikolaeva. In this seemingly successful marriage, the son of Fyodor was born. At first everything was very good. But over time, something went wrong, as the spouses planned. They've divorced.

His second wife was the actress Elena Ruchkina, which viewers know from the pictures "The house by the big river", "Applewood garden." In this marriage, Igor Shternberg became a pope twice - another son, Ivan, and daughter of Mary. Now it's a pretty strong and happy family, where everyone values each other.