Alexander Milyutin - the actor who became famousthanks to filming in many cult Soviet films. The main roles were not assigned to the performer, but even the appearance in the episode Milyutin knew how to make it interesting and unforgettable. In which pictures can you see Alexander?
short biography
Alexander Milyutin was born in 1946 in the glorious city of Odessa.
Why Alexander chose the actor's profession is unknown. But in 1965 he went to Moscow to enter the theater. Milutin was enrolled in VGIK, which the actor graduated in 1969.
After the distribution, Alexander was accepted into the acting staff of the Kiev Film Studio. Dovzhenko. Information about whether an artist was playing in a theater or not, did not remain.
Early film works
Alexander Milyutin did not wait for the endInstitute and started acting in the cinema at the third year of study. The first work, which has expanded his filmography - the role of a prisoner in the military drama "Unforgettable." The painting was filmed on "Mosfilm" based on the stories of Alexander Dovzhenko.
In the same year, the artist appeared in 2 more films: he played a buyer of pies in the comedy “Fidget” and an inconspicuous role in the film story “Wedding Bells”.
В 1968 г.Milyutin's creative baggage was replenished with 3 new pictures, among which Mikhail Shveicer's comedy "Golden Calf" worthy of the novel of Ilf and Petrov is worthy of special attention.
In 1969Milutin appeared briefly in Alexander Mitta’s tragicomedy “Burn, Burn, My Star”, where the main roles were played by Oleg Tabakov (“17 Moments of Spring”), Yevgeny Leonov (“Gentlemen of Fortune”) and Oleg Efremov (“Battalions Ask for Fire”).
After such a start, the role of the actor of episodes was fixed to Alexander. Every year he appeared at least in the frame of 3-4 films.
Alexander Milyutin: movies of the 70s
The most interesting projects were expected by the artist in the 70s. The heyday of the Soviet cinema fell on this period, many cult films were shot at that very time.
For example, in 1972Leonid Bykov, with the support of the film studio them. Dovzhenko began filming the military drama "Only Old Men Go to Battle". This tape, which tells about the life of pilots during the Great Patriotic War, still has value for the audience. Sparkling humor, the spirit of courage and courage, the memory of irreplaceable losses permeate the entire plot of the film. Alexander Milyutin in the frame appeared just a few minutes in the form of a recruit, who arrived at the service in the squadron Titarenko.
In 1979another unforgettable picture is appearing on Soviet screens - detective Stanislav Govorukhin “The meeting place cannot be changed”. The plot of the film almost for the first time in the USSR touched upon the topic of banditry, raging after the end of the Great Patriotic War. Even in the 1950s and 1960s, it was forbidden to discuss this problem for ideological reasons, but in the late seventies, Govorukhin had the opportunity to film the fascinating novel of the Weiner brothers.
The main role in the film was played by Vladimir Vysotsky.His principled and energetic captain Zheglov became a cinema legend. Milyutin worked in tandem with Vysotsky: in the film he got the role of the Ukrainian-speaking employee of MUR Ivan Pasyuk - a leisurely, ingenuous, sometimes comical. After the premiere of the film, Alexander turned into a recognizable person. But, unfortunately, even filming with Stanislav Govorukhin did not give a new twist to the artist's career.
Career finale
In the 80s. Alexander Milyutin continued to act in films, but the films and roles were rather “passing”.
In the 90s. for the actors began difficult times, especially for the staff of the film studio to them. Dovzhenko. Milyutin was faced with unemployment and was forced to work as a driver and a loader.
Native artist does not hide that he was seriously worried about the political and social changes in the country. In 1993, Alexander died of a heart attack at the age of 46.
