Leonid Bichevin became known for hisparticipation in such cult films as “Morphine” and “Cargo 200 ″. Currently, the young actor continues to be removed from the honored masters of cinema, for example, such as Alexander Kott, Jos Stelling and Nikolai Khomeriki. It belongs to this category of actors, about whom regardless of the quality of the film itself (although you have to give it its due - all the work with his participation is good) they say: “But Bachevin played it well there”.
Childhood of the future talent
In 1984, December 27, in the town of KlimovskMoscow region was born Leonid Bichevin. The biography of his parents is the simplest: his father managed to work in various specialties - both a chauffeur and a laborer, and his mother worked for many years as a teacher of Russian language and literature. Over time, she quit her job at school and began to lead a drama club.
The future actor spent his childhood very actively,he loved to ride motorcycles with the boys, spent four years practicing horse riding, attended many circles. He learned to play the guitar quite early and from time to time his performances happened at school. But most often the concerts were held in the courtyard - together with friends they sang songs by “Alice” and “DDT”.
Youth: searching for yourself
Bichevin from childhood loved horses, and it is thislove explains the choice of his profession in his youth: he became a student of Kolomno agricultural college. The guy's dream was to become a breeder and deduce special breeds of horses. But in reality, it turned out to be boring to study, and two years later he dropped out of school.
После некоторых поисков себя молодой человек decided to try acting out. We had to start from something, and he became a student of the preparatory courses of the Schukinsky Theater Institute. Having finished them, he easily became a student of the institute on the course of Yuri Shlykov.
Begin acting
Leonid was taken to the Vakhtangov Theater immediatelyafter the end of "Pike". Here he played quite a few roles. The most memorable for the audience were the roles in the performances: “Troilus and Cressida” based on the tragedy of William Shakespeare, “The Dog in the Seine” based on the play Lope de Vega directed by Yuri Shlykov and Masquerade after Lermontov with director Rimas Tuminas and others.
Like other talented theater graduatesuniversities, his work in the cinema young actor began with numerous film tests, which were rarely successful. He does not hide the fact that he tried at the studio "Amedia" at least fifteen times, but never got anywhere. Looking at it now, one can only be glad that Leonid Bichevin did not get to the shooting of serials, where his acting talent could hardly have manifested itself in full force.
The first significant films in the career of an actor
In 2006, he played small roles with DavidKeosayan in the film "Three half-graces" and Vadim Ostrovsky in the film "More important than love." Who knows how his career would have been further developed if, by chance, he had not gotten into the shooting of art-house cinema.
Alexey Balabanov, director of interesting butoften scandalous films, just started work on the filming of the movie "Cargo 200". During the selection of actors, fellow student Bichevin and his girlfriend Agniya Kuznetsova advised the actor to an assistant director. The actress herself was already approved by the director for the main role, and Leonid Bichevin received the role of dude and fartsovschika Valera.
Leonid Bichevin: filmography
Безусловно, для начинающего актера сниматься у such a famous director, albeit in a small role, was already a real success. For the sake of filming the film, he concealed that he did not know how to drive a car, and this was necessary at the filming, and he immediately began driving instruction.
It didn’t scare the actor even that the script of the filmturned out to be tough: it simply seemed an unacceptable act to miss the opportunity to work under the guidance of such a talented person, to work with whom the local masters themselves — Nikita Mikhalkov and Ingeborg Dapkunayte — considered it an honor.
В фильме «Груз 200» роль пижона Валеры позволила for the first time to reveal the talent of Bichevin in the movie. He managed to demonstrate a hidden nerve, internal concentration, as well as the ability to instantly change his state from normal to insane. His skill was noticed by Balabanov himself, who promised to remove the actor in the future and did not violate this word.
A jump in the career of Leonid Bichevin
In 2008, the paintings, which became a landmark in the fate of the actor. The first among them is the youth film “Closed spaces” directed by Igor V
orchestras.The main role is played by Bichevin - the boy Venya, a recluse of his own accord, who has not left his home for many years. To his hostage, he takes the pizza delivery boy, but later he recognizes her own soul. The beginning of the film is almost a thriller, but soon the movie becomes a comedy. The actor admits that he really wanted Venya to play: "This is such a character of our time, who frees himself by the power of his will."
As a result, kind and optimisticfilm work, beautiful, with an interesting and non-standard plot, which makes you think about the existing problems of youth. The audience liked the game of the actor, his charm and a pleasant smile.
After the "closed spaces" appeared dramadirector Catherine Shagalova "Once in the province", where a guy named Che played Leonid Bichevin. The actor’s filmography was replenished with the image of a person living in the harsh reality of provincial life.
And again bright work with Balabanov
And now, finally, Leonid Bichevin (film actor) againHe was on the set of Balabanov - in 2008, his new film Morphine was released. This picture is a film adaptation of Bulgakov's stories, the script was written by Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Хотя знаменитый режиссер и обещал взять молодого the actor is still in some of his film, it was in “Morphia” that no one was going to shoot Bichevin. The main role in the film was a long selection and testing, and then Balabanov himself called Leonid and offered to play.
Согласно сценарию Бичевин играет роль врача, who in the struggle for the life of a patient with diphtheria put his own life at risk. He managed to escape from death due to the injection of morphine, and later on the doctor became dependent on him. In order to make the image as truthful as possible, the actor communicated with drug addicts, attended a meeting of addicts who helped him understand the nature of addiction, play a man whose inner core is destroyed by drugs.
Like Gruz-200, the film turned out to be tough,heavy and intellectual work. Balabanov and Bichevin managed to make Dr. Polyakov’s Bulgakov story deeper and more interesting, identifying it with the death of an entire country. The performance of Bichevin embodied the intelligentsia in the image of a doctor, who hides from problems in her own little world while sitting on morphine.
Newest movie roles
Фильмы с участием Леонида Бичевина в стиле Art House brought the actor fame. And yet, viewers began to recognize him more from other films: the TV series “Palm Sunday” and “The Syndrome of the Dragon”, according to the military drama “Rowanberry Waltz”. One of the latest interesting works of Bichevin - in the film "The Girl and the Death" by Jos Stelling. He perfectly managed to create an image of a romantic lover who can change his life and sacrifice a lot in the name of love. The director of the film gathered on one platform an excellent cast, it was Makovetsky, who had recently been a little afraid of Bachevin as a meter of cinema, Litvinova and Dutchwoman Silvia Hooks.
Leonid Bichevin, whose filmography consists of a wide variety of roles, loves images most of all with a certain amount of insanity.
A new film has already been released with the participation of the actor - the film “Chagall-Malevich” by Alexander Mitta, where he performed Mark Shagal; TV series "Kuprin", there he plays a gambler.
Actor Leonid Bichevin: personal life
For a long time, the actor had a romantic relationship with Agnia Kuznetsova. Together they were students at the University. Shchukin and began dating in the second year of study. A couple of them have been for seven years.
As soon as both began filming a movie andtheater, both became busy and, consequently, spend less time together, sometimes it was only 2-3 days a month. And despite the fact that young people have repeatedly said in an interview that they are satisfied with this state of affairs, it may well be that this was the reason for their rupture. The separation of the couple was a surprise even for their friends, but it happened.
In 2001, the wife of the actor was Maria Berdinsky. They met in his native Vakhtangov Theater.
Leonid Bichevin is happy with his wife, which he often talks about in his interviews. He is glad that “calm and quiet happiness” appeared in his life, which gave him a beloved woman and a beloved profession.
