Aleksey Podolsky is a famous domestic actor and musician. He is one of those who managed to succeed on the big screen without having a professional acting education. The most famous paintings with his participation were the tape "Dust" and "Top Show". In this article, we will talk about his biography and career.
Biography
Aleksey Podolsky was born in 1976. In childhood and youth, he did not even think about the career of an artist. He received the profession of a gastroenterologist after graduating from Pirogov Russian State Medical University. Later he entered the residency of the medical center under the Office of the President.
In his youth, Alexei Podolsky became interested in music. He played in the punk rock band "Universal Product", and then became a member of the project "Mice, boy Kai and the Snow Queen", founded by Peter Mamonov.
Aleksey worked for some time in the hospital, but over time he became more and more interested in musical creativity. Until finallyhis film debut did not take place.
Short films
The career of actor Alexei Podolsky began with the filming of Sergei Loban's short film "Suck a Banana".
Podolsky played the role of one of the employees of an unnamed private firm, who, together with their boss, celebrate the New Year. The head of the company congratulates them on the holiday, everyone begins to drink and eat. Everyone calls Santa Claus in chorus.
Santa Claus, in which one of the workers dressed up, comes already tipsy. He begins to amuse his colleagues with dances and riddles. Over time, his behavior becomes more and more hooligan and rude. He starts dancing on the table, throwing gifts and bananas. The chief calls the guards, who bring out the raging, drunk Santa Claus. The police take him away, and the employees continue to have fun.
Dust
In the biography of actor Alexei Podolsky, acquaintance with director Sergei Loban played a decisive role. It was he who gave him a ticket to a big movie.
After working together in a short film, Alexei Podolsky immediately gets the lead role in his first feature film, the existential drama Dust.
The hero of our article plays a closed outsider who lives under the supervision of his grandmother. He has a primitive and monotonous job, a fat body, a passive, one might say, vegetative lifestyle.
One day the FSB officers come to the main character and offer himparticipate in a secret scientific experiment. He doesn't understand much, but he still signs the relevant non-disclosure papers.
He finds a laboratory at the address indicated by the security forces. On a special installation, he is exposed to some kind of influence, after which the subject has a strange gift - he can fulfill the most secret desires. Alexey sees his body beautiful and inflated in the mirror. However, the effect is temporary, after a short time it disappears. Now he's willing to do anything to experience that feeling again.
In the biography of Alexei Podolsky, the role in the film "Dust" was of great importance, as it was a great and bright work, for which he was immediately remembered.
Big Top Show
In 2009, the actor plays in the short film by Andrey Gryazev "Ice Age", and then appears in a cameo role in Viktor Ginzburg's dramatic comedy "Generation P".
The next success came to him in 2011 after filming in Sergei Loban's musical drama Big Top Show. In this film, Alexei Podolsky plays the Cyber Wanderer in the short stories "Love" and "Friendship".
First we see Podolsky as a young man named Lesha, who calls himself the Cyberwanderer. He meets a girl Vera on the Internet, and together they go to the Crimea. The protagonist constantly strives to demonstrate that the trip bothers him, as a result, young people quarrel. Vera meets her friends, withwho goes to have fun.
Lesha wants to leave, but he realizes that he can't do it, because he met his soul mate in Vera. He goes to a performance in a circus tent, where he sees Vera. During the show, the big top burns down.
In the short story "Friendship" a deaf hero works at a bakery and plays in a theater for the deaf in his spare time. TV journalists often come to him because of his unusual hobby. As a result, they go to the Crimea. He meets Vera, who has just had a fight with the Cyberwalker.
At the end of this part, the audience sees the Cyberwanderer and Vera, who are lying on the bed after the fire in the big top. They admit that they do not love each other, but are unable to continue to live apart.
Roles in recent years
After the success in the Big Top Show, Podolsky starred in two short films. These were the paintings "Dream Limit" and "22".
In 2017, he appeared in Taisiya Igumentseva's family comedy "Children for Rent" as an administrator. His latest role so far is an episode of the comedy series House Arrest.
Music career
Podolsky is one of the members of the rock band Karamazov Twins. This is a musical group founded in Maykop by Jacques Polyakov. The group gained the greatest popularity in 2011, having recorded 12 songs for the movie Big Top Show.
In 2012, they performed at the major Stereoleto festival in St. Petersburg. The group is currently based inMoscow.
Podolsky performs in it as a vocalist along with Jacques Polyakov and Alina Rostotskaya, and dances.
Describing the work of the group, critics note that these are yard songs of people whose intellectual level simply "rolls over". The musicians claim that they strive to combine the incongruous, achieving both avant-garde and harmonious sound.
