Director Anatoly Mateshko: biography, best films

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:53

Anatoly Mateshko is a talented person who was going to become an actor, but unexpectedly won fame as a director. Having declared his existence with the help of the TV series "Birthday of the Bourgeois", the master has since shot many successful television projects and films. What is known about the behind-the-scenes life of a celebrity, what films of the director are definitely worth seeing?

Anatoly Mateshko: biography of a star

The actor is a native of the small Ukrainian town of Gostomel, he was born 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 12, the boy first visited a relative in Moscow, where she lived while studying at VGIK. The trip turned out to be fateful for Tolya, he was captivated by the atmosphere that reigned within the walls of a creative university, the profession of an actor became associated with freedom in a child.

After graduating from school, Anatoly Mateshko tried to become a student of onefrom the theater institutes in Kyiv. The young man managed to achieve this only on the second attempt, by that time he had already begun to doubt the correctness of his choice, but he nevertheless received a university diploma. After graduating, the aspiring actor was attached to the Dovzhenko film studio.

First successes

The debut for the young artist could be the tape “Only Old Men Go to Battle”, filmed by Bykov, in which he was offered the role of Smuglyanka. However, Anatoly Mateshko did not find time for filming, so Podgorny became Smuglyanka. The acting career of the young man did not develop, he was assigned mainly secondary roles. Most often, Anatoly had to play positive characters, he embodied the images of ideological fighters, saviors of the motherland, talented athletes. In the role of a scoundrel, he was not seen, which caused him regret. Mateshko himself considers his main achievement as an actor to be his participation in the drama "A Strict Man's Life", the creator of which is Grannik.

If Anatoly did not achieve significant success as an actor, then his very first directorial experiments were received positively by the public. His first short film was released in 1983, called "Then the war will end." It was followed almost immediately by the second work - "Black Pit", which unexpectedly earned the main award at the All-Union Film Festival.

Anatoly Mateshko is a director who owes his fame to a tandem with screenwriter Arkady Vysotsky. Together, young people created the melodrama "Green Fire of the Goat", thanks to whichthe master spoke for the first time. The fairy tale "Ha-bi-assy", aimed at an adult audience, also turned out to be successful. It is Mateshko who has the honor of discovering such wonderful actors as Mashkov and Korikova, whom he shot in his films.

Star Projects

It's no secret that it was thanks to the series that Anatoly Mateshko became famous, the films created by him are not so popular. Real fame came to the maestro after the release of his TV project "Birthday of the Bourgeois". An audience weary of Latin American soap operas enjoyed the story of a self-made businessman. The series received crazy ratings, which prompted the director to shoot its sequel.

Of course, this is far from the only well-known TV project created by Anatoly Mateshko. The biography of a Russian film star confirms that his next great idea was the film adaptation of a series of detective stories written by the prolific writer Dontsova. The series "Dasha Vasilyeva. Lover of Private Investigation" also captivated viewers.

Attracted director and detective stories written by another writer - Tatyana Ustinova. Anatoly Mateshko presented "The Myth of the Ideal Man", "The Genius of Empty Place", "Special Purpose Girlfriend" to the public.

Private life

The master broke up with his first wife quite quickly, this happened shortly after the birth of his son Artem. His second chosen one was a girl named Anastasia, an actress by profession. By the way, the wife starred inone of the director's projects - "Birthday Bourgeois", in this series she got the role of Oksana's secretary. From Anastasia, Mateshko also has a son named Nikolai.