Sergey Stanislavovich Govorukhin: a life story

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

Writer and director Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin was a complex and courageous person. He visited the war several times, had military awards. In Chechnya, he was seriously wounded, as a result of which he lost his leg. On the eve of his 50th birthday, the director made himself a gift - he finished shooting the film "Land of the People". But I didn’t have time to find out how the audience perceived the picture…

Biography

Sergey Stanislavovich Govorukhin was born on 1961-01-09 in Kharkov. His father, Stanislav Sergeevich, was a famous Soviet and Russian film director (died in 2018), and his mother, Yunona Ilyinichna Kareva, was a theater and film actress (died in 2013).

Sergey spent his childhood and youth in Kazan. His parents separated when he was still young. After the birth of his son, Stanislav Govorukhin went to study at VGIK, then received a distribution to the Odessa Film Studio. He wanted his family to come with him, but Sergey's mother, at that time the prima ballerina of the Kazan Drama Theater, refused.

In 1978 a boygraduated from high school and entered the University of Kazan at the faculty of journalism. Subsequently, he dropped out of school and alternately worked as a laboratory assistant, then as a loader, then as a watchman.

Then he served in the army for two years, in 1982 he returned and entered the VGIK at the screenwriting department (correspondence department). After receiving a diploma in his speci alty, he did not work, but worked as an installer, welder, foreman, prospector in the Far North.

Participation in hostilities

In 1994–2005 Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin, as a war correspondent, took part in special operations and military operations in Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. He was awarded the Orders of Sergius of Radonezh and Courage, medals "For military valor", "For courage", "For participation in the counter-terrorist operation".

In 1995, he was seriously wounded in Chechnya, due to which he subsequently lost his leg. Then he was shell-shocked twice.

Director's work

In 1997 Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin made his directorial debut. The film "Cursed and Forgotten", filmed in collaboration with I. Vaneeva in the artistic and journalistic genre, tells about the First Chechen War. The footage shows documentary scenes of hostilities, human suffering, corpses and mutilated equipment. The film received a number of awards, including the Grand Prix of the Yekaterinburg festival "Russia", the "Nika" award, the "Golden Frame" award of the Film Chronicle festival.

In 2008, Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin submitted to the courtviewers and experts film called "No one but us …". This is a picture about the war in Tajikistan, although not so much about the war itself, but about the love between the military cameraman Evgeny and the woman Natalya, whom he met shortly before his next trip to the war zone. The film was highly appreciated by the public and received several prizes at the Window to Europe festival.

In 2011, the director shot the film "The Land of People" based on the story "Muddy Continent", written by his father. This is a story about a writer who, after returning from work in the North, is trying to join the cruel world of Moscow, where minds are ruled by money, not literature and morality.

Govorukhin in his films was not only a director, but also a screenwriter and even an actor in episodic roles.

Private life

Sergey Stanislavovich was married three times. Little is known about the first marriage. The second wife's name was Inna, she gave birth to the director's son Stanislav in 1990

With his third wife, Vera Tsarenko, Govorukhin met while still married to Inna. At first they secretly met, then Sergey left the previous family and married Vera. In 1998, their son Vasily was born. In 2010, the illegitimate daughter of the director Varvara was born.

Death

September 1, 2011 Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin celebrated his fiftieth birthday. In an interview, he complained about his he alth, but was going to live another twenty years. However, these plans were not destined to come true.

In the 20th of October 2011Mr. Govorukhin became ill, his head hurt badly. The wife called an ambulance, and already on the way to the hospital, the man fell into a coma, from which he never came out. The director died in the hospital on 2011-27-10. Doctors concluded that the cause of death of Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin was a stroke with extensive cerebral hemorrhage.

According to the wife of Vera Tsarenko, the director wanted to be buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in the capital next to the grave of the Soviet writer and war correspondent Vasily Grossman and put up a stainless steel obelisk, like the soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya. And on October 29, the will of Sergei Stanislavovich Govorukhin was fulfilled.