This tragedy is still remembered today, more than thirteen years after it happened. Not everyone can confidently answer the question of the year in which Sergei Bodrov died, but they did not forget their favorite artist, and almost everyone is annoyed and bitter about such an early departure from the life of a talented actor, director and screenwriter. He really had a bright personality.
Life outside the world of cinema
Sergey Bodrov Jr. was born and raised in a creative family. His father is a famous director (also Sergey), his mother, Valentina Nikolaevna, is an art critic. In the cinema, it seemed to him that the road was paved in advance, but what does an artist who does not know life mean? Entering the history department of Moscow State University, the young man successfully completed it five years later (1994) and entered graduate school. Another four years passed and he received his Ph. D. with a qualifying thesis on architecture in Venetian Renaissance painting. This should be remembered due to the fact that many viewers identify Sergei with the image of "Brother",a boy who served in the army, who came into civilian life and "deciding issues" mainly by force. With all the virtues of this character, such as courage and honesty, his hat (figuratively speaking) would be too small for Sergei Bodrov Jr.
The future actor and director received knowledge about life not only on the academic bench. A school teacher, a confectioner at the Udarnitsa factory, a beach lifeguard (it was in Italy), and then a journalist - this is his short track record.
"Prisoner" and "Brothers"
In 1989, Sergei Bodrov Jr. made his screen debut in his father's film "SIR". In this film work, very successful, it was told about difficult teenagers who ended up in a special boarding school. The artists did not want to cut their hair, and then the director attracted his own son, who, of course, agreed and did not regret the hair. Only after almost seven years, Sergei got the next role, a very serious one, in The Prisoner of the Caucasus, where he had a chance to work in tandem with Oleg Menshikov, an excellent actor and a true master. Real fame and popular love came after "Brother" (1997) and "Brother-2" (2000). In these films, the audience saw what they yearned for in the troubled period of the nineties. The character of Bodrov Jr. became the personification of "good with fists", his image of a laconic active defender turned out to be as close to the people as the "Voroshilov shooter" played by Ulyanov. Of course, the plot of revenge is a win-win in itself, but the picture was a success not only because of the exploitation of thisartistic technique.
Other works
In addition to the most famous film works, Sergei had other roles, and they all turned out to be successful. Paul Pawlikowski directed the 1998 film Stringer. East-West, another very good picture by a foreign director (this time by the French director Régis Varnier), was released in 1999, with the participation of the magnificent screen masters Catherine Deneuve, Oleg Menshikov, Bogdan Stupka, Tatyana Dogileva and many others. Less than a year before Sergei Bodrov died, he made his first film of his own called "The Sisters", giving himself a small role in the episode. This directorial debut was a triumph. The picture immediately took the first lines in the rental ratings, it also received international recognition in the form of a prize at the Venice Film Festival.
In the same year there was a small role in "Let's do it quickly" and a serious work in the film "War" directed by Alexei Balabanov. And also - "Bear Kiss", which was again staged by Sergey, and the project "The Last Hero" on ORT. In general, such activity assumed a rapid rise to the pinnacle of fame. And then - a trip to the shooting in the Karmadon Gorge. Bodrov did not return from there.
Family
The actress Svetlana Mikhailova became the wife of Bodrov Jr., and this marriage, which took place in 1987, can confidently be called happy. They had a daughter, Olya (1988), and in August 2002, a month before Sergei Bodrov died, and a son, who was named Alexander. marriedthen still a young actor for love, and at first sight, as he himself spoke about in his interviews. The spouses parted for a short time, the trip to the Caucasus should not have taken much time. In North Ossetia, Sergey was filming the film "The Messenger", for which he himself wrote the script, and in which he was going to play the main role.
Avalanche
A lot is known today about how Sergei Bodrov died, but the very moment of his death can only be reconstructed according to the circumstances clarified during the investigation. In the early autumn morning of September 20, the group, having gathered in the hotel lobby, went to the mountains for field shooting. The day did not start right away, there was a rise ahead, and vehicles had to wait a long time, in connection with which the start of work planned for 9-00 was delayed until one in the afternoon. Then, as it turned out later, the shooting nevertheless began and continued until about seven in the evening, when it began to get dark. The film crew of Sergei Bodrov loaded the equipment and set off on the return journey. At a quarter past nine, a mudflow covered a huge area, its mass was several million tons of stones, mud, sand and ice, and the speed exceeded 100 km / h. The layer was thick and reached three hundred meters.
Victims of natural disaster
On the morning of September 21, the whole country already knew about the trouble that had come to the Karmadon Gorge. Bodrov and his Moscow group were not the only victims of the disaster. The equestrian theater "Narty" took part in the filming;vacationers from camp sites enterprises, students and local residents. In total, 127 people were missing, who were initially declared missing. The rescue operation began immediately, during which employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and local volunteers found 17 corpses and body fragments. The members of the film crew who died with Sergei Bodrov, like himself, have not yet been found. This fact for a long time gave vague hope and became the basis of many dubious versions that the actor beloved by millions of viewers is still alive. Alas, there is no hope for this now, after thirteen years.
Memory
The search continued until February 2004. Theoretically, there was a possibility that the group managed to hide in one of the tunnels dug in the mountains, so first of all they drilled the ground in those places where voids could remain, but to no avail. Most likely, we will never know how Sergei Bodrov died. The melting of the formed glacier, according to geologists, will take about twelve years, during which time it is unlikely that anything will be preserved from the remains of the missing people. An alder grove has already grown in the mudflow desert, and a memorial plaque with the names of the dead has been installed next to it. The mournful date recalls the year in which Sergei Bodrov and 126 other people died, for whose death there is no one to blame, because such disasters are absolutely unpredictable.
According to the script of the film "The Messenger", the main character passes away young. Sergei Bodrov Jr. was thirty….
