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on Monday, the Prosecutor’s office approved the indictment in the case of a fatal accident with the participation of Mikhail Efremov. Ahead of the trial, and God knows what punishment will appoint the artist.

And yesterday we talked about the terrible tragedy and, of course, many other things with a close friend of Michael, his godfather, wonderful actor Vasily Mishchenko. He considers himself to be uncomfortable for Directors artist. However, Oleg Tabakov, Valery Fokin, Sergei Solovyov, and many others took to work it. Because Vasily Mishchenko, neither on the stage nor the screen does not lie, neither in sense, nor in gesture nor look at, nor in the episode. And in life he prefers the ugly truth smooth gloss — and it is the privilege of the strong. Actor, Director, producer Mishchenko said a solid date — 65 years.

Traitor and son of traitor

Basil, you seem like a person that will survive in any conditions. Eleven years in the theatre without roles — go into directing, where you will notice, no one expected, was the producer. Rare resistance acting material. Where this quality from childhood?

— No, in the childhood I lived and did not survive. But we lived poorly, on the don, in the mining village Sholokhov, but by Sholokhov mine are irrelevant.

— Because the miners in Soviet times, lived well. No?

They lived well, only my dad was a traitor.

— what?

Well, he spent the entire war in a concentration camp in Germany, in Ludwigsburg. There and our mom met they fell in love, and love saved them. When the troops of the second front liberated the camp, drove him two echelons, and, as my mother told me, they all offered a choice of sitting in the car that went to the West, or the other — that to the East. But my mom told my dad: “Come on, Kostya, home. Where else?” Mom was already pregnant with my older brother Misha. I’m average, and I have a younger sister, lives in Prague, married to a Czech.

sometimes I fantasize: what would they choose another train and would not come back don? Anyway we were born, since their Lord has saved in this meat grinder. After all, the father in 41-m 25. He, a young untried tank, together with the same boys like himself, were captured under White Church. And their generals boarded a small plane and flew away, saying, “Wait for reinforcements”. And they waited and waited for our planes dropped off the bales. “We were delighted, the father then said, — and when opened, it’s only aluminum spoons, bowls and staples were. No food, no fuel, no ammunition.” These boys fought to the last shell, and yet have enough fuel, and then… Well, what to say: just passed the army generals, betrayed, dropped into the meat grinder. Once captured, concentration camps… millions of Them was that lost in eternity.

— Amazing story! Don’t want the movie to shoot?

— Want. I have a script written, “Traitor.” So the father called when he returned from Ludwigsburg. Fate put me in this town… don’t remember who said that, “the Bullet that kills today, kills a generation.” And here’s the theme: people who didn’t have to rush on the enemy bunker, hoist the flag over the Reichstag… Why were they branded traitors? For what?

Dad told me how they were conducted under escort, were driven like cattle, — the young, hairless boys, ragged and filthy. Planted directly into the ground in the open field — no water, no food. In the steel shed to look for something to eat found only the skin of a cow, Yes, this old, you see, even since before the war. So they were fighting to snatch at least a piece and chew on it. Or get out of the burrows of ground squirrels, tore them with their hands — not people who already like animals were. Everyone thought only about themselves just to survive.

Here you are, born after the war, using his father know about her the awful truth. How, after this, after the honest books about war, which is, to watch new movies about the war? They for the most part — the plastic, almost like a game of shooting/ubivalki, where no pity.

you Know, I try not to look. When you come across such a “kinematics”, where snipers in the war pumped up lips, smoky eyes, — I, I’m sorry, want to puke. And sad for their parents and the parents of the other children who put life, his youth on the altar, and we mispronounced their memory. That’s why my father liked to tell about the war: for him, it was hell… Just started to drink and was immersed in some kind of total oblivion. And then the mother said, “don’t touch father’s.”

And in Ludwigsburg I really got on tour. Remember, in the pub, we were approached by a man asked: “You Russian?” — and told him as a boy during the war brought to Germany. And after the war he was afraid to return to the USSR and stayed there. Worked the owners. He invited me to house — rich, with a farm, with his wife, a German. And we got drunk, cried, sang songs, and then he showed me where there was a concentration camp… Only there was already a car — silver, posh.

Escape to John Lennon

— We were in the alley growing up on the street, running in shorts boats allowed in the pools… Kids and played with real weapons. This stuff after the war in the land of so much lying! And the shells exploded, and two boys, we have killed… We thought that war is a firework win. Once threw mine in the fire, but still it was beaten with sticks to quickly exploded. But, luckily, did not explode.

— you weapons played?

— how! I’m in third grade was. Until the end of school I kept a gun and two gun�� — one German and our TT. But after I used it in a fight, intercede for one another, came to the house with a search warrant. Not put: first, I was a minor, and secondly, I say the same weapon was like mud. Still, one gun is not found — and later when I left home, gave it to his friend Another of our musical groups. The same one with which we fled to London.

To London? Why?

— I was 13 years old, boys — a little older. On the radio, which then jammed the first time we heard the Beatles. And the Beatles believe, completely turned our brains. Wanted to start a band, but no electric guitars in the mining town, and we made them from pieces of wood: brazed, rivet — and sang. One of our four could translate the texts, because seriously studied English. And one day decided to flee to London. We were such fools naive: raised money, developed a route how to get to London… What sort of visa someone about them in a mining village you know? But we firmly believed that we carry for John Field, Ringo and other John bags, tea to brew, fry the potatoes… And maybe even play along. Nonsense! But it is the same as courage takes.

So we got to Izmail by train and entered the port. Moreover, given the money that we hid in the hold of a ship that came to Odessa and from there to London on a merchant ship — hand. Who would let us! But we did not think.

Basil, what a cool childhood: at the age of 12 — a gun in the house, the bribe at the port, escape abroad, and this is when the cast iron curtain!

I was then easier. In the port we men are told how much it will cost to sit in the hold to Odessa. And we paid, sat quietly, and I remember how suddenly over the head of the stairs knocked his boots, the door opened, and lantern light in the dark hit the eyes.

And then we questioned. And each was kept in solitary confinement, so we don’t have agreement. And we have one conspiracy: the London group “the Beatles”. My investigator out of the picture the Thaw — out. I remember how heart pounding: not known, than all will end! I was then an investigator called a traitor to the Motherland: we actually sewed the thing, thought we sabotage group, albeit minor. War was something I have remembered that the children of partisans and the train derailed were allowed. In all seriousness I ask who guide us, and we said what it was, and as our testimony together, we believed, and let go, calling young Dicks.

— was lucky to escape so lightly. Could end up in juvie to determine.

— In the school the line was, was the question of exclusion from school, but not everyone was agree with that, and left us. And my father kicked me out of the house… In the Wake of this story, I ��did a one-man show, suggested that he in the “contemporary” went, but I refused Galina Volchek.

Worked in theater for several years, and my dream still came true: I was in London on tour with the play “the whirlwind”. I was there a couple of days after the rehearsal called the car and asked the driver to take me through bitlovskiy iconic places. Before getting into a taxi, called a friend in Sholokhovskiy. “Come on, — he said, — you’re the one who realized our dream”. The driver was showing me around, all showed and proved that he once drove to the airport himself, Ringo Starr! To me this story strongly then acted.

First move — the rescue, trump

Played with fire, and Moscow was afraid to go to enter the acting?

— I was Afraid, because in the province knew in Moscow, only thieves, “do not rock the boat, everything is bought-is under control”… Went to Krasnodar — tury passed, and the exams failed. But flying from Krasnodar to Rostov, in a half-empty bus from boredom reading the newspaper and saw an ad that in Volgograd puppet theater recruit students. And rushed there, and after was at GITIS, the first set of Oleg Tabakov. The star itself, among other things, unhappy course. Lena Mayorova, Sasha Marin, Andrey Smolyakov, Sergey Gazarov, Larisa Kuznetsova, Alexey Seliverstov, But he did not have with us to open the theater. And if I had the theatre — maybe we have the fate would have been different, and I including. Mayorov and she would still be alive, not burned alive like a torch… But still tobacco later he opened a basement theatre on Pure ponds.

You’re the one that sin to complain of destiny, which began with trump role, and in the theater (Akella in “Mowgli”), and in the movie the main role in Sergei Solovyov in the “Rescue”…

Nightingale came to our first diploma performance “in the spring I’ll be back” Valery Fokina and called for the audition. And before that, Nikita Mikhalkov approved me for the role of the Warblers in “Five evenings”, but Oleg Pavlovich did not let go. Said that the award show we have and that “even naslimes”. And that’s starting to appear, but I see that Solov’ev did not seem to see me, and all the attention — Tanya Drubich. I felt offended, but somehow a picture of Pavel Lebeshev said to me, “And Nikita never you will not shoot”. “Why’s that?” “He likes himself to open names. And since you opens Solovyev, Nikita the second never will be. Solovyov caught you, and all you are doing is good for him”.

— You now make movies as a Director. I like to discover the names?

— Here is Viktor Pavlyuchenko has played a I major role in the TV series “Father.” And although I channel imposed on the actors, emphasizing, as always, the infamous rating, I PavlyuchenkoVA defended. And no mistake: he was in the frame so authentic that the audience empathized with him. In all the monasteries now have this film. And I really love to pull up to the movies of old men that they were not forgotten. Tamara Semina, George Whtin, Lev Borisov, Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev. I’m sorry that movie was totally the producer: producers are deprived of the Director’s voice. For them, a God rating. Sit on one actor, and let his bother.

Sasha Petrova derbanit. So strong production dictates? Or are you one suffer from it?

— I’m Not alone. I then called a good Director, proposed to withdraw, sent role. I have read, say that there is nothing to cling to, and he said: “it has been decided by the producer, and added: — What fell from the table, it is left to the Director.” For producers who yesterday pies and shoes traded, it’s a business. I argue with them, maybe that’s why five years have not been cancelled. I myself in the movie took all of the practice that was the administrator, casting Director, co-Director, driver, electrician, real estate investors (it’s not about the money, he is associated with the operator). What is the highest directing courses are held for two and a half years, I was two and a half months. When shot at Gennady Poloka in the movie “My calling”, I didn’t run away after the shooting, and sat behind the Director and watched as it happens shamanism. Studied watching. And worked in the “contemporary”.

Samples, sonoprobe and al Pacino

— And now someone removed an inconvenient artist-Wrangler?

— Starred in Proshkina-senior in the “Sarmatians”. Fortunately, he is a Director and producer in one person. And there were no samples. We got there with Viktor Sukhorukov two age roles. I was suspended — so the Director gave the opportunity to work with him, and I at first the touch was, was worried. Psychologically uneasy in my role, I’m looking for the herd, live in the wilderness. I don’t have anything new to learn. Horses I have from childhood, jumped into the saddle and rushed. But nature there is amazing — the steppes near Orenburg, Proshkin there all his movies were filmed. When I start to shoot and I need a specific artist, I ask you to contact him. And I report: called saying not responding. But I’m a quirky guy, calling himself and find out that no one called. Why? Because they want their slip. I myself with Govorukhin it was. Once out of the pavilion “Mosfilm”. “Hello,” said, ” where are you gone? Wanted to remove. The casting Director said you left.”

— And how do you feel about sumprabum? It is now common practice among casting Directors? The artist himself takes on the phone and sends specially trained people.

— It is beyond good and evil. Actor goggles to your phone, strums. I sample live not love often refuse. If you don’t know me as an artist, what am I going to prove to you? I lived my life in this profession.

Is, of course, pride.

‘ but why pride? It is an insult and humiliation of the artist. I can only imagine how al Pacino would have gone to trial. I’m not comparing myself to him, but in new York, when the “Contemporary” was on tour, I remember he came to our show and then said, “how lucky you are, because you are the heirs of Stanislavsky.”

When the earth leaves from under feet

You’re lucky that you worked with Volchek, and learned from Tabakov. Two colossus from the Soviet era, so successfully fit into the new time. What he took from them what they have learned?

— With all the problems that I have with them was — it’s my life, and looking back, I am grateful to them. They are brilliant managers and organizers who took care of his house. To inspire, to organize, to achieve some goal — it from them. After that day, when Galina died, we in the “contemporary” played “Anarchy”. During the intermission, it turned out that the thunder was like a blow to the jaw in the ring, and you don’t understand where the sky and where the land is. We didn’t know what to do with myself. And the second act was a strange feeling: why do I stage the play? Because the week before that I went to her box to congratulate the happy birthday. “Well, Vasya, walk up? Go back to the house,” she said.

Artists are usually complaining about the dependence on everyone and everything, their age will not see. And you now feel free?

— Yes, because you find the work myself. I am responsible for himself, for his family. I am grateful Tabakov and Volchek. Understand that I am an awkward actor: rehearsals asked questions, which the Directors do not like to speak at the meetings. I’m not a gift, and I have a wine in front of the theater. Maybe I should have been wiser, if not smarter, not to speak at the meetings. Were moments of despair? Was. When I was eleven years old sat in the theater without work, I realized that no one will help me. But will be doing performances, going to make a film. I have eight movies, and the four I’ve produced. I achieve the project and responsible for the artistic component, you know that the production part of my back is covered by people that I trust. When I’m with the producers of the TV hit on her hands, then do not say, “you Know, I didn’t fit in the budget, give more money.” But if you, the actor, he make their fortune, it is important not to betray yourself and listen to your inner voice.

the Godfather Misha Efremov

Misha Efremov is your friend and, moreover, godson, and you have never rented a movie. Why?

— he’s too big a bet. Loved it I was with since chose me as his godfather. We Lena Yakovlev then the coverstyles together with Lena Raya (Raisa Lena, the legendary Secretary of Oleg Efremov. the — M). It was 25 years ago.

— Mike Church-going man?

I’d say he’s in the way. With respect to faith. Although sins, then repents, realizing that nakosyachil, and struggling. He is a man of conscientious, sensitive. In a good way.

— I couldn’t tell.

— This protective mask he had specially bravado can do. We went with him to Athos, and talked about religion a lot on different topics said, and about his work too. So, I didn’t like some of his appearances on stage, but I didn’t. “I’m an actor, I’m doing my profession,” he said. And again: “You must understand me to feed them. I’m responsible for them”. And if you look, he has no cast. Moreover, six children, and their mothers contains.

After the incident, many blame primarily friends, saying where you were, didn’t stop him from drinking?

— is True. What should have been chained him with handcuffs? It’s just a great misfortune. I also sat drunk behind the wheel crashed the car so that the engine is in the salon came in, I was covered in blood was. But after this incident forever ceased. Misha the Lord gives a chance to rethink something important in your life. But he’s not a criminal: the criminal follows the victim, forthcoming.

— I think your generation of actors — drinking, traditionally and. Not that the current artists, very technical and business.

We were drinking, and before us — far, and us — Vysotsky. A current — smelling to no smell, but it was courage. New generation, I noticed, tend to it. But with alcohol… Here I am in the “contemporary” twenty years ago, began to rehearse the role of Ivan directed by Valery Fokin “Karamazovs and hell”, but midway found out that Ivan comes by a different artist. And the Director did not to explain anything to me, only: “it happened, sorry.” It’s not his decision was, he offered to do a different role, said, “Trust me, you will not be ashamed”. And I played Smerdyakov, but the pain was so… you also pointed out — “will serve”. And I went into a tailspin: his sword unsheathed, and racing. The soul reacts: first make, and then begin to regret that you have screwed up. I think Misha now do you regret? All Mr. case.

What are you, his godfather, and responsible for him before God, waiting for the verdict?

— I’m afraid to not have him sent into exile. Better colony. He did not run, did not pokapalsya in the morning to say if they were sober, refused. It says about him as a person. The investigation ended, awaiting trial. Will take all for granted. If it will send to a colony and the colony will go and visit him asked.

you Have a major milestone — 65. How would you Ohhave harakterizuet your life?

— Volodya Vysotsky there is such phrase: “We are from the breed of bad, but survivable” — that’s me. And his poems also:

— I will grind silver collar

And a gold chain claw,

Swing the fence, burst in the Burr,

Tear the sides and run in a thunderstorm.

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Jennifer Alvarez is an investigative journalist and is a correspondent for European Union. She is based in Zurich in Switzerland and her field of work include covering human rights violations which take place in the various countries in and outside Europe. She also reports about the political situation in European Union. She has worked with some reputed companies in Europe and is currently contributing to USA News as a freelance journalist. As someone who has a Masters’ degree in Human Rights she also delivers lectures on Intercultural Management to students of Human Rights. She is also an authority on the Arab world politics and their diversity.