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Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (Russian: Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в; 17 September 1939 – 5 July 2021)[1] was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director.[2][3] He was noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Although Menshov mostly worked as an actor, he is better known for the films he directed, especially for the 1979 melodrama Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[4][5] Actress Vera Alentova, who starred in the film, is the mother of Vladimir Menshov's daughter Yuliya Menshova.[6]

Vladimir Menshov
Menshov in 2018
Born	Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (1939-09-17)17 September 1939 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Died	5 July 2021(2021-07-05) (aged 81) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russian, Azerbaijani
Education	Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Occupation	Actor, director, screenwriter, producer
Notable work	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979) Love and Pigeons (1984)
Spouse	Vera Alentova
Children	Yuliya Menshova
Awards	Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (Russia, 2nd, 3rd, 4th class) USSR State Prize (1981) Academy Awards (1981)

Biography

Menshov was born in a Russian family in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.[7] His father, Valentin Mikhailovich Menshov, was a sailor and later an NKVD officer; his mother Antonina Aleksandrovna Menshova (née Dubovskaya) was a housewife. Because of his father's work, the family lived in Baku, Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan.[8]

As a teenager Menshov worked as a machinist student at a factory, at a mine in Vorkuta, as a sailor on a diving boat in Baku, and also as an understudying actor at the Astrakhan Drama Theater.[9] In 1961 he entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theatre School. During the second year he married actress Vera Alentova who was also studying at the same theatre school.[10] In 1965 he graduated from the acting department.[11] After graduating, he worked for two years as actor and assistant director at the Stavropol Regional Drama Theater.[9]

In 1970 he graduated from the VGIK postgraduate course in the department of feature film direction[11] (Mikhail Romm's workshop).[12]

From 1970 to 1976, Vladimir Menshov worked under contracts at the film studios Mosfilm, Lenfilm and the Odessa Film Studio.[13] He made a short thesis film On the Question of the Dialectic of the Perception of Art, or Lost Dreams,[14] wrote the stage version of the novel Mess-Mend by Marietta Shaginyan, which was staged at the Leningrad Youth Theater,[15] and wrote the script I'm Serving on the Border at the request of Lenfilm.[2]

In those years his cinematic acting career began: he starred in the title role in the thesis work of his classmate Alexander Pavlovsky Happy Kukushkin.[13] The film was shot at the Odessa Film Studio.[16] Vladimir Menshov also was a co-author of the script. The picture received the main prize at the Molodist-71 Kiev Film Festival[17][16] Menshov starred in a 1972 film by Alexei Sakharov called A Man in His Place.[15] In 1973 Menshov was awarded the first prize for the best performance at the VI All-Union Film Festival in Almaty.[18][19]

As an actor, Vladimir Menshov has 117 credits. Some of the most popular films that feature him include How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976),[16] Where is the Nophelet? (1987),[20] Night Watch (2004), Day Watch (2006) and Legend № 17 (2013).[21]

Menshov's directorial debut took place in 1976, it was the film Practical Joke.[22] Menshov's second picture, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears became one of Russia's box-office record holders, was awarded the State Prize of the USSR, and then the Oscar (1981) as the Best Foreign Language Film.[23] The film tells the story of lives of three women over two decades. It was also a box-office hit.[24]

In 1984, Menchov directed the film Love and Pigeons based on the play of Vladimir Gurkin.[25]

Vladimir Menshov also directed the following films: What a Mess! (1995),[22] The Envy of Gods (2000), and The Great Waltz.[13] The Great Waltz was not finished.[26]

He wrote screenplays for the films I Serve on the Border (1973), The Night Is Short (1981), What a Mess! (1995), The Great Waltz (2008),[13] was the producer of several films, among which: Love of Evil (1998), Chinese Service (1999), Quadrille (1999), The Envy of Gods (2000), Neighbor (2004), A Time to Gather Stones (2005), Shawls (2006), and The Great Waltz.[9]

In 2004, Menshov was the host of the Channel One show Last Hero.[27]

Vladimir Menshov was the general director and art director of "Film Studio Genre", which is a subsidiary of Mosfilm.[14]

In 2011 as the chair of the Russian Academy Award committee he refused to co-sign the decision to nominate Nikita Mikhalkov's film Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel as the Russian submission for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[28]

He expressed support for the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation[29] and was blacklisted in Ukraine in 2015 as a result.[30]

Awards

Vladimir Menshov – Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984),[14] People's Artist of Russia (1989),[22] winner of the State Prizes of the RSFSR (1978,[22] for the film Rally) and the USSR (1981,[22] for the film Moscow Does not Believe in Tears).

• The Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (1999)[14]
• The "For Services to Moscow" badge (30 July 2009)[2]
• The Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (2010)[14]
• The Golden Eagle Award as Best Supporting Actor in Legend No. 17 (2014)[31]
• The Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2017)[14]

Personal life and death

Menshov married actress Vera Alentova in 1962. They had a daughter, Yuliya Menshova.

He died aged 81, as a consequence of COVID-19.[32]

Partial filmography

As a director

Year	Title	Notes	Ref(s)
1976	Practical Joke		[16]
1979	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears		[16]
1984	Love and Pigeons		[16]
1995	What a Mess!		[16]
2000	The Envy of Gods		[33]

As an actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1970	Schastlivyy Kukushkin	Pashka Kukushkin	Short film	[16]
1972	Chelovek na Svoyom Meste	Semyon Bobrov		[15]
1976	How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor	Officer		[16]
1977	Practical Joke	Vladimir Valentinovich	Uncredited role	[34]
1982	Under One Sky	Pavlov
1984	Love and Pigeons	Cameo	Also directed	[35]
1987	Courier	Oleg Nikolaevich		[16][33]
1987	Where is the Nophelet?	Pavel Golikov		[36]
1989	Zerograd	Prosecutor		[15]
1991	Abdullajon	Navlo Buchko		[37]
1992	The General	Georgy Zhukov		[15]
1993	In Order to Survive	Oleg	Also known under the title Red Mob	[38][39]
1995	What a Mess!	Russian President		[21]
1997	Tsarevich Alexei	Menshikov		[33]
1999	8 ½ $	Spartak		[40]
2004	Night Watch	Geser		[41]
2004	Diversant	General of military intelligence Kalyazin		[16][21]
2006	Day Watch	Geser		[41]
2007	The Apocalypse Code	Kharitonov		[2]
2007	Liquidation	Georgy Zhukov	Television miniseries	[42]
2009	O Lucky Man!	Oleg Genrikhovich
2011	Lucky Trouble	Tryokhgolovich		[41]
2011	Generation P	Farseykin		[42]
2012	Legend No. 17	Eduard Balashov		[41][21]
2013	Möbius	Cherkachin		[43]
2014	Ekaterina	Bestuzhev		[41]
2016	After You're Gone	Father		[44]

References

External links

• Vladimir Menshov at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Wladimir Walentinowitsch Menschow

Wladimir Walentinowitsch Menschow (russisch Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в; * 17. September 1939 in Baku, Aserbaidschanische SSR, UdSSR; † 5. Juli 2021 in Moskau, Russland) war ein sowjetischer und russischer Schauspieler, Regisseur, Filmproduzent und Drehbuchautor. Er erhielt die Auszeichnungen Verdienter Künstler der RSFSR und Volkskünstler Russlands. Außerhalb Russlands wurde er erstmals 1979 durch seinen Oscar-prämierten Film Moskau glaubt den Tränen nicht bekannt.

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- [en] Vladimir Menshov

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[es] Vladímir Menshov

Vladímir Valentínovich Menshov (en ruso: Владимир Валентинович Меньшов) (Bakú, Azerbaiyán; 17 de septiembre de 1939-Moscú, 5 de julio de 2021)[1] fue un actor y director ruso.

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[ru] Меньшов, Владимир Валентинович

Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в (17 сентября 1939, Баку, Азербайджанская ССР, СССР — 5 июля 2021, Москва, Россия) — советский и российский актёр, кинорежиссёр, сценарист, продюсер, телеведущий, педагог.

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