Natalya Bondarchuk
Soviet-Russian postcard. Bjuro propagandy sovetskogo kinoiskusstva. 1972.
Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: Наталья Серге́евна Бондарчук) (born May 10, 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, internatonally best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) as "Hari". She is the daughter of the Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. Her half-brother is the film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is the actress Yelena Bondarchuk.
Natalya Bondarchuk was born in Moscow to Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. In 1971 she graduated from the acting school of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and in 1975 from the directing school there. She made her film debut in 1969 in U ozera (By the Lake, Sergei Gerasimov), followed by the 1971 productions Ty i ya (You and Me, Larisa Šepit'ko) and Prishyol soldat s fronta (A Soldier Returns From the Front, Nikolaj Gubenko, released in 1972). She became famous for her role as "Hari Kelvin" in Andrei Tarkovsky's remarkable science-fiction film Solaris in 1972. It was her favorite role. She was also Tarkovsky's favorite of the film, as he wrote in his diary that "Natalya B. has outshone everybody". In 1973 she met her future husband, actor Nikolai Burlyayev (Russian: Николай Бурляев), on the set of the Nikolai Mashchenko film Kak zakalyalas stal (How the Steel Was Tempered) (Russian: Как закалялась сталь). Burlayev had worked with Tarkovsky too: he had been the principal actor in Tarkovsky's Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan's Childhood, 1962) and also had a major part in Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev (1966). The two later withdrew from their participation in Maschenko's film. In 1976 their son Ivan was born. Bondarchuk played princess Mariya Volkonskaya in the 1975 historical film The Captivating Star of Happiness by Vladimir Motyl. In 1976 she acted as Mme de Rênal in Gerasimov's Krasnoe i chernoe/The Red and the Black (1976), after Stendhal. Until the mid-1980s she would continue a prolific career in film acting, as Gerasimov's Yunost Petra/ The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) and the dramatized documentary Lermontov (1986), directed by her husband and with himself in the title role.
In 1982 Bondarchuk directed her first film, Zhivaya raduga (Living Rainbow). The film was produced in Yalta. In 1985 she directed the film Detstvo Bambi (Bambi's Childhood), and in 1986 the film Yunost Bambi (Bambi's Youth), both with her husband in the lead. She often was also the scriptwriter of her own films. In addition, Natalya Bondarchuk leads a child opera theater on Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow. Her son Ivan Burlyayev sang in this theater during his childhood. He also plays parts in the films of his mother and father, but later developed as composer for films and TV series.
Sources: English Wikipedia, IMDb.
Natalya Bondarchuk
Soviet-Russian postcard. Bjuro propagandy sovetskogo kinoiskusstva. 1972.
Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: Наталья Серге́евна Бондарчук) (born May 10, 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, internatonally best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) as "Hari". She is the daughter of the Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. Her half-brother is the film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is the actress Yelena Bondarchuk.
Natalya Bondarchuk was born in Moscow to Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. In 1971 she graduated from the acting school of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and in 1975 from the directing school there. She made her film debut in 1969 in U ozera (By the Lake, Sergei Gerasimov), followed by the 1971 productions Ty i ya (You and Me, Larisa Šepit'ko) and Prishyol soldat s fronta (A Soldier Returns From the Front, Nikolaj Gubenko, released in 1972). She became famous for her role as "Hari Kelvin" in Andrei Tarkovsky's remarkable science-fiction film Solaris in 1972. It was her favorite role. She was also Tarkovsky's favorite of the film, as he wrote in his diary that "Natalya B. has outshone everybody". In 1973 she met her future husband, actor Nikolai Burlyayev (Russian: Николай Бурляев), on the set of the Nikolai Mashchenko film Kak zakalyalas stal (How the Steel Was Tempered) (Russian: Как закалялась сталь). Burlayev had worked with Tarkovsky too: he had been the principal actor in Tarkovsky's Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan's Childhood, 1962) and also had a major part in Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev (1966). The two later withdrew from their participation in Maschenko's film. In 1976 their son Ivan was born. Bondarchuk played princess Mariya Volkonskaya in the 1975 historical film The Captivating Star of Happiness by Vladimir Motyl. In 1976 she acted as Mme de Rênal in Gerasimov's Krasnoe i chernoe/The Red and the Black (1976), after Stendhal. Until the mid-1980s she would continue a prolific career in film acting, as Gerasimov's Yunost Petra/ The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) and the dramatized documentary Lermontov (1986), directed by her husband and with himself in the title role.
In 1982 Bondarchuk directed her first film, Zhivaya raduga (Living Rainbow). The film was produced in Yalta. In 1985 she directed the film Detstvo Bambi (Bambi's Childhood), and in 1986 the film Yunost Bambi (Bambi's Youth), both with her husband in the lead. She often was also the scriptwriter of her own films. In addition, Natalya Bondarchuk leads a child opera theater on Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow. Her son Ivan Burlyayev sang in this theater during his childhood. He also plays parts in the films of his mother and father, but later developed as composer for films and TV series.
Sources: English Wikipedia, IMDb.