Natalia Bondarchuk is a well-known creative person in the world of cinema. The filmography of Natalia Bondarchuk, Honored Artist of the RSFSR and Honored Artist of Russia, includes over 30 films, 12 director's works and 10 scenarios.
Natalia Bondarchuk's parents are creative people, widely known in the world of cinema. Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk is a film director, actor, creator of a number of film masterpieces, an Oscar winner and Inna Vladimirovna Makarova, a legend of Soviet cinema, People's Artist of the USSR. In this marriage, in 1950, a daughter, Natalya, was born. The daughter's future was predetermined. Natalia grew up in a loving family, she received enough attention. Famous actors and directors, friends of parents, gathered in the house. After graduating from school, Natalia entered the VGIK at the acting department in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova, with the same teachers after 4 years she graduated from the directing department.
Artistic career
The debut of the actress Natalia Bondarchuk took place in the film of her teacher Sergei Gerasimov "By the Lake". The most famous actors worked on one set: Sergey Zharov, Vasily Shukshin, Nikolai Eremenko (junior), Vadim Spiridonov and many others. The film was released in 1969 and was named the best film of the year. In 1972 she played with Andrei Tarkovsky in the film "Solaris", for the best female Natalia received an award at the IX International Film Festival in Panama.
Personal life
Natalia's stormy personal life has never interfered with creative work. The first marriage with the operator Elizbar Karavaev fell apart quickly. Natalia and Andrei Tarkovsky had strong feelings for each other, but Tarkovsky was married and the relationship came to naught. The second spouse was Tarkovsky's classmate and devoted friend Nikolai Burlyaev. The acquaintance took place on the set of the film "How the Steel Was Tempered", but by coincidence Burlyaev was removed from filming, Natalya Sergeevna refused to act in protest.
The happy marriage lasted 17 years, in which daughter Maria and son Ivan were born. Children are successful and in demand: the daughter is an actress of the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow, the son is an actor and composer, who constantly collaborates on the set with his mother, where she acts as a director. The third husband of Natalia was the actor Dmitry Dnestryansky. Bondarchuk and Burlyaev still maintain warm relations. Currently, Natalia is the head of the Sergei Bondarchuk International School, where young actors learn the skills and fundamentals of film education.
Natalia is a happy grandmother, she has two grandchildren. After Sergei Bondarchuk left the family, Natalia did not communicate with her father for five years, considering his act a betrayal. Natalia Bondarchuk has two half-brothers and a sister: from the first marriage of Sergei Bondarchuk-Aleksey, from the third-Fedor and Alena.
