The first president and creator of the Spirit of Fire festival
Outstanding Russian director, screenwriter, film producer, teacher. People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the USSR State Prize...
Sergei Solovyov made his film debut in 1970 with the short stories “I have nothing to do” and “The Proposal” based on Chekhov’s stories (the film almanac “Family Happiness”). He started with film adaptations of classics - Gorky (Egor Bulychov and Others, 1971), Pushkin (The Station Agent, 1972). Three trilogies stand out in the works of Sergei Solovyov. The first - “One Hundred Days After Childhood” (1975), “The Rescuer” (1980), “Straight Heir” (1982) - was built around the theme of first love. Events in cinema, public life and the history of rock music were the trilogy “Assa” (1987), “Black Rose - the Emblem of Sadness, Red Rose - the Emblem of Love” (1989), “House under the Starry Sky” (1991), which proposed a new aesthetics cinema of the 1980s - 90s. The third trilogy - “2-Assa-2” and “Anna Karenina” (in film and television versions) - appeared in 2008 - 2009. The last full-length film “Ke-dy” was released in 2016.
In the 1990s, Solovyov staged the following plays: “Uncle Vanya” at the Maly Theater and “The Seagull” at the Taganka Actors’ Commonwealth Theater. In 1987 – 1995, he produced 50 thematic programs on the history and modernity of Russian cinema in the author’s television program “SAS” on the Rossiya TV channel. In recent years, he hosted the author’s program “Those with whom I am…” on the “Culture” TV channel. Until his last days he taught as a professor at VGIK.
He died on December 13, 2021.
