Nataliya Bondarchuk

Natalia Bondarchuk was in Moscow in the family of the director Sergey Bondarchuk and the actress Inna Makarova. In 1971 she graduated from the department of acting at VGIK (class of Sergey Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova), in 1975 – from the department of directing at VGIK.  Debuted in cinema in 1970 in the film By the Lake (1970), then appeared in movies You and Me (1971), A Soldier Returned from the Front (1972). Her greatest success was the part of Hari in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris. Debuted as a scriptwriter and director in 1975 with the novella Dishonest Matryonka in the almanac Old Times in Poshehonie. Among her most notable works are Bambi’s Childhood (1985), Bambi’s Youth (1986), Fyodor Tyutchev’s Love and Truth (2003), Pushkin. The Last Duel (2006), Gogol. The Closest (2009). Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1977), Honored Worker of Arts of Russia (2009).

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