Biography of Burkov

Anyone who is always confident in himself is often stupid and proud. And the doubter and the mind is alive all the time in search of truth, and the soul is alive - it is burned and looking for its own again. So actor Georgy Burkov - all his life was looking for truth and light, found several of his, for example, Vasily Shukshin, with whom he was friends, talked, talked about life for many years.

Burkov kept diaries for several decades, how many smart and secret thoughts were there. Reading them, you involuntarily think that, probably, their author had all the heart in the scarves. But the viewer quickly remembered him and fell in love. A cozy actor who often played a drink and eccentrics. And even in these images, the intellectual that the actor was in life was almost always felt.

The most memorable appearance of Burkov in the cinema was his role in the films “They fought for their homeland”, “Cruel romance”, “Eccentric”, “The irony of fate, or with a slight steam! The future actor on May 31 was born in the city of Perm in the family of a factory worker and housewife. Until 6 years, the guy grew up, like everyone else - he played football with yard boys, read a lot of mom.

And at the age of 6, he began health problems. The doctors suspected the boy’s boy and did the first operation, which did not bring the desired result. Then several more operations followed, but there was still no effect. Doctors said that Burkov was hopeless, then the mother took her son home and ... he began to recover. After school, he could not decide whether to choose a serious profession for him, or to connect his life with the theater.

As a result, he entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Perm, at the same time visiting the circle of the city drama theater. Love for art prevailed - George Burkov throws the university and finds a job at the provincial theater of the Perm town of Berezniki. He later switched to service in Perm, and then to the Kemerovo Theater. But he was taken to the Stanislavsky Theater-which the self-taught actor could not even dream of.

From the very beginning, it was clear to me that I was not free. This applied to my relationship with my bosses, and to my game on stage in the theater. Somehow, the artist swept and stopped obeying, they began to expel him from Moscow, ”Burkov recalled in the year. Moscow Art Theater and Pushkin Theater. In the year, the actor headed the Vasily Shukshin Culture Center. Once he told the magazine “Soviet screen” that this work almost completely captured it.

He and Vasily Makarovich were the same blood - straightforward, honest, talented. Burkov, like his comrade, reflected on the ratio of a person of art and man from power for many years. I did not accept officials from, but sometimes hated it. For formalism, for the lack of faith in a person. He saw in people from the state a system that entrenched a creative person.

The artist orders the authorities to do what is needed for the people, and the people inspires what spiritual food is useful to him, ”wrote Georgy Burkov in his diary. The actor came to the cinema in the year, playing an episodic role in the film "Zosya", and a little later - the main role in the film "Khmyr" based on the story of Vasily Shukshin. But fame came to the actor thanks to Eldar Ryazanov, who shot Burkova as an alcoholic in the film “Zigzag Good luck”.

Director Georgy Ivanovich liked his external simplicity, which harmoniously combined with his talent and a rich inner world. Burkov proved that he knows how to play not only comedic roles, but dramatic - he appeared in the films “Liberation”, “The punisher”, “Our acquaintances”, where he got the images of the Red Army, intellectual and even smugglers. They were praised by both critics and spectators.

This is a real folk movie. Everyone owes him and everyone competes in saturation of him. As if we were all emigrants in our country. Black was given out for white, white for black. Only the heart of people like Shukshin hurt, ”Burkov wrote in his diary. The actor respected the writer for his straightforwardness, which Georgy Ivanovich himself did not bring up in himself at once - he could say nothing in unfair situations, he could compromise, for which Shukshin sometimes reproached him.

But over the years he gained experience and spoke, and more often wrote what he thinks. It was believed that if Georgy Ivanovich agreed to star in the film, then the film will definitely be successful. So it was, either luck, or talent, or the ability to choose potentially successful projects. In the year, the film “Bike” was released, which became the only directorial work of George Burkov.

There he played the main role. They played a wedding only in the year. He was 32 then, and she only lived for many years without excesses-the actors had small salaries, there were no housing, but they were happy because they really loved each other. In the year, a daughter Masha was born in the family, who also became an actress, in the year after the death of her father she gave birth to a son George, who is now working as a video editor.

Now he is 28 years old. He was very modest and unpretentious in everyday life, he did not like to spend money on himself. The main thing for him was - the prosperity of loved ones. In the year, Eldar Ryazanov is preparing for the filming of the film “The Promised Heaven”, where George Burkov received a role.He rehearsed, but he was not destined to star in this film.

At home, the actor stood on a chair and reached for the book on the upper shelf, after which he fell and injured his thigh.

At this time, a thrombus broke off. Burkova was operated on, but unsuccessfully - he died of thromboembolism on July 19 at the age of 57. Subscribe to the Channel "Kinodnik".