Ivan Dykhovichny. The Formula of Life

9 hrs. 21 min.

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Kolganov

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

Film director and screenwriter Ivan Dykhovichny began his career as an actor at the Taganka Theatre and wrote songs to the poems of Russian poets. At thirty-five, he changed his profession and dared to start from scratch in directing. Dykhovichny’s films received Grand Prix at international festivals. He worked as chief director of the RTR channel and hosted several television programs. He collected photographs, but didn’t take any himself: “If I had started photographing, I would have quit filmmaking.” Since childhood he did alpine skiing and could fly an airplane.

This book is not written according to the patterns of the “ЖЗЛ” genre, where a person’s whole life is reduced to listing memorable dates and meetings, successes, failures, ex-wives, or awards and prizes. The author knew Ivan Dykhovichny and did not invent stories. Like many people in his profession, Dykhovichny was quite talkative and managed to tell many things himself about his life. His actions and statements were often contradictory. In the book, an attempt is made to explain the reason for the sharp changes in his views and judgments, and to understand why such an extraordinary person lived and created exactly as he did—not otherwise.