Alexander Zbruev performances with his participation. Alexander Zbruev at the Lenkom Theater

Even despite his advanced age, Alexander Zbruev remains a favorite of women, an excellent master of his craft and simply a cheerful person who knows no despondency. His theatrical and cinematic career was bright and brilliant, which can give a wrong opinion about the life path of Alexander Viktorovich.

Despite the success achieved, Zbruev was never a darling of fate. Quite the contrary. Even before Sasha was born, his father, Deputy People's Commissar of Communications, was shot. This not only deprived Alexander Zbruev of support in life, but also significantly complicated it, this very life, putting an end to any career.

After giving birth, the wife and child of the “enemy of the people” were sent to a small village near Rybinsk. Alexander lived there until his fifth birthday. Returning to Moscow, he fully experienced the hardships of war and the severity post-war years, managing not to become embittered and to learn many useful lessons from life’s blows.

In 1958, Alexander Zbruev entered the Shchukin Theater School. At that time, he himself did not intend to become an actor, it was just that his mother’s friend saw artistic talent in him and advised him to try himself in art. Alexander, who had been interested in sports for a long time, was not enthusiastic about it at first, but then he got involved and became one of the best students in Vladimir Etush’s course.

Completing his studies did not cause Zbruev any big problems with finding employment. He compared the advantages and disadvantages of Moscow theaters in advance and decided for himself that he would only get a job at Lenkom. Given his excellent academic performance, this was a completely feasible goal, which Alexander successfully realized in 1961, immediately after receiving his diploma.

It took him two years to “acclimatize” in the troupe and wait for “his” role. After this time, Alexander Zbruev receives an invitation to star in the film “My Little Brother.” The first major work allows the actor to demonstrate his best abilities, after which he enters a streak of luck: significant roles in performances literally fall on him, following one after another.

The 70s turned out to be very fruitful for Alexander Viktorovich: he became on a par with the most popular actors of the USSR and gained universal fame. And to this day creative activity A.V. Zbruev is accompanied by constant success, a success that he managed to earn despite all the difficulties!
Alexander takes part in many, including the famous production of Tout pay, or Everything is paid for.

Roles of the actor in Lenkom productions:

Anuchkin, retired infantry officer,

Pribytkov Flor Fedulych,

"" (I. Olshansky, production, artist F.G. Nazarov, composer R.M. Khozak.) - Slavik,

(production, director) - Leonid Andreevich Gaev, brother of Ranevskaya,

"" (Ion Druta, production by M. Zakharov, assistant director Vladimir Sedov) - Horia,

" "(production by A.V. Efros, director L.K. Durov, assistant director - M.F. Rutkovskaya) - Zhenya,

" " (play by A. Arbuzov, staged by A. V. Efros) - Marat,

" "(E. Braginsky, production and, V.Ya. Voroshilov.) - Guy,

" " (Mark Zakharov and Yuri Vizbor, music by G. Gladkov) - Khotynsky,

Gorodulin,

(production and) - Borkin,

Astley,

" " - Andre Martha,

"School for emigrants - Serge,

" " (director A. A. Muatov, composer Klimenty Korchmarev, artist Viktor Shestakov) - Dog Akbilek,

"" (E. Radzinsky, production by A.V. Efros, director, assistant director M.F. Rutkovskaya.) - Yura,

(Ya. Volchek, production and A.V. Efros, Assistant director - S. Ya. Grigorievskaya, M.F. Rutkovskaya) - Vadim, their son,

"Goodbye, Boys" - Volodya Belov,

" "(Staging by Mark Zakharov, set design by Oleg Sheintsis, composer Gennady Gladkov) - in the role of the 2nd officer,

"" (production) - Guy on the sidewalk,

"" (production) - Claudius, King of Denmark,

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (12/23/1977).
People's Artist of the RSFSR (05/26/1989).

Father - Viktor Alekseevich Zbruev, was the head of the Main Construction Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Communications, and held a high position - Deputy People's Commissar of Communications of the USSR.
Mother - Tatyana Alexandrovna Fedorova, came from a noble family, received an acting education, worked at the film factory named after. Tchaikovsky.

In November 1937, the actor’s father was arrested, in May 1938 he was shot, and his mother with infant Alexander was exiled to Rybinsk. Mother and son returned to their apartment on Arbat, which by that time had become a communal apartment, in 1943, to the room in which Fedorova-Zbrueva’s son from her first marriage, Evgeny Fedorov (b. 1924), remained to live, graduated from the Shchukin School, actor of the Vakhtangov Theater, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Alexander studied poorly at school, repeated the second year twice, took up boxing, reached the 1st youth level in gymnastics, was a hooligan Arbat boy, and bore the nickname “Intellectual.”

In 1961 he graduated from the Higher Theater School named after B.V. Shchukin (course of V.A. Etush) and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Theater named after Lenin Komsomol.
The actor's first theatrical success came in 1963, when Anatoly Efros joined the theater troupe. Zbruev perfectly played the role of 17-year-old Marat Evstigneev from besieged Leningrad in the play “My Poor Marat.” The following roles he played were no less successful.
With the arrival of a new director, Mark Zakharov, in the theater in 1973, each performance became an event in theatrical life, and Alexander Zbruev rightfully found himself among the stars of the famous troupe.

He made his film debut in 1962 in Alexander Zarkhi’s film “My Little Brother.” The film brought Alexander Zbruev, along with other leading actors, Andrei Mironov and Oleg Dahl, their first success with the audience.
The actor’s great success in cinema was the role of OBKhSS employee Aleshin in Herbert Rappoport’s film “Two Tickets for an Afternoon Show.” Probably, one of the first Soviet actors, Alexander Zbruev, embodied on the screen not the correct policeman in everything, but a completely ordinary boy from the street, who, by the will of fate, ended up in the police.
In the early 1970s, Alexander Zbruev was already considered one of the most popular actors in Soviet cinema. The actor's most successful films in the early 1970s can be safely considered: "The Circle", which was a continuation of the famous "Two Tickets for an Afternoon Show", the romantic melodrama "Romance of Lovers", where he played the hockey player Volin and, of course, the television movie " Big change", where he played the role of Grigory Ganzhi. Then he starred in such films as “A Lonely Woman Wants to Meet”, “Battalions Ask for Fire”, “Kill the Dragon”, “I Have You Alone”, “Everything Will Be Fine”, “Black Rose is the Emblem of Sadness, Red Rose is the Emblem of Love” , "Poor Sasha" and many others.
The change in the actor’s image in Andron Konchalovsky’s film “The Inner Circle”, where he played the role of Stalin, was unexpected.
He starred in more than eighty films.

In 1995, at Lenkom he opened the TRAM restaurant (Theatrical Restaurant of Moscow Actors).
In 2000, he began teaching, taking an acting course at RATI.

The first wife is actress Valentina Malyavina.
The second wife is actress Lyudmila Savelyeva.

theatrical works

“Smoke of the Fatherland” by K. Simonov - Shurka
“Wonderful meeting” by L. Cherkashina - Dog Akbilek
“Twenty Years Later” by M. Svetlova - Moses
1963 “Goodbye, boys” based on the story by B. Balter - Volodya Belov
1963 “Natashkin Bridge” by E. Braginsky - Guy
1963 “About Lermontov...” by O. Remez and T. Chebotarevskaya - Lermontov
1964 “104 pages about love” by E. Radzinsky (production by A.V. Efros) - Guy on the sidewalk
1964 “On the Wedding Day” by V. Rozova - Zhenya
1965 “A movie is being made...” by E. Radzinsky - Yura
1965 “My poor Marat” by A. Arbuzov - Marat
1967 “Court Chronicle” by Ya. Volchek - Vadim
1973 “Autograd XXI” by Yu. Vizbor and M. Zakharov - Khotynsky
1974 “Music on the 11th floor” by I. Olshansky - Slavik
1975 “Ivanov” by A. Chekhov - Borkin
1981 “Horiya” I. Druta - Horiya
1983 “Optimistic tragedy” by V. Vishnevsky - 2nd officer
1986 Shakespeare's Hamlet (staged by G. Panfilov) - Claudius, King of Denmark
1986 “Dictatorship of Conscience” by M. Shatrov - Andre Martha
1989 “The Sage” based on the play by A. Ostrovsky - Gorodulin
1990 “School for emigrants” by D. Lipskerov - Serge
1997 “Barbarian and Heretic” based on “The Gambler” by F. Dostoevsky - Astley
2001 “Jester Balakirev” by G. Gorin - Yaguzhinsky
2004 “Tout payé, or Everything is paid” by I. Zhamiak - Masha
2004 “Va-Bank” according to A. Ostrovsky - Pribytkov Flor Fedulych
2007 “The Marriage” of N. Gogol - Anuchkin, retired infantry officer
2009 " The Cherry Orchard» A. Chekhov - Leonid Andreevich Gaev, brother of Ranevskaya

prizes and awards

State Prize of Russia (2002) - for the performance of the Moscow Lenkom Theater "Jester Balakirev".
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (September 13, 2013).
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (July 25, 2007).
Order of Honor (August 25, 1997, for the anniversary of Lenkom).
In 1993, at Kinotavr, he received the prize for best actor for his work in Dmitry Astrakhan’s film “You Are the Only One for Me.”
Annual theater award of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper for 2008.
Chekhov Medal (2005).

XXI International Festival of Film Actors "Constellation", Orel August 2-7, 2014 - best main male role("Cinema about Alekseev").
Golden Eagle Award (2014): Best Actor (“Cinema about Alekseev”).
Laureate of the Russian National Award “Golden Mask” (2019).

Alexander Viktorovich Zbruev was born on March 31, 1938 in Moscow. After graduating from school in 1958, Zbruev followed the advice of his mother’s friend, Nadezhda Vakhtangova, the widow of the founder of the 3rd Moscow Art Theater studio, Evgeniy Vakhtangov, who saw creative talent in him, and entered the VTU named after B.V. Shchukin on the course of Vladimir Etush. In 1961, Zbruev successfully graduated from college and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater (since 1990 Lenkom). Since then, Zbruev - one of the leading artists of the theater - has been admired by his skill, intelligence, amazing sense of style, taste and psychological accuracy and significant work in performances - “Twenty Years Later” (director Y. Gubenko), “Goodbye, Boys” (director S. Stein), “My Poor Marat”, “104 Pages about Love”, “On the Wedding Day” (directed by A. Efros), “Smoke of the Fatherland”, “A Farewell to Arms” (directed by A. Ginzburg) and since 1973 in performances by M. Zakharov: “Autograd - XXI”, “Ivanov”, “Clairvoyant”, “Choria”, “Optimistic Tragedy”, “The Sage”, “Barbarian and Heretic”, “The Jester Balakirev”, “Hamlet” (directed by G. Panfilov), "School for Emigrants" (director P. Stein), "Tout paye or Everything is paid" (director E. Nyuganen), "Boris Godunov", "Prince" (director K. Bogomolov).

Now the actor is busy in the plays: "All in" (role - Flor Fedulych Pribytkov, director M. Zakharov), "Marriage" (role - Anuchkin, director M. Zakharov), "The Cherry Orchard" (role - Gaev, director M. Zakharov), "Tout paye or Everything is paid" (role - Mashu, director E. Nyuganen), "Trap" (role - Investigator, aka Lieutenant Colonel Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, production by Mark Zakharov, Alexandra Zakharova).

A.V. Zbruev gained the interest of critics and colleagues, extraordinary popularity and the devoted love of countless fans of his talent. Alexander Zbruev made his film debut in A. Zarkhi’s film “My Younger Brother,” in which he created the image of his contemporary Dimka. The film was released on the country's screens in 1962 and became the first success for the leading actors - Alexander Zbruev, Andrei Mironov, Oleg Dal and brought serious recognition from the audience. He starred in more than 60 films: “Two tickets for an afternoon session”, “Big Break”, “A Lonely Woman Wants to Meet”, “You Are the Only One for Me”, “Everything will be fine”, “Poor Sasha”, “Romance of Lovers” "", "Battalions ask for fire", "Keep me safe, my talisman", "Schizophrenia", "Northern Lights", "Inner Circle", "Black rose - the emblem of sadness, Red rose - the emblem of love", "About love", " Straight Heiress”, “The House That Swift Built”, “Dragon”, “Self-Portrait of an Unknown”, “Filer”, “Success”, and many others. etc. After 2004 (“Salamander Skin”) A.V. Zbruev did not act in films for 10 years and only in 2014 made an exception for Mikhail Segal’s film “The Cinema about Alekseev”.

"... For me, “Kino about Alekseev” is, among other things, a film about the unfair fate of a talented person. I have lived long life and I saw a lot of people who were once at the zenith of fame, and then found themselves thrown to the sidelines of life."- said A.V. Zbruev at the Golden Eagle award ceremony in the nomination "Best Actor in Film" for main role in the film "Cinema about Alekseev" by Mikhail Segal.

In 2019, the actor played in the series “Kept Women” directed by Konstantin Bogomolov.

People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989)
Gratitude from the President of Russia
Winner of the Stanislavsky Prize
Prize-winner of the Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" (1993, 1998)
Film award "Golden Eagle - 2015"

Golden Mask Award - "For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art" (2019)

Zbruev Alexander Viktorovich was born in March 1938 in Moscow. Unfortunately, the boy did not know his father. Viktor Zbruev, Deputy People's Commissar of the USSR, was detained in 1937 and shot when the child was only one and a half months old. Soon the family of the disgraced party leader was deported to the Yaroslavl region, where little Sasha grew up until the age of five. Only at the height of the Great Patriotic War did Tatyana Alexandrovna manage to return home, where her son from her first marriage, Evgeniy, lived. Young Zbruev spent a lot of time in the company of the yard boys. Sasha was a bad student and loved to misbehave; once he even stayed for a second year. He tried strong alcohol early, and adolescence was caught stealing his neighbor's money. Alexander remembers this moment as a turning point, causing such strong shame and guilt that from that time Zbruev never took someone else’s property again. But paradoxically, the actor learned more good than bad from the yard companies. For example, a sense of responsibility for “his” people, a willingness to come to the rescue at any moment and a love of sports, since the constant danger of running into a fight forced the teenager to keep himself in shape. To stay strong, Sasha did gymnastics and boxing. After eighth grade, Alexander wanted to quit school. He saw no further prospects for himself, did not dream of any profession and was going to work as a truck driver. This intention was prevented by his mother and older brother, who literally forced young Zbruev to first finish the ninth grade and then submit documents to the Shchukin Higher Theater School. This choice, unusual for the older generation, was due to the fact that Evgeniy himself had already worked as an actor at the E. B. Vakhtangov Theater, and his mother had been a theater actress for a long time before the war. At the Shchukin School, Alexander studied under the guidance of another employee of the Vakhtangov Theater, Vladimir Abramovich Etush. Zbruev was initially skeptical about acting, but under the influence of his curator and older relatives, he gradually changed his mind. The young man became serious, abandoned his hooligan ways and his old company, and soon became completely immersed in his studies. In 1961, Zbruev graduated from college and was immediately accepted into the Lenin Komsomol Theater. The young emotional actor immediately took root in the troupe. For two years, Alexander played minor roles, observing and adopting the experience of his senior colleagues, until in 1963 director Anatoly Efros transferred to the theater, who saw great potential in young Zbruev. Thus, the actor, who had previously often portrayed “aged” characters, received his first leading role of the young Lermontov in the play “About Lermontov...” by Remez and Chebotarevskaya, where he appeared before the public in the image of a romantic and ardent nobleman. After the premiere of the production, Alexander immediately became widely known in theater circles. Zbruev received another very bright role two years later in the play “My Poor Marat,” also directed by Anatoly Efros. The brilliant director Mark Zakharov contributed greatly to strengthening the fame and popularity of young Zbruev, each of whose productions attracted full houses. This genius of the stage appreciated the artist’s plasticity and talent for transformation. Alexander Zbruev still works at the Lenin Komsomol Theater. Despite the fact that there were offers from competing theaters, the actor remained faithful to the stage that made him famous. Now Alexander is participating in five performances - both classical (such as “The Cherry Orchard”) and modern ones. Alexander made his film debut in 1962, playing alongside future all-Union stars Oleg Dal and Andrei Mironov in the film “My Little Brother.” This picture became one of the leaders in Soviet film distribution in 1963; it was watched by more than twenty million viewers. The next project that strengthened the actor’s fame was the film “An Inch of Earth.” Zbruev was approved for the role of the young lieutenant Motovilov, forced to heroically hold the defense of a tiny but very important section of the front. The uniqueness of this picture was that it turned out to be very rich in emotions, but at the same time surprisingly bright and kind. Almost every year Alexander starred in new films. Directors and audiences fell in love with him for his combination of romance, simplicity and masculinity. With his rather average height (175 cm), the actor could play a real strong man, due to the competently revealed noble and heroic characters, seemed more significant and even higher on the screen. Most often, Zbruev got the roles of young military men, especially since in the 60-70s there was a real boom in films about the Second World War. Then detective and spy films came into fashion, where Zbruev’s character was also in great demand. In particular, in the eighties, the actor played a naval navigator in the adventure film “The Ring from Amsterdam,” which received favorable reviews from viewers. Since 1990, Zbruev began to appear less in films. Crime films were now in vogue and beautiful life, in which the actor did not want to act. Over the entire decade, Alexander Viktorovich played in only eleven films, mostly supporting roles. Among the notable works of that period, it is worth noting the drama “You Are the Only One for Me”, where the plot centered on the theme of choice between routine and a potential fairy tale, the theme of betrayal and love, which was very close to the audience. In 2004, Alexander Zbruev announced that he was going to leave cinema. This message was a real shock for loyal fans; the actor was persuaded to stay, especially since he continued to be offered roles. However, the artist was adamant. In 2011, rumors appeared that Alexander stopped filming due to being seriously ill. Initially, a rumor appeared that the actor had cancer, since he turned to doctors with suspicion of this disease, but later journalists announced other diagnoses. Referring to the words of Elena Shanina, one of the actor’s favorite women, the media wrote that Zbruev had problems with blood vessels, some even suggested that Zbruev was developing multiple sclerosis. The actor did not confirm these rumors in any way; he continued to play in the theater, appearing, among other things, in premiere performances such as Gogol’s “The Marriage,” Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” and Pushkin’s “Boris Godunov.” During a break from cinematic work, he appeared on screen twice as himself, but nothing more. Only in 2014, a new film “Kino about Alekseev” was shot, where the actor embodied the image of the central character. After this, there was another break in the actor’s cinematic career, but Alexander remained quite in demand on stage. In 2015, he took part in the filming of the television play “Everything is Paid.” On April 16, 2016, the premiere of the new Lenkom performance “The Prince” based on the work of Dostoevsky took place. Zbruev embodied the image of the prince himself on stage. For a long time, the actor was quite closed to journalists and, in principle, very rarely gave interviews, but now he periodically appears on television, talking about interesting events his biography in various talk shows. In January 2017, Zbruev became a guest on Tatyana Ustinova’s program “My Hero,” and in March of the same year he starred in a biographical documentary film by the TV Center channel called “Alexander Zbruev. A little change." Alexander's first wife was his stage colleague Valentina Malyavina. The marriage of the two young people lasted only four years, from 1959 to 1963. A few years after the separation, Zbruev began an affair with another stage colleague, Lyudmila Savelyeva. This romance led to the wedding, which the actors played in 1967. Some time later, the couple had a daughter, who was named Natalya. The girl tried herself in an acting career and starred in the film “If you believe Lopotukhin.” Alexander Zbruev also has an illegitimate child, a daughter from a short hasty affair with actress Elena Shanina. The girl was born in 1993, and now follows in the footsteps of her parents, having recently made her debut at the Lenkom Theater. Now, not only Zbruev’s children have become a new generation in the acting dynasty. Alexander’s great-nephew Pyotr Fedorov also earned the love of TV viewers, whose main films were “The Club,” “Stalingrad” and “Inhabited Island.”

Actors who reached the zenith of fame back in the days Soviet Union, it is often difficult to get used to filmmaking as it became in the 90s and 2000s.

Alexander Viktorovich Zbruev also belongs to this type of people, who, although he sometimes continues to act in films, does not hide negative attitude to modern films.

Childhood and youth

Zbruev Alexander Viktorovich was born under the zodiac sign of Aries on the last day of March 1938 in Moscow. Unfortunately, the boy did not know his father. Viktor Zbruev, Deputy People's Commissar of the USSR, was detained in 1937 and shot when the child was only one and a half months old. Soon the family of the disgraced party leader was deported to the Yaroslavl region, where little Sasha grew up until he was 5 years old. Only at the height of the Great Patriotic War Tatyana Alexandrovna managed to achieve a return home, where her son from her first marriage, Evgeniy, lived.

Young Zbruev spent a lot of time in the company of the yard boys. Sasha was a bad student and loved to misbehave; once he even stayed for a second year. He tried strong alcohol early on, and as a teenager was caught stealing his neighbor's money. Alexander remembers this moment as a turning point, causing such strong shame and guilt that from that time Zbruev never took someone else’s property again.

But paradoxically, the actor learned more good than bad from the yard companies. For example, a sense of responsibility for “his” people, a willingness to come to the rescue at any moment and a love of sports, since the constant danger of running into a fight forced the teenager to keep himself in shape. To stay strong, Sasha became interested in gymnastics and boxing.

After 8th grade, Alexander wanted to quit school. He saw no further prospects for himself, did not dream of any profession and was going to work as a truck driver. This intention was prevented by his mother and older brother, who forcibly forced young Zbruev to first finish 9th grade and then become an applicant to the Shchukin Higher Theater School. This choice was due to the fact that Evgeniy himself had already served in the theater named after, and his mother received an acting education in her youth.

At the Shchukin School, Alexander studied under the guidance of another employee of the Vakhtangov Theater,. Zbruev was initially skeptical about acting, but under the influence of his curator and older relatives, he gradually changed this opinion. The young man became serious, abandoned his hooligan ways and his old company, and soon plunged into his studies. In 1961, the young man graduated from college and was immediately accepted into the Lenin Komsomol Theater.

Theater

The young emotional actor immediately took root in the troupe. For two years, Alexander played minor roles, observing and adopting the experience of his older colleagues, until in 1963 a director transferred to the theater, who saw great potential in young Zbruev. Thus, the actor, who had previously often portrayed “aged” characters, received the first leading role of a young man in the play “About Lermontov...” by Remez and Chebotarevskaya, where he appeared before the public in the image of a romantic and ardent nobleman. After the premiere of the production, Alexander immediately became famous in theater circles.

Alexander Zbruev in the play "My Poor Marat"

Zbruev received another prominent role two years later in the play “My Poor Marat,” also directed by Anatoly Efros. The brilliant director, whose every production attracted a full house, contributed to the strengthening of the fame and popularity of the young Zbruev. This genius of the stage appreciated the artist’s plasticity and talent for transformation.

Alexander Zbruev still works at the Lenin Komsomol Theater. Sometimes there were offers from competing theaters, but the actor remained faithful to the stage that made him famous. Now Alexander participates in both classical performances (such as “The Cherry Orchard”) and modern ones, with which artists appear on their native stage and go on tour.

Movies

Alexander made his film debut in 1962, playing alongside future all-Union stars in the film “My Little Brother.” This picture became one of the leaders in Soviet film distribution in 1963, it was watched by 20 million viewers.

Alexander Zbruev, Andrei Mironov and Oleg Dal in the film "My Little Brother"

The next project that strengthened the actor’s fame was the film “An Inch of Earth.” Zbruev was approved for the role of the young lieutenant Motovilov, forced to heroically hold the defense of a tiny but important section of the front. The uniqueness of this picture was that it turned out to be emotionally rich, but at the same time surprisingly bright and kind.

Almost every year Alexander starred in new films. Directors and audiences fell in love with the artist for his combination of romance, simplicity and masculinity. With an average height of 175 cm and a weight of 72 kg, the actor could play a truly strong person, and due to well-developed noble and heroic characters, he seemed more significant and even taller on the screen.

Alexander Zbruev and Oleg Efremov in the film "Battalions Ask for Fire"

Most often, Zbruev got the roles of young military men, especially since in the 60-70s there was a real boom in films about the Second World War. Then detective and spy films came into fashion, where Zbruev’s character was also in demand. In the 80s, the actor played a naval navigator in the adventure film “The Ring from Amsterdam,” which received favorable reviews from viewers. At the same time, the filmography of the public’s favorite was replenished with the films “Seven Hours to Death”, “At the Dangerous Line”, “Success”, “Battalions Ask for Fire”, “Zina-Zinulya”, “Fellow Traveler”, in which Zbruev transforms into heroes of a positive role .

Alexander Zbruev in the film "An Inch of Earth"

Since 1990, Zbruev began to appear less in films. Now films about crime and the beautiful life were in fashion, in which the actor did not want to appear. Over the entire decade, Alexander Viktorovich played in only 11 films, mostly supporting roles. Among the notable works of that period, it is worth noting the drama “You Are the Only One for Me,” where the plot centered on the topic of choice between routine and a potential fairy tale, the theme of betrayal and love, which was close to the audience. The main characters were played by and. In the film, the actor also showed his vocal talent by performing the song of the same name.

Alexander Zbruev in the film “You are the only one I have”

Later, the actor participated in another project of his beloved director - the melodrama “Everything will be fine.” In partnership with, we managed to brilliantly recreate on screen an almost fairy-tale story that happened to the residents of a small Russian town.

In 2004, Alexander Zbruev announced that he was going to leave cinema. This message was a real shock for loyal fans; the actor was persuaded to stay, especially since he continued to be offered roles. However, the artist was adamant. Alexander made an exception for the creators of the documentary “The Dream of a Lonely Woman,” dedicated to his 70th birthday.

Alexander Zbruev in the documentary "The Dream of a Lonely Woman"

In 2011, rumors appeared that Alexander stopped filming due to being seriously ill. Initially they said that the actor had cancer, since he went to the doctors with suspicion of this disease, but later journalists announced other diagnoses. Referring to the words of one of the actor’s favorite women, the media wrote that Zbruev had problems with blood vessels. Some even suggested that the artist was developing multiple sclerosis. The actor did not confirm these rumors in any way; he continued to play in the theater, including appearing in premiere performances such as “Marriage”, “The Cherry Orchard” and “Boris Godunov”.

Alexander Zbruev in the documentary "Cinema about Alekseev"

During a break from cinematic work, he appeared on screen twice as himself, but nothing more. Only in 2014, a new film “Kino about Alekseev” was shot, where the actor embodied the image of the central character.

After this, there was another break in the actor’s cinematic career, but Alexander remained quite in demand on stage. In 2015, he took part in the filming of the television play “Everything is Paid.” On April 16, 2016, the premiere of the new Lenkom performance “The Prince” based on the work took place. Zbruev embodied the image of the prince himself on stage.

Alexander Zbruev in the program "My Hero"

At one time, the actor was closed to journalists and rarely gave interviews, but now he periodically appears on television, talking about the events of his life in television shows. In January 2017, Zbruev became a guest on the program “My Hero”, and in March of the same year he starred in a biographical documentary film by the TV Center channel called “Alexander Zbruev. A little change." The non-public actor does not have his own account on Instagram, but a fan community is registered where fans post photos of the stage and film star.

Personal life

Alexander's first wife was his stage colleague. Family life V student years things didn’t work out for the actor. The marriage of two young people lasted 4 years, from 1959 to 1963.

A few years after the breakup, Zbruev started an affair with another stage colleague, who brilliantly performed the role in the film epic “” by the director. This relationship led to the wedding, which the actors played in 1967. Some time later, the couple had a daughter, who was named Natalya. The girl tried herself in an acting career and starred in the film “If you believe Lopotukhin.”

Alexander Zbruev with his wife Lyudmila Savelyeva

It seemed that Zbruev’s personal life was developing happily, but later his daughter began to experience health problems. According to her parents, Natalya received a head injury from an accidental fall. Later, Alexander Zbruev said in an interview that at one time Natalya experienced disappointment in love, which affected her entire future life. The daughter lives with her parents; she has not created her own family.

Alexander Zbruev also has an illegitimate child, a daughter from a short affair with actress Elena Shanina. The girl was born in 1993, and after graduating from school she followed in the footsteps of her parents, making her debut at the Lenkom Theater. At first, Lyudmila Savelyeva did not know about her husband’s affair on the side. But she managed to save her marriage with Alexander.

Not only Zbruev’s children became a new generation in the acting dynasty. Alexander’s great-nephew also earned the love of TV viewers, whose main films were “The Club”, “Stalingrad” and “Inhabited Island”.

Alexander Zbruev is called a man without age, and colleagues claim that the artist has the “Peter Pan gene.” Fans still recognize him as the Ganja whom the whole country fell in love with in the early 70s. At the same time, there is no talk of any plastic surgery. According to the actor, he is supported by the sports training he received in his youth and interest in life.

Alexander does not stand aside when the acting workshop suffers irreparable losses. Friends leave, colleagues leave, the memory of whom the artist keeps in his heart. Zbruev spoke about the actress and director with whom fate brought him together 20 years ago in the film “Poor Sasha” as an event that was beyond his understanding.

Alexander Zbruev now

In 2018, Alexander Viktorovich turned 80 years old. According to the actor, he does not like to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, which he has taught his family to do as well. Zbruev considers congratulations to be vanity that interferes with creativity. Instead of a banquet, on March 31, the artist took the stage in the play “Boris Godunov,” which was shown at Lenkom for the last time.

2018 documentary film “Alexander Zbruev. Three love stories"

Alexander also presented to the public the documentary film “My Parents,” which was created a year before. Well, Channel One dedicated a broadcast to the anniversary of the artist beloved by several generations of viewers. documentary film"Three love stories."

Filmography

• 1962 - “My Little Brother”
• 1965 - “Chistye Prudy”
• 1973 - “Big Change”
• 1974 - “Romance of Lovers”
• 1981 - “Ring from Amsterdam”
• 1983 - “Seven hours until death”
• 1985 - “The battalions ask for fire”
• 1986 - “A lonely woman wants to meet”
• 1988 - “Kill the Dragon”
• 1993 - “You are the only one I have”
• 1997 - “Poor Sasha”
• 2004 - “Salamander Skin”
• 2014 - “Cinema about Alekseev”