The filmography of about a hundred roles. Someone still remembers his "Tobacco Chicken". Someone with longing awaits the premiere of the film Alexey Germany based on the story of the Strugatsky brothers "hard to be God." Surprisingly, Leonid himself considers him the main party in life - to be a father.
Leonid Yarmolnik: "How else! Grow and raise a person - very responsible. If we all treated it like this, then I think, and the country would look different. Today I feel sorry for most parents. They are focused on one - to contain a family. As a rule, everyone works, and children grow unattended, like grass at the road. At best, they have a TV, a computer, but they do not have heat, human communication. Life can be learned only on the example of mom and dad, when you see how they do, with whom they communicate, how they live. Here we have always been in the house. It seems to me that we didn't make anything specially inspired by Sasha, she herself saw, to what extent we love people, respect, are interested in communicating with them. The daughter often communicated at home with those ké, many are enthusiastic. Alexander Abdulov, Oleg Yankovsky, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Andrei Makarevich - they are not only artists who can see on TV, they are friends of our family, our home, Sasha knows what they are in the kitchen. "
That is, it can easily be needed to contact them for help, advice?
Leonid: "It is unlikely. Sasha in this sense is very independent and in good sense is shy. Nobody never loads. Even when I need my help, she is waiting to the last. Therefore, I often remind her: what she will spend a month, I am only two minutes. "
Is it true that you called our daughter in honor of your friend Alexander Abdulov?
Leonid: "Yes, Sasha considered what they called in honor of him. We were very closely friends, practically did not partitioned not even for days, not for months, but for years. He was the most direct witness that in my life it happened, he was the godfather of my daughter, so you can say that so coincided ... and I did not dissuade Sasha Abdulov. But in fact, the female name Alexander liked my wife Ksyusha and me. And the most amazing, in those days (and it was 1983) this name was quite rare. And only after I called Sasha's daughter, it became very fashionable in our country. If you look at the statistics, then after the 84th of the year a lot of Alexander appeared. "
Leonid Yarmolnik. Photo: Mikhail Kovalev.
That is, Abdulov was in a happy ignorance, but was glad to this?
Leonid: "Of course! But my Sasha has always been Sasha for me, and Abdulov is always a shurid. I called him so, although few could contact him so much. But he allowed me. It was somehow fraternal, homely. It seemed to me that Shurik in relation to Abdul - it is more gentle and more corresponds to our friendly relationship. "
Alexander's daughter graduated from the Stroganov Art Academy. What does she do now?
Leonid: "It works quite interestingly with glass - she is engaged in stained glass windows, it is applied art. At least three or four per year participates in exhibitions, even goes to Venice to Murano Island, she has some private orders. In Moscow, on Ordyanka, we organized a workshop with a glass stove for her. "
Talented?
Leonid: "Of course, this is my daughter! (Laughs.) Everyone considers their children infinitely talented, but I shy something to say. One for sure: some kind of character traits are mine, but all that is associated with artistic taste, aesthetics, - in Ksyusha, she is a real artist! Not all artists understand what it is an artist. I know it, because married to Ksyusha, I lived with her for many years, and it was she who instilled an artistic taste. "
Oksana is the costume artist, right?
Leonid: "Yes, and this is not the easiest profession in life. My ksyuha is one of the best, if not the best to date in carefulness, according to accuracy, by style. Theatrical Moscow knows immutable. And in the movie Wife worked several times, she just loves him less, the process itself is all this bustle. "
And your girls have already collaborated?
Leonid: "Sometimes, when Ksyusha is engaged in design houses, Sasha makes stained glass windows. Their interests coincide when the customer needs the original glass. "
Your spouse is a professional. How does she estimate his daughter's work?
Leonid: "High. In any case, it is not trite and did not go. It is always something exquisite, very elegant and, most importantly for me, new. "
Leonid Yarmolnik with his dog. Photo: Mikhail Kovalev.
Are Alexandra's successes please? I remember you sincerely shook when she began to overtake you on her car.
Leonid: "She still overtakes me. And I do not catch it up: it's youth, and you cannot catch up with youth. I have another reaction and, perhaps, another desire to ride. She does it easily. In this sense, she has my genes. But, however, the wife also drives the car well. I think that they already manage both better than me. I drive the impudence, but no better. And I am proud that I have no problems with my daughter. She is not very similar to those guys with whom we are fighting and trying to make people from them: to read to understand to think. Sasha is smart, she has a very high degree of responsibility. And very good: many years has been doing homeless dogs, as a volunteer smokes several shelters. It does not just help, using some of my opportunities, and literally comes once a week to these dogs and feed them all day, cooks porridge. My friends with my friends are going to open a private shelter who will be engaged in Sasha. Unfortunately, the question of homeless animals in Moscow is not resolved. "
And Alexandra wanted to ever become an actress?
Leonid: "Never in life! Never! What - Again - I'm glad! "
Would there be against?
Leonid: "No. I just think that for women this profession is one of the most terrible. It is very attached to age. While the girls are young, pretty, they are removed, and then there comes oblivion. It happens otherwise, with a rare exception, when the actress is always in demand. Alisa Freindlich, Marina Neelova, Irina Kompanko, Nina Ruslanova is an exceptional talent. But such units. "
Does your daughter introduce you to your young people?
Leonid: "Of course. She does not hide them. True, until it led to anything. But my first marriage was civil and lasted seven years. In general, I think that the stamp in the passport is not very important. The only thing I want is the grandchildren! The time has come. I would be better from a carriage sometimes than starring. It would be more useful and more correct. "
Well, and those applicants for the hand and the heart of Alexandra, with whom you still got acquainted, are pleased? Do you have a choice of my daughter always approve?
Leonid: "Once yes, sometime no! In any case, I express my point of view. I do not insist on anything, but we share feelings. But more Sasha reveals with mom. It `s naturally. I communicate with me for more serious questions. " (Laughs.)
In this case, it is easier for you or more difficult to live with her adulthies?
Leonid: "I think it's easier. I was as many years old how old she was when she was born. I can not rejoice at her, because it does not burden us with negative concerns. Happy, that it is, it exists normally, it lives normally, it works and, I hope, rejoices of life. She has good friends, with classmates after graduation, she is still friendly. I really appreciate such connections. "
Called records
The role of the father, as we have already found out, is extremely important for you. But let's talk about your main profession. Not so long ago, Alexey Herman, who thirteen years ago began shooting the film on the story of the Strugatsky brothers "difficult to be God", finally announced the end of the work. In this picture you played a major role and changed more than once that they would like to live to the premiere ...
Leonid: "And it said it completely consciously, because many people are no longer. Those who really waited for this picture, wanted to see her. In particular, my nearest friends are Sasha Abdulov, Oleg Yankovsky, Lie Filatova, Bori Khmelnitsky. Their opinion, which would be important to me, I no longer know. "
But it is already known when will the premiere?
Leonid: "Hermann himself declares that by the end of the year everything will finish. I really want to hope. But if this does not happen, I, honestly, will not be surprised. In 1999, I was approved for the role of Rumat, in 2000, shooting began - so it is already the fourteenth year of the film. Apparently, Herman definitely decided to beat all his records. "
Leonid Yarmolnik. Photo: Vladimir Chistyakov.
If you knew that the process would default, would you agree?
Leonid: "I treated the proposal from the very beginning to work with a german with an incredible interest, diet and azart. It just thought it seemed to me that I was organizational and in complicity, the person is workable and dynamic. Therefore, I was sure that Herman took off for so long only before me, and together we will do it all if not in two years, then exactly three. Now I can sincerely say: it's not about me! (Smiles.) No matter how well I worked, whatever offered - he does not need it. For him to work quickly - this is someone else's. And he does not wear other things. Time is the component of the ripening of work in Germany. The human fruit is launched nine months, and the elephant is worn two years. So, Alexey Yuryevich is some kind of dinosaur! "
It is remembered, at first it was said that throughout the work in front of you had a rigid framework: not to change their image, not to be filmed in other pictures. Did there be any restrictions?
Leonid: "The first three years was a condition that I am not removing anywhere, I do not work on television. I could stand. Actually, there was nothing to withstand something, I didn't lose anything worth it. And after three years, I and Valera Todorovsky made a picture of "My Consolidate Brother Frankenstein". Then there were a lot of work: some better, some worse. In any case, with Todorovsky, I worked all the time as an artist, and like a producer. "
Maybe you need to offer your services and Herman?
Leonid: "At the very beginning I had some suggestions, but God saved me. It seems to me if I felt the picture, I would have been sitting in prison. I would absolutely consciously go to crimes, knowing that the money ever could never return. Cinema is expensive, complex. There are no returnable means here, so thanks to the attention and sympathy of the so-called St. Petersburg clan everything has developed. "
From this place in more detail: what is this St. Petersburg clan?
Leonid: "Initiator that Herman removes calmly, Vladimir Putin was in 2000. He as if gave the team, and this team is still working. Thanks to which Herman shoots, let's say, in the atmosphere of incredible support. It is wonderful because Alexey Yuryevich suffered from the authorities a lot in all kinds and manifestations. "
Alexey Herman is a big master, but to work with him, as many assure, oh, how not easy ...
Leonid: "We are both difficult, stubborn people. It happened, we sometimes did not speak for half a year. And fought, and quarreled. He even searched the artist abroad to be like me. And the top of the back removed. But now we have wonderful relationships with him, because we are each other, as they say, have experienced. And I am satisfied that it was in my life, because it is incredibly difficult to work with German and incredibly interesting. I think that all the living artists, without exception, envy me. And I was always proud and proud that I was filmed from the director, with whom the real stars worked - Andrei Mironov, Rolan Bykov, Yuri Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Andrei Boltnev. "
Own in the board
You are now filming extremely little, motivating this by the fact that you are not interested in the incoming proposals. So today you took up the theater? If I'm not mistaken, the break had more than twenty years?
Leonid: "Twenty-seven years, if you are accurate, I did not go to the scene. The first time was difficult. Theatrical loads are others. But used! Just like in the sport: the first time it is difficult, the second, the third, and then normal. "
Elena Yakovlev, Leonid Yarmolnik and director Valery Todorovsky on the filming of the film "My Consolidated Brother Frankenstein". Photo by Artem Makeev.
To return to the layout, you chose the "contemporary". There is a performance "with the coming ...", where you play with Sergey Garmash. Why this particular theater?
Leonid: "First of all, because of the many years of friendship with Galina Borisovaya Wolf. For recent years, she really wanted me to do something in the "contemporary". But then I am not very good for this. I had attempts to participate as the artist's leading role in the play "Wedding of Krechinsky" from Oleg Tabakov, something else was trying to do - it did not work out. And if I can't work, I close the topic, realizing that it was ashamed. And with the play "With the Coming ..." all coincided. I am indecent to say, as far as he is successful and good. It is better to ask those who saw it. Although it is easier for me to call those who have not seen. "
And who is it?
Leonid: "The performance did not see two people - Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. And they need it, it is useful to see. (Ironic.) But they are very busy, the boy was turned out to be. Although both are going. And so everyone saw - oligarchs, artists. And everyone is delighted. But the attitude towards the play is strange. Today it is unclean that this is the most fashionable production of Moscow. Spectators are written for half a year ago. I do not need any awards. But it is not clear one thing: if we are, why not notice us? There are "Gold Masks", "Crystal Turandot", but there our performance is not discussed. Probably another level? "
And time appeared to play?
Leonid: "No, just the life of the artists is always so arranged: if you are tiered with the theater, then everything else do in his free time. (Smiles.) Of course, when performances are prescribed, they ask me what numbers are comfortable. Everything is done lovely. The time appeared after all, not because something is missing in life, and because the soul does not lie to do what they offer. Not interested. Therefore, I really don't want to remove. And for the sake of money? I never sinned it. As Ranevskaya said, "you disappear, and the shame will remain."
But I heard that in the movies you still take off.
Leonid: "But I cannot talk about it, I signed a contract. Andrei Kavun, famous for "cadets", "Pirania", removes the series about Sherlock Holmes. Each story is two series, there I starred in one of the main roles. "
But at one time you have an agreement with Oleg Yankovsky: in the TV shows not to appear. Today I changed something?
Leonid: "When Oleg was still alive, the series filmed bad. So I existed taboo - from respect to myself and to the profession. But the time changed the idea of this product. If we are talking about a high-quality American series, then this is the movie of the highest class. There are good two dozen multi-mezzan films that I look, I enjoy. This is a new format that we have not yet been mastered. Ours took only a few things: a lot of episodes, quickly removed and well bought. Channels are enough, that's all pushed. A peculiar factory of hack. But we have exceptions: the same "elimination", "brigade", "cadets", for example.
Reputation of a business person never prevented you to shoot in the cinema?
Leonid: "I would not call myself a business man. I am enterprising is yes! Faster thinking than someone, yes! But it was from my school years, just then turned into experience. I admit less mistakes when I want to achieve something. And I do not work for free, if I understand it: this is the place where you should pay, otherwise your money will receive someone else. It is almost impossible to deceive me. So I probably not a business, but practical. "
Why did the same Alexey Hermann said that the richness of the Yamer interferes?
Leonid: "It still needs to know Herman! I assure you, I'm not richer than him. If we consider wealth, for example, the availability of an apartment, at home, cars, then he has an apartment in Moscow, and in St. Petersburg. I, by the way, in St. Petersburg there are no apartments. (Laughs.) Dacha he has a wonderful in Repino, and I have a cottage. This is natural if the person works all his life. Otherwise, you either did wrong or bad something, or did not spend money on that. Therefore, to his words, "wealth prevents" must be treated with humor. He is jealous of me all his life to the fact that I solve almost any problems in five minutes, even when it concerns him. And the wealth does not interfere with me - on the contrary, it helps to be free. I can treat people, pay something, to give someone material assistance, I can risk something and do not worry about it. In general, like Vysotsky - "even in the morning, but on your own." Naturally, it's not about millions, but about thousands, yes! For me, money is the freedom to choose only what I want. And thank God, I can not do what I am not interested. "
Leonid Yarmolnik at the funeral of Alexander Abdulov. Photo: Mikhail Kovalev.
Somehow said: "We must think more often about how many people will go for your coffin." Do you often think about?
Leonid:
"This phrase I am trying to reanimate people who, in my opinion, begin to betray themselves with age. In my youth, we swear, believe in something, and then for some reason - because of the life, because of life, because of some garbage, we begin to betray their ideals. And we lose those people who regret that you did not become.Many of your loved ones are no longer alive. Who is entering the nearby circle today?
Leonid: "Probably Valera Todorovsky - I hope that we are somehow adequate to each other. I think Sasha Inshakov is my very old friend. With all the difficulties, this is Sergey Garmash. I love him, because he is talented, sincere. Such people are not simple. Incredibly rose relationships with Mikhail Prokhorov, I have already familiar with him seventeen. He is absolutely another galaxy for me. And I need him, because he has a different head, another idea of how our life should be arranged. Makar is Makar: he and my star, and my cross. All my life we have a complex relationship with him. Because it does not happen simple when people know so well and affect each other. Zhenya Margulis, of course! Kolya Rastorguev. I am afraid that I will forget someone, I will then worry. "
By the way, about friends. You have a few tablets with memorable inscriptions on your guest house. For example: "Here in 1999, the great Belarusian poet and composer Andrei Makarevich was hidden from the repair. Why is Belarusian and who else had hiding?
Leonid: "Belorussky is not to get a national question. (Laughs.) And a lot of who was hiding. It all started with a guest house. For the first time I saw him sometime in America. Then I understood: Guests need to feel comfortable - and drink, and wash, and send the hosts in FIG. Here I am such a house and built. The names of those who stayed in this house, then appeared on the signs. There is a signator Yuza Aleshkovsky. He lived several times a month when he came from America. Then Makar when did the repair. There is something memorial in it. Each plate is written that the monument is under the protection of the state and the Yarmolnik. And it does not need to be coordinated with the Moscow Mayor, with the State Committee. True, Sasha Inshakov is offended, says: "I also spent three times there, why not the boards?" I'm going to install another - Inshakovskaya. "