Sergei Ursulyak is a cinematographer whois known primarily thanks to a film epic, based on the book by Vasily Grossman, and no less famous detective series about the work of the Odessa police in the postwar years. Films reflecting the life of Soviet people at the end of the first half of the last century, manage to master masterfully thanks to talent to delve into the details, to see the deep meaning of events that occurred more than half a century ago.
Director Sergei Ursulyak was born in 1958year, in an ordinary Soviet family. My father was a military man. Mother - a teacher. The family often changed their place of residence, but with the birth of his son, constant relocation from one garrison to another stopped.
Childhood of the creator of the "Liquidation" was held in a severeMagadan. From an early age the boy was fond of reading historical and adventure prose. In the summer I left for my relative, who lived in the Moscow suburbs.
Sergei on vacation attended famous performances.Already at a young age, he made an indelible impression of the acting of the Moscow Art Theater and other Moscow theaters. Perhaps, it was during this period of his life that Sergei Ursulyak decided to link his life with art.
After receiving the certificate of maturity Sergei Ursulyakwent to the capital. In Moscow, he from the first time entered the legendary school of. Shchukin. Brilliantly graduated from the acting department. And after that he was admitted to the Satyricon, where he worked for more than ten years. In this theater, Sergei Ursulyak played quite bright, prominent roles. The most significant is the role of Chatsky.
Despite his successful acting career, SergeiUrsulyak wanted to realize himself in a different direction - he dreamed of making films. In the early nineties Sergei Ursulyak became a listener of directing courses. In the workshop of Motyl, Ursulak received the foundation of his profession. And his first work was the picture "Russian ragtime", created in 1993. How did the future path of such an outstanding personality take shape, as Sergei Ursulyak?
Several years a graduate of Vladimir's workshopMotyla worked on television. He became the director of the popular show "Me and my dog". Then he took part in the creation of the series "The Newest History". It was then that Sergei Ursulyak showed himself as a subtle expert in the most important historical events and a professional capable of conveying the subtleties of past times to TV viewers. Also, the director led the author's program on the motion picture "Motley Ribbon".
Most of the films that Sergei createsUrsulyak, are awarded with high awards. He created a series about the legendary scout Isaev, filmed the novel "Life and Fate", made films "Poirot's Failure" and "Diamond Chariot".
In addition, the famous cinematographer acted as a screenwriter. According to his works several films were shot.
In 2013, Ursulyak began work on thescreen version of the great book Quiet Flows the Don. The premiere took place in 2015. Work on the work, which, as we know, has tried to interpret S. Gerasimov and S. Bondarchuk in different ways, is complex and unusually laborious. In order to decide on the shooting of such a film, you need to have an extraordinary courage, determination. Criticism, as well as other films-screen versions of Sholokhov, reacted to the work of Ursulak very strictly. But the audience, according to feedback, liked the movie.
В юности Сергей Урсуляк женился на начинающей actress Galina Nadirli. In this marriage, the daughter of Alexander was born. The second wife of the director is Lika Nifontova. His wife took part in the shooting of the best pictures of Ursulak. Namely - played the role of the daughter of the hero Mikhail Ulyanov in the film "Composition to the Victory Day," and the wife of Gozman in the series "Liquidation."
