Chervinsky, Alexander Mikhailovich

Born April 19, 1938 in Odessa ^[1] . Father - M. A. Chervinsky - author of short stories, monologues, scenes for pop, operettas, lyrics for songs, usually working in collaboration with V.Z. Mass .

He graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute. Since 1967 he has been writing film scripts.

In 1993, he left for the United States , first to California , then moved to New York .

In an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta in 2008, Alexander Chervinsky said:

Honestly, I wanted to work in cinema all my life. But I forbade myself, deciding that there were celestials working there. Well, I could not dare to do this. Therefore, instead of the Institute of Cinematography, he went to the architectural. I can’t say that architecture was disgusting and uninteresting to me. I just was a bad architect. And fate happened so that my first wife was a director, and I was friends with VGIK students. Gradually, he began to write scripts. We left in January 1993 . The country was in ruins, in a terrible state, there was no work, everyone around began to change, they began to steal, behaved badly - I could not be there. With friends, whom I have few, but they have, I still continue to communicate in a wonderful way. I very often visit Moscow ^[2] .

Screenwriter for films:

• 1967 - The Mysterious Wall - Together with Irina Povolotskaya and Mikhail Sadkovich . Directors: Irina Povolotskaya (wife of A. Chervinsky at that time), Mikhail Sadkovich
• 1971 - The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Again Elusive - Together with Edmond Keosayan. Director: Edmond Keosayan
• 1971 - Young - Director: Nikolay Moskalenko
• 1972 - Men - Together with Edmond Keosayan. Director: Edmond Keosayan
• 1972 - Cases of bygone days ... - Together with Anatoly Bezuglov and Yuri Klarov . Director: Vladimir Shredel
• 1973 - Acting - Director: Irina Povolotskaya
• 1978 - Temptation - Director: Alexey Polyakov
• 1979 - Get to know me - Together with Arkady Inin . Director: Vladimir Popkov
• 1979 - Theme (Provincial Meetings) - Together with Gleb Panfilov. Director: Gleb Panfilov
• 1979 - Faith and Truth - Director: Andrey Smirnov
• 1980 - An imaginary patient (based on the play of the same name by Jean-Baptiste Moliere ) - Director: Leonid Nechaev
• 1984 - Lasted, lasted, charm ... - Director: Yaropolk Lapshin
• 1984 - Lights - Director: Solomon Schuster
• 1984 - Blonde around the corner - Director: Vladimir Bortko
• 1987 - Sunday walks - Together with Anatoly Usov . Directors: Ivan Dykhovichny , Alexander Karpov
• 1987 - Victoria (Paper gramophone) - Director: Dmitry Dolinin
• 1991 - Afghan break - Together with Leonid Bogachuk , Mikhail Leshchinsky , Ada Petrova . Director: Vladimir Bortko
• 1992 - Oriental novel - Together with Pavel Lungin . Director: Victor Titov
• 2006 - Leningrad (Alien Life) - Director: Konstantin Khudyakov
• 2006 - From Flames and Lights (Michel Lermontov) - Directors: Nana Dzhordzhadze , Irakli Kvirikadze
• 2009 - The Brothers Karamazov - Director: Yuri Moroz

The author of the book “How to Sell a Good Script Well.”

The author of the plays: “My Happiness” , “Paper Gramophone”, “You” “Tic Tac Toe” .

In 2004, the novel "Shishkin Forest" entered the short list of the award " National Bestseller ." This work tells the story of a family, the prototype of which were the Mikhalkovs . Alexander Chervinsky himself said the same year: “I wanted to create the Russian Forsyte saga. They have a saga about the Forsytes - about the rich. And after all these revolutions and upheavals, we have no dynasties left, except in art. The Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky dynasty is special - their art has always been in demand, they were allowed at a certain price to live in Russia better than the people ... Specifically, I was never close to the Mikhalkov family. Only once was Andron visiting and talking with him for about an hour ... I relied on the well-known facts of their biographies. " ^[3] .

• Alexander Chervinsky on the Internet Movie Database
• Review of the book "Shishkin Forest . " Author Tatyana Egereva