Igor Shulzhenko is a Soviet teenage actor who has become famous thanks to films such as Dagger and Bronze Bird. This movie role became the only one in his life.
Early biography
Igor Shulzhenko was born in 1958 in a simple Belarusian family. Parents who worked all their lives at the Minsk Foundry gave the boy a good upbringing. Igor was also distinguished by an inquiring mind, thanks to which he was able to enter one of the best Minsk schools and was a solid "good guy." When Shulzhenko was 15 years old, the republic began preparations for the filming of films based on the popular children's books of the writer Anatoly Rybakov, and the first in the trilogy was Dirk.
Representatives of Mosfilm first visited the Minsk school, where Igor studied, looking after suitable for the role of the main characters of the boys. Shulzhenko was lucky: his good looks and good manners made him the best candidate for playing the role of a quiet intellectual Slavka Eldarov. The other two roles of Misha Polyakov and Genka Petrov went to peers Sergei Shevkunenko and Volodya Dichkovsky.
Actor career
The young actors got along well with each other and plunged into the filming process with interest. Finally, in 1973, the film "Dagger" was released and immediately became a cult for Soviet citizens, both young and already quite mature. More than one generation has read the detective-adventure stories of Anatoly Rybakov with rapture, and the modern color adaptation has become a long-awaited event. Igor Shulzhenko, Sergey Shevkunenko and Volodya Dichkovsky fit perfectly into their roles and became people's idols.
A year later, the second part of the adventures of adolescents who lived in the post-revolutionary period and unraveling fascinating secrets, called "The Bronze Bird", was released. The film did not yield to its predecessor, and in many ways even surpassed it. Subsequently, the Belarusfilm film studio shot the final film from this series, called "The Last Summer of Childhood, " but completely different actors played the main roles in it.
