Sergei Afanasyevich Vlasov is a Russian theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Russia, who has starred in almost 80 films and has played two dozen theater roles. In order not to be confused with the Belarusian actor - the namesake and namesake - Sergey Vlasov in credits and posters often appears with the addition of the abbreviation SAV
Childhood and youth
Sergey Vlasov was born in the distant Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Khakass Autonomous Region, in the city of Abakan. Vlasov's parents worked in civil aviation, his father graduated from the Leningrad Aviation School. In 1957, Athanasius Vlasov was sent to serve in Khakassia. By that time, the Vlasov family already had three children, and on July 7, 1958, a fourth child was born - the son Sergei.
The boy grew up athletic and inquisitive, listened with interest to his parents' stories about distant Leningrad and dreamed of being there someday. At the age of six, Sergei showed interest in the theater: his older brother got a job as a theater artist, and little Seryozha often visited him backstage, learning from the inside the specifics of the work of actors, directors, and decorators.
In 1965, Sergei went to the first grade of school number 19 of the city of Abakan. And when he was 9 years old, his father received a new appointment - in the city of Chelyabinsk. It was here that the youthful years of the future actor passed. A school, an aviation modeling club, sports sections and a chess club - all this was the everyday life of young Sergei Vlasov.
Theater education
Having received a certificate of secondary education, Sergei went to the city of his dreams - Leningrad, and entered the acting department of the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (the famous LGITMiK). Vlasov’s teachers were Arkady Iosifovich Katsman - director and teacher, professor and Lev Abramovich Dodin actor and director, subsequently people's artist of Russia. During his student years, Sergei Vlasov devoted a lot of time to activities at the Teaching Theater on Mokhovaya at the LGITMiK: he was a co-author, actor and director of such performances as "If
.if ", " Brothers and Sisters ", " Twenty of us ", " The fruitless efforts of love "and many others.
In 1979, Vlasov graduated from the Theater Institute and in the same year was drafted into the army. The military service did not interrupt the theatrical career of the young actor: for two years he acted as part of the campaign and art army unit "Politboeets".
Theatrical career
In 1981, Sergei Vlasov returned from the army, and soon the place of his creative activity for a long time became the Leningrad (later St. Petersburg) Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe. On the stage of this theater, the actor played in more than twenty performances, and all the roles are very diverse: these are the classics (plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov) and modern works.
Vlasov plays both a simple peasant, a lumberjack, and a duke, prince, second lieutenant, in a word - masterfully owns the art of reincarnation. On his track record in the theater, such performances as The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, King Lear, Demons by Dostoevsky, Lord Officers Kuprin, Fiesta by Hemingway and many others. The actor to this day works in the troupe of the Theater of Europe.
Film career
Since the early 1980s, Sergei Vlasov began acting in films. As in the theater, the actor was offered a wide variety of roles, and their Vlasov was played over 80! He made his debut in the films "Rafferty" and "Other games and fun", where he played teenagers.
Further, the actor starred in such films as “Cold Summer of the Fifty-Third” (1987, the role of the bandit Vitka), 12 series “Streets of Broken Lights” (1998, Sergey Sergeyevich Gunyaev), “Gangster Petersburg” (2003, Valentin Kravtsov), "Demons" (2008, Ivan Pavlovich Shatov), "Summer of the Wolves" (2011, the leader of the Gorely-Sapsanyuk gang).
Later roles - Franz Schechtel in the film Mayakovsky. Two Days (2011), Koltsov in The Heart of an Angel (2014), Ivan Dibich in The Union of Salvation (2019) - the list goes on. It was after 2010 that Vlasov began to add the abbreviation SAV to his name and surname so that he would not be confused with the Belarusian actor Sergei Vlasov.
The actor takes the choice of roles very seriously - he never acts in films just for the sake of earning. He believes that the role should be vital, believable, only then it has the right to be embodied on the screen. Perhaps, precisely because of such a principle, Vlasov is not often invited to the main roles in films and series, which have been released more and more recently.
In addition to theater and film roles, Vlasov made a significant contribution to the "voice acting": at the St. Petersburg film studios "Neva-1" and "Lenfilm" he dubbed a very large number of films.
The artist’s creativity was appreciated not only by fans, but also by the state: in 1993 Sergey Afanasevich Vlasov was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and in 2002 he received the State Prize of Russia in the field of literature and art.
