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Ivan Sergeevich Bortnik
Иван Бортник
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16 April 1939 - 4 January 2019
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Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Ivan Bortnik was born in Moscow on April 16, 1939. At school he did not like exact sciences, he received good grades only in literature and, according to the expectations of his parents, had to choose a literary field. However, Ivan became interested in theater and decided to become an actor after visiting the Moscow City House of Pioneers and an amateur film studio at Gorky Park.
In 1961, Ivan Bortnik graduated from the Shchukin
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Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Ivan Bortnik was born in Moscow on April 16, 1939. At school he did not like exact sciences, he received good grades only in literature and, according to the expectations of his parents, had to choose a literary field. However, Ivan became interested in theater and decided to become an actor after visiting the Moscow City House of Pioneers and an amateur film studio at Gorky Park.
In 1961, Ivan Bortnik graduated from the Shchukin School and settled in the Gogol Theatre. Ivan’s first role in cinema was the role of the artist Vasily in the drama Vsevolod Voronin.
Confessions (1962)
In 1967, Ivan Bortnik became an actor of the Theater of Drama and Comedy on Taganka. The acquaintance with Vladimir Vysotsky turned into a very close friendship between them. The actor returned to the cinema only seven years later, playing in Pavel Lyubimov’s film “Day Ahead” (1970), the fairy tale film “Ivan da Marya” (1974), Nikolai Koshelev’s film novel “The Elder” and Ilya Averbach’s films “Alien Letters” and “An Explanation in Love”.
Truly popular fame Ivan Bortnik brought the role of a bandit nicknamed Blotter in the television series
The meeting place cannot be changed. (1979), which became a kind of hallmark of the artist.
For a long time Ivan Bortnik played bright but secondary roles in the cinema. Only in 1987 he was invited to the main role in the film “Mirror for a Hero” directed by Vladimir Khotinenko. This was followed by the role of a watchman investigating a murder in the detective thriller Death in the Movie (1990) and the main role in the political detective Murder on Zhdanovskaya (1992).
Currently, the actor practically does not play in the theater and does not appear in films, although offers are received. Among the latest works in the cinema - roles in a thriller
"Beyond the Wolves" (2002), in the action movie "Antikiller" by Andron Konchalovsky (2002, 2003, 2009).