Years active 1969– Name Natalya Bondarchuk | Role Actress Spouse Igor Dnestrianskiy | |
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Born May 10, 1950 (age 74) ( 1950-05-10 ) Moscow, Soviet Union Awards Meritorious Artist (1977) Parents Sergei Bondarchuk, Inna Makarova Siblings Fedor Bondarchuk, Yelena Bondarchuk Children Ivan Burlyaev, Maria Burlyayeva Movies Solaris, Pushkin: Poslednyaya duel, The Captivating Star of Ha, Gogol Blizhayshiy, V nachale slavnykh del Similar People Inna Makarova, Sergei Bondarchuk, Yelena Bondarchuk, Nikolai Burlyayev, Fedor Bondarchuk |
Natalya bondarchuk on solaris tarkovski
Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: Наталья Серге́евна Бондарчук) (born May 10, 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris as "Hari". She is the daughter of the Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. Her half-brother is the film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is the actress Yelena Bondarchuk.
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- Natalya bondarchuk on solaris tarkovski
- Natalya bondarchuk remembers about the film of tarkovsky
- Biography
- Filmography
- References

Natalya bondarchuk remembers about the film of tarkovsky
Biography
Natalya Bondarchuk was born in Moscow to Ukrainian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. In 1971 she graduated from the acting school of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and in 1975 from the directing school there.

She made her film debut in 1969 in U ozera (By the Lake), followed by the 1971 productions Ty i ya (You and Me) and Prishyol soldat s fronta (A Soldier Returns From the Front). She became famous for her role as "Hari" in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris in 1972. It was her favorite role. She was also Tarkovsky's favorite of the film, as he wrote in his diary that "Natalya B. has outshone everybody".

In 1973 she met her future husband Nikolai Burlyayev (Russian: Николай Бурляев) on the set of the Nikolai Mashchenko film Kak zakalyalas stal (How the Steel Was Tempered) (Russian: Как закалялась сталь). The two later withdrew from their participation in this film. In 1976 their son Ivan was born.
In 1982 she directed her first film, Zhivaya raduga (Living Rainbow). The film was produced in Yalta. In 1985 she directed the film Detstvo Bambi (Bambi's Childhood), and in 1986 the film Yunost Bambi (Bambi's Youth).
Natalya Bondarchuk also leads a child opera theater on Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow. Her son Ivan Burlyayev sang in this theater during his childhood.