Which actor or actress can boast of appearing, in the same year, in two films in competition at Cannes (Compartment n ° 6, by Juho Kuosmanen, in theaters November 3, and Petrov’s Fever, by Kirill Serebrennikov, to discover the 1er December), a film in competition at Locarno (Gerda, by Natalia Koudriachova), another competing in Venice (The Escape of Captain Volkogonov, by Natalia Merkoulova and Alexeï Tchoupov) and a last one in the Orizzonti section of the Mostra (Mom, I’m at home by Vladimir Bitokov)? And to have hooked to his prize list, in 2020, two of the ten most popular national films in his country?
This actor is Yuriy Borisov, 28, a face à la Belmondo, a charisma to capsize the heart of the young Finn from Compartment n ° 6, a determination in the eyes of Captain Volkogonov, who hampers the Stalinist machine, and a gift that allows him to play, on the contrary, the docile son dressed up as Santa Claus at Kirill Serebrennikov’s.
Believing that the acting profession should not be very complicated, Yuriy Borisov leaves the great Moscow suburbs where he was born in 1992 for the very famous Chtchepkine drama institute, which he integrates without difficulty. Andreï Zviaguintsev puts the foot in the stirrup of the cinema by making him play, while he is still his studies there, a role of small strike in Elena. We are in 2011, Yuriy is 18 years old: he will not stop. On all fronts, he connects films and series, to which he lends his athletic physique. Alternating author’s works and spectacular films, he plays with his angular face in epics of war (AK-47, biopic on Kalashnikov) and sports films (The coach, The Silver Skates), which will make him a star in his country.
But it was with author films that Borisov gradually made himself known abroad: DJ in The Crystal Swan (2018), by young Belarusian Daria Jouk, leader of a group of delinquents in The bull (2019), by Boris Akopov, he stood out in international festivals. Nevertheless, it is the year 2021, resembling a grand slam, which devotes this Russian actor who is only at the beginning of his career.
Ability to transform
If the star-system does exist in Russia, only the directors manage, thanks to international festivals, to make an impression: from Pavel Lounguine to Andreï Zviaguintsev, from Alexandre Sokourov to Kantemir Balagov, from Yuri Bykov to Kirill Serebrennikov , the post-perestroika years have brought about the emergence of a new generation of directors on the international scene, without the performers following the same path – despite prestigious interpretation prizes won in Cannes (Konstantin Lavronenko in 2007), Venice ( Ksenia Rappoport in 2009) or in Berlin (Grigori Dobryguine and Sergueï Pouskepalis in 2010).
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