Pyotr Mamonov

Pyotr Nikolayevich Mamonov ( born April 14, 1951 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian rock musician, songwriter and actor.

Life

As head of the Moscow band Swuki Mu Mamonov was in the 1980s one of the few rock musicians from the former Soviet Union, which found recognition abroad. In Westeduropa he collaborated with Brian Eno. During these years he began to participate in films and produce in the course of a decade, several one-man theater performances for themselves and perform. These performances include also an absurd alienation of the play The Proposal by Anton Chekhov titled Is there life on Mars? or Chocolate Pushkin, in which he refers to the poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, without quoting from the works.

In the early 1990s Mamonov turned to the Orthodox faith, pulled away from Moscow and lived in a village. Additional filming with Lungin he returned in 2006 and again in 2009 to Moscow.

Film roles

• The Russian director Pavel Semenovich Lungin Mamonov was one of the two lead roles in his 1990 film Taxi Blues incurred, which was also performed at the Film Festival of Cannes.
• 2006 was the religious film Ostrov - The Iceland, which closed the Venice Film Festival the same year. The Patriarch of Moscow Alexy II praised the actor for his performance in the film. He was awarded a Best Actor Nika.
• 2009 played Mamonov in Lungin's film Tsar the role of Ivan the Terrible