The audience remembered Bondarchuk Sr. first of all as one of the most famous directors of his time, the author of the screen versions of War and Peace and The Wild Don. Among friends, Sergei Fedorovich was known not only as a very talented person and a great actor, but also as a great connoisseur of female beauty.
According to the recollections of friends and acquaintances, the personal life of a popular director and actor was rather stormy and eventful. Sergei Bondarchuk entered into three official marriages in his life alone. Moreover, one of them, among other things, was also fictitious.
Evgeniya Belousova
Sergei Bondarchuk met his first love in his life, while still a student at the Rostov theater school, where he entered immediately after graduating from high school in 1938. The daughter of the city prosecutor Evgeny Belousov then became the chosen one of the future director. Possessing a very assertive and active character, the girl immediately liked Bondarchuk.
The romance between the young people started quite brown. However, the nascent relationship between Zhenya and Sergei, unfortunately, was prevented by the war. Returning from the front, Sergei Bondarchuk fulfilled his old dream and entered VGIK. Evgenia remained in Rostov and subsequently the young people did not see each other for a long time.
Inna Makarova
At VGIK, the amorous Bondarchuk immediately drew attention to a beautiful and talented classmate - Inna Makarova. The future director was ashamed to approach the girl right away. However, soon they were both invited to appear in the new film "Young Guard". On the set of this legendary film, a romance began between young people.
Having liked each other, the rising movie stars began dating. Subsequently, Makarova and Bondarchuk lived in a civil marriage for about 3 years. After checking their feelings for truth, the actors signed and officially. Sergey and Inna got married in 1950.
Scandal
The day after the release of Young Guard, Inna Makarova and Sergei Bondarchuk woke up as people famous throughout the country. The popularity that fell on the heads of young people, of course, brought them a lot of joy. However, in the future, she almost became the reason for the collapse of their family.
Upon learning that Sergei had become famous, his first assertive passion - Evgenia Belousova - decided at all costs to renew the relationship with his old love. Achieving this goal, Evgenia did not even disdain to use her young son.
Announcing that the boy is their common child with Bondarchuk, she brought him to Moscow and left him at the actor's apartment. For Inna Makarova, the news that Sergei has a son, of course, came as a shock. But nevertheless, deciding to keep the family, the actress adopted Alyosha and subsequently for some time, together with Bondarchuk, raised him as her own.
Continuing to fight for Sergei, Evgenia Belousova soon officially demanded that the actor also write down his son in his last name. To avoid a big scandal, Bondarchuk even had to divorce Inna and arrange a fictitious marriage with Belousova.
Sergey agreed to divorce Inna. However, in the future, he still continued to live in Moscow, now with his ex-wife. After waiting for some time and making sure that it would not be possible to return the faded relationship, Evgenia Belousova ultimately retreated. The woman took Alyosha from the actors and finally left their family alone.
After a while, Makarova and Bondarchuk, who signed again, had their common daughter, Natasha. The first-born of the actor, the son of Yevgenia Alexey, did not follow in his father's footsteps. After leaving school, Alexey Bondarchuk entered Rostov University at the Faculty of Foreign Languages.
Irina Skobtseva
The third official wife of Sergei Bondarchuk was also a very popular domestic actress Irina Skobtseva. The already well-known director met this spectacular blonde on the set of the film "Othello".
As friends later recalled, the romance of Sergei and Irina was not too stormy. However, the relationship of young people, of course, immediately caused a lot of unpleasant rumors, which soon reached Inna Makarova. Not forgiving her husband for betrayal, the famous actress filed for divorce.
Subsequently, Sergei Bondarchuk more than once asked his wife for forgiveness, inviting her to keep the relationship and marriage. However, Inna was adamant and soon even left for another city to shoot a new film.
Sergei Bondarchuk officially married Irina Skobtseva in 1957. Despite the fact that, according to his acquaintances, there was no special love between the actors, their marriage turned out to be quite strong. Sergei and Irina subsequently lived as one family for 35 years until the death of Bondarchuk in 1994. The famous director had two children married to Skobtseva - Alena and Fedor.
Fyodor Bondarchuk, who followed in his father's footsteps, is known to be a very popular actor and showman in Russia today. Alena Bondarchuk was also a fairly famous theater and film actress. However, in 2009, at the age of 48, the daughter of Sergei Bondarchuk died of cancer.
Olga Tsetlina
Officially, Bondarchuk Sr., thus, had 3 wives and four children. However, the ubiquitous rumor ascribes to the director and another son - 19-year-old Alexei Sergeevich Bondarchuk, who played the main role in the film "Joke" recently released by Mosfilm.
After the appearance of the young man on the set of the film, some of the old actors of the studio remembered, among other things, that about two decades ago, the connoisseur of female beauty Bondarchuk Sr. got himself a new passion - the young actress Olga Tsetlina. And according to the recollections of Sergei's friends, after parting with him, the girl allegedly remained pregnant.
Olga Tsetlina herself does not give comments to the press about who is the father of her son. Rising star Alexei Bondarchuk did not enlighten journalists in this regard. The father of the young actor, judging by his patronymic and surname, is, of course, Sergei Bondarchuk. But whether this is Bondarchuk, who in the last century amazed the whole country with his directorial talent, or someone else, movie lovers may never know.
