On September 20, 2002, a Russian actor, screenwriter and director went missing in the Karmadon Gorge. According to the official version, Bodrov and members of his film crew died when the glacier disappeared. The bodies were never found, which gave rise to many rumors around the tragedy.
The "brother" known throughout the country is still the idol of many. On the Internet, fans create virtual monuments to him - pages on social networks, blogs dedicated to the work of Sergei Bodrov. Many did not manage to believe that Bodrov died in that terrible disaster, when more than a hundred people were buried under a three-hundred-meter layer of ice and stones, despite the fact that 13 years have passed since the tragedy.
1. Some believe that Bodrov and his group received signs that predicted a catastrophe
The winner of one of the seasons of the "Battle of the Psychics" Mehdi Ebrahimi Wafa has his own version of what happened. In one of the TV programs dedicated to the death of Bodrov, he said that the place where the shooting took place had a "bad reputation." Like, the soul of the mountain took the lives of people.
- This is the unknown, the unknowable, - says the psychic. - Many people that day did not want to go to the mountains - they were sick, feverish. The equipment failed, the equipment did not work for no apparent reason. These were all signs of an impending disaster.
Moreover, Mehdi claims that if people postponed their trip to the mountains, it would not change anything.
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“If they went the next day, the disaster would have happened the next day. The mountain just drew them to itself, - put forward his version of the clairvoyant.
Sergei's wife, Svetlana Bodrova, also believes that her husband foresaw trouble:
“He was sad that day. He spoke to me for a long time on the phone. Something worried him.
The last words that Bodrov said to his wife were: "Take care of the children."
2. Mountain dwellers believe that Sergei and his people are still alive
Highlanders generally tend to mystify the area in which they live. They believe that in the mountains you can stumble upon villages that are not on the map. People talk with the inhabitants of these villages, and going outside the settlement and looking around, they find that there is no village. Even realizing the absurdity of their stories, the mountaineers do not give up the idea that the inhabitants of these villages are the ghosts of the dead climbers, or, according to another version, the people of other people - by analogy with aliens.
It is not surprising that many mountain dwellers believe that Bodrov and his group managed to survive. In particular, Said Dranikov, the head of one of the search and rescue teams involved in the search for the film group, claimed that within an hour and a half after the avalanche, the filmmakers got in touch.
“They said they were in a tunnel, and there was only one tunnel in those places. Rescue work was carried out in it, - the search engine told reporters.
In the tunnel, they found the remains of the bodies of animals - rams and horses. But there were no people there.
“They couldn't get out of the tunnel, they hid there,” Said continues. - At that time, it was the only safe place. They spoke on the phone: we will not go anywhere, we will wait for help.
Several dozen people, of course, could not disappear into the air without a trace. Therefore, the highlanders still believe that the film crew was saved.
3. The Penza writer in one of his books predicted the death of the director
Nikolay Buyanov specializes mainly in detective stories. Its main characters are written off from real-life personalities. And the plots of the books sometimes also overlap with what is happening in reality. For example, his first book served as a kind of educational tool for the robbers: a month after the detective was published in Penza, a cash-in-transit car was robbed. Exactly repeating the method described in the work. However, it was also the other way around: in 2001, in his book The Overturned Dome, Buyanov describes the death of a filmmaker. And Sergei Bodrov, according to the author, died in the same way as the hero of the novel Buyanov.
Some believe that during the filming of "War" the curse of the Almighty fell on Sergei
4. Was the fate of Sergei Bodrov too closely intertwined with the script for "Messenger"?
For the first time, the "brother" came to the Caucasus during the filming of "Prisoner of the Caucasus". The mountains fascinated him so much that he said more than once that he would like to live here, but this, unfortunately, is impossible. That is why he came here to shoot his last picture. According to the script of The Messenger, his hero dies at the end of the film. So, the death of the actor who played the main role is considered by many to be a mystical coincidence with the script. In addition, they say, there was a lot of mysticism on the set. For example, not far from the place where the film set was located, there was an ancient cemetery, "the city of the dead." The spirits dwelling there, according to ancient belief, could not be disturbed.
By the way, Bodrov considered himself a fatalist: “I do not allow anyone, including life, to take myself by the throat. Although I'm a fatalist. But it is not life that is fatal, but fate. There is a point where you are required …"
5. Was Sergey Bodrov ruined by the curse of Genghis Khan?
There are also those who see the connection between the death of the actor and the fact that Bodrov's father conceived a film about the great conqueror. Like, the spirit of the bloody ruler is too sensitive to the memory of himself. They also say that the death of Bodrov Jr. is the punishment of the Almighty. As it turned out, during the filming of the film "War" about the Russian-Chechen conflict, Sergei became an unwitting participant in one sad event: the film crew, staging the battle, accidentally set fire to a Muslim cemetery. And spirits, as you know, are quite sensitive to the memory of themselves.