Russian film directors

Sergei Bodrov Jr.

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Sergei Bodrov Jr. (December 27, 1971 – September 20, 2002) was a russian actor who had lead roles in the movies "Brother", "Prisoner of the Mountains", "The Stringer and Brother 2".

Sergei Bodrov Jr. was the son of the russian playwright, actor, director and producer Sergei Bodrov. He was killed in a rock and ice slide in the mountains near Karmadon after finishing the second day of shooting of his film "The Messenger".

Sergey Bodrov Jr. considered that "childhood is the most important time in life." and what you'll become happens in the first sixteen years". Different publications say that Bodrov wanted to become a garbageman and drive an orange car.

Bodrov wrote "Composition on the topic: eight events which influenced me or how I became a good person" about the years of his youth and events which changed his view of the world."

Sergey's first role was in his father's movie "Freedom is Paradise" in 1989. He appeared on screen only for a few minutes, playing a minor lawbreaker waiting for a decision concerning his destiny. During his university days, he also had a bit role of an usher's courier who was bringing mail to the hotel in the movie White King, Red Queen (1992).

Filmography

1989 – Freedom is Paradise
1992 – White King, Red Queen
1996 – Prisoner of the Mountains
1997 – Brother
1998 – The Stringer
2000 – East/West
2000 – Brother 2
2001 – The Quickie
2001 – Sisters, a stage manager
2002 – War
2002 – Bear's Kiss

Sergei Bodrov

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Sergei Bodrov is an Academy Award nominated russian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer.

Bodrov was born June 28, 1948 in Khabarovsk, Russia. He had a son named Sergei Bodrov, Jr. who was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the North Caucasus on September 20, 2002.

Sergei Bodrov's grandmother was ethnic buryat which influenced his decision to film the movie "Mongol".

Bodrov currently has an apartment in Los Angeles and a ranch in Arizona. He is married to American film consultant Carolyn Cavallaro.

Lidia Bobrova

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Lidia Bobrova is a russian film director.

Lidia Bobrova was born on 13 June, 1952 in Zabaikalsk (Russia). Her best known film is "Babusya" which earned her a special jury prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2003.

In 1983 finished the scenario faculty of the All-union state institute of cinematography. In 1990 finished the higher courses of scenario writers and producers. From 1995 works as the producer of film studio of «Lenfilm».

In 1997 Lidia Bobrova nominated on the bonus of «Nika» in a category «For the best producer work» for a film «V toy strane». But Pavel Chukhray won.

Timur Bekmambetov

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Timur Bekmambetov is a kazakh and russian film director.

Bekmambetov was born on June 25, 1961 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR (now Atyrau, Kazakhstan) and is ethnic Kazakh. At the age of 19, he moved to Tashkent, then-Soviet Union where in 1987 he graduated from the A. N. Ostrovsky Theatrical and Artistic Institute. After serving in the army, he started his career with movie director Viktor Verzhbitsky, who later became Bekmambetov's closest colleague and played in almost all of the movies directed by him.

In 2004, Timur Bekmambetov directed "Night Watch" ("Nochnoi Dozor"), a popular Russian fantasy film based on the book by Sergey Lukyanenko. He also directed the Roger Corman-produced remake of the 1974 film "The Arena" in 2001, also titled "The Arena" starring Karen McDougal and Lisa Dergan. He shows a common soldier's view in the film "Peshavar Waltz" aka Escape from Afghanistan (1994) that was released by Corman with an English language soundtrack as a direct-to-video production in 2002.

Bekmambetov's "Wanted" was released on June 27, 2008 in the US. The film, Bekmambetov's Hollywood debut, is based upon a comic-book miniseries of the same name written by Mark Millar. The film "9", produced by Timur and Tim Burton, will be released on September 9, 2009. Twilight Watch, the third of the Night Watch series, is expected in 2009. Timur also informed that the screenplay for the sequel of Wanted is complete and production will begin shortly.

Yevgeni Bauer

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Yevgeni Bauer (1865 – 1917) was a russian film director of silent films, a theatre artist and a screenwriter. His work had a great influence on the aesthetics of Russian cinematography at the beginning of the 20th century.

Bauer was born in Moscow in 1865, the son of the Russified Czech musician Franz Bauer and his wife, an operatic singer. From childhood, Bauer displayed artistic tendencies, and participated in his favourite dramatised scenes.

Bauer is considered a leading stylist of Russian silent cinematography and placed particular emphasis on the pictorial aspect of film-making. He is considered a master of psychological drama, and also one of the first russian directors who developed the artistic side of cinema including montage, mise-en-scene and the composition of the frame.

He made great use of his theatrical experience when making his films, the outcomes of which occasionally prefigured future achievements in cinema. Bauer would first start to consider the placing of lights on the film-set and changed the lighting during the filming, used unusual filming angles, made frequent use of wide spaces, and filmed through "gaseous" material to produce the effect of fog.

Yevgeni Bauer placed great emphasis on the composition of each shot, constructing decor and natural shots with artistic expressions of classical landscapes, made use of camera movement to widen the space of the shot, and add a dramatic effect. Bauer's artistic experiments and outstanding expertise gave him a reputation of the leading director in Russian cinema.

Aleksei Balabanov

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Aleksei Balabanov was born on 25 February 1959 in Yekaterinburg, USSR. Balabanov is a popular Russian film director.

In 1981 he graduated from Translation Faculty of Gorky Teachers’ Training University. From 1983 to 1987 Aleksei Balabanov worked as an assistant of a film director at Sverdlovsk film studio. Later Balabanov studied at the experimental course “Authors’ Cinema” of the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, graduating in 1990.

Balabanov started his creative career in “big cinema” in 1991 with directing his first full-length feature "Shchastlivyye dni" (Happy Days) after his own script. In the same year he became the co-author of the script "Pogranichniy Conflict" (Frontier Conflict) by the young film director Nadezhda Khvorova.

Aleksei Balabanov is best known for the 1997 crime film "Brat" (Brother), and its more action-oriented sequel, "Brat-2" (Brother 2), both of which starred the late Sergei Bodrov Jr. as a novice hit man. The second film, along with its soundtrack, was immensely popular in Russia. Recently, however, he has become better known for his shocking and controversial films "Gruz 200" (Cargo 200) (2007) and "Morphine" (2008).

Semyon Aranovich

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Semen Davidovich Aranovich born July 23, 1934. In the 1955 year graduate Higher Naval School of Aviation. He served in the northern naval aviation. In 1965 he graduated from VGIK.

In 1965-1970 he worked at the studios and LSDF «Lennauchfilm». His first job «The time that is always with us» (1965).

Since 1971, worked in the genre of game art cinema in the film studio «Lenfilm», placing first film «Red Diplomat». Subsequently, in many of his paintings, he skillfully used a box frame in the documentary and feature films shooting under «documentary» movies. Great creative director was the picture of success «torpedo» (1983). Although the creation of the painting took part disgraced Alex Herman, a tape with a minimum of censorial editing managed to convey to the screens. The painting was one of the most prominent and strident tapes on the war.

Semyon Aranovich was a russian film director whose work included the documentaries "I Was Stalin's Bodyguard" (1990) and "The Anna Achmatova Files" (1989) (about the poet) as well as features like Torpedo Bombers.

Since 1991, artistic director of Aranovich TO «Kinodokument». Since the late 1980's, he again returned to the genre of documentary cinema. Semyon Aranovich particularly interested in the role of personality in history and art, the experience of documentary studies the biographies of famous people.

Since 1992, he presided over the workshop of artistic director and documentary film. He headed the department of film-screen Faculty of Arts of St. Petersburg University of Film and Television. People's Artist of Russia (1994).

Semyon Aranovich died Sept. 8, 1996 after a serious illness in Hamburg.

Oleg Anofriyev

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Oleg Anofriyev - is a russian stage and screen actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, film director, poet.

Oleg Anofriyev was born in 20 july 1955 year in Gelendzhik, but spent all his life in Moscow and graduated from Moscow Art Theatre in 1954. He was widely popular in USSR and was honoured with the title People's Artist of the SFSR.

The first work in the cinema is a film "Secret of beauty" (1954). In all Anofriyev played more than 40 roles in the cinema.

Carries with football and equestrian sport. Prefers literature on history of Russia. Loves animals, especially favourite dog of "Radzhi".

Lives and works in Moscow.

Vadim Abdrashitov

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Vadim Abdrashitov is a russian film director.

Abdrashitov was born in Kharkov (Ukraine) in a Tatar family, moved all over the Soviet Union with his father's military assignments, and moved to Moscow to study nuclear physics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Father – Abdrashitov Yusup Shakirovich (1918–1998), military service. Mother – Abdrashitova Galina Nikolaevna (1922–2002), engineer-chemist. Wife – Toidze Natella (1950) is the known painter, recipient of an award the gilded youth of the Russian academy of arts. Son – Abdrashitov Oleg Vadimovich (1973), MFTI finished, after the Colombian university, works in the USA, specialist in area of technologies of informations. Daughter – Abdrashitova Nana Vadimovna (1980), finished RATI (workshop With. Barkhina), theatrical artist.

He developed an interest in film, and began making films in the early 1970s. Many of his films were the result of a long collaboration with the writer Aleksander Mindadze.

The first cinemawork of Vadim Abdrashitov is a record film «Reporting from an asphalt», taken off them on the 1th course of VGIK, was marked many prizes of film festivals of students.

The first film of Vadim Abdrashitov in the large cinema became creative success. Picture «Word for defence» (1976) was in the center of intent attention of criticism and audience – she was looked by 35 million persons. She was marked rewards and prizes of different cinemaforums.

Vadim Abdrashitov – one of not many artists, whose cinema with a striking sequence and penetrating reproduces authentic composition of time which a producer and his heroes are in.