Sergei Bodrov

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

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

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.