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Vadim Abdrachitov is a Director Russe born on 19 january 1945 at Kharkiv (Ukraine)

Vadim Abdrachitov

Vadim Abdrachitov
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Nationality Russie
Birth 19 january 1945 (79 years) at Kharkiv (Ukraine)
Awards USSR State Prize

Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (Russian: Вадим Юсупович Абдрашитов, Tatar Cyrillic: Вадим Йосыф улы Габдерәшитов, Latin: Vadim Yosıf ulı Ğabderəşitov) (born 19 January 1945) is a film director. He is one of Russian cinema's most independent directors and is internationally renown with awards from the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals.

Abdrashitov was born in Ukraine in a Tatar family, and moved all over the Soviet Union with his father's military assignments. He was so impressed with the space flight of the first Russian cosmonaut that he left his parents and moved to Moscow to study nuclear physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Around that time, he developed an interest in amateur filmmaking, and he transferred to the Mendeleev Institute of Technology because it was equipped with a film studio for students. His cultural and artistic interests developed during the "Thaw," which was a time when repression and censorship were reversed in the Soviet Union. After graduation as an engineer, he worked as a manager at the Moscow Electric-Vacuum Industry, which was making color TV tubes.

From 1970-1974 Abdrashitov studied film directing at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography. His directorial debut was Ostanovite Potapova! (1974), a satirical comedy based on the screenplay by Grigori Gorin. In 1975 Abdrashitov met with the unknown writer Aleksandr Mindadze. That was the beginning of a collaboration that lasted for the next 12 films, which they made together in 30 years. Their films were awarded at many international film festivals as well as at the Soviet and Russian film forums.

In 1989, he won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival for the film The Servant. The following year he was a member of the jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. At the 45th Berlin International Film Festival in 1995, his film A Play for a Passenger won the Silver Bear.

Vadim Abdrashitov has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife, Natella Toidze, and their two children, son Oleg (born in 1973) and daughter Naina (born in 1980). Abdrashitov is currently residing and working in Moscow.

Biography

Vadim Abdrachitov naît dans la famille tatare à Kharkiv alors dans la République socialiste soviétique d'Ukraine, aujourd'hui en Ukraine. Son père est un militaire. Après les études à l'école technique du transport ferroviaire en 1959-1961, Vadim est admis à l'Institut de physique et de technologie de Moscou dont il est diplômé en 1964. Il complète sa formation à l'Institut Mendeleïev et obtient son diplôme en 1967. Il travaille à Moscow Electro-Lamp Plant MELZ-EVP en 1967-1970.

En 1970, il passe le concours d'entrée de Institut national de la cinématographie dit VGIK et suit la formation dans la classe de maître de Mikhaïl Romm, puis, après la mort de ce dernier, chez Lev Koulidjanov. Son travail de fin d'études est l'adaptation de la nouvelle de Grigori Gorine Arrêtez Potapov ! qui gagne le prix de la meilleure réalisation du festival cinématographique Molodost et le premier prix du festival du VGIK. En 1974, Youli Raizman l'invite à rejoindre l'équipe de Mosfilm. Il y fait connaissance d'Aleksandre Mindadze avec qui il signera onze films.

Secrétaire de l'Union cinématographique d'URSS en 1986-1990, Abdrachitov est membre de l'Union cinématographique de Russie et de l'Académie russe du cinéma, membre du jury du prix des arts et de la littérature Triumph institué en 1991. Distingué Artiste du peuple de la Fédération de Russie en 1992, il préside le Ve festival Message to Man à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1995. Il enseigne également à l'Institut national de la cinématographie, d'abord en tant qu'assistant de Lev Koulidjanov, puis dans sa propre classe.


Vie privée
Vadim Abdrachitov est marié avec l'artiste peintre Natella Toïdzé (née en 1950). Ensemble, ils ont un fils, Oleg Abdrachitov (né en 1973), spécialiste en technologie de l'information, et une fille Nana Abdrachitova (née en 1980), décorateur de théâtre.

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Filmography of Vadim Abdrachitov (3 films)

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Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game
Directed by Vadim Abdrachitov
Genres Drama
Actors Elena Yakovleva, Aleksandr Feklistov, Aleksei Guskov
Rating69% 3.474763.474763.474763.474763.47476
Fifteen gifted teenager Ruslan Chutko longs to do good and help the police to identify offenses under the pseudonym Plumbum (Latin for - Lead). Plumbum decides in a single provincial town to eradicate the evil, but it is taken for the youthful maximalist with zeal.