Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (Russian: Ð'адим Ð®Ñ ÑƒÐ¿Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Рбдрашитов, Tatar: Ð'адим Ð™Ð¾Ñ Ñ‹Ñ„ улы
Ð"абдерәшитов; born 19 January 1945) is one of Russian
cinema's most independent directors. He is internationally renowned,
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 Chemical 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 1970â€"1974 Abdrashitov studied film directing at the
Moscow State Institute of Cinematography. His directorial debut was
Ostanovite Potapova! (Stop Potapov! 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.
Рбдрашитов, Tatar: Ð'адим Ð™Ð¾Ñ Ñ‹Ñ„ улы
Ð"абдерәшитов; born 19 January 1945) is one of Russian
cinema's most independent directors. He is internationally renowned,
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 Chemical 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 1970â€"1974 Abdrashitov studied film directing at the
Moscow State Institute of Cinematography. His directorial debut was
Ostanovite Potapova! (Stop Potapov! 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.
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