Alexander Zeldovich - director of mannered dramas

Alexander Zeldovich is one of the most conceptual and smartest domestic filmmakers, who rarely makes films, almost every decade, but aptly.

Education and Film Debates

Russian screenwriter, filmmaker Alexander Zeldovich brilliantly graduated from the mathematical school (his fellow students were Lev Yevzovich and Boris Yukhananov), entered the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Psychology. Practice was held in medical institutions of the White Stone.

Since 1982, he attended the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors. His mentors at that time were Gleb Panfilov and Alexander Mitta. Leaving the hobby for psychology in the past, the future visionary since 1986 works as the director of the Mosfilm studios, while simultaneously teaching at the Higher Directing courses at the Moscow Institute of Modern Art.

Director's debut in the feature film at Zeldovich took place in 1990. His picture "Sunset" (IMDb: 6.70), which premiered at the International Film Festival in Berlin, was highly appreciated by critics. In fact, the film is an author's fantasy on the theme of the works of Isaac Babel.

Of the three films of the "Odessa stories of Babel" that were filmed one after another almost synchronously, "The Sunset" according to the recognition of the filmmakers of all stripes turned out to be the most unusual.

Dramatic drama

Zeldovich Alexander - the director, producing films is rare. After the triumphant debut, the next director's tape was released only in 2000.

Scenario for the painting "Moscow" (IMDb: 6.50), the director co-authored with the cult writer Vladimir Sorokin wrote back in 1995. The country drama was positioned by domestic critics as a result of the decade, and became an event in Russian cinema.

Her premiere show took place at the Venice Film Festival. In the ribbon grotesquely and picturesquely portrayed the world of the capital elite, which became the main character in action, and hostage to the complicated procedure of privatization of the 90's.

However, in the film it was not a question of denationalizing property, but of modifying ideals and feelings.

And three years later, Alexander Zeldovich staged the play "Othello", making his debut as a theater director.

The first Russian futuristic drama

In 2011, Alexander Zeldovich, whose films appear once in a decade, having united for the second time in creative tandem with Vladimir Sorokin, shoots the film "Target" (IMDb: 5.90).

The world premiere of the fantastic drama took place at the International Film Festival in Berlin and won in three nominations the national film critic and film press award "White Elephant". It was one of the few modern films that the wide audience was eagerly awaiting (expectation: 91%).

Of course, interest was fueled by the synopsis preceding the premiere, which clearly pointed to the non-triviality of the tape. Many domestic filmmakers had the impression that Alexander Zeldovich took on a special audit function - to check the cultural balance of the Fatherland for the decade.

In any case, "Target" is twice the first: this is the first Russian futuristic drama and the first tape in the almost unoccupied niche of the intelligible Russian (art) mainstream.