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, film director AlexanderZeldovich brilliantly graduated from the mathematical school (his fellow students were Lev Yevzovich and Boris Yukhananov), entered the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University. Practice was held in medical institutions of the White Stone.
Since 1982, he attended the Higher Courses of Scriptwritersand 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 feature film atZeldovich took place in 1990. His painting "Sunset" (IMDb: 6.70), whose premiere show took place at the IFF 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" by 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, became an event of Russian cinema.
Her premiere show took place at the Venice Film Festival.In the ribbon, the world of the capital elite was grotesquely and painterly portrayed, which became the main acting character and hostage to the complicated procedure of privatization of the 90s.
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 are released once a decade, uniting for the second time in a creative tandem with Vladimir Sorokin, makes a motion picture “Target” (IMDb: 5.90).
The world premiere of a fantastic drama took placeat the International Film Festival in Berlin and received in three nominations the national award of film critics and cinema press "White Elephant". It was one of the few contemporary films that a wide audience of people eagerly awaited (expectation: 91%).
Of course, the interest was fueled by the precedingthe premiere of synopsis, which clearly pointed to the nontriviality of the tape. Many domestic filmmakers had the impression that Alexander Zeldovich had taken on a special auditing 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 practically unoccupied niche of the intelligible Russian (art) mainstream.
