Directing
Alexandr Veledinsky
Born July 27, 1959 · Gorky, USSR (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) (age 67)
Alexander Alexeevich Veledinsky (Russian: Александр Алексеевич Велединский; born 27 July 1959; Gorky) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. He directed several films, but is most famous for The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013). The film won five Nika Awards (including the best film), five prizes at Kinotavr festival, and many other awards.
Known For
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away · 2013The Geographer Drank His Globe Away
★ 6.72013
MovieDrama
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
Portrait · 2011Portrait
2011
MovieDramaThriller
Locked in a bunker and faced with an impossible commission a young artist has to look beyond reality and logic, and face himself.
1993 · 20231993
★ 4.82023
MovieDrama
1993 - the story of one family suddenly turns out to be the history of the whole country. The relationship of painfully and inextricably linked husband and wife, emergency workers, and the growing up of their daughter against the backdrop of global change.
Shadowboxing · 2005Shadowboxing
★ 5.42005
MovieActionDrama
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
Alive · 2006Alive
★ 5.42006
MovieDrama
A veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind.
It's Russian · 2004It's Russian
★ 4.32004
MovieRomanceComedy
Eda Savenko finds herself in a situation where she wants to take her daughter to a restaurant, but her parents refuse to provide the necessary funds. She decides to take drastic action by robbing the dining room and subsequently consuming alcohol. Observing a girl with another person, she makes a dramatic gesture by cutting her veins, leading to her admission to the ‘Quiet Ward’ of the Saburka psychiatric hospital.
In The Port of Cape Town · 2019In The Port of Cape Town
★ 6.52019
MovieDrama
Sailor, Tillage and Salazhonok. They met only once, in the summer of 1945, in the Far East, in arms and with serious intentions. Everything ended in a firefight, and each of the participants is sure that he killed the other two. However, fate gave them all a long, eventful life. It will take more than half a century and in one of the days in different parts of the Earth there will be events associated with that fateful meeting of the summer of 1945, and the viewer will learn how she has drastically changed the life of each hero and not only.
Shift · 2006Shift
★ 5.22006
MovieAction
A young seismologist, who lives in Amsterdam, along with a popular journalist, accidentally become the participants of a deadly game, lead by an international syndicate that plans to take over the power (with the help of a seismological weapon) in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Russian Secret Services, that provide security for the heads of the summit of the region of the Kaspiiskoe Sea, intervene in this case...
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