Alexandr Gordon

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Alexandr Gordon

Born February 20, 1964 · Belousovo, USSR (Russia) (age 62)

Director of fiction and documentary cinema, TV presenter. Recipient of five TEFI awards (for the programmes “Closed Screening” and “Gordon Quixote”), prize-winner and participant of domestic and international film festivals. Born in 1964 in Obninsk. In 1987 graduated from the actor’s and director’s faculty of Shchukin Theatre Institute. From 1989–1997 presenter of popular programmes on Russian- la…

Known For

Brothel LightsBrothel Lights · 2011
Brothel Lights
★ 5.02011
MovieDrama
In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out.
Little Bite in the Big CityLittle Bite in the Big City · 2011
Little Bite in the Big City
★ 2.72011
MovieAnimation
Bite, a cockroach who lives in a computer processor, must prove himself and survive the ongoing battle between predator-like street pigeons and beetles to win over the girl of his dreams.
Generation PGeneration P · 2011
Generation P
★ 6.42011
MovieComedyDrama
Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia’s nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s.
Uncle SashaUncle Sasha · 2018
Uncle Sasha
★ 3.52018
MovieComedy
An almost Chekhovian story about a once successful director making his last film, in spite of everything and everybody, in his country house. Strange guests, vain actors, somewhat eccentric neighbours and the director are reason enough for the author’s irony, and sometimes sarcasm. And you remember? Chekhov’s guns always fire!
HeirsHeirs · 2015
Heirs
2015
MovieDrama
Most of the action of the film takes place in the studio of a talk show, where a political scientist, a patriot, a pop star and other characters, led by the host, discuss the figure and legacy of St. Sergius of Radonezh. In the midst of recording, the Presenter suddenly finds out that his program is being closed. Having decided that he has nothing to lose, the Presenter goes all in and seeks, first of all, to "expose" the church, the authorities, and his interlocutors... But the effect is not at all what he expected. In the heat of a lively and even furious polemic, we begin to see the true Sergius of Radonezh, and in episodes of history, as in a mirror, we guess the problems of modern Russia.…
Help Gone MadHelp Gone Mad · 2009
Help Gone Mad
★ 5.12009
MovieComedy
Kind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from small village in Belarus for earnings. Criminal incident unexpectedly separates Jenya from companions and leaves him alone without money and documents. He has no friends or relatives in this big and hostile city and he is about to end as a homeless bum.
Marina's HouseMarina's House · 2013
Marina's House
2013
MovieDocumentary
Andrei Tarkovsky said, “I find it hard to imagine the inner world of women, but I think it must be connected with the world of men…”
Russian SpleenRussian Spleen · 2019
Russian Spleen
★ 5.72019
MovieComedy
The three not-so-lucky guys are having the most difficult, weirdest and funniest day of their lives. Meanwhile, in Moscow, a gang of Kyrgyz conspirators begins to wield, a sexist gynecologist and a feminist traumatologist come to work, a film producer is cheating on the Motherland, and clay policemen are uncovering their batons. The only question is which of these meetings will become fatal for our friends.

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