Sergei Bodrov
Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Бодров; born June 26, 1948 in Khabarovsk ) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer. His works have been named several times as best foreign-language films for the Oscar.
Career
He was first a journalist, working for the Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil. In 1974 he completed his studies at the Moscow Film School, was a screenwriter. He wrote 30 screenplays, especially comedies. In 1984 he made his first feature film. In the road movie Neprofessionalny (Eng. The nonprofessionals, 1985) about a Russian rock band he used a lot of Beatles music, without having to pay royalties.
He became internationally known through socially critical films like Swoboda eto raj (German freedom is a paradise, 1989) and Kawkaskij plennik (German Prisoner of the Mountains, 1996). The latter was awarded in Berlin in 1996 with the European Film Award for Best Screenplay Felix, was awarded a Crystal Globe at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, the FIPRESCI Prize at the International Film Festival of Cannes and 1997, the main Russian Film Awards, Nika. In addition, he was nominated as best foreign language film for the Golden Globe Award and an Oscar. In 2008 he was nominated for his film The Mongol again for an Oscar. The work on the sequel of the originally planned as Trialogues concept, were hired in November 2010 with no prospect of recovery.
Bodrov is also a writer, written stories and feature articles. In 1991, in France his book Freedom is laid a paradise.
Bodrov is married since 1990 in second marriage with the American photographer Carolyn Cavallero, who has worked as a co -author of the screenplays for three of his films. Since then, he divides his time between Moscow and his second home in Venice Beach, California. He had a son, the actor and director Sergei Bodrov Sergeyevich. This was killed in an avalanche in the Caucasus on 20 September 2002.
In his spare time Bodrov looks like movies or listening to jazz music. In addition to Russian, he also speaks English. In 2009 he was appointed to the jury of the 66th Venice Film Festival.
Bodrov's recurring themes are the important issues in Russia of freedom, friendship and betrayal. Again and again it comes to individual who are looking into oppressive living conditions a perspective for their lives. In 2012, he takes over the director's chair for the screen adaptation of The Seventh Son, which is based on the best-seller "The Spook 's Apprentice " by Joseph Delaney.
Filmography (selection)
Works
- Serguei Bodrov: Liberté = paradis: novel. Actes Sud, Arles, 1991, ISBN 2-86869-742-9